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David Hurwitz

Selim Palmgren (1878-1951) wrote hundreds of piano pieces, and the best of them certainly deserve to be heard more frequently. He met Busoni during the

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Sibelius’ piano music is little-known and undervalued, partly because some of it admittedly isn’t very interesting, but more because his personal style is so inextricably

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TRAILS OF CREATIVITY: MUSIC FROM BETWEEN THE WARS

ClassicsToday

This jam-packed two-disc compilation of works for violin and piano rests on the tenuous premise that composers in England, Vienna, and Berlin who wrote music

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Admirable But Not Top Choice Weber Sonata Cycle

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He’d received many honors before, but it wasn’t until last week that John Rutter, best known for his choral compositions and arrangements, especially works related