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The Isles of Fingal conceived on Mendelssohns Grand Tour of 1829-1832 provided the prototype for this remarkable arrangement for piano duet, memorialising forever the eventful journey the composer and his friend Carl Klingemann took to the Highlan......

These six traditional zither tunes were arranged for easy piano by Duke Maximilian of Bavaria. The zither was an instrument the Duke was responsible for elevating to the status of National Instrument and was known as one of the foremost virtuoso p......

A popular, non-operatic composer, Martucci wrote about 85 works during his life which bear opus numbers: this, the Konzert - Fantasie über La forza del destino is opus number 1. Written when he was a student at the Reale Collegio di S Pietro a Maj......

The Zigeuner-Sonate marked a diversion for the composer, an experiment of sorts which distilled some of the best qualities of his compositional technique thus far. In other works Loewe has shown that he was not immune from the allure of pianistic ......

Dedicated to the singer Karl Strakatky (1803-1863) who sang at the Stavovské divadlo in Prague from 1825, the Hussitenlied was Liszts tribute to the Czech people composed especially for his first concert tour of Prague in 1840. Believing it to be ......

In his Piano Sonata in E-flat Major with the movements Allegro con espressione, Adagio and Presto Liste created a work of remarkable and unique quality, that is special not only because of its expressive use of dynamic contrast and surprising turn......

The renowned opera composer and librettist Leoncavallo was one of the most successful artists of his generation but he also spent a decade of his early career from the 1880s performing and earning a living in the cafés of Paris. The experience pro......

Siegfried Langgaard was a Danish pianist, composer and philosopher of music. His highly pianistic style and complex harmonic language can be clearly seen within this Romantische Phantasie , inspired by the opening passages of Hans Christian Anders......

Exhibiting a natural talent for pastiche and an almost overwhelming abundance of original musical thought the Piano Concerto in C opus 7 took Beethovens famous Piano Concerto in C opus 15 as its inspiration. Premiere performances of the concerto i......

Friedrich Kuhlaus works bridge the Classical and Romantic musical periods, and his extensive and brilliant flute writing earned him the title of the Beethoven of the flute. The Flöten-Quartett for four flutes explores the range and expressive natu......

Remembered as the dedicatee of Beethovens Violin Sonata, op.47, Kreutzer was a leading exponent along with Rode and Baillot of the French violin school and composed an influential pedagogic work, the Methode de Violon which is used to this day. Th......

This cantata, composed in 1780, is the third in a set of four secular cantatas appearing between 1778 and 1780. Composed in Stockhom, this cantata was written for Lovisa Augusti, lead singer of the Stockholm Royal Theatre of which Kraus was Kapell......

Composed towards the end of his life, the two sonatas from which the Es maj. sonata was extracted were dedicated to Gustav III king of Sweden. A brilliant musical offering to a respected musical patron, and though often dubbed the Swedish Mozart, ......

The E maj. Sonata is the first in a set of two dedicated to his patron, Gustav III king of Sweden. The sonatas were written towards the end of Kraus life and the maturity of his writing practically leaps off the page in these works characterised b......

Because of their subtle, multifaceted and stylistically flawless elegance, his contemporaries esteemed the works of Klengel as a benchmark. The talented piano virtuoso greatly admired the works of Joh. Seb. Bach, and his lifes work was a monument ......

Admired throughout much of his short life by an influential group of composers including Rimsky-Korsakov, Asafyev and Rakhmaninov the works of Kalinnikov embody the Golden Age of Russian music with impressionist beauty. This Elegy expresses the pa......

Friedrich Kalkbrenner wrote over 200 works for piano during his lifetime, although very little of his output has survived. This virtuosic theme and variations for piano and string quintet could be described as quintessentially Kalkbrenner, featuri......

The Piano Trio No. 1 presents itself as an opulent work of chamber music written for the classical instrumentation piano, violin and cello. Conceived by a composer who for decades was considered the most able performer all over Europe, one may exp......

This is a rather special and full-bodied theme and set of ten variations in a serious style from the German composer Jadassohn. The rich and plummy theme suffuses through the entirety of the work providing a robustly satisfying fragrance which man......

In these six pieces for piano, Jadassohn pursues a similar musical exploration of more exotic sounding chromatic harmonies as he did in his four improvisations published just prior to these. The composer exploits a tightly controlled sense of stru......