Chamber Music & Recitals

With their often turbulent and dark-hued openings, poignant slow movements, elfin Scherzos reminiscent of the music for A Midsummer Night?s Dream, and tense, thrilling last movements of perpetual motion, Mendelssohn?s String Quartets are works of...

With their new Chief Conductor Christian Kluxen and Henning Kraggerud as soloist/composer/arranger, everything is ready for a release containing the most iconic of all violin concertos. Kraggerud has performed Beethoven's violin concerto countless times...

With their latest release of "Locale" from Foghorn Classics, the Alexander String Quartet presents brand new accounts of two of Anton?n Dvork's most enduringly popular chamber works. The "American" String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96 from 1893 was written...

With their expressive timbre and the technical excellence of the recording, the Auryn Quartet need not fear the competition, even though there is already a multitude of recordings in existence. Hartmut Leck, Klassik-heute There is no shortage of great...

With their expressive timbre and the technical excellence of the recording, the Auryn Quartet need not fear the competition, even though there is already a multitude of recordings in existence. (Hartmut Luck, Klassik-heute) There is no shortage of great...

With their debut album Origin, the ARUNDOSquintett demonstrate their joy of playing, their virtuosity and their chamber music credentials, performing wind quintets by four composers who, like the ensemble, have made North Rhine-Westphalia their home in...

With their 2nd album Arabesque, the Dutch Ebonit Saxophone Quartet explores the music of Debussy, Saint-Sa?ns and Jana?c?ek. This ambitious and internationally successful saxophone quartet succeeds in achieving a true unity in tone together with a...

With the worldwide campaign for ROCK SYMPHONIES still in full swing (and having shipped 733,000 units to date), David Garrett prepares to release his brand new recording LEGACY Davids long-awaited recording of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, coupled with...

With the world premiere recording of a rediscovered Stabat Mater, a late work by the Bohemian master Frantiek Tuma, Pluto-Ensemble and Hathor Consort expand the Baroque discography with an emotionally gripping work. The version presented here, one of...

With the violin concertos by Jean Sibelius and Igor Stravinsky, Zhi-Jong Wang and the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Sanderling, dedicate themselves to two works from the beginning of the twentieth century. Although the two works were...

With the title Irish Minimalism, composer Dave Flynn has laid down a marker. Minimalism is associated with America, and specifically with composers like Steve Reich and Philip Glass (both of whom have spent a good portion of their careers disavowing the...

With the talent of young pianist Cassandra Wyss, this Wilhelm Stenhammar and Jean Sibelius compilation emerges as a gateway into the world of Nordic musical gems. With her artistic courage to be stubborn - to be understood in the spirit of Hermann Hesse...