Coming from 1901, the middle 1920′s and 1966, the four wind quintets on this disc are vastly different from one another. The title of the CD is ‘German Wind Quintets’; the youthful and crackerjack Quintette Aquilon performs. The program opens with the plush romantic harmonies...

Coming from Delta Classics’ Piano Rarities line, German pianist Corinna Simon has recorded this much needed program of piano music by French composer Jean Françaix. Françaix (1912-1997) wrote in many different genres, and piano music is one of his most important; it is in surprisingly...

The cover of this new Delta Classics recording of the violin sonatas and sonatinas by Russian composer Nikolai Rakov (1908-1990) declares “World Premiere Recording”, but it doesn’t indicate which piece or pieces are premieres. After a little digging around, it looks like the...

Finnish composer Erkki Melartin (1875-1937) was ten years the junior of Jean Sibelius, and although they were working at the same time and were very close friends, there is little evident influence by the more celebrated composer on Melartin’s music. This Delta Classics two CD set of his...