While today's houses swell with the works of numerous undoubted masters of the operatic genre, not one of these now- legendary composers enjoyed the immense success and popularity during their life...więcej »
Vivaldi was not only a composer, but also a virtuoso violinist, an outstanding educator and a Catholic priest. His thick red hair led to his nickname ‘il Prete Rosso’ (the Red Priest). ...więcej »
The 19th concept of ‘elegy’ in music, much like ‘romance’, ‘poem’ or ‘prelude’, is much more than simply an introduction to a short piece without fix...więcej »
Tchaikovsky wrote four works for piano and orchestra: the three concertos, and the Concert Fantasy in G Op.56 (1884). The First Concerto ranks today as possibly the most famous piano concerto ever ...więcej »
It is fitting that the first repertoire chosen for this recording with Czech Philharmonic is music that has been central to the pianist for most of his life. Antonín Dvorˇák’s P...więcej »
Though Mendelssohn’s two string quintets sound as if they were written one right after the other, they were actually composed 20 years apart; and a good deal of revising and refining went int...więcej »
Although a nobleman by birth, Benedetto Marcello was also a serious amateur composer who wrote in many of the principal genres of his day. This compilation focuses on the Italian’s 12 concert...więcej »
Nathalie Stutzmann (Alt)Catherine Collard (Piano)Nathalie Stutzmann was born in Paris in 1965 and is one of the leading vocal talents in France today. The extraordinary quality of...więcej »
Rachmaninov drafted his second symphony in a charming garden villa in Dresden, where he had settled with his family in late 1906. The cinematic breadth of the second movement and the famous clarine...więcej »
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 »