Carlo Albanesi was an Italian composer-pianist who moved to London in 1882. He balanced a career as a piano soloist with that of professor of piano at the Royal Academy of Music. Acclaimed pianist... more

This new recording of piano works by the London-based Italian composer, pianist and pedagogue Carlo Albanesi, performed by Julia Severus, who also provides the booklet notes, is the first of two... more

Adolf Barjansky was born in Odessa into a wealthy Russian-Jewish family, and received his musical education in Vienna, Paris and Leipzig, studying piano with Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn.... more

Georges Bizet' popular L'Arlesienne Suites are seldom heard in the composer' own piano transcriptions. Indeed, his delightful compositions and arrangements for this instrument remain to be discovered... more

ADOLF BARJANSKY was born in Odessa into a wealthy Russian-Jewish family, and received his musical education in Vienna, Paris and Leipzig, studying piano with Carl Reinecke and Salomon Judassohn.... more

Four early works which chart the young Cesar Franck's concert tours when he appeared as a pianist and composer. Includes two world premiere recordings.