Chamber Music & Recitals

Zingari's libretto was inspired by Alexander Pushkin's poem "The Gypsies". Following Zaz? and Il Rolando di Berlino, Leoncavallo had abandoned the Wagner-inspired practice of writing his own librettos, and accepted the collaboration with Enrico...

Zephyr Quartet's new release, EPILOGUE, betrays expectations in the best manner possible. Listeners expecting to hear traditional (or even contemporary) classical music from this Australian string quartet will be in for a big surprise when they find...

Zemlinsky, Korngold and Bloch also shared the fate of so many other important musical voices of the early twentieth century when their music was banned, and their lives and careers upended, by the Nazi regime. ßAll three names can be found in the...

Zelmira was the last opera Rossini wrote for Naples, knowing it would also be his calling card to Vienna where he had been assured performances. Keen to reconcile the alleged incompatibility between 'Italian' melody and 'German' harmony, Rossini employed...

Zdenek Lika's music for the feature film "Marketa Lazarov" represents the height of the legendary composer's legacy. In 2015, the first and so far the only concert performance of the work took place at the F?rum Karl?n concert hall in Prague as part of...

Zdenek Fibich's three symphonies project very different qualities: No. 1 (available on 8.572985) prizes structural integration, and No. 2 (8.573157) cyclical unity. Symphony No. 3, written only two years before his untimely death, but at the zenith of...

Zbigniew Seifert (1946-1979) had studied violin in his hometown of Krakow, was converted to woodwinds on the way to jazz, only then to devote himself again increasingly to the strings in the late sixties. The big three of Coltrane, Coleman and Ayler had...

Zbigniew Preisner is a self-educated Polish film score composer who first won renown for his collaborations with influential Polish director and screenwriter Krzysztof Kieslowski. As part of it's reissue series focusing on Preisner's work with...

Zachary Carrett?n writes: "I chose "Metamorphosis" as the title of this album for several reasons. Having lived with these works for a quarter century, they have changed me, and I have changed along the way. During this project my dear friend of...

Yvonne Smeulers, the internationally award-winning violinist, is releasing her second album on GENUIN: two milestones of the repertoire, the violin concertos by Ludwig van Beethoven and Alban Berg. GENUIN and the young Dutch virtuoso are thereby building...

Yuval Weinberg writes: "Much music and poetry has been written around the themes of faith and doubt. This is our point of departure. Throughout the millennia, humankind has fought over differences of religious, as well as non-religious, conviction. Yet...

Yuri Alexandrovich Falik was born in Ukraine in 1936 and studied with Boris Arapov at the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music. Legendary Russian ensemble the Taneyev Quartet present key works here released on CD for the first time. These works are from...