Orchestral & Symphonic

The Ragazze Quartet is a young Dutch/British string quartet acclaimed for it's musical enthusiasm, talent, versatility and dynamic presentation. On Cesko, they take us across Europe to the extraordinary land of Bohemia (popularly known as Cesko, but...

The program for Sounds & Clouds is based on recorder player Jeremias Schwarzer's Singing Garden project, first performed in 2011, which links recorder concertos by Vivaldi with a specially written new work by Toshio Hosokawa. One of today's leading...

The Piano Quartet 'Beyond the Misty Doors of Memory' is about images from the past. In the first movement "The Old and Grey", the image is evoked of old people literally moving in the mists of their own memories while walking on a misty morning among big...

The oeuvre of Joseph Jongen, born in 1873, carries quantitative weight with it's more than four hundred works. However, since his music is relatively little known, it often ends up being compared with works of more famous composers. The three works on...

The Norwegian early music ensemble Barokkanerne offers a new CD on the LAWO Classics label devoted to the music of Georg Philipp Telemann, one of music history's most productive composers! Leading the ensemble is Kati Debretzeni (concertmaster of Sir...

The National Brass Ensemble (NBE) and conductor Eun Sun Kim present Deified, an album containing music by Wagner and Strauss, as well as world premiere recordings of pieces by Jonathan Bingham and Arturo Sandoval. Bingham won the San Francisco...

The music on this double album explores the forces of nature, as vividly depicted by the composers at the turn of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries.ßJordi Savall's stunning (and premi?re) recording ofßJean-Fery Rebel'sßLes ?l?mentsßdisplays his unmatched...

The music of the Slovenian-born composer Vito ?uraj features multilayered stereophonic sound concepts. He often draws inspiration for his pieces from his passion for tennis, recreating the game's tension with sound. The Hawk-Eye concerto was developed...

The music of Mily Balakirev has largely disappeared from concert halls today. The dewy new recording by the Niederrheinische Symphoniker under the baton of chief conductor Mihkel K?tson comes at just the right time: the 1st Piano Concerto with Dinara...

The MDR Leipzig Radio Choir and it's artistic director Philipp Ahmann present a collection of Felix Mendelssohn's choral music, which arguably represents the pinnacle of German nineteenth-century religious music. Ranging across psalm settings, motets,...

The legacy of Sergei Rachmaninov encompasses a staggering plethora of musical styles and sensibilities and a fascinating bridge between the Romantic and modern musical eras. His 2nd Symphony is, at it's core, imbued with the ancestral Russian...

The last years of Schubert's life were clouded by illness, so thoughts of the afterlife cannot have been far from his mind. For their latest recital for BIS, Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton present an all-Schubert recital themed around Elysium, the...