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 »
Antonin Dvořák's last two symphonies, the light, sunny Eighth and the American-themed Ninth, are complemented by two rarely performed tone poems containing some of the composer's most remark...więcej »
Bach’s glittering reputation as a virtuoso organist was based primarily on his extraordinary abilities as an improviser, echoes of which we can hear in the Passacaglia in C minor: its 20 virt...więcej »
To dedicate a musical offering to the baroque artist Anthony van Dyck is to celebrate and honor all that was represented by the Flemish Renaissance, which came just before. This 16th Century respon...więcej »
These recordings were made when the great Norwegian soprano was in her vocal prime, between 1935 and 1940. Although her voice remained astonishingly well preserved till late in her career, later re...więcej »
The soprano Toti Dal Monte was born Antonietta Meneghel in Mogliano Veneto in 1892. After study at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice, she made her début at La Scala in 1916, in Z...więcej »