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Tanja Tetzlaff writes: "We come to hear Bach's works differently because Encke's unfamiliar sonorities startle and disturb us. Inserted between the suites, Encke's pieces open up an entirely...

As a piano trio, we find it particularly interesting to discover music that is seldom recorded or performed. We enjoy the artistic challenge of interpreting such works using our own individual...

Enescu / Kadesha / Rimmer Violin Sonatas CD

Ensari / Schuch Go East CD

Flex Ensemble writes: "Our second album highlights three different genres of French music: A youthful work by Faure, written in the late romantic piano quartet tradition, character pieces by Ravel in...

Wayne Marshall was eight years old when, at home in England, he heard a Gershwin concert broadcast on the radio - a pivotal listening experience as he recalled fifty years later in a WDR video clip...

Of all the major Russian composers, Reinhold Gliere is one of the least well-known in the West. His life spanned a vast period from the Czar's reign to Soviet dictatorship, and he made it through the...

So far and yet so near. The harmonies and the virtuosity: that is what the two composers Sergei Rachmaninoff and Carlos Guastavino have in common. "Even though at first glance the geographical...

Haydn / Becker Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonatas CD

Markus Becker writes: "Solitude, or, more exactly, isolation, is what marked Haydn's biography the most. Composing at the Esterhzy court, he lived far from Vienna, without having to bother with the...

It is difficult to ascertain how many horn concertos Joseph Haydn and his younger brother Michael actually wrote. Certain works are lost; others are erroneously ascribed, or their authenticity at...

Kara Karayev is an outstanding composer of the twentieth century whose legacy is acknowledged and acclaimed far beyond the borders of Azerbaijan, his native country. With melodies that sing while...