Frid/ Blumina/ Vogler Quartet - Phadra 78 1His monodrama The Diary of Anne Frank (1968) put Grigori Frid on the musical map, beyond the borders of Soviet Russia. Frid was born in the Petrograd (St. Petersburg) of 1915 and had to witness early on how his family fell victim to the seemingly indiscriminate (and in fact deliberately arbitrary) rounds of suppression, arrest, and deportation of the Stalin Regime. His music stands in the aesthetic realm of Dmitri Shostakovich on the one hand, and

and are beautifully performed by the Italian duo Lorenzo Falconi and Sara Bacchini

written in reaction to the unexpected death of his beloved sister Fanny

Two large symphonic tone poems by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov can be experienced on this new release from BR-KLASSIK- the four-movement symphonic poem "The Bells" ("Kolokola") op 35

pianist David Virelles

Trachtenverein Robe - Music of the Alps

Magick Brother introduced Gong as one of the great oddities of the psychedelic and space rock age

Released in 1969

works that have never before been publicly performed or which are of special merit

Her family have no interest in her life

Le Quatuor Romantique - Opera Fantasies from Shadowlands

a contrabassoon or a cimbasso

Nat King Cole's Christmas Song