HORN CONCERTOS NO. 1-4 (LP)

At the tender age of nine, Felix Klieser dreamed of being able to play Mozart‘s horn concertos. Today, 18 years later, that dream has finally come true and Felix Klieser now performs on the world‘s foremost concert stages, playing the very works which are part of any horn player‘s core repertoire. Yet he took his time before recording all four of Mozart‘s horn concertos. Now, the results of that labor are presented on this stunning release.

Holes in the Sky

Holes in the Sky is a genre-fluid, multi-generational collection of music written & performed by today's leading female artists, celebrating the contributions of phenomenal women. This music tells the story of what girls can contribute to the world when they are given a chance. Their dreams can make holes in the sky. The album is presented in partnership with PLAN International Because I Am a Girl, supporting the rights and empowerment of girls and young women around the globe.

Bach: Goldberg Variations -

Kraggerud wrote his Topelius Variations in 2017 following a commission from the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra in Finland. He describes his 15-minute score as inspired by Topelius’s life works; much like Edvard Grieg in his famous musical commemoration of the writer Ludvig Holberg. ‘All the notes and pitches are Bach’s’, Kraggerud says.

Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers

Higdon, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and two Grammy Awards, invites listeners to luxuriate in the beauty of a virtuosic string orchestra with Dance Card, a five-moment suite that San Francisco Classical Voice praised for its “pleasurable sounds” and “intellectual heft.” Assad is a Grammy-nominated, Her Sin Fronteras lives up to its title with an exotic blend of musical influences from throughout the Americas. Juilliard-trained African-American composer Montgomery,

Wolfgang Rihm: Music for Violin & Orchestra, Vol.

Wolfgang Rihm, one of the foremost contemporary composers, has created a powerful body of music for the violin. Gesungene Zeit is one of his most performed works, and it demonstrates why Rihm is so admired: music that begins and ends in ethereal lines while embracing agitation and threnody alike. The beautifully transparent and sensuous Lichtes Spiel is ‘light, but not lightweight’ in the composer’s words.

Copland: Grohg & Billy the Kid

Copland did as much as anyone in establishing American concert music on the world stage, Grohg is the most ambitious example of his Parisian years, a precociously brilliant one-act ballet scored for full orchestra, inspired by the silent film expressionist film Nosferatu. The first example of Copland’s new ‘Americanized’ music of the 1930s was Billy the Kid, based on the life of the 19th-century outlaw and heard here in its full version.

Konstantin: Rêverie

Konstantin brings together short piano and chamber pieces, all of which share her inclination towards miniature forms, flowing melodies and unpretentious charm. Many of these are inspired by the beautiful countryside and coastline of Konstantin’s Dorset home, evoking an elegiac wistfulness peculiar to English pastoral music. Others reflect moods or emotions both universal and specific, such as the powerful Third Piano Sonata dedicated to family who were exiled to Siberia by Stalin.

The Other Half of Music

The whole idea behind this release is finally throwing some light on the female contribution to the musical world: a programme of works for piano and wind instruments written by ten contemporary female composers from the four corners of the world. It is a sort of anthology of different currents and trends, perfectly illustrating the wealth of ideas that 21st-century female composers have to offer.

Grace Williams: Chamber Music

She won the Morfydd Owen scholarship to Cardiff University in 1923, in 1926 she proceeded to the Royal College of Music, London, where she was taught by Gordon Jacob and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Also regarded by many as one of Wales finest composers. She wrote two symphonies, the earlier being the first symphony ever composed by a Welsh composer, a mass, one opera, numerous other pieces for orchestras and chamber ensemble, as well as accomplished vocal works.