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Featuring some of the leading jazz musicians on today's scene, the Grammy-nominated Swingin For The Fences presents contemporary big band jazz at its best.

Recorded live in Washington, D. C. at the world famous Blues Alley, this is a follow-up to the Taylor/Fidyk Big Band's acclaimed CD A Perfect Match, featuring writer Mark Taylor and drummer Steve Fidy...

Featuring a lineup of top notch jazz artists and a sizzling recording, here is a terrific collection of originals and arrangements from teh pen of one of today's preeminent big band writers - Mark Tay...

12 songs Rollo Dilworth and performed by the Lakeside Singers are included on this CD. Includes: Ain't a That Good News * De Gospel Train * How Can I Keep from Singing? * I Want Jesus to Walk with Me...

Eric Whitacre's popular CD featuring 16 tracks: Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold) - Five Hebrew Love Songs - The Seal Lullaby - A Boy and a Girl - Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine - Three Songs of Fa...

A Study Of The Instruments Of The Orchestra Through Song, Story And Active Listening It's time for the family reunion at Symphony Hall and the instruments are starting to arrive! Here comes the Brass...

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Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046

Beethoven started his career as a virtuoso pianist at a time when the piano itself was undergoing various changes, evolving from the relatively light instrument known to Mozart into a much more powerf...

Most Famous Waltzes

Rossini's early studies in music were with his father and mother, and with other teachers through the generosity of rich patrons. In childhood he had already started to show ability as a composer and...

The Concerto for Orchestra is among the composer's last works. It was commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation in 1943 in memory of the distinguished conductor Sergey Koussevitzky's wife, Nat...

Claude Debussy seems to typify the mood and culture of France at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. His evocative Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune echoes the sultry pagan woodla...

The Czech composer Antonin Dvorák's Symphony from the New World was written in America, where he had been invited in the early 1980s to establish a National Conservatory. Influenced by Longfellow's Hi...

In the 1930s, having experimented by turns with jazz and dissonant abstract works, Aaron Copland recognised that most music-lovers simply did not like the music being written by contemporary 'serious'...

It was during the space of a few weeks that Mozart wrote down his last three symphonies, of which the Symphony in G minor, K. 550, is the penultimate. The first of the group, the Symphony in E flat, i...

Mahler's compositions include a number of songs and ten symphonies, the last incomplete, as well as Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), a symphony in fact, if not in name. He completed his...

Schubert's famous Trout Quintet of 1819 holds a special place in chamber music, loved above all for the variations of its fourth movement based on the composer's song The Trout. It is coupled here wit...

Joaquin Rodrigo wrote two small pieces for guitar solo in 1926 and 1938, but it was in 1939 that he ''struck gold'' with the Concierto de Aranjuez, dedicated to the Spanish virtuoso Regino Sainz de la...

Tchaikovsky's last symphony, called the Pathetique, was first performed in St. Petersburg under Tchaikovsky's direction on 16th October (28th October on the Western calendar), 1893. The programme of t...