Francesco da Milano was a composer of the Italian Renaissance period, and like many other musicians of that time, a poet, artist and writer to boot. His extraordinary talents are well exemplified i...więcej »
Fernando Carulli, Italian guitarist and composer, has been left to dwell in obscurity when it comes to guitar music, eclipsed by the arrival of Fernando Sor not long after his death. Luckily ...więcej »
Given his immense fame and popularity during his lifetime, it seems astonishing that Padre Davide da Bergamo, Italian organist and priest, seems to have been so quickly forgotten. One of the ...więcej »
The French word ‘noël’ is closely associated with the organ, and this new recording from the Breton organist Christian Lambour introduces the listener to works from the 17th ...więcej »
The drunken sot who glares out at us from Ilya Repin’s celebrated portrait looks more like a tramp than a composer, and Mussorgsky’s music has a similarly uncompromising expressiv...więcej »
Although usually performed by large orchestras, this new release brings the overture – an introduction to an opera, ballet, suite or oratorio – to the organ, in innovative arrange...więcej »
The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is one of the most extraordinary manuscripts of Elizabethan and Jacobean music in existence, and is currently held at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Its ex...więcej »
Franz Schubert may have only lived 32 years, but there is no question that he packed a phenomenal amount into his lifetime, with around 600 of his total of nearly 1000 works composed before he was ...więcej »
Born into a family of architects, the pianist, piano pedagogue and composer Emmanuel Durlet was only 16 when he obtained his degree in piano studies with the highest honours from the Royal Flemish ...więcej »
Stanisław Sojka: W piwnicy na Wójtowskiej -reedycja wydawnictwa zarejestrowanego w 1984 roku, a wydanego przez Poljazz w rok później. W dużej części album wypełniony jest standardami ...więcej »
The magic and mystery of Mexico make a welcome return on this recording, as the expert skills of Gérard Abiton explore Manuel Ponce’s complete works for guitar. There is a wealth of tr...więcej »
Charles-Valentin Alkan was a true celebrity in 19th-century Paris. A child prodigy who entered the Paris Conservatoire before the age of five, he later won the establishment’s annual prize fo...więcej »
Turkusowy stół: Artystka powraca po sześcioletniej przerwie. Nie byłoby tej bardzo osobistej, intymnej płyty, gdyby nie prośby licznych i wiernych fanów Antoniny Krzysztoń. &bdq...więcej »
Grażyna Auguścik: The Beatles Nova:Beatlesi w latynoskim wykonaniu? Dokładnie tak! "The Beatles Nova", wspólny projekt wszechstronnej wokalistki Grażyny Auguścik ...więcej »
The chamber literature for bassoon is not as rich and varied as the instrument deserves. Despite its widely recognised beauty of timbre and expressive potentialities, used and celebrated in solos f...więcej »
Although perhaps better known for his Lieder and piano music, both of the works heard on this new recording by the Daniel Quartet are from Robert Schumann’s significant oeuvre of chamber musi...więcej »
Papa Dance - latem 1985 wydana została debiutancka płyta zespołu Papa Dance. Krążek „Papa Dance” odniósł oszałamiający sukces. Przez wiele tygodni okupował pierwsze miejsce listy...więcej »
Johann Sebastian Bach, hero of the Baroque, has many masterpieces to his name. Among them is the Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV248, also known as the Christmas Oratorio. The work was written in 1734 to b...więcej »
Czerwony Tulipan to zespół czarodziejski, hipnotyzujący przepiękną i niezwykłą, poruszającą poezją. Niestroniący także od twórczości ocierającej się o kabaret. Ich twórczość je...więcej »
In 1701 Antonio Vivaldi was appointed violin teacher at the Ospedale della Pieta – an orphanage that specialised in musical training for young girls. The choir master, Francesco Gasparini, re...więcej »