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Here on one handy CD are the almost complete major works for wind band by Holst and Vaughan Williams (the only serious missing item is
Hungarian composer Ernst von Dohnányi (grandfather of conductor Christoph) not only was a superb composer, but he also had that most unusual of musical qualities:
Bohuslav Martinu composed a great deal of piano music, mostly shorter works, and any prospective performer has a lot of sorting to do to come
Neeme Järvi’s performances of these sadly neglected (in performance at least) tone poems originally appeared in tandem with his complete symphony cycle, and they have
Beethoven subtitled his Op. 27 Sonatas “quasi una fantasia”. Louis Lortie’s static, literal playing, however, dispels any notion of whimsy the composer may have had
The Lord Nelson Mass is one of the great masterpieces of the classical choral repertoire. It’s literally amazing how threatening Haydn manages to make such
Ernest Chausson’s death in 1899 in a bicycle accident robbed French music of a major talent. Almost his entire orchestral output fits on this extremely
Nikolai Medtner’s lapidarian style is hard to pigeonhole. It masks its Slavic origins in a cosmopolitan cloak that blends the effusive, hedonistic aspects of French
