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Arc I is the first of a three-album series and features three important works for solo piano from the frantic years 1911-1913, the precipice before World War I. Weiss explains about his Arc series:...

This is the first time a whole album of Handel featuring viola da gamba has been published. Includes the premiere recording of Kassel Sonata No. 5 George Frideric Handel is generally regarded as one...

This recording is centered around the performance style found in mechanical musical instruments (generally barrel organs and organ clocks) produced in 18th-century England. It features a combination...

Like Bach and Scarlatti, Handel was a virtuoso keyboard player, but his concentration on opera and oratorio has perhaps obscured this fact for many. He wrote keyboardmusic throughout his life, his...

Haug / Vassiliev / Rawsthorne / Prechanvinit,Irin 20Th Century Guitar Music CD1. The Old Lime Tree 2. I. Tranquillamente 3. II. Allegro Rubato 4. III. Lento 5. Elegy 6. ?tude (Rondo Fantastico) 7...

This release is the first volume in a series of new recordings in which the illustrious pianist Roman Rabinovich will record all of the piano sonatas written by Haydn for FHR. Haydn was a prominent...

The present release is the second volume of Roman Rabinovich's complete cycle of Haydn Piano Sonatas. Rabinovich has performed throughout Europe and the United States in venues such as London's...

Although the word salon derives from a room in a domestic dwelling (In 1836, Robert Schumann referred to Salonmusik (a term he incidentally coined) as a 'combination of sentiment and piano passage'),...

The GRAMMY-? award winning band Irakere are probably the most creative, influential performers from Cuba and pioneers of the modern Timba style of Cuban music. This album is the first issue on CD of...

The first true cross cultural fusion of Indian and western music was back in 1957 with John Mayer's Raga Music for Solo Clarinet and through the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties his musical...

US pianist Michael Brown has been hailed by The New York Times as 'one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers'. His artistry is shaped by his creative voice as a...

This is the first time the complete works for cello and piano by Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn appear on a single album performed on modern instruments. There is little of Fanny Mendelssohn's music and...