hartmann concerto ecm TEN

Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s music seethes with inner anguish, its intensity rooted in the composer’s internal exile in Nazi Germany. Hartmann protested Hitler’s ascension to power

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Tagliaferro Recital

At 77, the great Brazilian pianist Magda Tagliaferro was on fantastic form in this previously unreleased 1970 recital, recorded at the Cecilia Meirelles Hall in

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Sibelius Quartets

Sibelius composed three string quartets prior to his well-known Voces intimae in D minor. The first two are the product of Sibelius’ student years, and

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Beethoven 2 & 6 Kleiber

Partly through the use of added reverberation, Michael Dutton uncovers a wider dynamic spectrum from Erich Kleiber’s venerable 1929 Berlin recording of Beethoven’s Second Symphony

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