
This is not classical music, if by that we mean something that transcends the circumstances of its original creation to speak to us today with
Ture Rangström is better known for his 250 songs and his four symphonies than for his chamber music. The complete works fit on one CD,
As recent recordings on Teldec and Chandos have shown, Antonio Rosetti was a marvelous composer with a fresh, original classical style. Although he used the
Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) enjoyed a long and productive life, but is best known historically as a friend of Beethoven. The two symphonies on display here
Hindemith’s Violin Concerto is one of his finest works in concerto form. It has attracted the talents of violinists from Isaac Stern to David Oistrakh,
Jan Zelenka’s quirky, entertaining, and appallingly virtuosic orchestral pieces have received comparatively little attention from record companies. His entire output for the medium fits onto
Humphrey Searle’s name will be known to music lovers, to the extent he’s familiar at all, as one of the contributors to those legendary Hoffnung
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867-1942) was one of the first generation of Swedish composers who brought their country’s musical culture into the 20th century. Like his colleagues
Hakon Borresen (1876-1954) was an essentially conservative Danish composer who wrote music in traditional forms, employing a typically late-Romantic musical idiom that later took a