The Bells

With this album, Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra open their collaboration with harmonia mundi and have assembled an equally refined and unexpected programme with two rare masterworks from 1913. From the biting irony of the Shakespearean knight (Falstaff) to the Poe-inspired existential meditation (The Bells), these literary scores brilliantly extend the magic of a dying romanticism.