Alexander Porfireyevich Borodin was the illegitimate son of a prince and his mistress, educated at home in St Petersburg by his mother. Although music was an early passion, he discovered his avocat...więcej »
Apollo e Dafne is an early work of Handel's, completed at the latest by 1710 when he was 25 years old in Hanover, whence Handel departed in 1710 after Agrippina had made such an impact in Venice. H...więcej »
Although famous for his evergreen Piano Concerto and the music he composed for Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Grieg's output is dominated by short works -- exquisite miniatures for piano and song.I...więcej »
The 19th century was a significant time for both opera and the guitar. Opera was everywhere, and its characteristics gradually began to appear in other styles of music as composers tried to encapsu...więcej »
Felix Mendelssohn is associated with one brilliant score of incidental music for the theatre -- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- but in fact he composed scores for no less than 15 stage works. The most...więcej »
Paul Kemp (Depp) porzuca nowojorski hałas na rzecz błogiego spokoju rajskiej wyspy Portoryko i przyjmuje posadę dziennikarza w lokalnej gazecie, prowadzonej przez sponiewieranego przez życie redakt...więcej »
Giacomo Carissimi may not exactly be a household name, but during his time he was one of the most respected musicians in Europe. Born in 1605, he avoided becoming a cooper, unlike the rest of his f...więcej »
Among the most prized exhibits of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, stands the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, the largest surviving anthology of Elizabethan and Jacobean keyboard music. Dating from a per...więcej »
The final volume of Brilliant Classics' acclaimed Clementi series, this release is dedicated to the composer's last and most mature works for pianoforte: the Sonatas Opp. 40, 46 and 50, and the 12 ...więcej »
Beethoven's piano concertos are cornerstones of the keyboard repertoire, and yet in their time they formed the subject of much cynical debate: the sounds that we are today adjusted to were difficul...więcej »
Of all the Strauss-Hoffmansthal collaborations, Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman without a Shadow) is by far the most ambitious, and perhaps the opera with the richest musical ideas. Dealing with ...więcej »
Another outstanding recording from the golden era at EMI. Made in 1952, and produced by Walter Legge, it was the first of two that featured Boris Christoff in the title role. The second version, th...więcej »
J.S. Bach's great masterpiece, The Art of Fugue, was incomplete when the composer died in 1750, and he left no indications whatsoever for its instrumentation. Since then there has been much debate ...więcej »
Hans von Bulow called Bach's Well Tempered Clavier 'The Old Testament' of music -- Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas being the so called 'New Testament. Bach's set of 48 preludes and matching fugues is ...więcej »
The music of Alexander Aronovich Knajfel was considered too advanced for Soviet Russia in the 1960s, and he was blacklisted from the Union of Soviet Composers in 1979 for having participated in fes...więcej »
Na czas pobytu rodziców za granicą Filip i Rut zamieszkują u swej surowej ciotki. Rut, w gorącej wodzie kąpana i pyskata, często pakuje rodzeństwo w kłopoty. Gdy dzieci budują w lesie tajną ...więcej »
Adaptacja znanej powieści Patricii M. St. John pod tym samym tytułem. Akcja ma miejsce w Alpach. Dwoje nastolatków, Anette i Lucien, są przyjaciółmi. Dziewczynka musi radzić sobie z b...więcej »
A stunning 15 CD collection of some of the greatest sacred music ever written.From the great Lamentations of Byrd, Tallis and Palestrina, the listener is taken on a remarkable spiritual journ...więcej »
Blind from childhood, Antonio de Cabezon (b.1510) was was appointed organist in the chapel of Queen Isabella at the age of 16, and in 1538, became músico de la cámara to her husband C...więcej »