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Johannes Brahms's piano oeuvre was one of the 2016 Ruhr Piano Festival's main themes. That emphasis is reflected, naturally, in the choice of works for our annual boxed set of albums, along with the anniversaries...

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Release Date: May 26, 2017

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Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85: Dvorak's most extended cycle of lyric character pieces for piano. The great Czech composer is hardly known for his piano works, in which he invariably seems to stand somewhat in...

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Release Date: January 01, 2021

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In Haydn themes are firmly rooted in Baroque aesthetic, and at the same time they are future-oriented. In Schumann the extremes often collide directly with one another. In his music there are abrupt changes. Melodiousness...

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Release Date: April 03, 2020

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Claude Debussy is often labeled as a musical Impressionist. It is misleading to do so, however, since Debussy was not truly associated with the visual artists who belonged to that current. Instead, he viewed himself...

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Release Date: February 05, 2021

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Capella Cracoviensis was established in 1970 on the initiative of the then director of the Cracow Philharmonic, Jerzy Katlewicz, who entrusted Stanislaw Galonski with the mission to form an ensemble that would specialize in early...

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Release Date: February 02, 2018

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In its recording cycle, the Feininger Trio is pairing each of the three piano trios written by Brahms with a work by another Viennese composer: Alexander Zemlinsky, Ernst Krenek, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, respectively. Brahms’s...

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Release Date: August 13, 2021

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Classical Music

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Release Date: November 01, 2013

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Daniel Heide writes: “The home of my mother – a pianist and singer herself – was where I first came in contact with Beethoven’s piano sonatas. Several of her piano students from Weimar Conservatory often...

Format: CD

Release Date: November 12, 2021

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Wayne Marshall was eight years old when, at home in England, he heard a Gershwin concert broadcast on the radio – a pivotal listening experience as he recalled fifty years later in a WDR video...

Format: CD

Release Date: August 07, 2020

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Leonard Bernstein was certainly not surrounded by an aura of aloofness. He enjoyed his immense popularity, although he never consciously attempted to be “everybody’s darling” and to be hailed as “Lenny” by everyone on the...

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Release Date: April 05, 2019

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“Schubert’s music is always associated in my imagination with a journey in a horse-drawn carriage. Outside, the scenery is flowing by. Cities, mountains, rivers, lakes, villages. At times the carriage slows down, then it speeds...

Format: CD

Release Date: September 24, 2021

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One can easily find a great number of outstanding chamber music works for string instruments; on the other hand, chamber music repertoire for woodwinds on a similar high level of composition is relatively sparse. By...

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Release Date: June 12, 2020

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Arthur Schoonderwoerd and his Ensemble Cristofori are taking on Beethoven’s Symphonies but in a very different style. Tempo, accentuation, phrasing, or structural architecture are not the first thing that strikes us when we listen to...

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Release Date: August 13, 2021

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“There are countless reasons for loving Bach’s music. Certain musicians and music-lovers are fascinated by its complexity, its flawless craftmanship. Others treasure it for its emotional, spiritual significance with total absence of sentimentality. Others, still,...

Format: CD

Release Date: November 12, 2021

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Dina Ugorskaja writes: "J. S. Bach's Inventions - unfortunately still regarded as mere exercises - have fascinated me since my childhood thanks to their incredibly refined wealth of ideas, particularly when it comes to just...

Format: CD

Release Date: November 20, 2020