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  • Jaques-Dalcroze: Piano Music, Vol. 2 / Munao
    Jaques-Dalcroze: Piano Music, Vol. 2 / Munao

    $20.99

    The Swiss composer Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865–1950) is best remembered for his development of Eurhythmics, which teaches the appreciation of music through movement. But Jaques-Dalcroze, who studied with Delibes and Fauré in Paris and with Bruckner...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 17, 2019

  • Bruk: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2
    Bruk: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2

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    Fridrich Bruk - born in Kharkov in 1937 and a Finnish resident since 1974 - made his name as a composer of tangos. But the heart of his music lies in a series of (to...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 03, 2020

  • Blitzstein: Music for Solo Piano, 1918-1963
    Blitzstein: Music for Solo Piano, 1918-1963

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    The American composer Marc Blitzstein (1905-64) is best known for his left-leaning stage works; indeed, his pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock achieved some notoriety in 1937 when the authorities shut it down. But Blitzstein...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 15, 2019

  • Eller: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 6
    Eller: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 6

    $20.99

    The piano music of the Estonian composer Heino Eller (1887-1970), a total of 206 works, is the largest part of this composer's output. It is also the largest body of works in Estonian classical music....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 01, 2018

  • Cardoso & Others: Magnificat, Missa & Motets
    Cardoso & Others: Magnificat, Missa & Motets

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    Manuel Cardoso (1566-1650) was one of the most important composers of the golden age of Portuguese polyphony around the turn of the seventeenth century. But modern choirs have been surprisingly slow to explore the rich...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 16, 2018

  • David Hackbridge Johnson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3
    David Hackbridge Johnson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3

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    The first two Toccata Classics volumes of the orchestral music of the English composer David Hackbridge Johnson presented three mighty symphonies, conceived on a large scale and powerful in their utterance. The Fifteenth Symphony, tone-poems...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 05, 2019

  • Jaques-Dalcroze: Piano Music, Vol. 3 - Works for Piano Solo
    Jaques-Dalcroze: Piano Music, Vol. 3 - Works for Piano Solo

    $20.99

    The Swiss composer �mile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) is best remembered for his development of Eurhythmics, which teaches the appreciation of music through movement. The buoyant miniatures recorded here document his fascination with dance, including a flirtation...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 06, 2019

  • Furstenthal: Chamber Music, Vol. 2 / Rossetti Ensemble
    Furstenthal: Chamber Music, Vol. 2 / Rossetti Ensemble

    $20.99

    When Germany invaded Austria in 1938, Robert Fürstenthal, born in 1920, took the path of many Viennese Jews and fled to the United States, where he made his living as an accountant; the fact that...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 03, 2020

  • Kinsella: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 10
    Kinsella: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 10

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    John Kinsella (b. 1932) is the most important Irish symphonist since C. V. Stanford. His Fifth Symphony is an impassioned setting of humanist poetry by three Irish poets killed in the 1916 Uprising. The Tenth...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 09, 2014

  • Lysenko: Piano Music Vol 1 / Arthur Greene
    Lysenko: Piano Music Vol 1 / Arthur Greene

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    Mykola Lysenko (1842–1912) is regarded as ‘the father of Ukrainian classical music’. As did Bartók later in Hungary, he went out into the field, listened to what the people were singing and fashioned an individual...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 10, 2015

  • Jackson: Songs, Canzonets, and a Sonata
    Jackson: Songs, Canzonets, and a Sonata

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    William Jackson of Exeter was a painter and writer as well as a composer, but he has been, until now, something of a hidden treasure. As Timothy Roberts writes in his introduction to this first...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 16, 2018

  • Shebalin: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2
    Shebalin: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2

    $20.99

    Like his close friend and colleague Dmitry Shostakovich, Vissarion Shebalin (1902-63) knew a life of both celebrity and hardship: he was another of the composers condemned in the infamous 1948 Party congress in Moscow, and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 07, 2020

  • Majerski: Concerto-Poem & Other Works
    Majerski: Concerto-Poem & Other Works

    $20.99

    Polish pianist-composer Tadeusz Majerski (1888-1963) wrote some of the most interesting Polish music of his day, bringing together late-Romantic sensitivity and the harmonic freedom of Schoenbergian modernism- although primacy of emotional expression was always his...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 06, 2017

  • Farwell: Piano Music, Vol. 3
    Farwell: Piano Music, Vol. 3

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    The American composer Arthur Farwell (1872–1952) is remembered as the leading member of a group of ‘Indianists’ who used Native American tribal melodies in their own compositions. In fact, Farwell’s stylistic range was much wider...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 16, 2018

  • De Lassus: Requiem à 5 & Motets
    De Lassus: Requiem à 5 & Motets

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    Lassus’ five-part setting of the Requiem is rarely heard; here it is recorded with brass for the first time, the somber colors of the sackbuts further darkening the tone. Interweaving a number of motets, some...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 21, 2017