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For three decades the English composer Nigel Clarke (b. 1960) has worked in close collaboration with the violinist Peter Sheppard Sk?rved and Longbow, Sheppard Sk?rved's virtuoso thirteen-member...

Clarke / Vanhoorne / Thomas Music For Symphonic Wind Orchestra CD1. The Menaced Assassin 2. The Dominion of Light 3. The Flavour of Tears 4. The Discovery of Fire 5. Still We Drudge in This Dark Maze...

In this album Mauricio Arias-Esguerra offers a kaleidoscopic view of recent Colombian piano music, highlighting it's striking stylistic variety. Germn Dar?o P?rez sees a traditional dance through a...

Pal Hermann, born in Budapest in 1902, was not only one of the leading cellists of his generation; he was also an important composer, one of the major figures in Hungarian music in the generation...

Georgiy Eduardovich Conus (1862-1933) is one of the astonishing number of gifted Russian composer-pianists who helped shape what is known as the 'Silver Age' of Russian music, but whose achievements...

The music of Arnold Cooke, born in Yorkshire in 1906, had already fallen into neglect by the time of his death 99 years later. Cooke was a prolific composer, with two operas, six symphonies, numerous...

Leonie ('Lony') Fraenkel was a German-Jewish exile from Nazi Berlin who set up the Caf? de Paris on Beethovenstraat in Amsterdam in 1939. In late 1939 she sent a card to greet Peter, her first...

Couperin Music For Two Harpsichords 1 CD1. Gravement, Et Rondement 2. Vivement 3. Gravement, Notes E'gales Et Rondement 4. Vivement, Et Marqu? 5. Air, Gracieusement 6. Second Air 7. Air,...

These orchestral songs by the English composer Michael Csanyi-Wills - best known for his film music - all deal with the subject of loss. In Three Sogns: Budapest, 1944 Csanyi-Wills uses documentation...

The Viennese-born Carl Czerny (1791-1857) is best remembered for his countless pedagogical studies - hundreds and hundreds of them. But Czerny's astonishing fecundity - his opus numbers go up to 861,...

The Swiss composer ?mile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) is best remembered for his development of Eurhythmics, which teaches the appreciation of music through movement. The buoyant miniatures recorded...

Damrosch / Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orch Orchestral Music CD1. Festival Overture in C Major, Op. 15 2. Poco Andante - Allegro Vivace Con Fuoco 3. Intermezzo Scherzando: Vivace Con...