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  • Birds of Love & Prey / Sternberg, Simpson, Vogel
    Birds of Love & Prey / Sternberg, Simpson, Vogel

    $19.99

    Soprano Deborah Sternberg brings together three song cycles themed on birds, each with its own unique flavour and expressive vocabulary. Andrew Earle Simpson’s eloquent skills as a composer and pianist are united in Birds of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 28, 2020

  • Beethoven, Schumann, Thalberg, Liszt / Valentina Lisitsa
    Beethoven, Schumann, Thalberg, Liszt / Valentina Lisitsa

    $19.99

    Described by critics as a 'bona fide angel playing' and an 'electrifying pianist', the young Ukrainian-born, North Carolina-based Valentina Lisitsa has been receiving rave reviews ever since her debut in Avery Fisher Hall for the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 29, 2013

  • Baker: Piano Concerto "From Noon to Starry Night" / Hamelin
    Baker: Piano Concerto "From Noon to Starry Night" / Hamelin

    $19.99

    Award-winning and much decorated composer Claude Baker here entwines his evocative soundworld with the powerful imagery of two great poets. Recorded in its premiere performance with Marc-Andre Hamelin as soloist, the Piano Concerto ‘From Noon...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 13, 2017

  • Balada: Works for Clarinet / Ivanov
    Balada: Works for Clarinet / Ivanov

    $19.99

    Barcelona native Leonardo Balada’s creative style has been labelled ‘Dalí’s surrealism in music’ – an aspect of his work explored in this programme through the technique of ‘sound transformation’ in which abstract musical materials become...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 24, 2020

  • 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

    $19.99

    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

    $19.99

    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

    $19.99

    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

    $19.99

    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

    $19.99

    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

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    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

    $19.99

    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