Today, in the midst of a full-scale Mendelssohn revival, Volume Five of Howard Shelley’s survey of the complete solo piano music in six volumes offers a welcome opportunity to revisit and reassess this repertoire. As we now know, Mendelssohn composed or began nearly two hundred works for piano. Nevertheless, he saw only about seventy through the press, released in seventeen …
Mendelssohn: The Complete Solo Piano Music Vol. 5
José Serebrier: Last Tango Before Sunrise
Reference Recordings is proud to present new recordings of a compendium of nine works of José Serebrier, including four world premières and the first digital recording of his dramatic Symphony for Percussion, performed by the Gnessin Percussion Ensemble of Moscow. Grammy-winning conductor and composer José Serebrier is one of the most-recorded classical artists in history. Born in 1938 in Uruguay of Russian and …
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