The Late Romantic Swedish composer, pianist and conductor Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927) was a leading musical personality of his time. His earlier music was influenced by Wagner, Liszt and Brahms,...więcej »
Today Richard Wagner is best known for his extraordinary operas; any success in other domains was dwarfed by these compositional feats in the world of musical theatre. But Wagner's piano works can ...więcej »
One of the most influential and revolutionary works of the 19th century, Tristan und Isolde, Wagner's music drama of 1865, more than any other work shaped the course of music right up to the early ...więcej »
Bach composed his St Matthew Passion in 1727. Only two of his five Passion settings have survived - the St Matthew and the St John. The St Mark survives in a realisation after the manuscript was de...więcej »
Maurice Ravel is famed as a master of orchestral colour, in the context not only of his own work but that of others, most notably Mussorgsky's awkward but brilliant piano original of Pictures at an...więcej »
Kayah zaprasza w egzotyczną podróż. Transoriental Orchestra to niezwykły projekt. Wszystko zaczęło się od wielkiej muzycznej miłości Kayah do muzyki world. Artystka od dawna planowała nagran...więcej »
75 original hits, featuring Cliff Richards, Buddy Holly, Connie Francis, Paul Anka, Elvis Presley, Pat Boone, Fats Domino, Marty Wilde and more.więcej »
The C minor Passacaglia and Fugue is one of the great masterpieces for the instrument and one which inspired countless responses from composers great and lesser. So it's all the more astonishing to...więcej »
The second 2CD volume of Respighi's orchestral music (of a projected four from the Rome orchestra) focuses on the concerto form, and on Respighi's relationship with early music. He was a pioneer in...więcej »
After studying composition at the Conservatory Santa Cecilia in Rome, Marco Frisina enrolled at a theological college, and was ordained as a priest in 1982. He carries out his ministry in Rome, whe...więcej »
These days, the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is mainly associated with his later works. Born in 1935, he wrote 'avant-garde' works at first. In the nineteen seventies he increasingly found his ...więcej »
In 1978 Alfred Schnittke (1934-98) wrote the incidental music for a production of The Inspector's Tale, an adaptation for stage of Gogol's Dead Souls. It was to have been directed by Yuri Lyubimov,...więcej »
Although Girolamo Frescobaldi is said to have had a beautiful singing voice, it was his talent as a keyboardist that brought him into the spotlight in Italy in the late 16th and early 17th centurie...więcej »
One of the most distinguished figures of the Classical period, the Italian composer Luigi Boccherini (1743--1805) was revered by 18th-century listeners and musicians for the charm, elegance and lyr...więcej »
Night Rider Symphony to unikalne połączenie muzyki klasycznej z muzyką rockową. Na płycie znalazły się kompozycje m.in. takich mistrzów muzyki poważnej jak Vivaldi, Chopin, Mozart czy Beetho...więcej »
For a collection of small nations at the northern fringe of Europe, Scandinavia produced in a relatively short space of time a remarkable quantity of great musicians -- including from the late clas...więcej »
Najbardziej przebojowe utwory, które odnosiły sukcesy na antenach radiowych, w szafach grających i na listach przebojów. Single z tymi nagraniami często przekraczały milionowe nakłady...więcej »
Norbert Burgmüller may have died at the tender age of 26, but during his short life he authored a significant number of works that have earned him a place among the foremost composers of the e...więcej »
W 1957 roku szaleństwo rock’n’rolla ogarnęło cały świat, od Ameryki po Anglię, od Australii po Japonię. Amerykańskie programy telewizyjne prześcigały się w prezentacji rock’n&rsqu...więcej »