Here's another fine disc, unavailable for some time, now receiving a new lease of life, and with no significant competition. It's true that the complete works for cello and orchestra amount to less...więcej »
Mendelssohn, born at the very beginning of the 19th century, was a composer who stood at a number of junctures. Firstly, he straddled the sphere of the Classical masters and the new Romantic pathwa...więcej »
For many, Johann Sebastian Bach is 'the' composer of the Baroque period, a master of harmony, counterpoint and genre. During his lifetime he was particularly renowned as a virtuoso organist, and hi...więcej »
Francesco Maria Zuccari (1694-1788)Cello SonatasSonata No. 1 in DSonata No. 2 in B-FlatSonata No. 3 in GSonata No. 4 in A MinorSonata No. 6 in CSonat...więcej »
This disc explores that rarity of the classical repertoire, the harp concerto. The musical characteristics of the harp can provide somewhat of a challenge for the composer if writing a concerto for...więcej »
Caspar Kummer is a composer of unjustly little renown. Held in high esteem by his contemporaries, relatively little information can be found on his life in the leading music dictionaries of today, ...więcej »
Fame is a strange thing. Although Johann Friedrich Fasch was highly esteemed by his contemporaries and the generations of musicians who followed him, in the concert repertoire of today he is groupe...więcej »
Perhaps best known for writing the waltz on which Beethoven based his Diabelli Variations, Anton Diabelli was also an established composer and musician in his own right. Resident in Vienna in the l...więcej »
This CD is entirely devoted to the music of the early Baroque Italian composer, poet and organist, Carlo Milanuzzi. During his lifetime, Milanuzzi's fame spread far and wide; today, however, he is ...więcej »
Such was his renown in the musical world -- 'one of the most celebrated Masters of the Science of Musick in the Kingdom and scarce inferior to any in Europe' -- when Henry Purcell tragically died a...więcej »
Valentina Levko was another in the glorious line of Russian 20th-century contraltos who in some ways defined the sound of Russian opera for ears, both Eastern and Western, which were often discover...więcej »
Edvard Grieg was the father of Norwegian music; his most famous pieces are the Piano Concerto in A Minor and the incidental music to Peer Gynt. Sent to study at the conservatory of Leipzig during h...więcej »
The genius of Beethoven is probably not most commonly associated with chamber music. Indeed, for considerable stretches of his career he avoided the string quartet, a musical form with such an exal...więcej »
Born in 1858, the Belgian Eugene Ysaye was one of the great violinists of his generation, a soloist-conductor who travelled throughout Europe giving concerts and who was regularly called upon by so...więcej »
The art of transcription has been a part of the history of keyboard instruments since the Renaissance period, a time that saw the first publishing of sacred as well as secular vocal works. In the 1...więcej »
In early 18th-century France, René Drouard de Bousset was at the height of his popularity as a virtuoso organist, a role which he combined with teaching as well as part-time composition. De ...więcej »
The first Russian composer to gain real national recognition within his own country, and often regarded as 'the father of Russian music', Mikhail Glinka is best known for his rousing operas A Life ...więcej »