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A popular composer in Germany prior to World War II, Walter Braunfels (1882-1954) will be best known to music lovers thanks to Decca’s recording of
Here, two quartets–a male ensemble from Austria and a women’s group from Slovenia–join for what could have been a program of limited appeal to a
Georg Anton Benda (1722-1795), who was attached to the Berlin court initially under Frederick Great, made his mark as an innovative opera composer. However, there’s
Not too many years ago Max Bruch was close to being a “one-hit wonder” in the classical music lists, that hit being his G minor
Ludwig Thuille’s music is worthless, but then what could you expect from a composer who spent two years working on the only piece for which
The Sixth Symphony was one of the composer’s favorites. Its first movement contains thematic material derived from a topographical map of Brazil, the rise and
Apart from his justifiably renowned signature piece, Sonnerie de Sainte Genevieve du Mont de Paris, Marin Marais’ Suite d’un goût étranger (Suite in Foreign Taste
Despite its “Solitudo” subtitle, Wilhlem Peterson-Berger’s Symphony No. 5 has a mostly public, out-of-doors character. The work’s folk-music underpinnings, genial demeanor, and suite-like progression of
What a wonderful surprise! Eino Tamberg, an Estonian composer born in 1930, is a true, unabashed neo-Romantic with great respect for the “forms” of opera.
So-called “bad boy” composer George Antheil had a peculiar way of absorbing every music style he encountered, and then inserting it–not always fully digested–into his
