Canadian virtuoso pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin has made recordings of a wide variety of composers with the Hyperion label. This release is the fruit of a partnership with the award-winning Canadian chamber orchestra Les Violons du Roy and…
Canadian virtuoso pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin has made recordings of a wide variety of composers with the Hyperion label. This release is the fruit of a partnership with the award-winning Canadian chamber orchestra Les Violons du Roy and…
Electrola was a record label founded in Berlin in 1925 by the Gramophone Company. In March 1931 Electrola, along with its parent label and Carl Lindström Company parent Columbia Graphophone Company, merged to form the Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. (EMI). Edda Moser (born 27…
Electrola was a record label founded in Berlin in 1925 by the Gramophone Company. In March 1931 Electrola, along with its parent label and Carl Lindström Company parent Columbia Graphophone Company, merged to form the Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. (EMI). Edda Moser (born 27…
Rudolf Johann Schock (September 4, 1915 – November 13, 1986) was a German tenor. His voice is described as a “lyric tenor” with a warm flexible voice, and a “strong top voice” which suited…
American composer Pulitzer Prize-winner John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is usually categorized as minimalist or post-minimalist although he has categorised himself in typically witty fashion as a ‘post-style’ composer. Minimalism offered the final solution to Adams’s…
Gardiner’s Bach Marathon was held on April 1 in London’s Royal Albert Hall, featured his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Bach cantatas and the B Minor Mass. The conductor also released the…
Gardiner’s Bach Marathon was held on April 1 in London’s Royal Albert Hall, featured his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Bach cantatas and the B Minor Mass. The conductor also released the…
Karol Maciej Szymanowski ( 6 October 1882 – 28 March 1937) was a Polish composer and pianist, considered one of the greatest Polish composers of the 20th century. Szymanowski was influenced by the music…
Carl August Nielsen is widely recognised as Denmark’s greatest composer, especially admired for his six symphonies. The Symphony No. 3 is subtitled “Sinfonia Espansiva” and sounds the most Danish of his symphonies, as well as being considered perhaps…
