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Alfred Schnittke’s four-movement Choir Concerto (1984/85) mixes familiar Russian liturgical style–dense-textured, heavy on the bass end but not afraid to occasionally launch the sopranos into
Hyperion reaches the 30th installment of its “Romantic Piano Concerto” series with this program of works by Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924). A highly accomplished pianist in
The composer of orchestral showpieces such as Espana and wonderful comic operas like L’Étoile and Le Roi malgré lui often is devalued because of his
In recording a complete cycle of Shostakovich’s quartets, the St. Petersburg String Quartet takes the great risk of being compared to other ensembles (the Emerson,
Was Fanny Mendelssohn as accomplished a songwriter as Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, or her famous brother? Let’s just say that on the evidence of this and
Sergei Bortkiewicz must be a pen-name. Judging from the sound of these two symphonies, his real name was Nikoxander Glazimsky-Balatchaikmaninov! Containing not the smallest vestige
The estimable Florestan Trio completes its “cycle” of Schubert Piano Trios with this recording of the E-flat major trio, a performance as wonderfully incisive as
French composer Louis Durey (1888-1979) was one of who-knows-how-many artists to receive their first significant burst of creative inspiration after hearing Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande,
Classical singers and choristers who were paying attention through high school and college know at least some of the music of 20th-century English composer C.
The vocal ensemble Red Byrd, led by founders John Potter and Richard Wistreich, return in a second volume dedicated to Léonin (Leoninus), who along with
