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Charles Roland Berry, born in Boston, Mass., in 1957, studied in California with Peter Racine Fricker and Paul Creston before supporting himself in a variety of jobs in the music world. As a...

The best-known piano studies are the 27 by Chopin, most of them composed in the 1830s. But Chopin did not create the genre: a number of prominent pianist-composers had already established the piano...

Birtwistle / Rossi / Kuss Quartet / Korber Songs 1970-2006 CD1. Nenia: The Death of Orpheus - Alice Rossi/Das Neue Ensemble 2. No. 1 - Doga Sacilik/Jasmin-Isabel K?hne 3. No. 2 - Doga...

Bittner / Siberian Symphony Orchestra Orchestral Music 1 CD

The piano is perhaps better suited than any other instrument to evoke the sound of bells - evening bells, bells of farewell and of joy, funereal bells, bells with spiritual overtones - and...

Although Alexandre Boely (1785-1858) is best remembered as an important Parisian organist-composer, his piano music is as good as unknown. Yet it is an important link between the Baroque and...

Corentin Boissier was born in the suburbs of Paris in 1995. For a composer still only in his twenties, he writes music that is unusually direct in it's emotional expression and robust and confident...

The phrase 'unashamed Romantic' might not have been coined for the French composer Corentin Boissier, born in the Paris suburbs in 1995, but it certainly fits him well. As the titles of his Glamour...

Bolis / Costanzi / Jommelli / Tessarini Cardinal King CD1. Subvenite Sancti 2. Qui Lazarum Resuscitasti 3. Libera Me Domine 4. Jesu Quaeritis Nazarenum 5. Splende Fredda Luna 6. O Memorie Funeste 7...

These three compositions by three Portuguese composers pay direct and indirect tribute to the music of Beethoven. The Piano Quintet by Jo?o Domingos Bomtempo was written in the style of the Viennese...

The three works by the Amsterdam-born Henri?tte Bosmans (1895-1952) in this album all date from her early to mid-twenties. The Violin Sonata and Piano Trio are substantial pieces, both animated by...

Brahms / Casulana / Kodaly Philharmonic Orchestra Music For My Love: Celebrating The Life Of A CD1. Von Ewiger Liebe, Op. 43, No. 1 2. Music for Yodit 3. Lullaby for Yodit 4. A Farewell for Yodit 5...