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This disc of five symphonies by François-Joseph Gossec (1734-1829) is part of Chandos’ Contemporaries of Mozart series. As he was born two years after Haydn
Franz Schreker’s music seems to be undergoing a revival of sorts on disc. Most of the major operas have been recorded, though the best of
Chandos’ relentless search for the uncommon continues to yield musical gems, this time from the land down under. For many listeners this release will be
Who was Vladimir Dukelsky? Good question. In another life, you may have heard of him as “light” music composer Vernon Duke. Apparently, he was also
Gennady Rozhdestvensky and his wife, Viktoria Postnikova, turn in a terrific performance of Prometheus–lavishly sensuous, but with a firm sense of direction and a fine
In 1897, Rimsky-Korsakov composed the rough draft for a piano trio in C minor. He polished the middle movements to performance level, but it was
Rachmaninov’s masterpieces all deal with death and a deep, desperate melancholy. In the Symphonic Dances, this morbid obsession is expressed through mechanical, hallucinatory joy, lascivious
This English-language recording of Janácek’s fourth opera first appeared on EMI, staying in print, typically, for about 15 minutes or so. Fortunately, Chandos has picked
The recent good fortune of Shostakovich string quartets on disc continues with this CD, the first step in a new complete cycle. The all-female Sorrel
This admirable collection contains good to excellent performances of just about all the orchestral music that Janácek wrote. The only major missing items, aside from
