Taracea (Spanish) is defined as ‘an inlaid decorative work made from small pieces of different coloured woods and other fine materials, arranged to form intricate geometric shapes’ (lin...więcej »
Entartete Musik (‘degenerate music’) was the term applied to music in Germany after 1933 (when Hitler became Chancellor) that did not fulfil the expectations of culture according to Jos...więcej »
Many classical music listeners will be familiar with the name Darius Milhaud, but how familiar are they with his output? The owner of a bold, individual style, Milhaud was active for much of the 20...więcej »
Tchaikovsky’s three ballets – Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker – are all much-loved treasures of the balletic canon, having undergone countless performances and r...więcej »
Camille Saint-Saëns was a truly revered composer in mid-19th- and early-20th-century France. A contributor to many genres and to the general French musical renaissance of this time, he was des...więcej »
Stephen R. Covey, autor jednego z najważniejszych poradników XX wieku „7 nawyków skutecznego działania” zmienił życie milionów czytelników na całym świecie, ...więcej »
August Gottfried Ritter (1811-1885) is no household name, but to organists he one of the most significant figures in the history of their instrument; while his three-volume method of playing Kunst ...więcej »
For many Mozart is more ‘perfector’ than ‘innovator’, a composer who drew on an already extant vocabulary to create some of the greatest works in European culture. In this r...więcej »
„Treny”, „Fraszki” i „Pieśni”Jana Kochanowskiego, które ukazują się w formie audiobooka w interpretacji Janusza Żaka, cechuje doskonała forma, genialne ry...więcej »
Throughout his life, Bach remained a passionate composer of sacred cantatas, which underpinned his unshakeable commitment to the Lutheran church. While he also turned his hand to secular cantatas, ...więcej »
When one thinks of Richard Wagner, it is easy to imagine the passion, the soaring melodies and the sheer power of the music written by this revolutionary in the world of 19th-century opera. But the...więcej »
Florentine composer Castelnuovo-Tedesco contributed a vast array of music to the guitar literature, and this engaging release celebrates his output for two guitars, drawing focus to what is perhaps...więcej »
“Open your head”, “light as an egg” and “from the top of your back teeth”: such phrases are only to be found in the scores of the eccentric Erik Satie, a compose...więcej »
Piekło, jedna z trzech części Boskiej Komedia, monumentalnego dzieła Dantego Alighieri, ukazuje się teraz w postaci audiobooka, którego lektorem jest Tomasz Czarnecki. Dante zabiera sł...więcej »
Francesco Maria Veracini (1690–1768) was one of the foremost violinists of his time, and he appears to have led a rather adventurous life; travelling a great deal, surviving a fall from the s...więcej »
Called ‘the Andy Warhol of new music’, JacobTV (Jacob ter Veldhuis) has a dynamic and fast-moving career, including a three-day JacobTV festival at the Whitney Museum of America (2007) ...więcej »
Autentyczna historia. Listopad 2009. Wyniszczony torturami młody prawnik, Siergiej Magnitski, przebywa w moskiewskim więzieniu. W połowie listopada Magnitskiego przeniesiono do celi odosobnienia, p...więcej »
This wonderful two-disc set charts the progress of Dvořák’s relationship with the concerto form over the course of his career, from the tentative but beautifully peaceful Piano Concert...więcej »
Mendelssohn’s passion for the organ was due in part to his Lutheran upbringing, but he also owes much to his famous predecessor, J.S. Bach, whose influence is especially felt in the Ostinato ...więcej »