Henry Holcombe (16901756), born in Chester as the son of a silk weaver, became between 1720 and his death one of the leading English composers in small-scale forms, mainly vocal but also instrumental...
This evocative new album of modern, catchy piano miniatures in a mixture of styles - jazz, latin, classical - cannot fail to excite the imagination of all young beginner pianists. The pieces will be g...
En plongeant dans les genres musicaux du monde entier, Barbara Snow a produit une nouvelle collection colorée et éclectique de miniatures pour piano, avec des influences du blues, du jump jive, du rag...
Pleyel was one of the most popular and prolific composers in western Europe at the turn of the nineteenth century. This symphony, composed in 1791, represents a grandiose gesture to his teacher Haydn,...
Bayo's way is really a miniature tuba concerto in one movement. The composer wanted the soloist to be the provider of pulse, a protagonist, a melodist and a magician. With this in mind, I set out to u...
The title and its vast implications attracted me because it agreed with my intuition, pointing me towards music expressing extreme emotional states. I felt, when writing for the piano, it was essentia...
The Anhang of Köchel's catalogue is full of pieces that for more than a century after his death were thought to be his work; the Müller sonata, a very effective piece on both fortepiano and clavichord...