Chamber Music & Recitals

While the pianist, composer and conductor J?zef Wieniawski may not have been as well known as his brother, the violinist Henryk Wieniawski, he was highly respected among musicians. The father-daughter duo of LIV and Marian Migdel, violin and piano...

While the music world is getting ready for next year's 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth, this year's bicentennial of the birth of the Polish national composer Stanislaw Moniuszko has gone practically unnoticed outside Poland. For this...

While the father of the European cantata tradition, J.S. Bach, died in 1750, late eighteenth-century American composers classified their compositions as 'cantatas' tentatively, even though they displayed all the requisite components. These choice...

While Segovia's famous Paris recital of 7 April 1924 was no doubt a major turning point in 20th-century guitar music, inspiring composers like Albert Roussel, Georges Migot, Alexandre Tansman and many others, the city of Vienna was simultaneously the...

While recreating this music, which dominated Granada from the eighth century until the fall of the Caliphate in January 1492, Atrium Musicae de Madrid steeped themselves in the atmosphere that still reigns in the Alcazar, the Alhambra, and the mosque of...

While producing a string of hit scores for MGM such as the Oscar-winning Ben Hur, Mikl?s R?zsa (1907-1995) continued to add to his distinguished catalogue of works in classical forms, often writing in a more abstract and severe style than his...

While offering little suggestion of the symphonic mastery he would attain less than a decade later, the First Symphony, influenced by Mozart's last symphonies and completed in October 1813, is a remarkable achievement. Schubert composed his Third...

While no organist's music bench would be respectable without dog-eared copies of the Suite gothique (especially it's concluding, Toccata, no mere knock-off of Widor's showier counterpart) and C minor Toccata, there are vanishingly few albums dedicated to...

While New Zealand guitarist and composer Campbell Ross cites influences as varied as Claude Bolling, Manuel Ponce and Benjamin Britten when discussing the works featured on Concertante, it is clear that his own distinctive style is manifested throughout...

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...