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Did Richter give more concerts than any other pianist of the 20th century Its certainly possible. He shunned the high life and lights to set up a festival in a barn in southwest France; to drag himself across the plains and mountains of Soviet...

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 centuries, and which allowed him the opportunity to...

Mahlers 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 and composer for the orchestra, the Fifth appears...

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, but later in his career he wrote in a more...

An unusual juxtaposition of the original and thearrangement. These two CDs offer an interesting combination of some of the Medieval Carmina Burana and Carl Orffs interpretation. The original Carmina date from the 12th en 13th centuries and deal...

Parisian composer Georges Bizet was enrolled in the Consevatoire at the age of nine and won a premier prix in solfege within six months of his arrival. He later received prizes for his skill as a pianist, gaining particular renown for his...

Born in 1923, Simeon ten Holt was a leading Dutch composer who came to attention following studies in Paris with Honegger and Milhaud. His music is best described as minimalist, and draws on the principles of Western harmony as well as those...

This is a very recent recording of one of Mozarts early operas. For this work 11 year old (!) Mozart used a story from Ovids Metamorphoses. The text by Father Widl is in Latin. A delightful piece which is testimony of Mozarts early maturity. Of...

The latest in this important historical series presents performances by the legendary Russian conductor Evgeny Svetlanov. Svetlanov claimed to have recorded practically the entire corpus of Russian orchestral music, and this set covers the gamut...

Like Borodin, Nikolai Rimsky- Korsakov was not set on a career as a composer until he too met with Mili Balakirev, who made him abandon his career as a midshipman in the Imperial Russian Navy. Just as well he did switch direction, as his...

Accepted onto the early admissions programme of the University of Chicago, Philip Glass graduated aged just nineteen with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy, practising the piano in his spare time. Subsequently studying at the Juilliard...

It was by chance in 1900 that Dvorák came by the libretto for Rusalka by the poet Jaroslav Kvapil. It had been declined by two of Dvoraks pupils, Nedbal and Suk, as well as J.B. Foerster. Dvorák was delighted with the libretto, and completed the...

On this, the largest set ever compiled of one of the last centurys most popular composers, we may not only renew our familiarity with the Concierto de Aranjuez, or perhaps with one of the other ever-melodious guitar concertos that sustain his...

Rimsky-Korsakovs tenth opera, The Tsars Bride moves away from the fairytale tableaux-style of opera in which he had triumphed. This is a grand narrative in the Verdian style. That said, the musical language is unmistakably Russian, with a motif...

Spanning 6 CDs and featuring many a consummate performance, this release celebrates the genius of Schubert through detailing all of his late chamber music. The compilation begins with the two piano trios, works of immense virtuosity whose...

Spanning three CDs and providing hours of fascinating listening, this compilation surveys an important facet of the Russian school through detailing one of the lesserknown areas of its output: piano trios. The compilation begins with Tchaikovskys...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is considered one of the most influential composers of all time. The child prodigy would become the author of some of todays best loved instrumental works, and a true king of sung drama. La Betulia liberata KV118/74c, the...

Dividing his time in the 1830s between Paris and Berlin, renowned German composer Giacomo Meyerbeer was considered the father of the Grand Opéra thanks to his skilful combination of elements of both the German and Italian opera traditions. After...

The third volume of Respighis complete orchestral cycle contains several concertante works for piano, violin and cello, large-scale compositions giving evidence of Respighis diverse sources of inspiration, going back as far as Gregorian Chant from...

The second 2CD volume of Respighis orchestral music (of a projected four from the Rome orchestra) focuses on the concerto form, and on Respighis relationship with early music. He was a pioneer in this field, and applied Renaissance rhythms and...