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From the moment they were performed, Gioachino Rossini's overtures have enjoyed the status of colorful, elegant orchestral showpieces. With their sweet cantilene, their rich harmonies, their brilliant orchestration, and their powerful and exciting...

From the moment Karen Gomyo first heard Astor Piazzolla on album, at the age of fourteen, she was spellbound: 'I had never heard such a combination of sensuality, fierceness, playfulness, sadness and nostalgia.' As a violinist she found the role of the...

From 1950 and onwards, Allan Pettersson was mainly occupied with working on the monolithic symphonies for which he is best known. But before that, while still a student at the Conservatory in Stockholm and later a viola player in the Stockholm...

Friends of long standing as well as regular partners in chamber music, Michael Collins and Stephen Hough bring their combined musical insights and expertise to bear on Johannes Brahms's sonatas for clarinet and piano. Together with the composer's trio...

Friedrich Kuhlau Was the Most Cosmopolitan Personality in Danish Music at the Beginning of the 19th Century. A Creative, Forward-Looking and Extremely Productive Composer, He Rarely Let His Pen Lie Idle. The Two Piano Quartets Recorded on This CD By the...

Friedhelm Flamme's series featuring organ works of the Northern German Baroque now finds it's logical continuation with Dietrich Buxtehude, the leading master in the discipline of Northern German organ artistry. In order to underscore his special...

Frederieke Saeijs' Linn debut has enabled her to realize her lifelong ambition to take the walk that all aspiring violin maestros do and put her personal stamp on Ysaáe's canonical Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27. Brimming with poetry, imagination...

Franz Liszt's arrangement of Schubert's Schwanengesang is very much his own work: while it very clearly retains the musical meaning of the original it also provides a vision of Liszt's understanding of what lies beyond the black dots on paper. In the...

Franz Liszt's Ann?es de P?lerinage and D?ux Legendes rank among his most important and lasting works. Pianist Wilhelm Kempff (1895-1991), a major figure among 20th c. German pianists, originally recorded these Lisztian jewels for Deutsche Grammophone in...

Franz Liszt was one of the most dazzling and influential musical personalities of the 19th century. He repeatedly set out on new paths and engaged in a permanent quest for new expressive opportunities. His Weimar period (from 1843) was distinguished not...

Franz Berwald was an independent genius. His contemporaries would never have dreamed that the trained violinist is today considered the most important Swedish composer of the 19th century. With a brand new recording, the franz ensemble wrests his...

Frank Peter Zimmermann, one of today's most highly regarded violinists, takes our breath away with this recording together with the Bamberger Symphoniker and their chief conductor Jakub Hrua - one of the leading Martinu conductors of today. They start...