Orchestral & Symphonic

Christina Pluhar states: "Monteverdi's most admirable trait is the enormous diversity of compositional techniques that he masters and interweaves with supreme skill. Our aim in this recording is to bring out the variet? of his secular compositions. The...

Chopin is reserved, visionary and mysterious," says Beatrice Rana. "There are many layers to his music. It's pleasing to the ear and sincere in it's communication, but the deeper you go, the more you find..." For this album, Rana pairs Chopin's 12 op 25...

Cantique features the music of iconic Estonian composer Arvo P?rt. In celebration of P?rt's 75th birthday, Estonian-born and American-raised conductor Kristian J?rvi leads the Rundfunk Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin and the RIAS Kammerchor in the performance...

Can the dualism of life, nature and art be expressed in pure music? This is the question the multi-talented composer Flint Juventino Beppe - formerly known as Fred Jonny Berg - has set out to answer. The album Remote Galaxy is a journey in time and...

Callas and Turandot. "To have Callas, the most flashing-eyed of all sopranos as Turandot, is the most natural piece of casting. With her Turandot was not just an implacable man-hater but a highly provocative female. [...] With her the character seems so...

Burak ?ebi, an outstanding pianist and composer of his generation, captivates audiences with his poetic, introspective approach to music making. His playing is marked by tonal perfection, subtly structured voicing and a range of moods and colours,...

Bruckner's Fifth Symphony is considered the absolute pinnacle of his oeuvre. Bruckner himself saw it as his "contrapuntal masterpiece". The Viennese musicologist Robert Haas calls Bruckner's 5th Symphony a "monumental work of confession" and "a high gift...

Bruckner is one of those rare geniuses, seldom to be found in the whole of European history, whose natural destiny it is to make the supernatural real, to force the divine into the strait-jacket of our human world. Wilhelm Furtw?ngler "Furtw?ngler's...

Brahms's four symphonies lie at the very core of the Berliner Phiharmoniker's repertoire and reputation. With the combination of Sir Simon Rattle's vision and iconoclastic approach, and the orchestra's remarkable technique and unique sound, these...

Both a challenge and an adventure, the recording I made of the ?tudes by Debussy lives on as a wonderful memory of friendship. Having encouraged me to record the complete set of twelve works, my friend and respected colleague Catherine Collard, an...

Boston Symphony Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa - "Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, H. 48" / The Boston Symphony Orchestra can be heard under Seiji Ozawa's baton they give a "light and mercurial" performance of Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique.1. Berlioz :...

Boston Symphony Orchestra/Rafael Kubelik - "Smetana: Ma Vlast" The Boston Symphony Orchestra can be heard with Rafael Kubel?k they perform Smetana's Ma vlßst, in one of the most famous recordings of this work which ranged among the Maestro's signature...