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  • Kazuo Yamada: Grand Treasure
    Kazuo Yamada: Grand Treasure

    $19.99

    One of Japan's most influential composers and conductors, Kazuo Yamada rejected the 'facile exoticism' of Japanese nationalism. His influences include Mahler and Strauss. He employees Japanese instruments related to shomyo (the chanting of Buddhist hymns).


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 25, 2014

  • Wagner: Orchestral Excerpts, Vol. 3
    Wagner: Orchestral Excerpts, Vol. 3

    $19.99

    Themes of love and passion dominate these orchestral excerpts from Wagner's music dramas. The legend of Tannhauser contrasts the sensual allure of Venus with the ideals of courtly love and religious devotion. Die Meistersinger von...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 25, 2012

  • Groslot: Three Concertos
    Groslot: Three Concertos

    $19.99

    Robert Groslot's significant contribution to the concerto genre is explored here in works that emphasize enjoyment in performance, and precision in sonorities and structure. The Cello Concerto includes a musical joke, whereby the soloist 'quarrels'...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 22, 2019

  • Mendonça: Step Right Up
    Mendonça: Step Right Up

    $19.99

    Portuguese composer Vasco Mendon�a regards this portrait album as a letter to himself - written over time and with different chapters that throw light on his long-standing obsessions with drama, ritual and precision mechanism. Group...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 22, 2019

  • Baltic Inspiration
    Baltic Inspiration

    $19.99

    The Piano Quartet by much-admired Latvian composer Peteris Vasks is one of his longest and most imposing chamber works. Unfolding with inexorable expressive force, it utilizes dance-like motifs and folk-inflected themes throughout. The pieces by...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 13, 2019

  • Koželuch: Joseph der Menschheit Segen
    Koželuch: Joseph der Menschheit Segen

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    Vienna was a magnet for musicians across Europe in the 18th century, and among the most successful and influential were composers from Bohemia. Credited with developing idiomatic piano performance in the city, Leopold Ko�eluch also...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 22, 2019

  • Cimarosa: Overtures, Vol. 6
    Cimarosa: Overtures, Vol. 6

    $19.99

    Domenico�Cimarosa's�operas were remarkably successful, being staged and re-staged in opera houses all over Europe. Success in his�hometown�of Naples led to court appointments and royal commissions, including his best-known work Il�matrimonio�segreto�('The Secret Marriage') composed for Austrian...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 10, 2020

  • Moyzes: Dances from Gemer - Down the River Vah
    Moyzes: Dances from Gemer - Down the River Vah

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    Alexander Moyzes remains one of the most significant figures in the establishment of Slovak musical nationalism in the 20th century. A profound and admired symphonist, he also wrote a sequence of orchestral music that explored...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 25, 2019

  • Beethoven: Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus (The Creatures of Pr
    Beethoven: Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus (The Creatures of Pr

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    Beethoven was commissioned to write his first stage work- a ballet score for Die Geschopfe des Prometheus ('The Creatures of Prometheus')- for the dancer and choreographer Salvatore Vigano, nephew of composer Luigi Boccherini. In the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 13, 2019

  • Castérède: Complete Works for Flute, Vol. 1
    Castérède: Complete Works for Flute, Vol. 1

    $19.99

    Jacques Casterede's distinguished career was centered in Paris, but with musical roots in the early twentieth-century traditions of neo-Classicism and Les Six- the wide variety of scope and intent in his work was never meant...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 11, 2019

  • Spohr: Violin Duets, Vol. 2
    Spohr: Violin Duets, Vol. 2

    $19.99

    Louis Spohr's reputation as one of Germany's leading violinists was at it's height when he composed his Duets for Two Violins, Op. 39, and while it appears his intention was to finance an Italian concert...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 13, 2019

  • Petitgirard: States of Mind
    Petitgirard: States of Mind

    $19.99

    Laurent Petitgirard's eclectic career as a composer of lyrical and intensely French symphonic music, operas and chamber music is matched by conducting activities at the highest level- experience that accounts for the colorful richness of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 13, 2019

  • Ourkouzounov: Cycling Modes - Sonatas Nos. 1–5
    Ourkouzounov: Cycling Modes - Sonatas Nos. 1–5

    $19.99

    Award-winning Atanas Ourkouzounov is one of Bulgaria's foremost composers and has written prolifically for the guitar. These five sonatas reveal elements of Bulgarian national music- sometimes through a textured soundscape that includes percussive elements- cast...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 13, 2019

  • Clementi: Keyboard Sonatas, Op. 1, No. 6, Op. 1bis, Nos. 1 &
    Clementi: Keyboard Sonatas, Op. 1, No. 6, Op. 1bis, Nos. 1 &

    $19.99

    Muzio Clementi was born four years before Mozart and outlived Beethoven by the same span. His legacy to pianists as a composer and teacher was a significant one, introducing new virtuosity and exploring the expressive...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 13, 2019

  • Femmes Fatales - Soprano Heroines from the Orient
    Femmes Fatales - Soprano Heroines from the Orient

    $19.99

    Composers of every era have drawn on the strengths, sorrows and joys of women for operas and vocal works, inspiring some of their most powerful music. From the heartbreaking tragedy of Samuel Barber's Andromache's Farewell...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 14, 2020