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Release Date: 1995

Labels: BMG Classics, RCA Victor Red Seal

"Revel in over an hour of seductive classics by eight of the world's greatest composers who just happen to be gay."

Excerpt from liner notes:
If you search through the standard music encyclopedias, dictionaries, and biographies for some mention of homosexuality, you will come up nearly empty-handed. That omission is all the more peculiar in classical music, for many of the greatest composers - from Handel and Schubert to Copland and Bernstein - were gay. Yet a quaint, almost Victorian reticence has prevailed until recently in the academic field of musicology, as if the mere mention of a composer's homosexuality were enough to besmirch his posthumous reputation.

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