At least in their titles, almost all the pieces in this release evoke extra-musical semantic horizons. Thus we are prompted in listening to refer to the meanings evoked by the titles, however...
Paul Juon was born in Moscow, of Swiss parents, in 1872, studying there with Arensky and Taneyev; Rachmaninov, a fellow student, dubbed him 'the Russian Brahms'. At the Hochschule der Musik in...
The present release is a collection of chamber works for viola by Gordon Jacob, composed between 1946 and 1975. Violist Jadwiga Stanek writes: "From the very beginning of my artistic activity, I have...
Composed during his Italian stay at the beginning of the 18th century, at a time when women were not often allowed to appear in front of an audience, Handel's cantatas paint a nuanced picture of the...