Super-Audio CD

Concertos for wind instruments with orchestra are a rarity in the late Romantic period. All the greater is the merit that Friederike Roth, Robert Langbein and the Philharmonie Baden-Baden under Pavel Baleff have earned with the discovery of three works...

Concertos for cor anglais are few and far between, and harp concertos aren't very common either. In combining the two, Kalevi Aho has come up with a true rarity - possibly the only double concerto in existence for these two instruments. Composed in 2014,...

Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra 2006 This concerto is offered as a divertissement: a lyrical start, a dreamy nostalgic middle section and a playful and tongue-in-cheek (Kletzmer) second theme and a virtuoso last section. The instrumentation of the...

Conceived as homage from the Norwegian Soloists' Choir to the man who founded it in 1950 and remained it's leader for 40 years, Knut Nystedt who passed away in December 2014, at the age of 99. Alongside the two Bach motets here featuring the choir along...

Composer, piano virtuoso, conductor, teacher - Camille Saint-Sa?ns was all of these things, but also a keen archaeologist, astronomer, botanist, historian, illustrator, poet, playwright... A seasoned traveller, he was the most famous French musician in...

Composer Torbjorn Dyrud's work presents the most famous story of Christian culture - Christ's passion, death and resurrection - in a form you have never heard before. The work is not a passion in the traditional sense; it does not end with Christ's death...

Composed in Russia between 1884 and 1917, the four works appearing on this disc all do so in some kind of disguise. Prokofiev and Scriabin both conceived their respective collections for the piano, and it is later arrangers that have adapted them for...

Composed in feverish bouts interrupted by long periods of inaction, Hugo Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch was brought to completion in 1896. The 46 songs are settings of poems in German by Paul Heyse, after Italian folk songs - miniatures with a duration...

Composed in 1982, Arvo P?rt's Passio has retained it's place as one of the foremost works of sacred music of the late 20th century. It has been called a minimalist masterpiece, and is a seminal work in the composer's oeuvre - the culmination of his...

Composed in 1803, while Beethoven was also writing the "Eroica" Symphony, Christ on the Mount of Olives (Christus am ?lberge) is the composer's only oratorio, and combines the emotive force of his later Missa Solemnis with the theater of a Bach Passion...

Composed immediately preceding, during and in the aftermath of World War I, these are two of Danish composer Carl Neilsen's greatest symphonic works. This is the first release in a projected complete BIS Neilsen cycle as interpreted by Sakari Oramo and...

Composed between 2010 and 2014, as commissions from orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony, the works recorded here testify to the widespread international interest in the music of the Swedish...