Wydanie specjalne stanowi publikację towarzyszącą wydaniom i wznowieniom poszczególnych tomów „Encyklopedii muzycznej PWM”. W niniejszej edycji zamieściliśmy hasło „...więcej »
Historia Joy Division, opowiedziana przez legendarnego basistę grupy. Jej członkowie zostali pionierami współczesnej muzyki alternatywnej i stworzyli własną definicję rocka ery post-punku. I...więcej »
Fantasy comic opera in three acts, Text after Shakespeare by Hermann S. MosenthalCD11 Overture 8'31Act 12 Dialogue: Unsere Geschichte (narrator) 0'353 No.1: Nein...więcej »
Best known for his final opera, The Stone Guest, Alexander Dargomyzhsky was a 19th-century composer who effectively bridged the gap in Russian national opera between Mikhail Glinka and the later ge...więcej »
Manuel Tomadin follows up his first album for Brilliant Classics, of Weimar-composed chorales by J.S. Bach (94456), with some little-known musical treasures from Hamburg c.1700 complemented by a bo...więcej »
Here's a collection unrivalled in its scope within the current catalogue, of orchestral works by one of the most prolific of 20th-century, Paul Hindemith, whose reputation as a purveyor of 'useful'...więcej »
Tikhon Khrennikov was certainly an equivocal figure in the history of 20th-century Russian music. A composer with a tendency towards popular theatrical genres and lyricism, the naively optimistic n...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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Anton Rubinstein was an enfant prodige and virtuoso pianist, undertaking his first concert tour of Europe when he was just 11 years old. His performances led to encounters with Liszt and Chopin, an...więcej »
In 1768 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach succeeded his godfather Georg Philipp Telemann as director of music at Hamburg. The composer’s new position allowed him to devote more of his energies to com...więcej »
This disc brings together a collection of vocal works from 17th-century Italian convents – music that is given another dimension thanks to the fact that its primary function was to aid worshi...więcej »
Robert Schumann, ‘a dreamer, a […] tone poet and writer whose inner voices were those of childhood, of wonder, of love, of turmoil, even of madness’ was renowned for the passion ...więcej »
“He is the father, we are the sons,” said Mozart of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. This statement reveals just how venerated a figure the latter composer was in his day – to the exten...więcej »