The Song of the black Swan” by Heitor Villa-Lobos is the centrepiece of this attractive musical program for flute and harp is conceived around the topics of “water”, “lake”, “ocean” & “rain”. Including the well known piece, “The Swan” from “The Carnival of the Animals” (« Le carnaval des animaux ») by Camille Saint-Saëns, the album features also several songs in arrangements for flute and harp by composers such as Schubert & Mendelssohn. Another key work is Claude Debussy’s “Syrinx”, the first significant piece for solo flute after the Sonata in A minor composed by C. P. E. Bach 150 years before (1763), and it is the first such solo composition for the modern Böhm flute, perfected in 1847.

„Cymbalum Sionium“ is a varied collection of motets by German composer and Thomaskantor Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630), who is considered, along with his acquaintance Samuel Scheidt and his close friend Heinrich Schütz, one of the three finest composers of the early Baroque era. “Cymbalum Sionium”, as one of his most magnificent works, is a musical treasure chest that contains polyphonic pieces for major feasts such as Christmas and Easter, alongside motets for weddings and funerals, sung by single or multiple choirs.

Der 22-jährige Pianist Teo Gheorghiu gehört zu den erfolgreichsten Nachwuchstalenten seiner Generation und geniesst seit seinem Erfolg als «Vitus» im gleichnamigen Film von Fredi Murer in der Schweiz zu Recht einen Sonderstatus.

Les plus célèbres chours d'opéra chantés par trois ténors deviennent des grands airs lyriques !Un accompagnement somptueux, par les 65 instruments à vents de l'un des meilleurs orchestres d'harmonie au monde.Du nouveau dans l'offre de groupes de chanteurs !Original et très populaire : Un groupe de trois ténors classiques transforme en trio vocal harmonisé les plus grands chours d'opéra du répertoire, accompagné par l'Orchestre d'Harmonie de la Garde Républicaine.

This program of Trios and Quartets reveals Telemann as an accomplished and fastidious craftsman, with an acute sense of effective colour and an ability to blend stylistically divergent features into a fluent and satisfying whole. The performances by Bassorilievi are characteristically energetic and stylish.

Over the next four seasons, the celebrated Norwegian pianist and newly-signed exclusive Sony Classical artist Leif Ove Andsnes will devote the majority of his performing and recording activities to the music of Beethoven.

Active in every genre other than opera, Czerny is now remembered largely for the numerous piano studies he wrote as pedagogical aids. Which makes Howard Shelleys advocacy of the three virtuoso works for piano and orchestra recorded here, two of them for the first time, all the more welcome: this is music which cannot fail to appeal.

Volume 72 of the Romantic Piano Concerto series comes to the rescue of yet another neglected figure with three first recordings courtesy of Howard Shelley and his Tasmanian forces. Composer, pianist, writer and educator (he was an early Principal of the Royal Academy of Music), London-born Cipriani Potter was encouraged by Beethoven and admired by Wagner.