Beethoven/ Foyle/ Stsura - V3: Sonatas for Piano & ViolinThe present release is the third and final instalment in Foyle Stsura's complete recording of Beethoven's Piano and Violin Sonatas. The sonatas on the first two albums were emblematic of Beethoven's early and middle periods, showcasing the composer's command of the Classicalidiom. The last two sonatas push the boundaries of the genre even further, resulting in artistic efforts of increased emotional intensity, cyclical scope, and lyrical intimacy.

Under the direction of Jonathan Cohen

This great-value 75-track 3-CD set comprises selected A and B sides for Decca and Columbia from across the first and most successful decade of his career

To name a piano trio after the popular nineteenth century German poet Christian Morgenstern was the inspiration of Catherine Klipfel

) If the work met with a certain sympathy - one influential critic wrote that the work promised 'a coming storm of genius' - what might be termed Carl Nielsen's 'definitive' breakthrough as a symphonist only came some 20 years later

which is ironic since all he really wants is to be left alone

As a longstanding member of seminal

a reworking of the George Gershwin standard

'It Happened One Night

and this release offers us a fresh recording his chef-d'oeuvres: the harpsichord trios

The way he transforms the initial four-note motif to evoke so many varied feelings

Vocally they are fronted by three female singers

Born and raised in Foggia