This disc offers a selection of compositions by Georgi Alexandrovich Mushel, the former Professor of Composition at the Conservatory of Tashkent became one of the first true exponents of Uzbek musi...więcej »
Russian composer Grigory Fried was born in 1915 into a family of Jewish intellectuals. In WWII he served at the Western front in a folk ensemble, and experienced the horrors of war, the bodily and ...więcej »
Bringing together all seven of Schubert's completed symphonies, as well as the much-loved B minor 'Unfinished', this set charts the development of Schubert's voice as a symphonist. His first six sy...więcej »
There is little doubt that Leopold Mozart exercised a huge influence on his son's musical education, guiding and supporting Wolfgang's development through the many extended tours he organised to Eu...więcej »
"Zelenka was one of Bach's and Telemann's most musically colourful contemporaries." (Gramophone)Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679--1745) is one of the most enigmatic figures in the his...więcej »
In Domenico Scarlatti's vast output of 555 keyboard sonatas, there are a small number of works that are especially interesting to musicologists because of characteristics such as figured bass, thre...więcej »
The guitar is not the first instrument one associates with the towering figure of Beethoven, but he did know and appreciate the instrument, and even wrote some chamber music pieces for it.więcej »
Ten zaktualizowany box 86CD ukazuje szeroką paletę stylów i środków, poczynając od symfonii, a kończąc na dużym zbiorze różnych pieśni ludowych. Gwiazdorska obsada wykonawc&oac...więcej »
Carl Maria von Weber is a name that is often cited with regard to the bridge between Classicism and Romanticism, and yet how many works of his is it possible to name? In this fantastic compendium, ...więcej »
"Seculi sui Musicus excellentissimus" was the epitaph inscribed on his tombstone in the old Frauenkirche of Dresden -- to his contemporaries, the Saxon-born Heinrich Schütz was one o...więcej »
The revival of Protestant church music after the First World War marked the renewal of pieces available for direct use in services and represented a search for a new scale of values. Admired in chu...więcej »
Franz Schubert was a prolific composer, perhaps best known for his symphonies and chamber music, but he also turned his hand to Romantic opera. Despite having no experience of seeing his theatrical...więcej »
As the composer, conductor, scholar and provocateur explains in his own notes, this is Baroque music for our time. Federico Maria Sardelli's long experience researching and editing the music of Viv...więcej »
Composers: John Williams, Henryk Wieniawski, Johannes Brahms, Edward Elgar, Pablo de Sarasate, Pyitr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Niccolo Paganini.Violin: Matthieu AramaPiano : Auré...więcej »
Born in Paris in 1749, Jean-Louis Duport, cellist and composer, also known as 'le jeune' -- to distinguish him from his elder brother Jean-Pierre (1741--1818), called 'l'ainé' -- is today re...więcej »
Gurrelieder is a gigantic, post-Wagnerian cantata that, in retrospect, seems like the terminus ante quem for Romanticism in music, beyond which further elaboration or intensity was surely impossibl...więcej »
Beethoven's oeuvre only comprises a small collection of works for cello and piano, but that the composer was an accomplished writer for this combination of instruments is evident from the fact that...więcej »
A close friend of Rimsky-Korsakov who helped to complete many of Borodin's works and who later became Director of the St Petersburg Conservatory, Glazunov is one of those composers whose name repea...więcej »
Christoph Willibald Gluck is one of the great reformers of opera, departing from the tried and tested genres of opera seria in the 18th century: Metastasio's drama per musica and Rameau's trag&eacu...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 »