Chamber Music & Recitals

With Myrthen, baritone Christian Gerhaher opens Chapter 2 of his life project: a complete recording of the lieder of Robert Schumann. Since Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's epoch-making recording of the 1970s, no singer has devoted himself more thoroughly to...

With music that is 'sleek, hot, earthy, and physical', Tansy Davies's first orchestral album, Nature, brings together four exuberant works from the last decade. In a piece which questions the very nature of a piano concerto, pianist Huw Watkins shows-off...

With more than eighty operas to his credit, Paisiello rivaled Mozart for success in this competitive field, though his eight keyboard concertos fell short of Mozart' output in numerical terms.1. I. Allegro 2. II. Larghetto 3. III. Rondo: Allegro 4. I...

With Michael Korstick, OehmsClassics has released about fifteen albums, including a set with Beethoven sonatas which was applauded on all sides. With his first Rachmaninoff recording he once more demonstrates his inspired ability to empathize completely...

With Lux laetitiae, La Reverdie continues it's discographical journey after the success of it's most recent production devoted to Francesco Landini: from the Florence of the great blind composer of the fourteenth century, to the splendor of the Este...

With lutenist Lukas Henning, Glossa unveils a striking new talent as he presents Bella incognita, a recital devoted to the enigmatic 16th-century Venetian composer Marco dall'Aquila, a musician frequently referred to in the sources but one who is...

With Les Indes galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Gy?rgy Vashegyi - along with his Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir - makes a further dazzling addition to their Glossa series of French dramatic masterpieces from the Baroque, and in the company of a...

With Lagrime d'amante, La Compagnia del Madrigale, so accomplished with 16th- and 17thcentury Italian music and words, turns it's attention afresh to the music of Claudio Monteverdi. This new Glossa release faithfully conveys the beauty of the ensemble's...

With just a single modern recording in the catalogue, Franck's hour-long fusion of oratorio form with symphonic poem counts as a notable rarity in his output, not so sprawling as the evening-long oratorio on the Beatitudes but still a dramatic canvas...

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...