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René Eespere (b. 1953) is an Estonian composer who writes like no one you’ve ever heard. Staunchly Romantic, Eespere belongs in the tradition of Arvo
These recordings of Mozart’s concertos for flute and orchestra, and the concerto for flute and harp, were made exactly a decade apart. In the flute
Every time a minor British composer’s works for string orchestra achieve a recording, we hear a chorus of praise in favor of “another in the
The two major works here are the busily Hindemith-like Double Concerto for flute and piano, and the delicious, jazzy Suite for Chamber Orchestra (which served
Vintage Viennese (as the pointless album title has it)revisits Beethoven’s early Op. 8 Serenade, played here by flute, viola, and guitar in an arrangement by
This is one of the best examples of mood programming I’ve ever seen. The gentle, exotic strains of Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a
Chopin composed only 19 songs, but they cover almost his entire compositional career, from 1829 to 1847. They are direct and uncomplicated, each dealing with
Here’s an overview of Brazilian pop tunes ranging from samba and bossa nova to Tropocalia. Composer Bebu Silvetti serves them up in pleasant, uneventful, Muzak-worthy
Though other Baroque composers had written chorale arrangements for organ in which the cantus firmus was assigned to a solo wind instrument, the idea of
Takemitsu was in the process of writing a flute concerto for Patrick Gallois when he died in 1996 at the comparatively young age of 65.
