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Boccherini' guitar quintets are arrangements prepared from material originally used in a cycle of piano quintets, written in Madrid during the final years of the eighteenth century.

The orchestra for All This, and Heaven Too was large, consisting of three flutes (doubling piccolo and alto flute), two oboes (doubling English horn), three clarinets (doubling bass clarinet), and... more

Performed on this recording by Alexandre Dossin, First Prize and Special Prize winner at the 2003 Martha Argerich International Piano Competition, Kabalevsky' highly virtuoso Piano Sonata No. 2... more

Arnold Bax was one of the major forces in British composition between the two world wars, his music blending broad melodies and brilliant orchestral sonorities into a lush Romantic sound world.

Naxos' acclaimed survey of Luis de Freitas Branco' orchestral works continues with his magisterial Third Symphony which, although composed in 1944, revels in Romantic melodrama and luminous... more

A chorister from the age of eight until his voice broke seven years later, Franz Schubert was well placed to compose sacred music, including several splendid settings of the Mass.

Although they number approximately eighty out of a total ofover four hundred works, Martinu's compositions for solo piano have longbeen overshadowed by his orchestral and chamber music. This is the... more

In the heaven that is music, the foremost angel of the harp is Claudia Antonelli. Claudia is featured on this Eroica CD, along with virtuoso violinist Alberto Ambrosini. The time span is 1752 to... more

The discovery of several manuscripts of works previously unperformed, unknown or believed lost has allowed Giorgio Koukl to extend his acclaimed series of Martinu' piano music for Naxos. This seventh... more