How to depict scenes of battle in music is a task that has long fascinated composers. From the dawning of the Renaissance the first successful programmatic works appeared from Susato, Dowland and Biber. But it was the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that witnessed a true flourishing, when composers utilised the full resources of contemporary symphonism to evoke the tumult of battle. Later the medium of film, notably those produced in Hollywood, brought with it colourful and gripping scores.

Artists

Symfonický orchester Slovenského rozhlasu, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona I Nacional de Catalunya, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Stanislavsky Chorus, Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Narodowa Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiego Radia, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenárd, Salvador Mas Conde, Marin Alsop, Dmitry Yablonsky, David Lloyd-Jones, Gerard Schwarz, William Stromberg, Adriano, Adrian Leaper, Jun Märkl, Antoni Wit, Andrew Mogrelia, Gerhard Markson, Uwe Mund