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Michael Korstick may not be a colorist or poetic aristocrat on the level of other pianists who’ve recorded the second book of Liszt’s Années de
Felix Weingartner’s 1912 violin concerto is decidedly late-romantic in style, its violin writing ranging from Mendelssohnian to the kind of thing you would hear in
CPO already has recorded the complete Pfitzner Lieder for voice and piano, surely not one of the label’s best-selling projects. This disc suggests that the
It would be funny if the artists weren’t so serious. Here is yet another teeny tiny period-instrument band, recorded up close so that they make
This is fantastically beautiful music: luscious, tuneful, evocative, but never decadent or devoid of energy and purpose. The Sinfonia for strings began life as a
Kurt Atterberg’s music is instantly lovable and so stereotypically “romantic”-sounding that it sometimes threatens to cross over the line into caricature. This happens, for example,
August Enna (1859-1939) was entranced by the stories of Hans Christian Andersen, as both the eponymous overture and his “Fairy Tale” Symphonic Pictures show. Actually,
Peter von Winter was a major opera composer in his day (1754-1825). One of a seemingly endless series of Mannheim-based students of Georg (Abbé) Vogler,
This music is light and delicious. Haydn wrote these six divertimentos for the English domestic market, and scored them for flute, violin, and cello. Most
Yep, they’re lining up in the streets for this second volume of Panufnik orchestral music. Well, maybe not, but there’s a great deal to enjoy
