The Danish Chamber Orchestra presents the fourth volume in a series of Haydn symphonies led by Ádám Fischer, who has led the orchestra for over two decades. The three late symphonies on this album were written during Haydn’s second, triumphant visit to London. The works possess increased artistic weight and mark a transition from Viennese Classicism to Romanticism. With this …
Danish Chamber Orchestra: Haydn Late Symphonies, Vol. 4
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Music composed by Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 102 in B-Flat
Symphony No. 103 in E-Flat, “Drum Roll”
Symphony No. 104 in D, “London”
Adrian Sutton: Orchestral Works
Following a devastating cancer diagnosis in September 2022, Adrian Sutton, the composer of the music for War Horse, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and other National Theatre productions, made a conscious decision to change his focus, committing himself to working solely on music for the concert hall. This new album of world premiere recordings reflects his …
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Music composed by Adrian Sutton
Violin Concerto
“A Short Story”
“A Fist Full of Fives”
“War Horse” Suite
Five Theatre Miniatures
Discovering Imogen
Before Imogen Holst died in 1984, she established the Holst Foundation to support living composers which led to the founding NMC Recordings. Imogen Holst, daughter of Gustav Holst, was a teacher, educator, festival administrator, and one of Britain’s most accomplished composers. Discovering Imogen features many world premiere recordings of her Modern era works for choir and orchestra. Colin Matthews, founder …
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“What Man is He?”
Variations on “Loth to Depart”
“Festival Anthem”
Allegro assai for strings
“On Westhall Hill”
Suite for String Orchestra
“Persephone”
Magnus Lindberg: Viola Concerto, Absence, Serenades
Composer Magnus Lindberg (b. 1958) is one of Europe’s leading names in contemporary music. This new album by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Nicholas Collon features some of the most recent orchestral compositions by Lindberg culminating with his new Viola Concerto, a performed by Lawrence Power as soloist. Lindberg was commissioned by the Rotterdam Philharmonic to …
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Magnus Lindberg: Viola Concerto
Magnus Lindberg: Absence
Magnus Lindberg: Serenades
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 From The New World, American Suite
Nathalie Stutzmann, initially celebrated as a contralto, has firmly established herself as a conductor. Her debut album leading the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra features Dvořák’s Symphony No 9, ‘From the New World’ paired with Dvořák’s American Suite. When Stutzmann inaugurated her tenure as its music director in 2022, she became only the second woman to serve as artistic leader of one …
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4, 5 & 6
These performances are CSO music director designate Klaus Mäkelä’s first Shostakovich on record and shows off the Oslo Philharmonic’s pedigree in the music of Shostakovich, one it learned with former chief conductor Mariss Jansons. Jansons studied with Yevgeny Mravinsky, the Principal Conductor of the Leningrad (now St Petersburg) Philharmonic, the man who premiered no fewer than five of Shostakovich’s symphonies. …
Carlos Simon: Four Symphonic Works
The gradual rollout of the National Symphony Orchestra’s recordings of symphonic works by Carlos Simon is completed with his Songs of Separation and Wake Up! Concerto for Orchestra. Based on poems of Rumi, Songs of Separation (four) was commissioned by the NSO and features mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges. Wake Up! was inspired by the poem “Awake, Asleep” by Nepali poet Rajendra …
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- The Block
- Tales – a Folklore Symphony: I. Motherboxx Connection
- Tales – a Folklore Symphony: II. Flying Africans
- Tales – a Folklore Symphony: III. Go Down Moses (Let My People Go)
- Tales – a Folklore Symphony: IV. John Henry
- Songs of Separation: I. the Garden
- Songs of Separation: II. Burning Hell
- Songs of Separation: III. Dance
- Songs of Separation: IV. We Are All the Same
- Wake Up! Concerto for Orchestra
