Do composers’ star signs reveal themselves in the music they write? Find out for yourself with this new series of digital releases, Signs of the Zodiac: twelve albums, each gathering together representative works by the great composers, around the globe and across the ages, according to their zodiac sun sign. Can you hear distinctive Zodiac musical styles?
Johann Sebastian Bach • Béla Bartók
Anne Boyd • Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Alberto Ginastera • Joseph Haydn
Michael Kamen • Joseph Lanner
Modest Mussorgsky • Michael Nyman
Sergei Rachmaninoff • William Walton
Hugo Alfvén • Johannes Brahms • Nigel Butterley • Marcel Dupré • Gabriel Fauré • Anatoly Liadov
Raffaele Marcellino • Jules Massenet • Sergei Prokofiev • Erik Satie • Alessandro Scarlatti
Peter Sculthorpe • Arthur Sullivan • Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Tomaso Albinoni • Nicolas Bernier • Mikhail Glinka • Charles Gounod • Edvard Grieg
Aram Khachaturian • Erich Wolfgang Korngold • Jacques Offenbach • Robert Schumann
Richard Strauss • Igor Stravinsky • Richard Wagner
Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco • Damian Barbeler • Giovanni Battista Bononcini • George Butterworth
Louis-Claude Daquin • Gerald Finzi • Christoph Willibald Gluck • Percy Grainger • Leoš Janáček
Gustav Mahler • Carl Orff • Ottorino Respighi • Richard Rodgers
Heinrich Biber • Francesco Cilea • Claude Debussy • Guillaume Dufay • John Field • Alexander Glazunov
Enrique Granados • Reynaldo Hahn • John Ireland • Graeme Koehne • Philippe II Duc d’Orléans
Andrew Schultz • Karlheinz Stockhausen
Salvador Bacarisse • Johann Christian Bach • Anton Bruckner • Antonín Dvořák • Girolamo Frescobaldi
Umberto Giordano • Gustav Holst • Pietro Locatelli • Alessandro Marcello • Giacomo Meyerbeer
Johann Pachelbel • Henry Purcell • Arnold Schoenberg
Paul Dukas • George Gershwin • Charles Ives • Franz Liszt • Jean-Philippe Rameau
Camille Saint-Saëns • Heinrich Schütz • Dmitri Shostakovich • Charles Villiers Stanford
Ralph Vaughan Williams • Giuseppe Verdi • Louis Vierne
Vincenzo Bellini • Georges Bizet • Alexander Borodin • Benjamin Britten • Aaron Copland
Johann Nepomuk Hummel • Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov • Elena Kats-Chernin • Niccolò Paganini
Joaquín Rodrigo • Johann Strauss II • Margaret Sutherland • Carl Maria von Weber • Malcolm Williamson
Ludwig van Beethoven • Hector Berlioz • Gaetano Donizetti • Manuel de Falla • César Franck
Henryk Górecki • Scott Joplin • Pietro Mascagni • Olivier Messaien • Giacomo Puccini • Jean Sibelius
Paul Stanhope • Émile Waldteufel
Mily Balakirev • Joseph Bodin de Boismortier • Max Bruch • Emmanuel Chabrier • Ernest Chausson
Peggy Glanville-Hicks • Miriam Hyde • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi • Francis Poulenc • Alexander Scriabin
Christian Sinding • Josef Suk • Michael Tippett
Muzio Clementi • John Corigliano • Frederick Delius • Henri Duparc • Henri Dutilleux • Philip Glass
Witold Lutoslawski • Felix Mendelssohn • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Michael Praetorius
Franz Schubert • John Tavener
Samuel Barber • Luigi Boccherini • Frédéric Chopin • Léo Delibes • Andrew Ford • George Frideric Handel
Joseph Parry • Maurice Ravel • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov • Gioachino Rossini • Bedřich Smetana
Johann Strauss I • Heitor Villa-Lobos • Antonio Vivaldi
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