Orchestral & Symphonic

On this disc, the Katona Twins perform two duets and two solo works by J.S. Bach. The duets were originally composed for the harpsichord and the solo pieces were originally for the lute. Because of the complexity and difficulty of lute works, many...

On one of the most highly anticipated releases of the year, Ivan Fischer conducts music of Richard Wagner, offering a demonstration quality surround-sound disc featuring excerpts of favorite passages from Gotterdammerung and Die Meistersinger von...

Now, finally, after the much-lauded Beethoven symphonies with the Polish Chamber Philharmonic under Wojciech Rajski, here is the first recording of a large orchestra in TACET Real Surround Sound. The larger the ensemble, the more complex the score is, as...

Neeme Jarvi conducts the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in the original, uncut version of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake with James Ehnes as the solo violinist. It is the second installment in Chandos' series devoted to Tchaikovsky's three great ballets, the...

Neeme J?rvi and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande's exploration of 19th century French orchestral works continues with a third release spotlighting the opera composer Jacques Offenbach whose sense of satire was evident in his operattas and most famously...

My Sixth will propound riddles the solution of which may be attempted only by a generation which has absorbed and digested my first five symphonies.' Thus Gustav Mahler, writing in 1904 to his biographer Richard Specht. Mahler did nothing to help solve...

My aim was to convey human feelings and passions in this work, Shostakovich said of his newly completed Symphony No.10 in 1953. And it is clear exactly what it was that he wanted to relate: Stalin was dead, and after his music had been publicly denounced...

Mozart's operas in the distinctive sound of the Trio d'Anches - the Trio Roseau has been extremely successful in expanding the repertoire of chamber music for winds. Episode three takes on Don Giovanni, whose darker sides are somewhat relegated to the...

More than most composers currently active, Brett Dean uses music to tackle political and social themes of our times. A common factor in the works on this recording is the sometimes problematic aspects of human communication and the erosion and misuse of...

Michael Wessel is a professor for piano playing, song accompaniment and methodology at the University of Protestant Church Music in Bayreuth. He studied piano, composition, music theory and school music in four major courses at the music academies in...

Michael Tilson Thomas leads the GRAMMY award-winning San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Symphony Chorus in an all-new recording of Beethoven's monumental Symphony No.9. from it's stormy opening to the towering fourth movement, Beethoven's final and...

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony join forces with America's most-performed living composer John Adams for an album featuring two works written for the San Francisco Symphony. In the world premi?re recording of Absolute Jest, we hear...