MOZART: London Sketchbook

The pianist Amir Tebenikhin was born in 1977 in Kasachstan. He studied with Mikhail Voskressensky at the Tschaikovsky Konservatorium in Moscow and with Karl-Heinz K�mmerling in Hanover. During his young career Mr. Tebenikhin has already won many international awards, like the 1st prize at the "Vianna da Motta" Competition (Portugal) and awards at the Reine Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, the International Piano Competition Glasgow, at the 1st International Piano Competition in Panama City and the 1st Internationalen Carl Bechstein Piano Competition-Ruhr. Beside concert performances as a guest at famous festivals all over Europe, he played for example in the Carnegie Hall (NY), the Wigmore Hall (London) and Salle Pleyel in Paris. As a soloist he toured worldwide with the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Moscow Virtuosos, the BBC Scottish Symphonie Orchestra, the Sendai Symphonie Orchestra (Japan), the Kazakh State Symphonie Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphonie Orchestra etc.

Polish Heart (The)

JACKSON: Trumpet and Organ Works

SPERGER: String Symphonies

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.

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.

Joachim, J.: Violin Concerto No. 3 / Overtures, Opp. 4 and 1

BOLLING: Suites for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio

This album was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance.

Opera Explained: VERDI - Falstaff (Smillie)

The woodcarvings of Tilman Riemenschneider (c. 1460-1531) represent the final and fullest flowering of the Gothic style in Germany. In the artistic fever of the Renaissance his work was swiftly forgotten, but after centuries of neglect his reputation is now firmly restored. On this CD, the world of Riemenschneider is given a musical perspective with a carefully chosen selection of pieces by the finest composers of his time. Inside, Hugh Griffith provides explanatory notes on his life and musical environment.

An Introduction to...: The Life & Works Sampler of the Great Composers album for sale by Life & Works Sampler was released Nov 25, 2003 on the Naxos label. An Introduction to...: The Life & Works Sampler of the Great Composers CD music contains a single disc.

Classics Explained: Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring

Gigli: Beniamino Gigli - A Life in Words and Music