Paque/ Trio Spilliaert - Les Trios a ClavierThis second recording of our anniversary season lifts the veil on a Belgian composer who is far too little known: Dsir Pque. A precursor of Arnold Schnberg, his musical style is characterized by the use of an almost atonal polytonality, without being locked into one or another musical system. In terms of form, he is the inventor of a constructional procedure which he himself called 'constant addition' and which consists of a permanent thematic

Schwanengesang (Swansong) was written in Vienna in the autumn of 1828

Cecilia's name day on November 22 has over the centuries been celebrated with music festivals and many composers have written pieces in her honor

was released in November 2016

The final disc is a full on in yer face 14 track live in concert from 1983

and the collection offers a highly entertaining an insightful trawl across a dynamic jazz decade

a musical epitaph for pianist and conductor Nikolai Rubinstein

with around a dozen suites for solo lute and ten ensemble pieces with obbligato lute

the Blackbyrds

politician and philosopher Arturo Jauretche

the first theatrical attempt of a teenaged Donizetti

is sure to tickle the fancy of all those who have patiently awaited it's arrival

Silvia Pinal