LA DOLCE VOLTA

Heitor Villa-Lobos was a key figure in twentieth-century Brazilian music, an instinctive creator with a luxuriant imagination, at once provocative and conformist. He forged a personal style by...

Latry,Olivier Bach To The Future CD

As well as being the promoter of the piano recital and creator of the symphonic poem, Franz Liszt was also a prodigious innovator in the organ repertory. Olivier Latry, resident organist on the great...

The works of George Enescu, a Romanian composer nurtured on the musical traditions of his country, also has deep roots in the French musical world of the early twentieth century. This recording from...

The cinema is probably the only place in the world where a man can cry, even sob without the slightest shame, says Jean-Marc Luisada. Luisada is much more than a cinephile. He becomes a creator...

Jean-Marc Luisada knows the song of Romanticism, the voice of the soul that permeates all of Schubert's output. In the Sonata No.15, the melodies that spring from the pen of a young composer of...

This specially-priced, remastered collection from the Talich Quartet includes Mendelssohn's complete String Quartets. The virtuosity of the Talich Quartet is immediately apparent in their sharply...

La Dolce Volta presents another essential reissue from the back catalog of the now defunct Calliope label. Originally released in the 1990s, the Talich Quartet's highly-acclaimed set of Mozart's...

Florian Noack offers a clear, imaginative and vigorous reading of these brilliant yet still little-known pieces. Like Liszt's Douze ?tudes d'ex?cution transcendante, which Lyapunov revered, these...

The voice which, even if absent from the score, insinuates itself between the two hands of a pianist playing Mozart. In this music, all is dialogue, mingled avowals and passions, on the threshold of...

Do we need to know, before hearing a work, whether it was composed by a man or a woman? Does this information change the way we listen? Does it influence our judgment? With the works on this...

The music of Gabriel Faur? is at once unclassifiable and inexpressibly beautiful. One must yield to it's seductions, savor in it the charm of the unexpected. The cello is the voice of the Faur?...