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The ability of music to tell stories is exemplified in Reineckes Märchengestalten, where the worlds of fantasy and fairytale are evoked from the title itself. Combining the talents of pianist, composer, and teacher, with those of painter and poet,......

This work for harpsichord is taken from an opera Reichardt wrote in collaboration with J. G. Naumann following the death of Frederick the Great, Reichardts controlling employer. Pentesilaus is an Italianate drama in style and execution that told t......

Although Frederick the Great was blessed with more humanitarian than religious concerns this funeral song composed on the occasion of his death, offers a spiritual epistle to the accomplishments and the legacy of a great leader that might well ser......

Masterpieces of the miniature, this set of six Autumn Leaves from Vladimir Rebikov are infused with the moods of yearning and pathos which were so popular in the day. This set were so popular, they were rearranged in versions for string orchestra,......

Rebikovs music was the subject of controversy among his contemporaries and many of his groundbreaking ideas on exotic tonal reforms were coupled with a dramatic intensity for which the music was both the catalyst and an expression of a psychologic......

Raff wrote this picturesque study in reminiscence of the Giessbach falls in Switzerland. A prodigious talent who for many years worked for Franz Liszt as a musical assistant and secretary this piece was written later when Raff was fully in command......

Raff lived an eventful life of ups and down but remained a prolific composer throughout. Towards the end of his life, he had earned a reputation as a respected and important composer and his works were frequently performed in Germany and across Eu......

Gabriel Pierné became well known as a conductor in Paris in the early 20 century; however, his compositional output became overshadowed by that of his contemporaries, including Saint-Saëns. This early Concerto in c-moll is a hidden treasure, featu......

Composer, organist, conductor and pedagogue, Gabriel Pierné achieved success in every compositional style, and championed many important seminal performances of his contemporaries under his conductors baton. The Album für meine kleinen Freunde is ......

Impressions, 4 Pièces caractéristiques pour Piano par S. Noskowski, were published in 1900 and dedicated to the great Russian pianist and teacher Annette Essipoff-Leschetizky. The four pieces are a magical blend of romantic sentiment from the pict......

Images Six Morceaux caractéristiques pour Piano par Sigismond Noskowski were published in 1890 and were one of the first editions to be dedicated to the pianist and teacher, Boleslas (Boleslaw) Domaniewski. They represent an important addition to ......

En Pastel, Trois Morceaux caractéristiques pour Piano par Sigismond Noskowski were published in 1890 and dedicated to the Polish surgeon, Doctor Franciszek Jawdyński. Ever since antiquity, philosophers musicians and poets have drawn an analog......

The Zwölf Walzer originated in a time when the classic waltz was far from being socially accepted. It was still considered a somewhat scandalous dance of the lower classes and became the latest trend in the salons of the nobility only after the Co......

A composer of over 2000 works, this symphony newly restored from the original manuscript, was completed in 1817 during Neukomms five year stay in Rio de Janeiro and reflects something of the magical landscape of Brazil in its musical forms. The th......

The Nocturne opus 18 displays a strong English identity with its two major themes of God save the King and Rule Britannia but to this Neukomm adds an Adagio of sublime originality. The genius of this work is its approachability. Rousing and brilli......

A wraithlike figure takes to the night in this nocturnal cantata of the dead in Neukomms setting of the Die nächtliche Heerschau or Napoleons Mignight Review as it was translated by the English poet and dramatist, William Ball. A ghostly Caesar re......

A wraithlike figure takes to the night in this nocturnal cantata of the dead in Neukomms setting of the Die nächtliche Heerschau or Napoleons Mignight Review as it was translated by the English poet and dramatist, William Ball. A ghostly Caesar re......

The Marche Funebre was originally written for fortepiano and placed after the elegy of the Elegie harmonique as a salute to Jan Ladislav Dussek, the Czech piano virtuoso whose talents, would prefigure those of Liszt, Mendelssohn, Chopin in a way t......

Back to life is a work that is both mercurial and resolute. It transcends the mere form of the four movement sonata with a back-story informed by a biographical reflection upon events in and around the composers life. It marks a kind of unified s......

Composed upon his arrival in Vienna in 1814, Neukomm was a member of the French delegation to the Congress of Vienna and he played his part for France when he presented his monumental Requiem in C minor in memoriam of King Louis XVI, a commission ......