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  • Art of the Trumpet / Carroll, Brewer, New York Trumpet Ensemble
    Art of the Trumpet / Carroll, Brewer, New York Trumpet Ensemble

    $19.99

    The evolution from Renaissance to Baroque musical style partly reveals itself in the process by which forms begin as vocal genres and end as instrumental ones. The ensemble (or instrumental) ricercar was a counterpart of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 06, 2018

  • American Classics - Piston: Chamber Music
    American Classics - Piston: Chamber Music

    $19.99

    More cool stuff from Australia! The Queensland seaside city of Townsville deserves a lot of credit for sponsoring both the 1999 Australian Festival of Chamber Music and this recording, particularly as the artistic results certainly...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 01, 2000

  • American Classics - Foote: Piano Quintet, Quartets /Da Vinci
    American Classics - Foote: Piano Quintet, Quartets /Da Vinci

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    The first real school of American composers arrived in the last quarter of the 19th century and were known as the Boston classicists. Comprised largely of well-to-do New Englanders who were trained in Europe by...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 01, 1999

  • Adolphe: Chopin Dreams / Grante
    Adolphe: Chopin Dreams / Grante

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    Composer, educator, performer, and author Bruce Adolphe has a close affinity to the piano, and he acknowledges the transformative influence of Chopin on the way the instrument has been perceived right up to the present....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 11, 2016

  • Ravel: Orchestral Music, Vol. 1 / Slatkin, Orchestre National De Lyon
    Ravel: Orchestral Music, Vol. 1 / Slatkin, Orchestre National De Lyon

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    Ravel orchestrated his piano pieces Alborada del gracioso and Pavane pour une infante défunte to great effect; the former gains in suggestive colour, and the latter evokes nostalgic pathos. Another orchestrated work is the Menuet...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 13, 2012

  • Rachmaninov: The Bells, Isle of the Dead / Slatkin, St. Louis Symphony
    Rachmaninov: The Bells, Isle of the Dead / Slatkin, St. Louis Symphony

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    This release from the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with Leonard Slatkin conducting presents two dark works by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The first is the choral symphony The Bells Op. 35. Written in 1913, the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 06, 2018

  • Prokofiev: Symphony No  5, The Year 1941 / Alsop, Sao Paulo Symphony
    Prokofiev: Symphony No 5, The Year 1941 / Alsop, Sao Paulo Symphony

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    Written in 1944, Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony is one of his greatest and most complete symphonic statements. At its première he himself called it “a symphony of the grandeur of the human spirit”. The first movement...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 26, 2012

  • Point Blank / Belongia, Illinois State University Wind Symphony
    Point Blank / Belongia, Illinois State University Wind Symphony

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    ach of these five contemporary American pieces for wind band, performed by one of the country’s leading ensembles, explores its own very personal soundscape. Paul Dooley delves into the world of drum & bass with...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 09, 2014

  • Pater Noster - A Choral Reflection on The Lord's Prayer / King’s Singers
    Pater Noster - A Choral Reflection on The Lord's Prayer / King’s Singers

    $19.99

    GRAMMY®-Award winners in 2009, The King’s Singers are one of the world’s most celebrated ensembles. Their programming concept in this disc is unique: built upon the individual clauses of The Lord’s Prayer, beginning and ending...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 30, 2012

  • Nyman: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat / Trevino, Williamson, Nashville Opera
    Nyman: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat / Trevino, Williamson, Nashville Opera

    $19.99

    REVIEWS: It is difficult to pin down just what makes this opera so appealing; let’s just say that it is an opera, like Nixon, in which everything works. This performance is a fine one; in...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 09, 2016

  • Messiaen & Debussy / Oppens, Lowenthal
    Messiaen & Debussy / Oppens, Lowenthal

    $19.99

    MESSIAEN Visions de l’Amen. DEBUSSY En Blanc et noir • Ursula Oppens, Jerome Lowenthal (pn) • ÇEDILLE CDR 90000 119 (60:51) In 1941, Olivier Messiaen was released from Görlitz prison camp, where he had been...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 31, 2010

  • Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 / Comissiona, Baltimore Symphony
    Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 / Comissiona, Baltimore Symphony

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    This album from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sergiu Comissiona presents two works by Mendelssohn: the Symphony No. 4 “Italian,” and the Symphony No. 5 “Reformation.” The title Italian designates the symphony Mendelssohn began...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 06, 2018

  • In Winter's Arms: Seasonal Music by Bob Chilcott / Kuhrmann, Choralis
    In Winter's Arms: Seasonal Music by Bob Chilcott / Kuhrmann, Choralis

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    Bob Chilcott’s compositions are beloved with choral societies around the world, and this album represents the fruits of his recent collaborations with the US choir Choralis and their conductor Gretchen Kuhrmann. Featuring festive works for...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 15, 2017

  • Heggie: Connection - Three Song Cycles
    Heggie: Connection - Three Song Cycles

    $19.99

    Famed for his operatic music, Jake Heggie has always been a devoted and prolific songwriter. Three early song cycles for soprano and piano feature in this release, each cycle exploring the many varied facets of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 10, 2014

  • Hawes: Revelation, Beatitudes & Quantia Qualia / Edison, Elora Singers
    Hawes: Revelation, Beatitudes & Quantia Qualia / Edison, Elora Singers

    $19.99

    Listen to the Naxos Podcast to learn more about this release Patrick Hawes has emerged in recent years as one of England's most popular and inspirational choral composers. "The nine pieces that form Revelation are...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 10, 2017