SPOHR: String Quintets Nos. 3 and 4

TCHAIKOVSKY: Songs (Complete), Vol. 3

This selection also includes the Naxos catalog in CD-ROM format.

BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2, Op. 5 / 7 Variations,

Margaret Jane Wray has performed with some of the most important musical figures of our day, including Daniel Barenboim, Maris Janssons and Seiji Ozawa and enjoys a busy career as a concert artist in addition to her varied operatic performances. Included on this disc is the rarely recorded 1862 concert ending to the 'Love Duet' from 'Tristan und Isolde'.

SCRIABIN: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2

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, and Heine.

Holst's The Planets received it's first public performance in 1919, and with it Holst achieved the first real success of his career. It is a remarkably effective work, very varied and brilliantly scored for the orchestra, with the character of each of the seven movements suggested by the astrological properties given to the various planets of the solar system. The new eighth movement, Pluto, was commissioned from Colin Matthews, as an 'appendix' to the Suite, the planet Pluto having been discovered on a few years before Holst's death. The Mystic Trumpeter is one of the most neglected of Holst's major works. The several influences on the work, notably that of Wagner, are welded by Holst's passionate feeling for Whitman's words into an integrated and convincing whole whose vitality and exuberance have few parallels in British music of the period.

Andante: Romantic Music for Cello and Orchestra

CLASSICAL MOMENTS 3: Classical Music to Relax to

TURINA: Sinfonia sevillana / Danzas fantasticas / Ritmos

Lutoslawski: Double Concerto for Oboe and Harp / Dance Prelu

Classical Moments, Vol. 5: Classical Music to Dine To

LES MEILLEURS MOMENTS

The German composer Joseph Martin Kraus, spent much of his working life in Stockholm and may be considered one of the most innovative and unusual composers of the eighteenth century.