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DISCOVER MUSIC OF THE ROMANTIC ERA
Discover Music of the Romantic Era: combination of illustrative music and a richly filled book David McLeery (Writer) / Various artists and performers [ Naxos Educational / 2 CD - released 15/Jul/2008 ] Amidst a background of wars and revolution, the nineteenth century produced many of the world's best-loved composers. Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin and Tchaikovsky are just some of the many familiar names whose music was shaped by the events of period. |
DISCOVER CHAMBER MUSIC
Discover Chamber Music: a combination of illustrative music and a richly filled book Jeremy Siepmann (writer) / Various artists and performers [ Naxos Educational / 2 CD - released 15/Jul/2008 ] Chamber music is the most intimate, and arguably the most joyful and sociable, form of music-making in the world. It may also be the oldest, and its scope is all-embracing, ranging from infectious light entertainment to profound explorations of the... |
DISCOVER OPERA
Discover Opera: a combination of illustrative music and a richly filled book Nick Kimberley (writer) / Various artists and performers [ Naxos Educational / 2 CD - released 15/Jul/2008 ] For 400 years, opera has illuminated the innermost recesses of human existence. Once the sport of kings and princes, it now provides the soundtrack of our lives, its best-loved tunes heard on football terraces, in films and advertisements, and even... |
VIVALDI
Complete Bassoon Concertos-1 Tamas Benkocs (Bassoon) / Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia / Bela Drahos [ Naxos Vivaldi Collection / CD - released 12/Jul/2008 ] "Tamas Bankocs is a splendid advocate, whose watertight technique allows him on the one hand to revel in Vivaldi's many virtuosic flights of fancy and on the other to sustain with lyrical grace the hauntingly beautiful melodic contours of slow... |
DISCOVER EARLY MUSIC
Discover Early Music: a combination of illustrative music and a richly filled book Various artists and performers [ Naxos Educational / 2 CD - released 15/Jul/2008 ] The Middle Ages began with the collapse of the Roman world. This left a military and political system in ruins - but a cultural world-view largely intact. Artistically rich and varied in themselves, the Medieval centuries also sparked both the... |