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The 4th release in the celebrated Serebrier / Glazunov symphonic cycle. Grammy Award-winning conductor and composer José Serebrier guides the Royal Scottish National Orchestra through a stunning Glazunov cycle which Fanfare called 'made in heaven' and which continues to draw attention to this oft-neglected composer.

This set shows the so-called bogey-men of the Second Viennese School, from their hyper Romantic height, through Expressionism and onto the more entertaining aspects of Serialism, as entertainers of a great order.

Almost without exception, all pianists of the Liszt Academy of Music Budapest trace their artistic-intellectual genealogy back to Franz Liszt. Gábor Farkas is one these direct descendants. This recording is more than a simple introduction to the artist; it is a document of an authentic encounter with the music of Liszt.

'Real children of the Puszta and the Gipsies' is how Brahms himself described the Hungarian Dances writing to his publisher Nicolaus Simrock. His picturesque phraseology refers to the fact that the Hungarian Dances are not original compositions in the strict sense of the term, but are for the most part arrangements of borrowed material.

Nearly every major town in coastal California derives its name from one of the 21 missions that the Franciscans founded between 1769 and 1823. Music on this CD delves into these musical frontiers and examines what local Californians would have heard around 200 years ago, both inside and outside the mission walls.