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Rameau: The Complete Keyboard Music, Vol. 2 / Stephen Gutman, piano [3 CDs]

1 CD / Toccata / 2013-04-30

Rameau was one of the great composers for the keyboard, and this recording presents the latest installment of his complete keyboard music performed on piano....continue...

Buxton Orr: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2; Duo; String Trio / Beethoven String Trio of London

1 CD / Toccata / 2013-04-30

The music of Buxton Orr (b. Glasgow, 1924), was hardly over-exposed during his lifetime but has encountered even more neglect since his death in 1997....continue...

Vladas Jakubenas: Chamber and Instrumental Music / Kasparas Uinskas, piano

1 CD / Toccata / 2013-04-30

Conductors: Katkus, Donatas;
Ensemble: Kaskados Piano Trio; St Christopher Chamber Orchestra; Vilnius String Quartet

Jakubenas (1904-76) was one of the major cultural figures in pre-WWII Lithuania: he was a prominent composer, critic, teacher and musical activist. After WWII, he...continue...

G.P. Telemann: Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst, Vol. 5 - Six Cantatas for high voice, violin and basso continuo / Bergen Barokk

1 CD / Toccata / 2013-04-30

Conductors:
Ensemble: Bergen Barokk

Presenting Vol.5 in the first complete recording of the 72 cantatas from Telemann's collection Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst, published in Hamburg, 1726 - they were the first...continue...

Bohuslav Martinu: Early Orchestral Works - Nocturne; Village Feast; Little Dance Suite; Movement for Orchestra, H90 et al.

1 CD / Toccata / 2013-04-30

Works: Bohuslav Martinu: Prelude in the Form of a Scherzo, for orchestra (after Prelude for piano, H. 181/2), H. 181a; Composition for large orchestra, H. 90 (incomplete); Posvícení (Church Festiv...
Performers: Haufa, Jakub; Krzyzanowski, Andrzej; Paciorkiewicz, Artur
Conductors: Hobson, Ian [Piano]
Ensemble: ; Sinfonia Varsovia

Martinu's mature orchestral works are now a mainstay in classical repertoire. But, the orchestral music he wrote between his late teens and early thirties is...continue...
Recording information: Witold Lutoslawski Concert Hall, Polish Radio, Warsaw (12/19/2012-12/21/2012)....continue...

Korngold: Much Ado About Nothing, Op. 11, complete incidental music / Univ. of NC School of the Arts Drama Soloists

1 CD / Toccata / 2013-04-30

Works: Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Much Ado About Nothing, incidental music, Op. 11
Conductors: Mauceri, John
Ensemble: University of North Carolina Symphony Orchestra

Korngold's music for Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado about Nothing, premiered in Vienna in 1920, enjoyed instant success and soon spread around the world. But the...continue...
Recording information: Scoring Stage, School of Filmmaking, University of Nort (03/12/2012-03/23/2012)....continue...

Heino Eller: Piano Music, Vol. 3 - Piano Sonata no 4; 10 Lyric Pieces; 5 Preludes; 3 Studies / Sten Lassmann, piano

1 CD / Toccata / 2013-04-30

Theodor Grigoriu: Byzantium after Byzantium: Trinity Concerto; The Great Passage; The Eternal Return / Sherban Lupu, violin; Andrei Tanasescu, piano

1 CD / Toccata / 2013-04-30

Conductors: Hobson, ian
Ensemble: Sinfonia da Camera

Grigoriu (b. Moldavia, 1926) is one of the major Romanian composers in the period after Enescu. His vast output is little known outside his own...continue...