Bach Gamba Sonatas/BIS

In the main, Markku Luolajan-Mikkola and Miklós Spányi offer steady, conscientious, and slightly self-effacing renditions of Bach’s three viola da gamba sonatas. The disc opens

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Tcherepnin 1 and 2 BIS C

A true citizen of the world, Alexander Tcherepnin was exposed to many influences, including the Russian Romantics, Stravinsky and the French Impressionists, Chinese and Asian

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Angel of Lahti

This collection, some of it new, some reissued, demonstrates yet again that there is no finer composer alive today than Finnish master Einojuhani Rautavaara. His

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Sorabji OC Madge Bis

Kaikhosru Sorabji’s Opus Clavicembalisicum is arguably the longest non-repetitive piano composition ever published. Modeled on Busoni’s Fantasia Contrappuntistica, OC’s structure encompasses, among other things, two

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Skalkotas Death

Nikos Skalkottas is one of the very few composers who managed to create successful tonal and atonal works at the same time. This disc contains

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