Super-Audio CD

Hugely prolific as well as widely acclaimed, Kalevi Aho has composed 30 concertos to date. Many of them are available in recordings from BIS, and the present release features two works from the past decade. The Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra was...

Howard Blake, a living composer best known for his film scores (a.o. Snowman), presents his new classical compositions, all world premiere recordings. Sir Neville Marriner conducts.1. Allegro Cantando 2. Scherzo Con Spirito 3. Andante Espressivo 4...

How to express emotion through music from which words are absent? This album attempts to give an answer to this question. Through works by Italian composers from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the two members of Seicento Stravagante, David...

How might one combine the worldly elegance of a Chopin with the so very "heavy" chromaticism of Wagner's Tristan? Felix Blumenfeld, today almost entirely forgotten as a composer, knew the answer to this question - as his Pr?lude op. 17, No. 19...

Hot on the heels of their acclaimed recording of Britten's Peter Grimes, Stuart Skelton and Edward Gardner join forces with Christine Rice and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for this fascinating programme of early twentieth-century works. Schoenberg's...

Holland Baroque presents Minne, an improvised program inspired by the love poetry of medieval mystic Hadewijch from Brabant. Hadewijch was a 13th-century beguine who wrote an impressive oeuvre of love poetry, providing an original, female perspective on...

Holland Baroque presents Bachs K?nigin, an album full of masterful organ works by J.S. Bach, transcribed for the orchestra by Judith and Tineke Steenbrink. These creative interpretations add unique colours and a fresh spirit to baroque monuments. Here is...

Holland Baroque explores the monastic musical traditions of 17th-century North Brabant, together with a group of established early music vocalists. Brabant 1653 unveils hidden gems of Dutch music history, as well as of baroque music at large. The album's...

History, heritage, and fate combine in this recording from Gianandrea Noseda and the London Symphony Orchestra, bringing together the music of Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, brimming over with drama and emotional...

Historical performance pioneer Trevor Pinnock conducts the Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble in chamber arrangements from Mahler to Zemlinksy. Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr. Schoenberg), the third in this Linn series, transports us...

Highly regarded as soloists as well as chamber musicians, Frank Peter Zimmermann and Martin Helmchen are also known for an unostentatious and selfless musicianship which never obscures the music they are performing. When they started their collaboration...

HIGHLIGHTS FROM CATS 1981 Original London Cast - sacd1. Prologue/Jellicle Songs F 2. Solo Dance 3. The Old Gumbie Cat 4. The Rum Tum Tugger 5. Mungojerrie and Rumpletea 6. Old Deuteronomy 7. The Jellicle Ball 8. Grizabella, the Glamour C 9. Gus the...