Enescu: Oedipe

In 1921 Arnold Schoenberg was forced to leave his holiday home in Austria because of the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Europe.

MOZART: String Quartets, K. 464 and K. 428

Handel: Rinaldo

Comprising four separate operas, Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen took 25 years to complete.

Inspired by the example and encouragement of Rossini, Donizetti moved to Paris, where he soon established himself with a series of operas that seemed likely, Berlioz thought, to oust French composers from their proper place.

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PERGOLESI: Stabat Mater / Orfeo

Falla: Vida Breve (La)

J.S. Bach: Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243 - Ich Habe Genug,

Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet No. 5 in A major was published in 1801 as opus 18, no. 5, and was written between 1798 and 1800. Beethoven modeled this quartet directly on Mozart's quartet in the same key (K. 464). Recorded at the Unitarian Church, Budapest, from 10th to 12 November, 1997 and from 3rd to 5th March, 1998. The Kod�ly Quartet, formed in Budapest in 1966 when it's original members met as students at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, has continued to exemplify the greatest standards of the rich Hungarian musical tradition that it has carried on with such extraordinary distinction throughout the world during over four decades of international appearances.

the well-recorded Swedish Opera Orchestra shows itself to be a very fine group of musicians indeed.....the performance surges with life...Katerina Dalayman is a superb Marietta, not only does she have a ravishing voice and sings beautifully, but she projects the sensuality of the character... another triumph for Naxos; their recording captures the magic and mystery of this glorious opera - FANFARE

Prokofiev, S.: Orchestral Suites

With it's plot derived from Arthurian legend, Tristan und Isolde is considered by many to be the most harmonically daring and overtly sensual of the composer's operas. From the famous opening 'Tristan chord' of the Prelude, repeated at key points in the drama, to it's over-powering harmonic resolution at the end of the Liebestod (Love-Death), the opera is remarkable for the hypnotic power, physical longing and intense human emotion sustained over more than three years.

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