Chamber Music & Recitals

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...

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...