This is Centaur's second volume in The Opera Fantasies for Violin and Piano by Jean Baptiste Singelee, featuring Thomas wood and Bryan Dykstra. These are wonderful, idiomatic arrangements from the...
On Fantasy for Violin and Piano, composer Benjamin Shorstein examines the age-old rules and conventions of musical form and structure and transforms them into inspirational foundations on which to...
As an internationally admired opera composer, William Vincent Wallace was perfectly placed to provide brilliant fantasies and paraphrases from the operatic repertoire, refashioned for the domestic...
At a time when there were limited opportunities to attend the opera house, and before the existence of recordings, the operatic fantasy proved a popular and ingenious way to spend great melodies to a...