The Penguin Guide has been co-branding CDs with Universal Classics, and this has proven a great way to get some key ex-Polygram titles back into the catalog that were unavailable since the company changed hands back in 2001. Penguin has instituted The Rosette Collection, a series of discs that were at one time or another awarded the coveted ...
Nice coupling, eh? Kurt Weill's twisted neo-Classical Concerto for violin and winds with its crooked melodies, broken harmonies, and bent sensuality does go extremely well with Peteris Vasks oddly neo-Romantic Concerto for violin and strings with its sometimes mellow, other times abrasive melodies, its sometimes warm other times harsh harmonies, ...
This is the fifth installment of Hyperion's series The Romantic Violin Concerto, highlighting the talents of soloist Anthony Marwood with orchestral backing provided by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins. It brings together two neglected English violin concerti, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto in G major, Op. 80, ...
On this 2007 Helios reissue, the Raphael Ensemble delivers a powerfully emotional reading of Franz Schubert's String Quintet in C major, D. 956, one that presents it as a fully fledged Romantic work with little Classical restraint. If this piece is regarded as a testament of the composer's anguished inner life, as it was written in 1828 and ...
Nineteenth century French opera, outside of the perennials Carmen, Romeo et Juliette, and Faust, has largely wound up having to take a back seat to Italian and German opera of the same era. Then along comes Sumi Jo, a glamorous, golden toned, and exciting soprano whose realm of expertise happens to be in nineteenth century French opera. Rather ...
Bohuslav Martinu and Erwin Schulhoff, born only four years apart, were not only compatriots but students at the Prague Conservatory at the time. Despite these parallels, the two composers are not thought to have known one another, and their individual life experiences are vastly divergent as thoroughly explained in this album's detailed liner ...
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