These choruses are not (or not entirely) the tub-thumping exercises in blatant jingoistic rabble-rousing that you might expect, but contain many moments of poetry that make them secular rivals to e...więcej »
The Debussy-year 2012 brought a wealth of reissues on the market, but surprisingly few new recordings. Reason the more to welcome this new recording of a generous selection of Debussy piano works, ...więcej »
Alexander Scriabin, unhinged musical poet, theosophist who saw his calling as no less than forging a unity of Man and Godthrough music, can best be appreciated not perhaps through the lush orchestr...więcej »
Amongst the standard performances for this repertoire, here conducted by Jaap van Zweden, the current music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Great performances by 2 of the best Dutch orch...więcej »
This is a very recent recording of one of Mozart's early operas. For this work 11 year old (!) Mozart used a story from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The text by Father Widl is in Latin.A delig...więcej »
The 19th century Italian guitar virtuouso Mauro Giuliani wrote many works for guitar in combination with other instruments, but very few are for guitar and keyboard. This rare recording includes fo...więcej »
An original contribution to the Verdi and Wagner celebrations of 2013: the complete Verdi and Wagner transcriptions by Liszt!'Incredible One' is only one of dozens of adulatory salutati...więcej »
Franz Liszt was the greatest piano virtuoso of his time, and his enormous solo piano output includes some of the most taxing music for the instrument ever written. He was influenced by a vast range...więcej »
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) composed his comic opera May Night in 1878-9, at a time when he was fascinated in the stories for the supernatural and the fantastic. It was also at this time th...więcej »
Track Listing:1 Travellin' Light Cliff Richard2 It Really Doesn't Matter Anymore Buddy Holly3 Mr Blue Fleetwoods4 High School Confidential Jerry Lee Lewis5 It's ...więcej »
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger was active in Italy during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, a time when many questions were arising about the unity of speech and music. Kapsberger was known to ...więcej »
Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov showed musical promise as a child, but the pursuit of a Naval career meant that much of his grounding in musical theory was gained in between various tours of du...więcej »
This compilation provides a showcase of the many aspects of the cello and the range of emotions and characters that the instrument is able to convey. Opening the collection is Debussy's technically...więcej »
They are a rarity: complete issues of Listz's 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies. Especially the later ones written at the end of Liszt's life are hardly ever recorded. The numbers 16 to 19 seem to be less po...więcej »
Born in Magdeburg in 1681, Georg Philipp Telemann rejected a vocation in law, insisting that music was to be his focus. An organiser of concerts and a publisher of musical scores, he was a highly v...więcej »
Domenico Scarlatti, the sixth child of the celebrated composer Alessandro Scarlatti, was a prolific keyboard composer, and is best known today for his 555 sonatas for keyboard. Domenico was employe...więcej »
With over 600 lieder as well as sacred, chamber, orchestral and piano music to his name, Franz Schubert was one of the most prolific and influential composers of his generation -- a man whose music...więcej »
Gabriel Faure composed his requiem in 1887/8 after a period of intense personal grief. His father had died in 1885, and his mother died two years later. The early version was scored for violas, cel...więcej »
Mahler's Fifth Symphony was completed in 1903, and subjected to immediate revision before the composer conducted the premier in Cologne in October the following year. For such a brilliant conductor...więcej »