The record features arias of the two most popular Italian composers, Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini, for lyric soprano (Mimi, Lauretta, Liú) and lirico-spinto soprano (Tosca, Butterfly, Leonora, Desdemona).
What is it like to be a son of the musician of all times and still practise the same profession?
In Ubu Rex, Penderecki embraces Jarry's style: admitting that in this work he pokes fun at classical genres and at himself.
King Roger, a work at the heart of Szymanowski's compositional outputis the product of a great double synthesis - a synthesis of musical styles and languages and a synthesis of cultures.