Matthias Weckman (1616 1674) Complete Works (2016) {5cd Ricercar Outhere Music Digital Download Ric 369}

Keigo Mukawa was born in Aichi, Japan in 1993, took up the piano at the age of 3. During his second year of studies at the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2014, he was unanimously admitted to the Paris Conservatoire, where he has awarded a master degree in 2019, and is currently continuing his studies in fortepiano and is pursuing an artist diploma in piano.

Toccata Classics continues its exploration of the music of the Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas (1905–2000) with this second of two releases of his chamber works for cello.

On EARL KIM & ISANG YUN, violinist Chi Young Song presents complete works for solo violin by the titular composers, each of whom are of Korean heritage. Blurring the lines between Western musical heritage and traditional Korean music, each piece exhibits the crosscultural and borderless qualities of music. On 12 Caprices for Solo Violin, Chi Young tackles technical, intimate passages rooted in Western standards.

This recording contains Francesco Pennisi’s (Acireale, 11 February 1934 – Rome, 8 October 2000) complete works for solo piano, according to the latest catalogue.

Now the famous and successful Genova & Dimitrov Piano Duo turns to the American composer Amy Beach. Her compositional oeuvre marks a high point within the great phase of consolidation experienced by art music in the United States between the Civil War and World War I. Amy Beach was not the first American woman who composed or the first America woman who earned money with her compositions; but she created a stir in the music world by forging ahead into genres in which previously only men had distinguished themselves.

"My next album has been released with a complete set of pieces for solo piano by Marian Borkowski, who will celebrate his 90th anniversary next year. There has never been any recording of the composer's complete piano works before, so I am extremely happy that several years of efforts to make this project a reality have been crowned with success."

Alba publishes Erkki Melartin's entire male choir production.

“A composer’s oeuvre can only be fully understood in the context of his lifetime achievement. Concerts and events provide mere snapshots. I have always been more interested in the process than the highlights of an artist’s creative life.

In 1978, a sensation at the Warsaw Autumn Festival was caused by a woman composer’s sonically groundbreaking opus, which bore the soberly descriptive title "Music on Open Strings": music on empty, i. e. non-fingered, strings. At that time, being a woman made an eminent difference in one’s artistic career.

Christoph Croise turns to the rich Romantic works of his 19th-century Swiss compatriot Joachim Raff, breathing new life into the composer's complete works for cello and piano.