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With two world premiere recordings, this program highlights the Romantic and spiritual side of contemporary music from Russia and Eastern Europe. Galina Ustvolskaya's early Concerto expresses a vision of beauty and suffering in a tonal...

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Release Date: September 09, 2016

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On this recording, Gerald Finley makes his debut as Hans Sachs, portraying Sach's character sensitively and sympathetically; his voice nothing short of glorious.

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Release Date: November 19, 2013

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Displaying exceptional musical precocity, the young pianist Maria Szymanowska proved a sensation in Warsaw's salons, before moving to Paris where her fame spread. Greatly admired by her contemporaries, who included Beethoven, Cherubini, Field and Tamasek,...

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Release Date: November 13, 2015

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Schulhoff was one of many composers who took up the challenge to embrace jazz and to incorporate it into their music. He was one of the most successful at writing works that were no mere...

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Release Date: June 25, 2013

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Florent Schmitt was one of the most original and influential French composers of his time. His music shimmers with luxuriant melodies, good humour and a fearless harmonic vocabulary. This second of four volumes is filled...

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Release Date: February 26, 2013

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A pupil of Dukas and a lifelong friend of Ravel, the composer, pianist and critic Gustave Samazeuilh was a central figure in Parisian musical life over many decades. His skill as a pianist can be...

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Release Date: March 10, 2015

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Roger-Ducasse was a close friend of Debussy and a composer of considerable reputation in his day. His piano works range from exquisitely colourful wartime pieces such as Sonorités and the virtuosic Rhythmes, to a final...

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Release Date: March 10, 2017

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Manuel Ponce was one of Mexico's most prolific and decorated composers and remains highly esteemed and popular today. Leaving Mexico midway through the Revolution, he lived in Cuba between 1915 and 1917 and soon absorbed...

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Release Date: June 09, 2017

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Manuel Ponce was the founder of Mexican musical nationalism, often incorporating the melodies of harmonised folk-songs into his music. Widely travelled—he studied in Europe, at first in Bologna and then, between 1925 and 1933, as...

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Release Date: April 30, 2013

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Highly respected in his day as a composer and pianist, but neglected after the Second World War, Walter Niemann (1876-1953), pupil of Humperdinck and Reinecke, amongst others, wrote prolifically for the piano in a romantic...

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Release Date: January 13, 2015

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The history of Cuban music is the story of a fusion between European – largely Spanish – and African elements. Some of the finest, most stylistically diverse and exciting Cuban piano music can be heard...

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Release Date: November 10, 2017

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One of the foremost Soviet experimentalist composers of the early 20th century, Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov was famed for his futuristic orchestral work, The Iron Foundry. After Mosolov’s imprisonment in 1938, he fell into obscurity. Conflicts...

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Release Date: April 08, 2016

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Nikolay Medtner’s 14 piano sonatas are considered the most significant achievement in this genre by any composer since Beethoven. After the success of his First Piano Sonata (GP617) he turned to Goethe for inspiration, and...

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Release Date: November 11, 2016

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Nikolai Medtner's Sonata-Reminiscenza is one of eight substantial pieces published as his opp.38, 39 and 40, with the overall title of Forgotten Melodies. That would almost make a pithy hic jacet for a composer whose...

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Release Date: September 25, 2012

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The second volum in Giorgio Koukl's complete survey of Arthur Vincent Lourie's piano music spans the years 1912 to 1938. In that time the Belarus-born composer embraced extended tonality in Deux Poemes, Op. 8, huge...

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Release Date: June 09, 2017