These important recordings have never before been brought together as a single box.I Musici founded almost 60 years ago; this set is a fitting tribute to the ensemble that did more than...więcej »
Béla Bartók was one of the most significant musical voices of the 20th century. Self-taught as composer, he combined elements of his homeland's traditional folk music with influences ...więcej »
Russian-born soprano Rita Streich, also known as the ‘Viennese Nightingale’, was a much-admired singer of the post World War Two era, who made many popular recordings.Her br...więcej »
An understanding has been passed down to us that Mozart had a somewhat jaundiced view of the flute, that he had not the inclination to lavish upon it the love and care and idiomatic poetry which gi...więcej »
It is not often that one can listen to the extraordinary sound of three different violins built by the famous violin builder Stradivarius on one recording.Fontanella, accompanied by Sal...więcej »
Dubbed the 'Paganini' of the double bass, Giovanni Bottesini effectively exploited the technical possibilities of the instrument. His idiomatic writing and his passion for opera make his music extr...więcej »
The extraordinary figure of Claudio Monteverdi looms large in the history of 17th-century music. As well as being one of the founding fathers of opera, he left an essential corpus of eight books of...więcej »
Wolfgang Sawallisch is renowned for his Schubert interpretations including these glorious recordings with the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Rundfunkchor Leipzig, made in 1971. The team of legendary...więcej »
Francesco Giammarco (Piano)For reasons that are unclear, the Italian composer Stefano Golinelli (1818–1891) has long been consigned to the outer reaches of musical history. Yet in...więcej »
Jorge Bolet (Piano)Orchestre Symphonique de MontréalCharles Dutoit (Conductor)Chopin’s two concertos date from early in his career, and the Second was actually ...więcej »
Antonin Dvořák's last two symphonies, the light, sunny Eighth and the American-themed Ninth, are complemented by two rarely performed tone poems containing some of the composer's most remark...więcej »
Bach’s glittering reputation as a virtuoso organist was based primarily on his extraordinary abilities as an improviser, echoes of which we can hear in the Passacaglia in C minor: its 20 virt...więcej »
To dedicate a musical offering to the baroque artist Anthony van Dyck is to celebrate and honor all that was represented by the Flemish Renaissance, which came just before. This 16th Century respon...więcej »
These recordings were made when the great Norwegian soprano was in her vocal prime, between 1935 and 1940. Although her voice remained astonishingly well preserved till late in her career, later re...więcej »
The soprano Toti Dal Monte was born Antonietta Meneghel in Mogliano Veneto in 1892. After study at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice, she made her début at La Scala in 1916, in Z...więcej »
Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882–1973) studied in Venice, where the greatest discovery of his student years came when he found manuscripts by Monteverdi, Frescobaldi and others in the Bibliotec...więcej »
Lorenzo Regazzo (Bas-bariton)Dimitri Romano (Piano)In the fashionable circles of late 19th-century musical Venice, it was a matter of pride that among the small number of scores t...więcej »
Until 1839, Schumann had published only works for the piano; yet the year before, he had admitted to his fiancée Clara Wieck that the instrument was ‘becoming too confining for me.&rsq...więcej »
There is great justification in the common view that Tchaikovsky was the finest 19th Century composer of ballet, as well as the pioneer of the modern form of the art. Prior to his three masterful b...więcej »