MURDER AND MAYHEM

This collection groups together three previously issued film scores by three great composers of Hollywood’s “Golden Age”, all written for horror movies. When I was

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Chiu on Prokofiev

With this entertaining and unusual CD, Frederic Chiu completes his admirable survey of the piano works of Prokofiev. Although the disc may have the appearance

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Haydn Symphonies

Now that its monumental Bach edition has been accomplished, Hänssler Classic launches another giant project. This CD marks the beginning of a new complete cycle

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Lambert Ballets

A marginal figure in the great 20th century renaissance of English music, Constant Lambert was potentially one of the period’s most talented composers. Unfortunately he

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House of Frankenberry

This silly movie brought all of your favorite 1930s and ’40s movie monsters–Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Wolfman–together for the first time. The reasons, not surprisingly,

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