Mayr/ Concerto De Bassus/ Hauk - ElenaDuring the 1813 14 carnival season in Naples, Simon Mayr wrote a much admired opera semiseria called Elena. The post revolutionary Napoleonic era saw great enthusiasm for the rescue opera genre and Elena is a perfect example, in which a complex plot, based on French models, sees an innocent falsely accused of a capital offence. Mayr's subtle accommodation of Neapolitan opera and Viennese Classicism ensures a series of choruses and recitatives that

and Western art formats in this Dora Mavor Moore Award-winning opera that conjoins legend and dance into a world of music and drama

Two purely orchestral works

the most important of whom was the oboist Giovanni Palestrini

Better Luck In The Next Life is an in-depth exploration of creative freedom and personal equilibrium

"We show up

His music has now fallen into obscurity

Open the Gates (Out of the Way of the People) 4

Pétro accompanied her husband's lectures with selected modernist piano pieces

This disc presents two groups from Northern Illinois University's Asian Music Ensemble

lush orchestration

While the world was spinning off it's axis in the year 2020

Tat must run into danger and make the ultimate sacrifice to save his brother