Chamber Music & Recitals

Wolf-Ferrari is famous for his operatic works in which he invented a new idiom by transplanting 18th-century Venetian culture into the 20th century. But almost all of the composer's orchestral music dates from his final years and occupies a different...

Woldemar Bargiel was Clara Schumann's half brother and Robert Schumann's brother-in-law. Already in the nineteenth century hardly any lexicon failed to note these relational circumstances, surely more to Bargiel's disadvantage since it for many years led...

Wladyslaw Zelenski belongs to the group of our most outstanding 19th-century composers, since he is being put on a par with Fryderyk Chopin and Stanislaw Moniuszko. The recordings presented on the present album were made on an 1890 Broadwood historical...

Wladimir Vogel's Passacaglia performed by the N?rnberg Symphony Orchestra with Othmar M.F. Maga conducting.1. Passacaglia

Witold Rowicki, one of Poland's most important conductors of the 20th century and leading figure of his generation, is internationally known especially for the complete recording of Dvork's symphonies with the London Symphony Orchestra as well as for his...

Witold Maliszewski was a prolific Polish composer who is remembered not only for his compositional oeuvre, but also his contribution to education- he was a founder of Odessa Conservatory and a professor at Warsaw Conservatory. Students of Maliszewski...

Witold Lutoslawski's few surviving apprentice works are suffused with the elegance of Ravel and the lush effusiveness of Szymanowski, and this is particularly true of the early Piano Sonata, heard here in Giorgio Koukl's new and corrected edition based...

Without wanting to detract from the genius of Schubert or Schumann, we [Re: Sarah Wegener & G?tz Payer] have a different answer: we would have loved to live at the turn from the 19th to the 20th century, "fin de si?cle", amidst the transition from...

Without hesitation, in these six pieces Zeno Baldi takes us into the realm of listening and attention, not imposing them on us as dogmas or as narrated and fossilized history, but inviting us to consider the infinitely small, the precarious, the...

Without doubt, Benjamin Britten (1913-76) left an indelible impression on all genres of 20th century English music. His vocal repertoire in smaller instrumentations is particularly fascinating. With three of Britten's "Canticles" as well as a selection...

Without dispute Teodor Currentzis is today's hottest & most sought after conductor- alongside his orchestra & choir MusicAeterna. "The Greek-Russian conductor who has taken the classical music world by storm." (The Times) This is Currentzis's first ever...

Without a doubt, French composer Marin Marais wrote some of the greatest music of the Baroque. His works for viola da gamba are central to his output. Gambist John Dornenburg and harpsichordist Malcolm Proud are two of the finest period instrument...