Caroline Hartig - ChalumeauCaroline Hartig Chalumeau

At the center of these works was the cello: the virtuosos emerging from the legendary master class of the cellist David Popper in Budapest introduced Kodály to the instrument's expressive and stylistic variety

Tailleferre et Jolivet

It's one filled with the fuzzy haze of a dream

When I say accessible

Features "Lawnmower"

opera highlights

and in his liner notes the composer admits to influences from Arnold Schoenberg and Franz Schreker

Adam Fischer writes of Mahler's 4th Symphony: "I am delighted to perform and record the complete symphonies of Gustav Mahler with the Dusseldorfer Symphoniker

retaining the harmonic essence whilst capturing the full polyphonic interplay

with a special interest in the unpredictability

whose organ and harpsichord music is individual in nature and ground breaking - he was one of the first composers to settle the 'dance-movement' style of Suite taken up by Couperin

Some songs arrive in the studio without having been tested in the rehearsal room