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They are a rarity: complete issues of Listzs 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies. Especially the later ones written at the end of Liszts life are hardly ever recorded. The numbers 16 to 19 seem to be less popular with pianists. Too difficult A new recording...

It seems strange that such a celebrated composer as Alexander Borodin actually spent much of his life as a distinguished research chemist. While working as a professor in Chemistry at the University of St Petersburg in 1862, Borodin met pivotal...

Béatrice et Bénédict was borne of Berliozs lifelong fascination with Shakespeare. A performance by the Shakespearean actress Harriet Smithson as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet reportedly inspired him to commence work on his own Roméo et Juliette,...

Although little appreciated in his native France for many years, Hector Berlioz now safely resides among the giants of the 19th centurys musical scene. The composers vocal output is extensive and includes several operatic works; written during...

Apollo e Dafne is an early work of Handels, completed at the latest by 1710 when he was 25 years old in Hanover, whence Handel departed in 1710 after Agrippina had made such an impact in Venice. He thence decamped to London in the autumn of...

It was with this opera, premiered in Milan in 1830, that Donizettis reputation as one of the leading opera composers of Europe was cemented. The premiere was quickly followed by performances in London, Paris, and in 1839, in New Orleans....

Among the most prized exhibits of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, stands the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, the largest surviving anthology of Elizabethan and Jacobean keyboard music. Dating from a period during which theory and notation were...

Many of Liszts works were transcribed for other instruments, both by the composer himself and other musicians.These hauntingly beautiful pieces for cello and piano were originally written for piano solo or the voice. They are from the final period...

As was tradition in his family, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov trained to be a naval cadet. He continued to compose throughout his years in service and was appointed Professor of Composition and...

Felix Mendelssohn is associated with one brilliant score of incidental music for the theatre -- A Midsummer Nights Dream -- but in fact he composed scores for no less than 15 stage works. The most significant of them, including the three works in...

The 19th century was a significant time for both opera and the guitar. Opera was everywhere, and its characteristics gradually began to appear in other styles of music as composers tried to encapsulate the expressiveness and flexibility of the...

The third instalment of this survey of Bela Bartóks output for violin offers the two violin sonatas and the two rhapsodies. The sonatas, masterpieces of immense complexity and difficulty, show Bartók from his most austere, uncompromising side,...

20th Century French composer André Jolivet was known for his devotion to French culture and this can be clearly seen in his fine mélodies, or French art songs, which combine all the qualities of rich melody and sensitivity to text that are...

If it is true that the end of Romanticism coincided with the invention of electric light, then we can date this to 1880 -- the year in which Thomas Alva Edison patented the light bulb. At around this time, a brilliant student at the Paris...

This new recording presents the complete guitar works of Llobet, who himself was a virtuoso on his instrument, as shown in the complex and innovative writing. Barcelona-born Miguel Llobet once played for the Spanish royal family in the early...

Kompozytor: Ferenc Liszt Wykonawcy: Michele Campanella Historische Ungarische Bildnisse, S. 205 Late Works Valses oubliées, S....

The supreme master of the chamber duet genre was Agostino Steffani, recently celebrated by Cecilia Bartoli, and it is no coincidence that Handel had a manuscript copy of Steffanis famous duets with him at the beginning of his stay in Rome. The...

Stretching from Mexico to Argentina and covering miles of lush, idyllic landscape, Latin America has long been a source of inspiration for all manner of artists. This engaging release details a wonderful collection of music by composers native to...

Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger was active in Italy during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, a time when many questions were arising about the unity of speech and music. Kapsberger was known to influence Girolamo Frescobaldi and Domenico...

Kolekcja 9 płyt CD z kompozycjami Richarda...