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Like many of Bach's sets, such as the Goldberg Variations or the Well-Tempered Clavier, the Brandenburg Concertos form a kind of master anthology - a demonstration of all the imaginable possibilities inherent in a certain musical form. Each of these six...

Like hardly any other musical genre, the art song is created to express extreme human states of mind. The preoccupation with dying and death, with the loss of loved ones and with one's own transience is therefore always at the centre. Baritone Hanno...

Leticia Gomez-Tagle writes of her new release: "The title of this album is a play on words: 'Si' means 'yes' in Spanish, but it also refers to the musical note B. Since all the sonatas on this album are in the key of B minor, I decided to give it this...

Les P?cheurs de perles is best known for it's glorious duet, but Georges Bizet's opera has much more to offer. This live recording more than ever brings out the brilliance of this oriental story about love, duty and friendship. In the last 150 years,...

Left unfinished at the death of the composer, Gustav Mahler's Tenth Symphony has exerted an enormous fascination on musicologists as well as musicians. Whether fully orchestrated in specific passages, or a sole melody in others, there is one continuous...

Left unfinished at the death of the composer, Gustav Mahler's Tenth Symphony has exerted an enormous fascination on musicologists as well as musicians - a kind of Holy Grail of 20th-century music. Recognized as an intensely personal work, it was...

Led by Music Director Franz Welser-M?st, The Cleveland Orchestra releases a new audio recording featuring music by George Walker. The album offers an exploration of the composer's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Lilacs" for voice and orchestra with soprano...

Leading violist Maxim Rysanov and fellow musicians play Bohuslav Martinu's four later works for viola, all composed during his USA residence (1940-56) and all of which belong to the central 20th c. repertoire for the instrument. The Rhapsody-Concerto...

Lawrence Foster conducts Puccini's La Fanciulla del West (1910), together with the Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Cluj-Napoca and a cast of seasoned Puccini singers, including Melody Moore (Minnie), Marius Vlad (Dick Johnson) and...

La navigazione notturna is the "first fragment of a broader cosmology," composed in Citt? di Castello in 1985, for the Sagra and the Tempio Malatestiani of Rimini. At the last moment that performance did not take place. The score was stopped at bar 85,...

L?on Berben can be considered a master of his trade on the harpsichord and organ. Furthermore, his extensive knowledge of music history and historical performance practice make him one of the leading figures of his generation in the "early music" scene...

Kurt Atterberg, one of Sweden's leading 20th century composers, wrote tuneful and charmingly folkloristic music. The second volume of his Symphonies from Neeme Jarvi and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Hybrid Surround Sound SACD.1. Symphony No 2 -...