Violinist Orsolya Korcsolan’s recording of music for violin and piano, its program ingeniously summed up in the album title, “KornGoldMark”, brings together the romantically exotic music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), Carl Goldmark (1830-1915), Rubin Goldmark...

Karol Szymanowksi was Poland’s most celebrated composer from the first half of the 20th century. Titled ‘Exoticism’, this recent release on the Canadian Marquis label contains the composer’s significant works for violin and piano performed by Jerzy Kaplanek and Stéphan...

While there are many similarities between the music of Mikołaj Górecki and that of his father, Henryk, the younger Górecki has clearly (and in all likelihood, with a purpose) developed his own distinct sound, producing highly nuanced, interesting and compelling music. This title from the...

The Birth of the Violin explores the earliest repertoire for the emerging ‘vyolon’ during the first half of the sixteenth century. On this Ricecar album, both sacred and secular examples are presented, in polyphonic settings of three and four parts, or with the violin appearing as...

Guild Records has been putting the name of Swiss composer Volkmar Andreae back on the musical map through an excellent series of recordings which began with the composer’s chamber works, and is now two volumes deep into his orchestral music. This Guild CD contains the world premiere...

Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor is among the best-loved works in the entire classical canon; it is also the composer’s only completed concerto. Grieg was not as comfortable writing large scale works as he was when working in smaller forms (his Concerto for Piano was prompted by a...