During his last decade, Rossini wrote a series of 13 volumes he called Sins of Old Age, of which volume 8 is subtitled Album de ch teau. It contains 12 pieces, each richly characterized.

One of Spain’s leading composers of the second half of the twentieth century, Xavier Montsalvatge wrote some 200 works and explored almost all musical genres. +His music for violin and piano, which he produced throughout most of his compositional life, occupies a significant place in his output, from a delicious miniature such as the Spanish Sketch to the masterly late Tres Policromías, and the Paráfrasis Concertante, a sonata in all but name. +The impressive Piano Trio is lyrical, sensual and dance-like in turn.

Awarded the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory' Rubinstein Medal, classical guitarist Vicente Coves presents a beguiling recital of music from Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Paraguay and Spain.

TIPPETT: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3

The second of three volumes devoted to Andres Isasi's complete string quartets is again performed by the composer's foremost champions, the Isasi Quartet, who premiered all the works on this recording. String Quartet No. 4 in D major reveals his vibrant and imaginative use of textures and his affiliations with the music of Dvorak. Though unfinished, the 1921 String Quartet No. 3 in E minor fuses melodic richness and serenity. Each of the three smaller pieces shows contrast and warmth, not least the beautifully eloquent Prelude in a major.

Vocal music comprised around a quarter of Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu' extensive output, no fewer than 27 songs dating from 1912 alone, and much of it remaining unpublished during his lifetime.

A unique coupling of chamber works from the German Romantic composer Eduard Franck currently undergoing a small revival after decades of neglect. This is finely crafted music inspired by Mendelssohn and Schumann.

BACH, J.S. / HOFFMANN / TELEMANN: Alto and Tenor Cantatas, B

As a follow-up to the success of the first volume of Music for Flute and Percussion, and the immense pleasure I have experienced in my concerts for flute and percussion, I have urged a number of composers to write for this marvellous combination,' no.

Beethoven, L. Van: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 - Piano Trios Nos. 5,

Jakub Jan Ryba was a prolific composer of both sacred and secular music. The majority of his orchestral and instrumental music has been lost and of his quartets, which numbered 72, only the four on this recording appear to have survived.

First performed in 1938, Dyson' Symphony had to wait until the 1990s to achieve the recognition it deserves as one of the finest twentieth-century British symphonies. Although the symphony opens and closes in a mood of pageantry from the world of his.

Pierre Rode' music represents the full flowering of the French violin school founded by his mentor Giovanni Battista Viotti. Naxos' recordings of his 24 Caprices and Violin Concertos Nos. 7, 10 and 13 have received critical accolades, with Nos. 3, 4.

Max Reger' Twelve Pieces, Op. 80, explore a wide-ranging selection of short musical forms suitable for performance as a complete suite in recital or as individual items within the celebration of the Christian liturgy.

TCHAIKOVSKY / BALAKIREV / GLAZUNOV: Arrangements for 2 Piano