Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng acknowledges no aesthetic borders, weaving together haunting melodies and sonorities from sources as diverse as Chinese, Kazakhstani and Tibetan music.

The rarely recorded Symphony No. 25 is an unusual work. Lacking a slow movement, it opens with an Adagio-Allegro followed by a minuet. Symphony No. 42, with it's compelling themes and keen sense of dramatic timing.

Ma Sicong is remembered today as a leading violinist, composer and teacher who devoted his life to creating a new national identity for Chinese music.

Premiered at the 12th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival, Warsaw, in March 2008, Jeajoon Ryu' Sinfonia da Requiem was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Krzysztof Penderecki and enthusiastically received by the Festival audience.

Clara Schumann the composer often worked in her husband' shadow, many of her songs being mistaken for his, although those best loved by the public flowed from her pen.

Joseph Martin Kraus was an innovative 18th Century composer, acclaimed by Haydn as one of the only two geniuses he knew. Small wonder that intense interest has been ignited by his forward-looking music, especially the epic six act opera Aeneas in Ca.

The Naxos Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition: Schubert set the poetry of over 115 writers to music. He selected poems from classical Greece, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, from eighteenth-century German authors, early Romantics, Biedermeier poets.

A colleague of Bela Bart k in the collection of Turkish folk-music, Adnan Saygun was among the most distinguished Turkish composers of the twentieth century.

Sibelius wrote very little for the cello, although some of his violin pieces allow alternative instrumentation.

The best of Classical Guitar accompanied by Northern Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Nicholas Ward bring such classics as Cavatina and Dance of the Miller to life.

Xavier Montsalvatge was one of the most important composers to emerge from Catalonia during the 20th century.

CINEMA CLASSICS

Martin Welzel, who also performs on Volumes 6 and 8 gaining American Record Guide' praise as 'authoritative', performs on the splendid Johannes Klais Organ in Trier Cathedral.

Budapest Failoni Chamber Orchestra along with various performers perform works by great classical composers Bach, Debussy and Mozart.

Armenia' greatest composer Aram Khachaturian received both acclaim and criticism from the Soviet regime, including the USSR State Prize for his three Concerto-Rhapsodies. "A concerto is music with chandeliers burning bright; a rhapsody is music with.