Orchestral & Symphonic

Beethoven was Wilhelm Furtw?ngler's guiding musical force. In his interpretations of the symphonies, the conductor generates irresistible dramatic momentum - and a constant sense of imaginative freshness - through the interrelationship of form, harmony,...

Bartok's symphonic poem Kossuth stands in the shadow of his later works and is hardly ever performed. Nevertheless, it in every way merits description as a gem. Bartok, wrote this piece when he was a mere 20 years of age. The piece does not celebrate his...

Audite's overview of Edvard Grieg's orchestral works comes to it's fifth and final volume with his songs for Orchestra rooted in the lore of his Norway and graced with the presence of acclaimed soprano Camilla Tilling and with his dedication to the...

Audite continues the three-part complete recordings of Louis Vierne's organ symphonies with the third and fourth symphonies. Recorded at the Goll organ of St. Martin in Memmingen, the recording is characterized by the warm, soft sound of the organ. It's...

At the centre of his great orchestral works the FIFTH SYMPHONY marks Mahler's return to a purely orchestral concept. And yet the voice seems implicitly present in a movement like the famous ADAGIETTO, made familiar throughout the world by Viscontis film...

Astor Piazzolla's musical settings of the four seasons and Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons are clearly interrelated in a variety of ways. This new Ars Produktion recording combines Vivaldi's Italian seasonal tempests with Piazzolla's passionate rhythms...

As core members of the ensemble Wigmore Soloists, Michael Collins, Isabelle van Keulen and Michael McHale present four works for clarinet trio composed over a period of some 130 years. Mozart's Kegelstatt Trio was long believed to have been composed...

Arthur Bliss's Morning Heroes, described by the composer as a symphony for orator, chorus and orchestra, is a monumental work first performed in 1930 and dedicated to the memory of Bliss's brother who died in battle in 1916 as well as all other comrades...

Antonio Vivaldi's 1725 collection of concertos - Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione secured the composer's reputation for all eternity, with it's first four concertos becoming one of the most widely spread classical compositions in the history of...

Antonin Dvorak's overtures are comparable in length and form to the first movement of a symphony. The pieces were written with the intention of preceding a performance of a spoken play or opera. The works on this recording, however, begin to show a...

Among the many instrumental pieces that remained incomplete at Mozart's death there were four particularly beautiful fragments for violin and piano. Timothy Jones has made multiple new completions of these fragments based on Mozart's evolving style...

Although Kurt Weill's principal legacy lies in music theatre works of both popular appeal and intellectual weight, he was equally at home in purely orchestral works as evidenced by his two symphonies. Written just over a decade apart, they reveal his...