Dresdner Philharmonie

1 Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, Pt. 1: I. Chorus. 2 Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, Pt. 1: II. Recitative. 3 Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, Pt. 1: III. Recitative. 4 Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, Pt. 1: IV. Aria. 5 Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248,

Gurrelieder is a gigantic, post-Wagnerian cantata that, in retrospect, seems like the terminus ante quem for Romanticism in music, beyond which further elaboration or intensity was surely impossible, and led surely if not inevitably to the

Here's a collection unrivalled in its scope within the current catalogue, of orchestral works by one of the most prolific of 20th-century, Paul Hindemith, whose reputation as a purveyor of 'useful' music has perhaps overshadowed his colourf

Boris Blacher's oratorio, Der Großinquisitor, was only half finished in 1943. Having found himself in truly dire straits -- forced to withdraw from musical life thanks to his inclusion on the Nazi register of Jews in music, and hit by a par