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Béla Bartók set out with the phonograph to collect and research the folk music of Transylvania, Hungary and Romania. At this time 3,000 kilometres further southeast, the monk Komitas had already gathered a magnificent archive...

Format: CD

Release Date: March 19, 2021

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Two years younger than JS Bach, Johann Balthasar Christian Freislich was musically absolutely on the cutting edge. Far away from the traditional music centres of Europe, he created works that reconciled the highly topical gallant...

Format: SACD

Release Date: March 19, 2021

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The Clarinet Quintet is Max Reger's last completed composition; he survived the mailing of the manuscript to his publisher by only a few days. Paul Hindemith's contribution to the same genre was written a few...

Format: SACD

Release Date: January 15, 2021

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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy composed twelve symphonies for string orchestra - he was just at confirmation age. The dogma chamber orchestra is now presenting this youthfully fresh music for the first time in its entirety, along...

Format: SACD

Release Date: January 15, 2021

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It must have been splendid when the Council was newly elected in Gdansk. Music was played on all organs in St. Mary's Church, and the responsible Kapellmeister had to deliver festive multi-choral works for the...

Format: SACD

Release Date: January 15, 2021

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Franz Berwald was an independent genius. His contemporaries would never have dreamed that the trained violinist is today considered the most important Swedish composer of the 19th century. With a brand new recording, the franz...

Format: SACD

Release Date: January 15, 2021

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Joachim Raff was an autodidact. Having grown up in Switzerland, he first tried his hand with moderate success in numerous places as a composer of salon pieces. Franz Liszt became aware of the young man's...

Format: CD

Release Date: January 15, 2021

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The Trio Parnassus already caused a sensation with the world premiere recording of Vol. 1 of the chamber music works of Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, who celebrates his 250th birthday this year. Since its beginnings,...

Format: SACD

Release Date: January 15, 2021

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There is hardly a more perfect musical formula for the beginning of the Christmas season than the festively recited opening motif of Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio. But in his six cantatas, assigned to the...

Format: SACD

Release Date: October 16, 2020

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Great music for small rooms - Schönberg's "Association for Private Musical Performances" made this possible. Beyond star hype and public attention, this small group wanted to devote itself exclusively to the musical language and orchestrated...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 16, 2020

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For Erik Satie, his whole life was a single theatre. Even his whimsical outfit was carefully staged: always the same suit, with melon and umbrella, but never unfolded to protect it . Steffen Schleiermacher now...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 02, 2020

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Dai Miyata has been playing the cello since he was three years old and has won all competitions since the age of nine. He was also the first Japanese to win the first prize at...

Format: CD

Release Date: September 04, 2020

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Charles Ives’s oeuvre is just as extensive as it is enigmatic. If “The Unanswered Question” and “Central Park in the Dark” have achieved something like cult status, his chamber music and songs are practically unknown....

Format: CD

Release Date: July 17, 2020

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While he was still a student, Rudens Turku established the Starnberg Music Days. Over the past twenty years this renowned festival south of Munich featuring an attractive combination of master classes and top-quality concerts has...

Format: SACD

Release Date: June 05, 2020

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During the nineteenth century Berlin quickly developed from a muddy provincial backwater into a metropolis of world rank. Things went upward at the same pace in the arts and culture, and at their summit Wilhelm...

Format: SACD

Release Date: May 15, 2020