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Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Capriccio label (C71128) is by Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (1735–1792), a leading musical personality in Weimar for nearly 30 years, initially as organist and eventually Read More …
Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Ondine label (ODE1089-2) is from the Bassoon Concerto by Finnish composer, journalist and writer Jouni Kaipainen (b. 1956). The second movement’s concept derives from Read More …
Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Musiques Suisses catalogue (MGB-6238) is from the Second String Quartet by Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck (1886–1957). He was the son of the painter Alfred Read More …
Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Oehms Classics label (OC588) spotlights a piano concerto by Leopold Koželuch, born in Velvary, north-west of Prague in 1747, an esteemed contemporary of Mozart, Read More …
Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Naxos label (8.557577) is an orchestral miniature by Elgar, music that represents a less familiar side to his work but nonetheless imparts engaging, wistful Read More …
Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Orfeo label (C687061A) is from a recording of Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto, a work completed in 1948 but premiered only in 1955, a victim Read More …
Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Dynamic label (CDS484) presents the finale from Beethoven’s String Quintet, Op. 4, published in 1796. It’s actually an arrangement for strings of an earlier Read More …
Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Ondine label (ODE1071-2) is Tangonator, a piece for violin and piano composed by Finnish jazz pianist Iiro Rantala (b. 1970). The work was written Read More …
Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Capriccio label (C71083) is lo godo, rido e spero, an aria from Handel’s solo cantata, Un’alma innamorata. Although it’s sung on this recording by Read More …
Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Oehms Classics label (OC571) is Robert Schumann’s dramatic, declamatory setting of a poem by Heinrich Heine, Belsazar (Belshazzar). The song relates the biblical story Read More …