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From remote Australian properties to performing on international stages, soprano Petah Chapman and violinist Khalida de Ridder joined forces in 2017 with Danish classical guitarist Simon Thielke to form the ambitious virtuosic ensemble, Trio Cavallaro...

From January 1957 to March 1962 Columbia Masterworks in collaboration with the Fromm Music Foundation released a series of 9 highly acclaimed LPs in the Twentieth Century Composer Series with music by composers including Elliott Carter, Luigi...

From a mixed race parentage of Cuba and West Indian, a child named Lincoln Chase was born on 29 June 1926 in New York City. As he grow up his musical skill became apparent; he became a pianist and composer, trained in music at the American Academy of...

From 1961 to 1979, Kubel?k was Principal Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of Bavarian Radio in Munich. He had found there his new musical home. He led the BR Symphony Orchestra to new heights, developing a unique sound and performance culture in a...

From 1947 to 1956 Ruggiero Ricci played on the 1734 Guarneri del Gesu "Ferni, Duc de Camposelice" and from 1956 to 1999 he usually played on the 1731 Guarneri del Gesu "Gibson, ex-Huberman, " which he purchased in 1977. For him the Guarneri sound (as...

Friends, you are holding the fifth opus of "Rhythm & Western" and we got 5 more boss volumes on ice. I must confess Solomon Burke's classic "How Many Times" always sounded like a Country song to me, so I'm glad I could include it here, Damita Jo delivers...

Friedrich Ladegast was one of the most important organ builders of the second half of the 19th century. He was born in 1818 in Hochhermsdorf, and so the musical world has recently celebrated his 200th birthday. On behalf of this occasion Querstand has...

Friedrich Ladegast was one of the most important organ builders during the 2nd half of the 19th century. Especially with his first large organ at Merseburg Cathedral, he set the benchmark for organ building and at the same time influenced the further...

Franziska Holscher on the freedom enjoyed by the composer and the difficulties faced by the performer Felix Schmidt: "It would seem that the works in album programmes are usually chosen for popularity; originality and artistic quality are often bypassed...

Franz Schubert's "St?ndchen" is the title of a colorful program in which Jean-Claude G?rard presents well-known melodies on the flute: on the one hand, famous flute pieces such as the "Badinerie" from J.S. Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2 or "Syrinx" by...

Franco Gulli was one of the most prominent and active Italian violinists of the latter part of the twentieth century. He began his studies with his father (a pupil of ?evc?k and Mark at the Prague Conservatory), then went to Arrigo Serato in Siena and...

Fourth installment in this delightful series of Northern Soul compilations the Northern Soul phenomenon was one of the biggest musical movements of the '70s in the UK. At it's height, thousands of party people would descend on the clubs and venues of the...