COVIELLO CLASSICS

Bartholdy / Meyer Jahresbilder CD

Cellist Idlir Shyti presents this new release of solo works, which takes it's name from the first track on the album, Tan Dun's Intercourse of Fire and Water. The work was written for and dedicated...

'Con brio' is an instruction in Beethoven's works that is not uncommon, and awakening the invoked "fire" is one of the challenges for interpreters of the composer's early works. The Duo Alexander...

All five string trios by Ludwig van Beethoven were composed before 1798, i.e. before he composed his String Quartets Op.18. To understand the string trios as their preliminary studies would be to...

In 1778 Mozart attested "the most wonderful effect" to the melodrama Medea (1775) of his contemporary Georg Anton Benda (1722-1795). Indeed, the combination of spoken texts with dramatic music...

Bernstein / Blacher Violin Concertos Super-Audio CD1. I. Allegro Moderato 2. II. Adagio 3. III. Final: Presto 4. Phaedrus - Pausanias: Lento - Allegro 5. Aristophanes: Allegretto 6. Eryximachus:...

Bernstein / Blue Chamber Quartet Rhapsody In Blue Super-Audio CD1. Overture 2. Aragon 3. Granada 4. Asturias 5. Blues for Gilbert 6. Lilting 7. Grazioso 8. Hard Edged 9. Rhapsody in Blue

Even in the 17th century critics called it a "forced art", and indeed, even for many professionals today it is not easy to understand scordatura as an intuitive way of playing the violin. But when...

Blacher / Eisler / Genzmer / Hindemith / Liebreich Works For Winds CD1. I. Allegro - Hindemith Quintett/Munchener Kammerorchester 2. II. Intermezzo 1: Andante - Hindemith Quintett/Munchener...

Luigi Boccherini's six sonatas for violoncello and bass, published in London around 1770/1775, are technically quite demanding pieces. The baroque cellist Dmitri Dichtiar makes it clear that these...

Bononcini / Kite Felice Un Tempo CD1. Cinzia, Dolente E Mesto 2. Sonata in G minor, Op. 8, No. 6, 'La Bevilacqua' 3. I. Largo - Spiritoso 4. II. Lento 5. III. Vivace 6. IV. Menuet 7. V. Vivace Da...

Bouche / Gores / Ettinger Arias For Soprano & Orchestra CD