The German label CPO, consistently dedicated to underappreciated music, has brought along many recordings of unfamiliar works ranging in status from central to the literature to wholly unworthy of revival. One of the most distinguished, and consequential, projects that CPO has undertaken is its recording of the complete Symphonies Concertantes of ...
Every now and then, Graham Johnson and some of his friends will drop by for a lieder recital. Sometimes he'll bring Christine Schäfer and Schumann. Other times he'll bring Felicity Lott and Chausson. And, for a long time, he brought just about every singer in Great Britain and Schubert. Johnson and his friends may stay for a few songs or they may ...
Although Domenico Gabrielli performed as an accomplished and highly sought-after cellist throughout the majority of his short life, his limited compositions for the cello came only from his last two years. This Cello Classics album features Gabrielli's complete cello works as well several other short works from the High Baroque, yet this CD is ...
The subtitle of this album is "New Works for Remembrance," and its four selections by British composers are united by their use of texts that deal, either explicitly or implicitly, with the personal ravages of war. They were performed by the Portsmouth Grammar School Chamber Choir at the school's annual Remembrance Day concerts. Cecilia McDowall's ...
It is sometimes hard to believe that, in this day and age, discoveries of new works and even forgotten composers continue to be made. This album on the Cello Classics label proves that there are still works out there yet to be found, and that some of them are well worth discovery. Cellist Sebastian Comberti, along with the unlikely assistance of ...
Featuring an American clarinetist and released on a Swiss label, this recording of Schubert's Octet in F major, D. 803, is nonetheless British to the core, featuring an ensemble of strings and winds drawn from the membership of the London Mozart Players. The recording is almost studious about not drawing attention to itself. The movement openings ...
The two cello concertos suffered a long journey filled with misplacement and mistaken identity. The C major Concerto was not discovered in modern times until 1961, and the authorship of the D major Concerto lay in question until the 1950s. All of this in the past now, these two concertos have taken their rightful place as cornerstones of the cello ...
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