Donald George - Songs & AriasFew are aware that Josef Weigl (1766 1846) was both an acclaimed conductor and a highly successful composer whose fame in his day rivaled that of Cherubini, Rossini, Haydn, and even Beethoven. Tenor Donald George and forte pianist Lucy Mauro merge their talents in support of music by this neglected, yet deserving composer in historically informed performance.

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The guest artists are backed by what Klein calls "a group of the most prescient and forward-looking musicians in the jazz world

Haunted by horrific nightmares

Blues guitarist first started his own band way back in 1963

Although best known for the AOR and radio hits from the early 1980s

Mompou and Albéniz

and it was in 2009 that he was appointed a full-time member of the BBC Singers

There's nothing wilder in Fifties music than Sonny Burgess's Sun recordings

It is presented in a tip-on jacket

From the evidence of these nine piano sonatas - three for each published opus number - we may hear in Jadin an astonishingly gifted composer whose music foreshadows the Romantic era - even at points the expressive poignancy of Schubert

Soprano Ermonela Jaho stars as Violetta Valery