Orchestral & Symphonic

Along with Dag Wir?n, Lars-Erik Larsson (1908-86) remains among the most popular composers of classical modernism in Sweden. +Their popularity can be explained in part by the fact that both continued to abide the tradition of tonality without being...

After two stylistically diverse anthologies - In Motion and Renewal - the United Strings of Europe and their director Julian Azkoul have chosen to devote their latest project to a single composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. They open with the composer's...

After their exciting interpretations of Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert, the Chiaroscuro Quartet now turns to Mozart's Prussian Quartets, his last compositions for this formation. These quartets were written for Friedrich Wilhelm II, King of Prussia and...

After the critical success of the first volume of Beethoven's symphonies, Jordi Savall offers us Symphonies Six to Nine. This latest publication crowns a nearly two-year world tour and confirms the extent to which the Savall renews our vision of these...

After more than 220 albums, Jordi Savall still surprises us with this exhilarating recording of a masterpiece from the Middle Ages. Compiled in 1325 and rediscovered in 1904, the Codex Las Huelgas is the only manuscipt of this time still kept in it's...

After Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert, Jordi Savall continues his journey into the 19th century with the Italian Symphony of Felix Mendelssohn, a composer he records for the first time. He delivers 2 versions of the work: the one which was performed at the...

After Brass (RCO 07002) and Brass Too (RCO 14010), recorded by the Brass of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Woodwinds of the RCO proudly present their own CD. Traditionally most RCO members love to engage in chamber music as well and the woodwinds...

A year before his pinnacle opus, Orpheus and Eurydice, Gluck was already largely renewing another musical genre, the ballet, by adapting in 1761 a play by Moli?re for the Viennese public: Don Juan. Another ballet, S?miramis, would follow the next year,...

A vividly executed chapter in the ongoing discography that makes vividly present the musical sympathies between the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Andrew Litton with the intrinsically Russian musical temperaments of Sergei Rachmaninov's...

A romantic horn melody from the distance is taken up by the woodwinds, continued by the cellos and violas, takes hold of the entire orchestra and leads into an exuberant, lively Allegro. Seemingly so simple everything and yet highly complex. And also the...

2014 Japanese pressing hybrid SACD. Sony.

2014 Japanese pressing hybrid SACD. Sony.