Romantic

The most popular and successful lineup of Return to Forever – Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White, and Al Di Meola – was coming off the Grammy-winning No Mystery when it recorded its third and final album, Romantic Warrior. It has been suggested that in employing a medieval album cover (drawn by Wilson McLean), using titles like "Medieval Overture" and "Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant," and occasionally playing in a baroque style, particularly in Clarke's "The Magician," Corea was responding to Rick Wakeman's successful string of albums on similar themes…

"The 1930s are a particularly notable time for the development of Latvian music. This can be observed in the work of composers of all generations, as well as in music education, concert life, periodicals and the beauty of the Song Festivals. Throughout all these, Pēteris Barisons (1904–1947). is an active and fruitful participant. His dynamic and varied work in one area is particularly noteworthy – that is his rich and bountiful achievement in the field of symphonic music. [..] The symphony confirms both the author’s conceptual ability to transform his own complex intentions into a musically rich, but natural, organic whole, as well as his ability to use the possibilities of the orchestra in varied and rich ways. Today, with its language and message rooted in late romantic traditions, it does not at all sound outdated or anachronistic. No, it offers a universal concept in a natural, organic way, which is effective still in the 21st century." Jānis Torgāns.

The second half of the 19th century was an erawhen musicians valued the evocation of the fantastic and the expression of passion above all else. They did not hesitate to manipulate and reshape musical frameworks through a wide variety of expressive techniques such as rubato (modifying rhythms and varying pulsation), portamento (expressively sliding between notes), arpeggiation, adding appoggiaturas and trills, and improvising musical transitions. For the recording of Vienna 1840, Pascal Valois set out to rediscover these manners of expression as they existed in the Germanic Romantic period. For this same reason, he used a replica of an 1830 Viennese guitar by luthier Johann Georg Stauffer (1778–1853).

A total of 63 tracks, over 11 hours of recording. Recordings with such renowned conductors as Brahms: No. 3 (Rattle), Schumann: No. 4 (Harnoncourt), Saint-Saëns: No. 3 (Mehta), Dvorak: From the New World (Kempe), Brahms: No. 2 (Keilbert), Schumann: No. 3 (Tenstedt), Mendelssohn: No. 2 (Sawallisch), Bruckner: No. 7 (Barenboim), etc. Recorded between 1951 and 2008.