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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 Ondine catalogue (ODE1056-2) features music by the little-known late-Baroque German composer Johann Melchior Molter. Of his complete output (which included some 170 symphonies and 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 (C181051A) presents music by Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera, who died in 1983. During the final decade of his life, Ginastera returned to 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 (CDS479) is of music by Italian composer Giovanni Battista Viotti, who was born in 1755. In 1782 he performed at the Concert 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 (C71028) is from a recording of the Flute Concerto by French composer Jacques Ibert (1890–1962). Composed in 1934, the work has often 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 (OC528) presents a performance of the second movement from Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 6. Much of Mendelssohn’s chamber music is gracefully 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 (8.555310) is taken from Monteverdi’s Fourth Book of Madrigals, published in 1603. The collection continued the expressive innovation that had characterised his 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 (ODE1060-2) features a short piano movement by Sergei Prokofiev. In 1940, the Bolshoi Theatre commissioned Prokofiev to write a new full-length ballet, 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 (CDS499) is an extract from Richard Strauss’ tragic opera Daphne in a scene featuring the conflicting characters of Daphne, a nymph (soprano), 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 (C67124) is supplied by Italian Baroque composer Antonio Caldara (1670–1736), one of the most famous and glittering personalities of his time. Featuring 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 (C622051A) is a movement from Franz Anton Hoffmeister’s Sinfonia concertante No. 1 for two clarinets and orchestra. Hoffmeister, both a composer and Read More …