SCHUBERT Symphony in C major ("The Great"), D.944
KŘENEK “Static and Ecstatic”

This new Deluxe CD album marks The Cleveland Orchestra’s second release on its own label, following the inaugural boxed set titled A New Century, released in June 2020. The new disc features Schubert’s greatest symp...

SCHNITTKE Concerto for Piano and Strings
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 2 in D minor
Schnittke’s Concerto for Piano and Strings was recorded at Severance Music Center in October 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. It features pianist Yefim Bronfman and was part of The Cleveland Orchestra’s “In Focus” di...

RICHARD STRAUSS
Three Tone Poems

Macbeth, after Shakespeare’s Tragedy, Op. 23
Don Juan, after Lenau, Op. 20
Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28

Richard Strauss wrote a total of nine tone poems — orchestral works that depict a storyline. “Don Juan” and “Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks” are...

WALKER “Antifonys “(for string orchestra)
WALKER Sinfonia No. 4, “Threads”
WALKER “Lilacs” (for voice and orchestra)
WALKER Sinfonia No. 5, “Visions”

A trained concert pianist, George Walker later turned to composition, writing ninety pieces for orchestra, chamber orchestra, and a variety of oth...

FRANZ SCHUBERT
Mass No. 6 in E-flat major, D. 950

I. Kyrie
II. Gloria
III. Credo
IV. Sanctus
V. Benedictus
VI. Agnus Dei

“Franz Schubert’s Mass in E-flat major, written in the last year of his life, offers keen insight into this composer’s musical world. Just as we find in many of his late work...

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

I. Andante sostenuto — Moderato con anima
II. Andantino in modo di canzona
III. Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato
IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco

“There is not a note in this symphony which I did not feel deeply, and which did not serve as an e...

SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor, Opus 111

I. Allegro moderato
II. Largo
III. Vivace

“Prokofiev composed his Sixth Symphony soon after the triumph of his Fifth. But while he called the Fifth ‘a symphony of the greatness of the human spirit, a song of praise of free and happy mank...

ANTON BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major, “Romantic” (1878/80 version, ed. Benjamin M. Korstvedt)

I. Bewegt, nicht zu
II. Andante quasi Allegretto
III. Scherzo: Bewegt
IV. Finale: Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell

Anton Bruckner had to wait until the public premiere of his Fourth Symphony in 1...

BERG Three Pieces from “Lyric Suite”
R. STRAUSS Suite from “Der Rosenkavalier”

This recording of Alban Berg’s Three Pieces from Lyric Suite and a Suite in Three Parts from Richard Strauss’s opera Der Rosenkavalier, compiled by Franz Welser-Möst, pairs two early-20th-century masterpieces grapplin...

BARTÓK String Quartet No. 3 (arr. Stanley Konopka for double string orchestra)
BARTÓK Suite from “The Miraculous Mandarin”

This release from The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst was recorded live at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center in January 202...

HECTOR BERLIOZ
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

I. Reveries — Passions: Largo — Allegro agitato e appassionato assai
II. A Ball: Allegro non troppo
III. In the Country: Adagio
IV. March to the Scaffold: Allegretto non troppo
V. Dream of the Witches’ Sabbath: Larghetto

“One has only to read Berlioz...

JULIUS EASTMAN
Symphony No. 2, “The Faithful Friend: The Lover Friend’s Love for the Beloved

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVKSY
Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17, “Ukrainian”
I. Andante sostenuto — Allegro vivo
II. Andantino marziale, quasi moderato
III. Scherzo: Allegro molto vivace
IV. Finale: Moderato ...