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'I dedicate my Seventh Symphony to our struggle against fascism, to our coming victory over the enemy, to my native city, Leningrad.'Few symphonies written in modern times have attracted the degree of...

May whoever listens to this music never experience the insult to which it was subjected and of which I was the witness in the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, Spring 1913,' wrote Stravinsky in 1968,...

Leopold Stokowski was not only one of the twentieth century's greatest conductors, he was also an inveterate transcriber of music for the symphony orchestra, making some two hundred orchestral arrange...

Few opera houses outside Germany have produced as much Wagner as the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm and few have nurtured so many great Wagner artists. This recording celebrates, with some of Wagner...

Samuel Barber's lyrical Cello Concerto is here offered together with a suite from the ballet music of Medea, originally written for Martha Graham. Best known of all Barber's music is his evocative Ada...

Although Scott Joplin's musical interests were considerably broader than what could be expressed in ragtime - he composed two operas (Treemonisha is considered by many to be his masterpiece), a ballet...

Philip Glass has enjoyed a degree of popularity unusual among contemporary composers. A pupil of Nadia Boulanger, he was also influenced by the Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and has won a reputatio...

These two hugely contrasting symphonies come from the opposite ends of Shostakovich's life and career. The Second Symphony was written to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Bolshevik October Revo...

'Da-da-da-DAAAAH, Da-da-da-DAAAAH': the start of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is really famous. See if you recognise it! It's just one of many popular pieces here. There are some animals, too - an eleph...

If you listen carefully to this CD, you will get to know one of the best composers in the world. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived 250 years ago but he carries on being famous - so he must have been speci...

A bird dancing, an ox on a roof, flowers doing a waltz, a swan twirling about...what world is this? This is the magical world of ballet. The stage is full of people in colorful costumes, but nobody sp...

Beethoven was a musical giant. He wasn't taller or fatter than everyone else, but his music is big and his name is important. Beethoven is like the Olympic champion of classical music. Some of the mus...

Listen to the piano turn into a bumblebee, a donkey, trolls, a bird, a horse and a butterfly! Sometimes it isn't anything except a piano, but the music coming out of it is exciting and beautiful. Can...

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: a great Russian name for a great Russian composer! Tchaikovsky was not always a happy man. He didn't laugh a lot. But he wrote music that is full of good melodies. He often...

From folk music to film music, the violin is the star of instruments. Millions of children all over the world learn how to play it and the top performers make it sound beautiful. They can also do clev...

Gorilla Tips sind die präzise geformte Lösung gegen schmerzende Finger beim Gitarre-Üben. Auch bei Gitarristen, die nur unregelmässig spielen, sind Gorilla Tips eine echte Hilfe. Jedes Set enthält 4 w...