Chamber Music & Recitals

Wolfgang Sawallisch is known throughout the world and especially in his birthplace as a paragon among his generation of conductors and musicians, exemplifying a former world of music. After a thorough music education and a firm grounding in the art of...

Wolfgang Rubsam is one of the world's leading exponents of the music of Bach, and his extensive series of the composer's music on Naxos has earned critical admiration. In turning to the Goldberg Variations, the culmination of Baroque variation technique,...

Wolfgang Rihm, one of the foremost contemporary composers, has created a powerful body of music for the violin. Gesungene Zeit is one of his most performed works, and it demonstrates why Rihm is so admired: music that begins and ends in ethereal lines...

Wolfgang Rihm is one of the world's most performed and prolific composers. In 1972, he not only graduated from high school but also completed Germany's state examinations for composition and music theory. Rihm and the cellist Friedrich Gauwerky (who is...

Wolfgang Rihm is one of the world's most eminent and prolific composers. His works for violin and piano encompass almost his entire compositional career from Hekton in 1972 to the solo violin ber die Linie VII in 2006. Each draws on a wide range of...

Wolfgang Rihm is one of the most important contemporary composers of our time. The musician, professor of composition and author from Karlsruhe, Germany is a larger-than-life personality, and the contemporary music scene is impossible to imagine without...

Wolfgang Rihm is one of the most important contemporary composers of our time. The musician, professor of composition and author from Karlsruhe, Germany is a larger-than-life personality, and the contemporary music scene is impossible to imagine without...

Wolfgang Riehm is a prominent figure in the European new music scene. Riehm's early work, combining contemporary techniques with the emotional volatility of Mahler and of Schoenberg's early expressionist period, was regarded by many as a revolt against...

Wolfgang Brunner presents two opus numbers composed by Dussek in 1792 and 1800, around the time of the beginning and then the painful end of his marriage to the singer and harpist Sophia Corri. The comparatively early Op.18 No.2 shares the modest...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been central to the Orchestra's musicmaking and the composer made many friends with wind players and wrote abundantly for them. In 1992, a program for a concert given by clarinetist Anton Stadler in Riga in March of 1794 was...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed sonatas for violin and piano from his earliest youth until his final years. But while the early pieces are little more than piano sonatas with violin accompaniments, the more mature works of 1778 begin to integrate the...

Wolf-Ferrari: I Quattro Rusteghi - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's comic opera I Quattro Rusteghi is very clever and very Italian: colorful, lively and rhythmic. The women are impertinent, cunning and seductive; the men are awful, dirty and mean. The...