CD: Vaughan Williams – Symphonies Nos. 4 & 8

Ralph Vaughan Williams is often regarded as a ‘pastoral’ composer – modal, melodic and inspired by folksong – so at the premiere of the Fourth Symphony in 1935, its sense of elemental rage and desolation took many by surprise. Yet...

LP Box Set: The Complete Brahms Symphonies

CD: Poulenc & Saint-Saëns organ works

CD: Beethoven – Missa Solemnis

CD: Brahms – Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4

CD: Orff – Carmina Burana

CD: Julian Anderson orchestral works

CD: Turnage – Orchestral Works Volume 3

CD: Shostakovich Symphonies 6 & 14

Shostakovich’s Sixth Symphony has often been overlooked between the famous heroic testimony of the Fifth and the overwhelming wartime statements of the Seventh and the Eighth. However it is a profoundly personal work, juxtaposing deeply felt sorrow in the slow...

CD: Mahler – Das Lied von der Erde

CD: Mahler – Symphony No. 2

CD: Mahler – Symphony No. 1

CD: Haitink conducts Strauss