Chamber Music & Recitals

With it's unique combination of instruments, the Vienna Reed Quintet creates a new and refreshing sound that differs significantly from that of the conventional wind quintet. This programme opens up three very special keyboard works to these exhilarating...

With it's super-budget-priced boxes of Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich among many others, Brilliant Classics cornered the market in definitive composer editions long before other labels began to follow their lead...

With it's roots in the tradition of Borodin and Mussorgsky, the music of the Ukrainian-born Soviet composer Yuri Shaporin (1887-1966) sits between the late Romanticism of Skryabin and the harder edges of Shostakovich and Prokofiev, blending a mastery of...

With it's roots in ancient Greece and Rome, the oboe has evolved from the rustic medieval shawm and the French Baroque hautbois to become the modern instrument we know today. Italian composers provided the first works befitting of it's expressive nature,...

With it's new album 'Concertos 4 Violins', the specialist ensemble for early music, Concerto Koln, takes a look at the unique repertoire niche of concertos written for four solo violins. 'It must have been a challenge to bring together four solo violins,...

With it's fourteen fugues and four canons, all of which are derived from the same thematic germ cell, J. S. Bach's "The Art of Fugue" contains within it a veritable cornucopia of constructional variants. In his own Studies, Reinhard Febel takes apart the...

With it's expansive musical range, great expressive capability, and cello-like tessitura, it's surprising that there doesn't exist more classical solo repertoire for the baritone saxophone. With that thought, Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Aaron...

With it's exotic dances and virtuoso Italian arias, "Le Carnaval de Venise" (1699) by Andr? Campra is one of the most original experiments to be found in the entire French musico-dramatic output of the time. With this work at the latest, the composer...

With it's collection created in collaboration with the Academy of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Alpha continues to support new talents. The Esm? Quartet, consisting of four Korean women musicians, was founded in 2016 and is based in Germany. It's...

With it's carefully planned yet complex dramatic structure and skillful transformation of a tale of heroic conflict between two enemies into a drama of impossible love, Maometto II is considered Rossini's most radical and innovative opera. Against the...

With it's 1688 printed collection of the Hortus Musicus apparently quite confident Johann Adam Reincken (1643-1722) wanted his critics in the mirror of their own musical inadequacy. The largely designed according to a standard six Partitas, each...

With his unusually uncompromising artistic attitude, Gidon Kremer is considered worldwide to be one of the most original and convincing artists of his generation. "Extraordinary and unpredictable" was how the press cheered the young pianist Georgijs...