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The Armida Quartet endeavors to find dissonances lying like sleeping metaphors on the seabed of Mozart's music, in order to bring them to the surface and back to life - yet without making them too...

The Armida Quartet is holding an unusual kind of rehearsal, skimming through three Mozart string quartets with musicologist and Henle's publishing director Wolf-Dieter Seiffert. The focus this time...

With the recordings on this album, the Armida Quartet has reached the halfway mark in a project that seeks to intimately explore an entire mountain range: Mozart's complete works for string quartet,...

Playing with other instruments is always fascinating: it's not only great fun, but also an important experience for me as a pianist, every time. The piano is actually just a mechanical toolbox that...

German-Turkish artists Gulru Ensari and Herbert Schuch present this album of Monologues by Bernd Alois Zimmermann. The duo writes of this release: "As students we had already been allowed to take a...

Katharina Konradi writes: "The labels "Mozart soprano" and "Strauss soprano" are often said to be practically indistinguishable. Indeed, in terms of melodic style, the two composers are not that far...

Mozart / Schimpf / Adorjan Piano Concertos 413-415 CD

Mozart / Schneider Mozart: Violin Sonatas CD1. Allegro Con Spirito 2. Andante Cantabile 3. Allegretto 4. Andante, Ma Un Poco Adagio 5. Fuga. Allegro - Moderato 6. Allegro Con Spirito 7. Andante...

Musorgsky / Scriabin / Baryshevskyi Pictures At An Exhibition / Preludes / Sonata No 5 CD

Benjamin Moser writes of his new program with Avi: "I have had the idea for this project since 2016. For the occasion of the 10th anniversary of my prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition and of my...

Nielsen / Bausor / Ruiz Wind Quintets CD

Severin von Eckardstein writes: "Prokofiev's music has always been close to my heart. In his childhood, the Russian composer loved to improvise on the piano, just as I did. His piano style was not as...