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This is a major release. Alfredo Casella’s Sinfonia is actually his Third Symphony. It was written in 1939-40 for the Chicago Symphony, enjoyed a highly
Josef Holbrooke (1878-1958), like his countryman Granville Bantock, wrote a large quantity of colorful orchestral music in a well-crafted, slightly Straussian vein; but like so
In the early years of the protestant reformation in Germany new hymnals and other types of sacred song-books were written and began to be published.
Alsatian composer Théodore Gouvy (1819-1898) composed seven symphonies, making him one of the few French composers of his day to focus on abstract instrumental music.
Julius Röntgen’s 18th Symphony was composed in the early 1930s, but you’d never know it from its resolutely tonal melody, neo-baroque formal cast (the second
Rudolph Simonsen’s (1889-1947) claim to fame is that he was (evidently) the first Danish composer to write a symphony with an avowedly Jewish program, in
This is exactly the kind of music that serious collectors of good Romantic music should snap up without hesitation, that radio stations should play, and
Recorded between 1997 and 2008, Gerhard Weinberger’s complete Bach organ music cycle may be the most comprehensive on the market. Its 22 discs bring together
General music lovers know the name Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831) as dedicatee of Beethoven’s famous Op. 47 sonata. However, violinists invariably associate Kreutzer with his 42
Christina Bjørkøe’s complete Carl Nielsen piano music cycle arrives on the heels of Martin Roscoe’s edition for Hyperion. In general, Bjørkøe is a freer, more
