These works for two double basses by Giovanni Bottesini date from his student days at the Milan Conservatory. The delightful Fantasia on themes of Rossini features an opening Tarantella, a lyrical... more

Naxos' Robert Craft Collection has been acclaimed as 'one of the most enticing Schoenberg collections around', with Fanfare proclaiming that 'Craft outshines them all', to mention only two critical... more

In his long composing life, Charles Wuorinen has drawn on an extremely wide range of intellectual and musical inspirations.

While Schoenberg' final two string quartets inhabit atonal sound worlds, the Third draws on Classical forms such as theme-and-variations, minuet and sonata-rondo, it's unsettling opening movement... more

Arnold Schoenberg sought to write music that avoided traditional tonal implications, which eventually led him away from tonality altogether. Herzgewachse is a short piece for high soprano and what... more