Italo-German composer Ferruccio Busoni was a titanic piano virtuoso and an architect of European modernism. Best known for his transcriptions of J.S. Bach and for his Piano Concerto, Fantasia Contrappuntistica, and opera Doktor Faust, Busoni revolutionized piano technique and opened up new harmonic concepts within boundaries of functional harmony. Busoni's idea of junge klassizität (renewed classicality) served as a building block for neo-classicism and his book remains influential.

When Francesco Bartolomeo Conti came to Vienna in 1701, aged just twenty, he quickly found employment as a theorbo player in the imperial court chapel. His virtuoso skills with the plucked instruments of the time must have been considerable and would have been enough to secure him a good living. But Conti was also a remarkably creative spirit who, on his death in 1732, left behind an impressive quantity of stage works, some of which were widely performed - not least thanks to their original, imaginative instrumentation and their immense variety of expression, ranging from the drastically comic to filigree, vocal-instrumental dialogues and thus encompassing the whole world of "affects". Led by the soprano and harpist Hana Blažíková and the countertenor Valer Sabadus, flanked by the ensemble nuovo aspetto under the direction of theorbist Michael Dücker, this production presents a small musical anthology whose fascinating content is just 300 years old.

Igor Stravinsky was one of music's truly epochal innovators; no other composer of the 20th century exerted such a pervasive influence or dominated his art in the way that Stravinsky did during his seven-decade musical career. Aside from purely technical considerations such as rhythm and harmony, the most important hallmark of Stravinsky's style is, indeed, its changing face. Emerging from the spirit of late Russian nationalism and ending his career with a thorny, individual language steeped in 12-tone principles, Stravinsky assumed a number of aesthetic guises throughout the course of his development while always retaining a distinctive, essential identity.

The composer of the chamber music presented here belongs to the large group of musical talents who left the Bohemian groves and meadows to find a place for themselves in the German-speaking world. Georg Druschetzky (1745-1819) chose a military career, became a well-known timpani virtuoso and soon came to the attention of the Hungarian nobility, who appreciated his virtuoso and administrative skills as much as his original creativity. Especially in the field of chamber music for wind instruments, this contemporary of Haydn and Mozart was an inexhaustible source of pleasure. Without rebelling against the great classical forms, Druschetzky knows how to constantly surprise his audience with a subtle refinement that is virtually written on the historical instruments of the Grundmann Quartet around oboist Eduard Wesly. As on the first album, the four of them are completely in their element.

Franz Schubert's song cycle from Die Schöne Müllerin as a premiere recording? Anyone who wanted to claim this in view of the international discographic landscape would undoubtedly have to reckon with a storm of indignation. Unless, that is, the release announced as a world premiere had something unprecedented to offer - and the present production certainly does: instead of the original and endlessly performed version for voice and piano, cpo offers an all-round successful hypothesis here: The accompaniment, if the instrumental part can even be called that, is provided by Ensemble acht, which has celebrated success for many years in the line-up of Schubert's octet, and the star tenor Klaus Florian Vogt sings the twenty stages of the enamored miller, who in the end goes into the water out of disappointment . . . The extended sound palette is the work of the equally accomplished and sensitive arranger and composer Andreas N. Tarkmann, who has illuminated the romantic nuances of the colorful piano part with an almost poignant feel for the poetic drama. A world premiere!

The Croatian composer Boris Papandopulo (1906-1991) has had a home in our catalog for a number of years. Until now, it was mainly concertante works and chamber music involving the piano that allowed us to hear an astonishingly idiosyncratic personality, even in his (relatively rare) use of modern compositional techniques. Now cpo is enriching the multifaceted profile of this striking artist with the release of the string quartets, which reflect practically the entire creative life span of the man from Zagreb: Folkloristic influences, the inevitabilities of the socialist-realist doctrine, the experiments with the compositional achievements of the West - all this combines to form a great musical "documentary film", in which the extremely expressive Clarinet Quintet, composed during wartime, and the concise, playful Guitar Quartet also play no insignificant role.

