Marking the end of Mozart's early operas, Idomeneo is commonly regarded as the composer's greatest serious opera and his first operatic masterpiece, containing many allusions to the style of the Fr...więcej »
Paweł i Ewa są typowymi przedstawicielami tej części młodego pokolenia, która bez kompleksów realizuje swoje ambicje: on (Jacek Poniedziałek) jest oddany bez reszty swojej pracy, prag...więcej »
Brilliant Classics' survey of Respighi's complete orchestral music continues here, with a release that explores the Italian composer's modernising of the past (as previously evidenced in works such...więcej »
There is little doubt that Vienna at the turn of the 19th century was the musical capital of the world; a nexus for the string quartet composer, who could alternate composing for the leading virtuo...więcej »
“J.B. Foerster was born in this house on 30 December 1859 in order, through his music, to raise us to the heights of beauty.”Although little known today in the wider musical...więcej »
What can one do with the seemingly inexhaustible output of Telemann, beyond perhaps sitting back and enjoying its good humour and melodic fecundity? The conceit behind this little-recorded set of c...więcej »
The rather damning assessment by Carl Friedrich Zelter that Wilhelm Friedemann Bach ‘had the tic douloureux of being an original character, growing apart from his father and brothers and reso...więcej »
The art form that became known as the lied may not have been a prominent feature of Haydn's output, but his collections of songs for solo voice have nevertheless retained their appeal to this day. ...więcej »
Zapraszamy wszystkich do wspólnego kolędowania z dziećmi przy żłóbku Małego Jezusa.Każda kolęda nagrana jest w 2 wersjach: wokalnej i instrumentalnej. Z myślą o młodszych kolędn...więcej »
Andrés Segovia, born in 1893 in Linares, Spain, was one of the most important musicians of the 20th century; a virtuoso guitarist whose contribution to modern-Romantic repertoire included bo...więcej »
This release features two of the most famous compositions in Western music history, though not quite as the listener knows them. As with many canonic works over the course of time, Saint-Saëns...więcej »
Pictures at an ExhibitionGewandhausorchester Leipzig, Igor MarkevitchA Night on the Bare MountainGewandhausorchester Leipzig, Igor MarkevitchBoris GodunovBoris Christo...więcej »
Bellini’s Il pirata became an international must-see in mid-18th-century Europe. His third opera, the work was written for La Scala in Milan and brought Bellini to the attention of the musica...więcej »
Here is presented the heart of the small, carefully wrought oeuvre of a French composer whose name became a byword for compositional fastidiousness no less than that of his compatriots Ravel and Du...więcej »
Born in 1536, Giaches de Wert represents the fifth and last generation of Franco-Flemish composers – although he in fact spent most of his working life in Mantua, where Duke Guglielmo di Gonz...więcej »
The history of Wozzeck began nearly 200 years ago, when Johann Christian Woyzeck, a onetime soldier and jobless wigmaker, killed his sweetheart with a knife in a fit of jealous rage. The tragic inc...więcej »
Known for its fair which was held five times a year under the Russian Empire, the small village of Velyki Sorochintsi – located in Central Ukraine, south east of Kiev – was made famous ...więcej »
Angelo Gilardino’s compositions are all inspired by literary creations or paintings, although there is nothing deliberately programmatic about these works, which seek rather to convey in broa...więcej »
How many works by Hindemith can you name? This is the question underpinning the opening note written by the artists on this release, as it would appear that this composer – undoubtedly one of...więcej »