From the Twenties and the Berlin of the Weimar Republic until his emigration to the United States, of his return to Vienna after the end of Nazi period up to his last days in East Berlin, Hanns Eisler's life was a long exile...
My music
This recording is devoted to piano works, by the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, from various creative periods of his life.
The three previously unpublished and unrecorded chamber works in this programme were all written after Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s enforced move to the United States from his native Italy.
The programme for Exaltation is drawn from Medieval and Baroque Europe, Turkey and the Near East, and includes beautiful examples of the Sephardic and Sufi traditions.
The tapestry of drama, refinement and expressive lyricism in Dag Wirén’s four string quartets (the First Quartet was withdrawn) provides a substantial overview of his musical evolution over 35 years.
Famed for his sequence of Piano Concertos, Sterndale Bennett also wrote a small but distinguished body of chamber music.
Argentinian pianist, teacher and composer, Graciela Jiménez, continues to be inspired by the landscape and folk melodies of her native country.
Of Raff’s nine works for solo instrument and orchestra three are for piano.