The Brandenburg Consort is a period instrument ensemble specialising in the music of J.S.Bach and his contemporaries. Its Musical Director, Roy Goodman, is one of Britain's leading specialists in authentic performing styles. Under his direction (from violin, keyboard or rostrum) the Consort has developed an enviable reputation for style, vitality, warmth and spontaneity.

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Society of the Snow (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film) is the soundtrack to the 2023 film of the same name directed by J. A. Bayona. It is an adaptation of Pablo Vierci's book of the same name, which is about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster. Featuring musical score composed by Michael Giacchino, the album featured 28 tracks and is set to be released by Netflix Music on 8 December 2023.In June 2023, Bayona announced that Michael Giacchino would compose the musical score for Society of the Snow, after their previous collaboration on Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018). It was Giacchino's first Spanish film, which Bayona felt that his music "brings a special voice and energy that turns the Andes odyssey into an even more relevant, encouraging and universal story".

Rozhdestvensky was the son of conductor Nikolai Anosov Rozhdestvensky and soprano Natalya Rozhdestvenskaya. A pupil at the Gnesin School of Music and the Moscow Conservatory school for children, he entered the Conservatory in 1941 to study conducting with his father and piano with Lev Oborin. While still at the Conservatory, Rozhdestvensky conducted Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker at the Bolshoi Theater. Following his graduation in 1954, he was appointed assistant conductor at the Bolshoi and in 1956 made his first visit to England with the Bolshoi Ballet. In 1961, Rozhdestvensky was named artistic director of the Soviet Radio Symphony Orchestra, remaining there until 1974.

La aceptación de su poesía no fue unánime, pues sufrió el rechazo de poetas conceptistas como Francisco de Quevedo y clasicistas como Lope de Vega y los hermanos Argensola. En 1617, debido a su creciente prestigio y reputación, fue nombrado capellán real de Felipe III, para lo cual tuvo que ordenarse sacerdote y trasladarse a Madrid. Incapaz de sustraerse a los hábitos corruptos de su época, dilapidó su fortuna en conseguir cargos y prebendas para sus familiares. En 1627, enfermo y arruinado, regresó a su ciudad natal donde falleció el 23 de mayo de una apoplejía. Sus restos se encuentran en la mezquita-catedral de Córdoba.

Candy Cane Lane is an upcoming American Christmas comedy film directed by Reginald Hudlin and written by Kelly Younger. The film stars Eddie Murphy, Tracee Ellis Ross, Robin Thede, Nick Offerman, Chris Redd, and Jillian Bell.
Composer/bassist/songwriter and record producer Marcus Miller (Everybody Hates Chris, The Brothers, I Think I Love My Wife, About Last Night) has written the original music for the upcoming Amazon original movie Candy Cane Lane.

The most beautiful Classical Christmas Brass songs by Naxos Label.

Pianist See Siang Wong completes his Beethoven trilogy with "Unheard". The third album features unfinished, previously unheard works by Beethoven. In his sketchbooks, which he always carried with him, Beethoven jotted down ideas and musical experiments that he often never realised and which have survived today as fragments in libraries and private collections all over the world. "Unheard" brings together reconstructions and rarities based on such sketches. They show Beethoven's incredible wealth of ideas and his creative power.

Sir Neville Marriner Rivaled only by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Neville Marriner was one of the most important of the early figures who spearheaded the reawakening of modern interest in Baroque and early Classical music. In the 1950s, he founded Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the first British early music ensemble to find a large international audience. Marriner has since become one of the most popular conductors in the world, acclaimed for his interpretations of composers from Bach to Britten. Marriner was first taught the violin as a child, by his father, and attended the Royal College of Music, beginning at age thirteen. Wounded during World War II, he met future collaborator Thurston Dart during his hospitalization. In 1948 he became professor at the Royal Academy of Music. As well as joining the Martin String Quartet as second violin, he formed a violin-and-harpsichord duet with Dart, and their performances led to the formation of the Jacobean Ensemble, an early music group that recorded the Purcell trio sonatas in 1950.