Chamber Music & Recitals

While most listeners to 20th-century music and piano masterpieces will have recordings of Messiaen's two major cycles in their collection, the rest of his piano music often tends to fly under the radar. Yet Messiaen wrote piano music throughout his life,...

While Michael Finnissy, born in 1946, has become known as one of the UK's most original voices, he began his career pursuing the dual career of a pianist and composer. As a performer he was associated with the virtuoso solo repertory, and Finnissy's own...

While many historic editions focus on a performer, a less obvious but sometimes more artistically resonant choice is to focus on a conductor, one of those musical minds which shapes so much of what we hear. The Genter Wand Edition focuses on that great...

While living in London in the years 1926-28 Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag, known as Baal HaSulam, a prominent Kabbalist, composed his cycle 'Melodies of the Upper Worlds' which are heard in this recording in piano arrangements by Mikael Ayrapetyan. Many of...

While Kalkbrenner was not afraid to write big, bold orchestral introductions, it is when the pianist makes his entry that you realize what a jaw dropping player he must have been, with writing of such glittering, glistening panache that it must have had...

While Ivo Pogorelich established his reputation performing mainly Romantic repertoire, his few forays into the Baroque reveal him to be an equally engaging- if not eccentric musician here as well. In quicker movements, such as the opening Preludes of the...

While himself no conventional kind of Christian believer, Saint-Sa?ns worked as a church organist for much of his prodigiously long life and career. While still a teenager he won the premier prix for organ at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1857, at the age...

While Gustav Mahler's "Symphony No. 9 in D major" was his last completed symphony and came to be regarded as his farewell to life (notwithstanding the substantial effort he put into writing his unfinished "Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major," which wasn't...

While generally known only as a composer of operas, Gaetano Donizetti in fact also composed a great many other works, totaling more than 600.1. Andante 2. Largo-Allegro 3. Andante 4. Allegro 5. Allegro Ma Non Troppo 6. Andante 7. Rondo: Allegro Moderato...

While Crystal Jarrell Johnson and Angela Malek have long enjoyed thriving careers as soloists, they have always genuinely preferred collaboration. Both singers are professionally based out of San Antonio, and in the fall of 2017 they made their official...

While continuing to write for conventional instruments, Ric Graebner increasingly has turned his attention to electronic forms, as well demonstrated by this CD of pieces, all of which are also designed to be part of a combined audio-visual experience...

While composers like Schumann and Brahms held fast to the classical concept of the symphony, it was composers of the New German School, such as Wagner and Liszt, who preferred the tone poem as a modern means of expression for orchestral music. It tries...