Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

On Lento Religioso, Candida Thompson and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta bring together romantic works by Berg, Korngold, Bruckner, Bridge, Lekeu, Wagner and Strauss - each, each with a very specific expressive power of it's own. Some are genuine pieces for string ensemble, others are adaptations created for the Amsterdam Sinfonietta.

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Basso Bailando - mixed Spanish and Italian for 'dancing bass'- is the perfect description for the pieces of this collection featuring Dutch Music Prize winner Rick Stotijn, whose debut recording of music by Bottesini was met with the highest praise. Stotijn is joined by a cadre of great musicians including violinist Malin Broman, harpist Lavinia Meijer and members of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. The repertoire includes arrangements of music by Piazzolla and Falla and an original work by Nino Rota - all 'border-crossers' between the worlds of popular and classical music.

Classical Music

The city of Prague was a cultural hotspot in the 1920s and 30s. Three population groups, enriched by emigrants from Russia, the Ukraine, Germany and Austria, competed with one another but also inspired each other. This was the city of the composers on this recording by Werner Herbers and the Ebony Band, long known as champions of unknown or forgotten music from the first half of the 20th century. In the repertoire on this album we hear the old and the new, tradition and renewal, but above all, imagination and talent. When the border between East and West opened up in 1991, this music had hardly been heard in the West for some fifty years, having been suppressed first by the Nazis and then by suffocating communist rule.

Classical Music