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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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Egon Kornauth: Piano Music, Vol. 1 / Jonathan Powell, piano

1 CD / Toccata / 2013-03-26

The music of the Czech-born Viennese composer Kornauth (1891-1959) was once a staple of Austrian concert-halls. It has been largely forgotten in the half-century since...continue...

David Matthews: Piano Concerto Op. 111; Piano Sonata. Op. 74; Variatinos for Piano, Op. 72 et al. / Laura Mikkola, piano

1 CD / Toccata / 2013-03-26

Conductors: Vass, George
Ensemble: Orchestra Nova

In his piano music, as in his symphonies and string quartets, the English composer David Matthews (b. 1943) marries the idiom of classical tradition with...continue...

Wagner: Transcribed Solo Piano by August Stradel, Vol. 1 - Walkure; Siegfried; Gotterdammerung; Wesendonck Lieder / Juan Guillermo Vizcarra, piano

1 CD / Toccata / 2013-03-26

Juan Gillermo Vizcarra is one of the leading Peruvian pianists of his generation, whose performances have been heard far beyond his native land. He has...continue...

Philip Ramey: Piano Music, Vol. 4 - 1959-2011 / Stephen Gosling, piano

1 CD / Toccata / 2013-03-26

Stephen Gosling plays the piano music of American composer Phillip Ramey (b.1939). His music is rooted in the motoric athleticism of Prokofiev and Bartok, tempered...continue...

Matthew Taylor: String Quartets Nos. 5, 6 and 7 / Dante, Allegri & Salieri String Quartets

1 CD / Toccata / 2013-02-26

Works: Matthew Taylor: Quartet for Strings no 5, Op. 35; Quartet for Strings no 6, Op. 36; Quartet for Strings no 7, Op. 37
Conductors:
Ensemble: Allegri String Quartet; Dante String Quartet; Salieri String Quartet

Matthew Taylor's sense of musical architecture - extending the symphonic tradition of Sibelius and Nielsen into the modern age - can be felt in his...continue...
Recording information: All Saint's Church, Durham Road, East Finchley, London (05/23/2012-05/24/2012)....continue...

Bernhard Sekles: Violin Sonata; Cello Sonata; Chaconne, Op. 38; Capriccio / Solomia Soroka, violin, viola; Noreen Silver, cello; Philip Silver, piano

1 CD / Toccata / 2013-02-26

Works: Bernhard Sekles: Chaconne on an Eight-Bar March-Theme, for viola & piano, Op. 38; Sonata for cello & piano in D minor, Op. 28; Capriccio in 4 movements, for violin, cello & piano; Sonata for violin &...
Performers: Silver, Noreen [Cello]; Silver, Phillip; Soroka, Solomia

Sekles (1872 - 1933) was a leading figure in German music in the first decades of the20th century. In 1928, as director of the Hoch...continue...
Recording information: Blue Griffin Recording Studio, Lansing, MI (2012-05-28_2012-05-29&2012-)....continue...

Charles-Valentin Alkan: Complete Recueils de Chants, Vol. 1 / Stephanie McCallum, piano

1 CD / Toccata / 2013-02-26

Works: Charles-Valentin Alkan: Recueil de Chants Book 1 (6), for piano, Op. 38; Recueil de Chants Book 2 (6), for piano, Op. 38b; Recueil de Chants Book 3 (6), for piano, Op. 65; Une fusée, introductio...
Performers: McCallum, Stephanie

The wild originality of Alkan was little appreciated during his lifetime (1813 - 88), nor during the century which followed, when he was largely lost...continue...
Recording information: Recital Hall West, Sydney Conservatorium of Music (2012-02-26&2012-05-27&2012-)....continue...

Liszt: The Complete Symphonic Poems Transcribed for Solo Piano by August Stradal, Vol. 2 / Risto-Matti Marin, piano

1 CD / Toccata / 2013-02-26

Although Liszt's 13 symphonic poems exist in 2 piano transcriptions prepared by the composer himself, it was his Czech student Stradal (1860 - 1930) who...continue...