Orchestral & Symphonic

Valery Gergiev's performances and recordings of Mahler's symphonies with the London Symphony Orchestra have garnered international acclaim. They have performed the works in Europe, North America and the Far East and their recordings have received...

Valery Gergiev launches his Brahms symphony cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra with this disc featuring the first two symphonies. Also included are the Tragic Overture and the Haydn Variations, Brahms' first orchestral piece and the first set of...

Valery Gergiev continues his Shostakovich symphony cycle with the release of the Symphony No.8. The work, imbued with a deep sense of sorrow and fear, is considered to be one of the composer's finest scores. The authorities expected a victorious anthem...

Until about 1960, Francois Devienne was one of the best-kept secrets of French music history. Celebrated in late-eighteenth-century France as a bassoonist, flautist and composer, his legacy was overshadowed by his Austrian contemporaries Haydn and Mozart...

Two symphonic poems by Suk are performed here by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Jiri Belohlavek, who also brought US the highly acclaimed recording of the composer's First Symphony and Ripening, which was Disc of the Month in the magazine BBC Music...

Try to imagine the whole universe beginning to ring and resound. There are no more human voices, only planets and suns revolving in their orbits, wrote Gustav Mahler to his friend Willem Mengelberg, after completing the sketches for his Symphony No.8...

To mark Oslo International Church Music Festival's anniversary in 2020, a new St. Matthew Passion was commissioned from Bent S?rensen, one of northern Europe's most performed and admired composers and winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Music in 2018. The...

Thrilling live performances from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in brilliant audiophile sound! This release is planned as the first in a series of multi-channel hybrid SACD recordings from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, on the FRESH! Series from...

Three years after recording Franz Schubert's Schwanengesang (arranged by Liszt), pianist Can ?akmur launches a new series called Schubert. Describing the Viennese composer as "a con-stant companion" in his life, ?akmur's aim here is to juxtapose his...

This timeless collection is pretty much every piece you would expect to be included, and then some; a good variety of music to please every palate. PENTATONE has some of the finest interpreters in it's catalogue to draw from and over 150 surround-sound...

This Sept. 2012 performance would have been the third in a long series of Requiems conducted by Mariss Jansons. Unfortunately the 'new tradition' was cut short by Jansons's departure as the Royal Concertgebouw's chief conductor during the 2014/2015...

This second, star-studded installment of Valery Gergiev's Szymanowski symphony cycle features tenor Toby Spence as tenor soloist in the Symphony No.3, subtitled Song of the Night, and internationally renowned pianist Denis Matsuev as soloist in the...