Orchestral & Symphonic

One of the most famous recordings of Polish-British-Canadian violinist Ida Haendel, who passed away last year. After performing the Sibelius concerto in Helsinki in 1949, broadcasted on radio, Ida Haendel received a letter from the composer: "Please...

One of the great modern version of these two famous violin concertos, released on CD in 1992 and available for the first time on vinyl. "Chung sustains spacious speeds very persuasively indeed. She's freely flexible in her approach to Beethoven, as...

One of the earliest recordings from TACET program that at the time became world famous, especially in Japan, for it's full violin sound, is now being issued on a 180g LP. Florin Paul plays solo sonatas by J.S. Bach, also in an old church in France,...

On this 180g vinyl release, artistic director + yvind Gimse and his associate Geir Inge Lotsberg initially chose two pieces that represent, in their opinion, "the most beautiful music ever composer for the string orchestra": Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de...

On November 12th Adam Wakeman will release his first modern classical piano album since 1996's 'Tapestries' which he recorded with Rick Wakeman. 'A Handful Of Memories' is the result of an appreciation upon reflection of Adam's past experiences, trips...

On March 16, 1968, the United States Army killed over 500 unarmed civilians in the hamlet of M? Lai, Vietnam. The unimaginable brutality of the event impacted all those who witnessed it firsthand, including helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson, who, against...

Northern (Redux) is a complete reimagining of Deupree's acclaimed 2006 album featuring new piano contributions written and recorded by Fraites along with renewed versions of the original tracks composed by Deupree. The result is a hypnotic, majestic...

No work appeared more frequently in Furtw?ngler's concert programmes than Beethoven's Fifth. Between 1918 and his death in 1954, he conducted more than a hundred performances, including a superbly realised 1937 HMV studio recording with the Berlin...

Nikolaus Harnoncourt describes Mozart's Requiem as "an intensely personal confrontation, frightening and moving in the case of a composer who normally kept his life and experience divorced from his art to an astonishing degree". This famous recording...

Nigel Kennedy's recording was released on 25th September 1989 and went on to become one of the best-selling classical albums of all-time, selling over three million copies around the world. Originally recorded in November 1986 in the Church of St...

New York, 1978, kindred composers Philip Corner and Carles Santos meet at the B÷sendorfer piano of Charlemagne Palestine to record four-hand piano versions of Corner's pieces "Chord" and "Gong!". The result is a long-flowing distillation of the source of...

New collaboration between Jakub J?zef Orlinski and Il Pomo d'Oro. Jakub's sixth project features music by early baroque composers, including Monteverdi, Caccini, Frescobaldi, Kapsberger, Saracini, Netti, and Jarzebski. Musicologist Yannis Fran?ois...