Orchestral & Symphonic

Gordon Getty has based his opera on Edgar Allan Poe's macabre work "The Fall of the House of Usher," the novel widely considered Poe's most famous work of prose and a masterpiece of American Gothic literature. Getty's music, while accessible, reflects...

Giving new impetus to the genre of the symphony in the nineteenth century, after the achievements of Ludwig van Beethoven, was a just as ambitious as problematic undertaking. Even Robert Schumann did not find it easy to deal with hearing "the giant...

Georges Soyka and Kyoko Kashii present their new album of music for trumpet and piano, Indigo. The album is a showcase of beauty, including works from Daniel Schnyder, Maurice le Boucher, Jules Massenet, Jaques Ibert, and many more. Georges Soyka is...

Georg Solti / DAS RHEINGOLD - 2xCD - The greatest recording of all time is sounding better than ever before. Now, Solti and Culshaw's Ring Cycle can be enjoyed in the highest quality possible. The Hybrid SACD format combines the high-density 24bit/192kHz...

Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715-1777) belongs, as his Viennese colleague Georg Matthias Monn, to that avant-garde of the 18th century, which replaced the instrumental music and thus also the then new symphonic genre from the dependence of Baroque dance...

Gems on a Jewel Jan Von Busch presents Sonatinas and Sonatas by Johann Ludwig Krebs In 1802, in his famous Bach biography, Nikolaus Forkel stated that "only one crayfish [Krebs] was caught in one stream [Bach]." Johann Ludwig Krebs was in fact one of...

For this set of Beethoven's first five symphonies, Jordi Savall began with the fundamental idea of recovering the original sound of the orchestra and tempo as the composer imagined them. All the orchestral work was performed with instruments...

For the latest instalment in their Mahler series, the Minnesota Orchestra under the direction of Osmo V?nsk? presents what many consider to be the pinnacle of the Austrian composer's entire work, the Ninth Symphony, his last completed symphony. After a...

For her debut concerto album, violinist Veronika Eberle revisits a work that has endured more than two centuries, and shares a fresh interpretation featuring new cadenzas by composer J?rg Widmann. "May listeners hear the Violin Concerto-in all it's stark...

For Gianandrea Noseda, the Ninth is Shostakovich at his most 'classical', but a modern statement nonetheless. "Stalin wanted a celebration of the victory of Russia, and Shostakovich came out with a sort of opera buffa symphony," the LSO's Principal Guest...

Following up on his highly acclaimed recordings of Mahler's first, second fourth and sixth symphonies for Channel Classics, Ivan Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra offer a new vision of the Symphony No.5. It's famous Adagietto is one of the most...

Following their highly regarded recording of Prokofiev's Sixth Symphony, the Bergen Philharmonic and Andrew Litton present their take on the composer's Symphony No.5 in B flat minor (1944). With the Fifth, Prokofiev achieved something he'd long been...