Super-Audio CD

During the 2010s, Sebastian Fagerlund focused on a series of orchestral compositions and concertos, making one single excursion into vocal music: the opera H?stsonaten (Autumn Sonata, 2017). One of his most important works, the opera has influenced his...

During the 1930s, Bliss, Britten, and Berkeley all contributed major works to the repertoire for string orchestra, following in the footsteps of Elgar and Vaughan Williams. They are joined on this album by Frank Bridge whose Lament was composed during...

During the 17th and 18th centuries, Naples' fame as a musical center attracted travelers, composers, instrumentalists and virtuoso singers alike. Among the aspiring musicians, the most highly-trained and sought-after were the castrati, promising boys...

During his lifetime, Hugo Alfv?n became known as one of Sweden's principal composers of his time, with works that struck a chord with a wide audience. As a result of his popularity, a nationwide collection was held in celebration of his 70th birthday in...

Duo Aeternica consists of clarinet player Kjell Fageus and Love Derwinger, Sweden's best grand-piano player. The album contains a nice selection of romantic classical music from various composers including Franck, Faure, Nadia Boulanger, Lili Boulanger, T

Dorothy Khadem-Missagh continues the musical tradition of her family in the fourth generation. The young Austrian pianist is a multiple prize winner of the International Beethoven Competition Bonn. On her album she combines works by Beethoven with those...

Dominik Hellsberg writes: "Ignace Pleyel's string quartets represent an attractive challenge for experienced chamber musicians. The style is very familiar, yet the music is entirely new and full of surprises. For example, one discovers discrepancies...

Dmitri Shostakovich was the most versatile of composers: popular and serious styles came to him with equal ease and are frequently found together in the same work. In his twenties, before the heavy hand of Soviet officialdom slapped him down in 1936,...

Discover powerful and moving music by Tchaikovsky in this all-new release from Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. With the heroic Symphony No. 5 and the passionate Romeo and Juliet, featuring one of the best-known love themes ever...

Discover poetry in motion with Beauty Come Dancing, composer Gordon Getty's new album of choral works. Love and dance permeate this collection of new music, paying homage to the romantic and elegant traditions abounding in the latter half of the 19th...

Discover here a performance unlike any other of John Tavener's Ikon of Light, his landmark setting of the Prayer to the Holy Spirit by the great medieval mystic St. Symeon the New Theologian. Scored for choir and string trio, it is a radiant meditation...

Dire Straits' arresting self-titled debut arrived in the midst of punk's reign but couldn't have been further removed from the era's slash-and-burn style. Recorded in West London in February 1978, the band's tasteful, jazz-inflected set embraces folk,...