
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger was one of the most feared reviewers of his day. He was employed as music critic for Stockholm’s Dagens Nyheter from 1896 to
German Baroque composer Johann Friedrich Fasch organized a music exchange service between Dresden, Darmstadt, Hamburg, and other cities, which allowed him to know exactly what
This 5-disc box collects for the first time CPO’s Cannes Classical Award-winning series of Milhaud’s complete symphonies featuring the Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by
If you want to stump the most seasoned pianophile in a round of “Guess the composer”, put on any of the 17 selections from this
Humphrey Searle (1915-1982) took a different path from contemporaries like Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, and William Walton in pursuing 12-tone composition as his model.
One of the last bastions of the German Romantic Derriere-Guard, Hans Pfitzner’s instrumental output has its fair share of turgid, orchestral essays and overwrought chamber
From 1919 on, Paul Hindemith’s instrument of choice as a performer was the viola, and this CD presents the “Viola Concertos” that he wrote for
Richard Wetz (1875 — 1935) was a provincial composer in the truest sense of the word, comfortably writing music in the accepted German forms, using
Previously released as a pair of three-disc sets, the Auryn Quartett’s fabulous Schubert Quartet cycle is packaged together as a specially priced boxed set. Put
If you like Wagner and Strauss, chances are you’ll like Die Toten Augen, Eugen d’Albert’s most mystical, lushly orchestrated score. Its one act is set