Classical Explorer

The booklet fo his Scala Music release is French only, but there's an important opening paragraph by Michail Maiasky:

We've met Philip Moore (born 1943) a couple of times on Classical Explorer previously: A Fugal Flourish on "Personent Hodie" on Christmas Bells, and one of his 21 settings of th...

Here's a symphony that lives up to its name: the outburst that opens Respighi's Sinfonia drammatico (1913-15, P. 102) is a late-Romantic explosion, and al the music seems to want to do thenceforth is get back to that extreme of emotion.

Think Richard Strauss/Zemlinsky or even Schoenberg's Pelleas und Melisande, but with an Italianate twist. The ...

To my count, this is the eighth post on Classical Explorer featuring playing by Emanuel Despax: he is worth the focus, for sure, a rare meeting of musical sensitivity and high technique.

ThePiano Quintet in C-Minor, Op. 40 by Louise Farrenc receives its first recording here. Farrenc's music is fascinating (see her Symphonies). In chamber music, she seems...

After Pappano's Tristan, Jessye's Isolde: as part of Decca's "The Unreleased Masters," a selection of excerpts which "for various reasons, was never published". Masur's way with the Prelude is mobile, and climax-focused, the Leipzig G...