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When we last encountered Sigfrid Karg-Elert’s piano works in Volume 1 of CPO’s projected cycle (see my review by typing Q1163 in Search Reviews), I
Given what we know today about Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann, most observers (including me) would argue that Bach was the superior composer.
Tomaso Albinoni’s 12 Trio sonatas Op. 1 receive their premiere recordings on CD on this new specially priced CPO issue. For the most part they
Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) left his native Bonn to apprentice with Beethoven in Vienna in 1801. After much success (Ries performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3
With this release Busoni’s Six Sonatinas receive their finest recorded sound to date. You hear a beautifully regulated piano that is reproduced with just the
Necil Kâzim Akses'(1908-99) Violin Concerto (1969) is probably unlike any you’ve ever heard. Its thunderous opening, an angry theme consisting of repeated half-tone modulations around
Max von Schillings (1868-1933) was inspired to become a composer after hearing one of the first performances of Parsifal when he was 14 years old.
Bernard Frankel (1906-73) had major careers in both film and concert music. In the former, he is best known for his score to the classic
This program is the same as the ASV release of Korngold’s complete works for violin and piano, by coincidence issued at very nearly the same
Dieter Klöcker, premier clarinetist and eminent scholar, has brought to light three little-known works by Ignaz Pleyel that are best described by Mozart’s own words
