SINGS MASTERPIECES FROM THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOO

Finnish opera star Camilla Nylund sings masterpieces from the Great American Songbook in this unique collaboration with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under their music director Marin Alsop. The classic songs in this film were specially arranged to suit Nylund’s performance style, vocals and personality, as if they had been written for her.

SGAMBATI - SYMPHONY NO. 2; SINFONIA EPITALAMIO

Giovanni Sgambati, a composer admired by Wagner, was the man Busoni predicted would take Italian music ‘towards a bright new future’. Sgambati’s Symphony No. 2 is a compendium of Austro-Germanic devices whose mix of chromaticism and melodic invention is invigorating. Lost for decades, it was reconstructed by Rosalind Trübger whose performing edition is recorded here.

CODEX LAS HUELGAS

After more than 220 albums, Jordi Savall still surprises us with this exhilarating recording of a masterpiece from the Middle Ages.
Compiled in 1325 and rediscovered in... 1904, the Codex Las Huelgas is the only manuscipt of his time still kept in its original place : a Cistercian monastery on the road to Compostella in northern Spain.

HOME.S

The release of HOME.S., the only existing, previously unreleased solo album by pianist Esbjörn Svensson, is nothing less than a sensation. The recordings were made in Svensson's Swedish home - just weeks before his tragic death on June 14, 2008, after which they rested undiscovered on a hard drive in his wife Eva Svensson's personal archive for nearly ten years.

SIBELIUS - THE TEMPEST

ymphonic in scale and ambition, the incidental music to Shakespeare’s play The Tempest was among the last orchestral works Sibelius composed before entering the mysterious ‘silence of Järvenpää’ that lasted until his death.