Chamber Music & Recitals

'Yes, he is so related to my very self that he and I are like two fruits from the same tree, produced by the same soil and fed by the same air.' (Gustav Mahler) The premiere of the Symphony No. 1 in E major by Hans Rott, written more than 100 years...

Yellowbird features the sensational tuba virtuoso Aaron Tindall in an album that defies categorization. Tindall's latest recording includes jazz pianist (Grammy-nominated Shelly Berg) on the ballad, "The Peacocks"; Claude Bolling's "Suite for Cello &...

Yann Tiersen, a true maestro of minimalist piano music, best known for the soundtrack to the 2001 movie Amelie, has released an album of gentle melodies and soothing sounds including both music from Amelie and more recent works. Tiersen's soundtrack to...

Yamen Saadi was born in Nazareth in 1997. He started to study the violin at the Barenboim-Said Conservatory in Nazareth, and after that began to study under the guidance of the renowned Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra Concertmaster, Chaim Taub. At only 11...

Yale Choral Artists has rapidly established itself as one of the most innovative professional choirs in the world, and it's recordings of works by three Yale composers showcase the breadth of contemporary American choral music. They include the powerful...

Xiaogang Ye is regarded as one of today's leading Chinese composers, having won prestigious awards for his concert music and for numerous highly successful film scores. The works on this recording share a deep affection for the beauty and power of nature...

Xiaogang Ye is regarded as one of China's leading contemporary composers, having been awarded a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2013 China Arts Award, and a Distinguished Alumni citation from the Eastman School of Music in 2011. The Road to the Republic...

Xiaogang Ye is one of China's best-known contemporary composers whose work is acclaimed both in East Asia and the West for it's colorful sonorities and lyrical expressiveness. Demonstrating Ye's deep love for ancient Chinese poetry, Seven Episodes for...

Xavier Montsalvatge's music enriched Catalan culture throughout the second half of the twentieth century, and he remained one of Spain's leading composers. This overview of his orchestral music begins with excerpts from his ballet Manfred, which reveal...

Written to be played by children perhaps, but not all these pieces are as simple as the title may suggest! Miniature modern masterpieces by some of the 20th century's greatest composers. Raymond Clarke is an acknowledged master of the 20th century...

Written over a period of 18 years, Rachmaninov's sets of Preludes are a mirror and a record of his compositional development. With so rich a variety of character, color, texture, and mood, no two preludes are fully alike, and differentiation of tempo and...

Written in 1782, Mozart's Mass in C minor - although incomplete - ranks as one of the outstanding Mass settings in European music history. The very recent reconstruction/completion of the Mass by Clemens Kemme in the spring of 2018 confines itself to the...