The classical music repertoire contains hundreds of works for piano and orchestra, and yet we tend to hear only a tiny fraction of them in concert halls today: the familiar piano concertos by Brahms, ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 1 Sonja Fräki, Piano Eva Ollikainen, Conductor Turku Philharmonic Orchestra Kalevi Aho, Composer Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra Turku Philharmonic Orchestra ...

Who could have written the first work on this disc, a symphony that was completed the day before the composer’s 23rd birthday in 1906? It sounds like the work of a Russian who had come under the spell ...

What is it? The sound of distant thunder! The noise of tumbling avalanches! The booming heartbeat of the universe! Also known as that bloody big drum that sounds unstoppable and looks like so much fun ...

The symphonies present a very different Casella: boldly late-Romantic, rich in youthful exuberance and burgeoning orchestral promise. Structurally and stylistically, the First sprawls through the ...