Brahms: Liebeslieder

Brahms’ Liebeslieder-Walzer are true singers’ pieces–and as such they’ve proven perennially attractive both to the most ardent amateurs and polished professionals. Among the latter, my

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Respighi: Quartets

Respighi’s D minor Quartet (1909) sounds like anyone but Respighi. Its somewhat gnarly, chromatic language is nicely balanced by memorable ideas, though like many late-Romantic

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Paul Dessau Songs

Although Paul Dessau is probably best known for his stage, choral, and instrumental compositions, he wrote a considerable number of songs between 1914 and 1978,

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