Kastalsky - Memory EternalIn the face of the devastation wrought by the First World War, Alexander Kastalsky conceived a musical service of remembrance for the fallen. A pivotal figure in Russian musical life he was a student of Tchaikovsky and acclaimed as the founder of a new, national church music Kastalsky composed a choral orchestral Requiem, for the concert stage. Simultaneously, he worked on the a cappella version heard on this recording to be sung in Russian Orthodox

and made some records whose giddy energy and stinging guitar pointed straight toward rockabilly

These two jewels in the cello repertoire are here performed by the acclaimed Swiss cellist Christian Poltéra who also directs the Münchener Kammerorchester

and he was on friendly terms with Gluck whom he taught from 1737-41

Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden present a sophisticated concert program of three great composers: Johannes Brahms

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deeply affected by this period of religious and artistic turbulence

The road to Anna McClellan's Yes and No was not just a metaphorical one

Verdi/ Walter - Un Ballo in Maschera: Milanov

ESSENTIAL JAZZ CLASSICS CHET BAKER & GERRY MULLIGAN - THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS 1952-57 5CD set

A companion piece that can be used on an off day from the more challenging Jane Fonda's Workout and Jane Fonda's New Workout

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the relationship here between the music and the text is objective