TOCCATA

?Composers who orchestrate the music of earlier colleagues often serve them best when they add something of themselves to the work in hand. These three orchestrations by the English composer Robin...

Brahms originally wrote the Piano Quintet, Op. 34, for string quintet before recasting the work as a two-piano sonata. However, the sheet music has not ever been recovered. So, finnish cellist...

Brian / Bbc Scottish Sym Orch / Walker Orchestral Music 2 CD1. Symphonic Variations on, 'Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?' 2. Three Pieces 3. Night Ride of Faust and Mephistopheles 4. Preludio Tragico 5...

The Austrian composer Walter Bricht (1904-70) was one of many musicians of Jewish ancestry who fled Vienna after the Anschluss for the safety of the USA; Bricht became a valued professor at Indiana...

Alexander Brincken, born in Leningrad in 1952 and Swiss-based since 1992, writes in an accessible and unashamedly late-Romantic language. His grandiose Fourth Symphony of 2014-15, written for a huge...

Bromhead / Smale / Pearce Jerome De Bromhead: Orchestral Music CD

The ensemble Kammerata Luxembourg has set itself the goal of promoting works by Luxembourgish composers or those living in the Grand Duchy by means of commissioning and performing works at home and...

The English composer Michael Brough (born in Yorkshire, in northern England, in 1960) is rather an unusual character: he is also a full time solicitor. Late in 2013, with a commission from the...

This third instalment of the recent symphonic output of Fridrich Bruk (born in Ukraine in 1937 but a Finnish resident since 1974) brings two works of astonishing vitality for a composer in his...

Bruk Orchestral Music 1 CD1. Attempts: Andantino 2. Sorrow: Largamente 3. Strength: Robusto. Con Spirito 4. Rose (Ruzena): Andante 5. Daugavpils 1915 - Banishment. Allegretto 6. Theme Pensieroso 7...

The early piano music of the Dutch composer Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer (1888-1953) suggests the art of the miniaturist painter. These 'portraits' of birds, flowers, landmarks and other...

The Russian viola sonata is a rare bird, not least because the instrument itself was frowned upon by the Soviet authorities, and as a result Russian music for the viola has a rather patchy history...