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Better known as Gran Partita, Mozart's Serenade in B-flat major, K 361 is the crowning glory of the Harmoniemusik of the Classical era. Austrian and German nobles in particular often employed small wind ensembles called Harmonien which provided...

Best Of New York Sessions Volume Two (SACD) The Best of New York Sessions: Volume 2 features highlights from Chesky Records' acclaimed jazz series recorded live in New York City with Chesky Records' state-of-the-art technology. This second installment of...

Besides an acclaimed series of recordings with Ronald Brautigam of the complete piano concertos by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Beethoven, K?lner Akademie and Michael Alexander Willens are undertaking a survey of Mozart's serenades and other incidental works...

Bernard Herrmann is widely regarded as one of Hollywood's most important composers, responsible for more than fifty film scores (in addition to his work for TV, radio, and the concert hall), and noted for his collaborations with Orson Welles and, later,...

Bernard Haitink is internationally renowned for his interpretations of Bruckner and is widely recognized as the world's leading Bruckner conductor. Bruckner's symphonies are often described as 'Gothic cathedrals in sound,' an apt description considering...

Berlioz wrote his own text for L'Enfance du Christ, which he composed in 1853 and 1854. It was first performed at the Salle Herz, Paris on 10 December 1854, with Berlioz conducting. He described the work as a Trilogie sacr?e. The first of it's three...

Berlioz composed his Requiem at the request of a French government minister to commemorate the soldiers who died in the July Revolution in 1830. The Requiem would become one of Berlioz's most popular works, among other things because of it's imaginative...

Bent S?rensen's work Sounds Like You, with text by playwright Peter Asmussen, is a coupling of music and theatre, of orchestral work and drama, or in the composer's own words: a theatrical play that has become an orchestral work and vice versa. The piece...

Bennett had a gift for human relationships - family, partners, friends, and fellow artists. Occasionally, his personal loyalty could become an obstacle to his creativity but overwhelmingly, his relationships were an inspiration. Each of the four works...

Belgian clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe revives the golden glow of a bygone age on her PENTATONE debut album Belle ?poque, together with the Orchestre National de Lille and it's music director Alexandre Bloch. The programme is built around treasures of...

Begun in 2012 with the release of Symphony No. 1, Thomas Dausgaard's four-album traversal of the symphonies of Johannes Brahms is here brought to a close with the composer's final work in the genre. The E minor Symphony is sometimes described as Brahms'...

Beginning his first (never completed) symphony in 1951 and working on his 17th when he died in 1980, Allan Pettersson during three decades concerned himself almost exclusively with the symphonic genre and this at a time when many composers considered the...