Chamber Music & Recitals

When you first listen to Fabio Mengozzi's music it can be misleading. First of all because it's enjoyable, solid, no frills, direct. Then, because it allows your mind to wander among associations and suggestions that relate to various chapters of western...

When we think of Ludwig van Beethoven images of a stormy and passionate but tortured genius are brought to mind, alongside the transformative effect of his work on musical history. All of these things are true, but no artist lives in a vacuum, and even...

When we play music, we listen to the passages that inspire us, and we listen for emotion. These passages sometimes stay with us in the form of indelible memories, if we hear them at the right time and in the right place. Through experiences like these,...

When we make ourselves comfortable at home with the children at the most wonderful time of the year, songs can't be missing, of course. And the time until Christmas also passes much faster with melodies to listen to and sing along with. On this release,...

When we consider the great musical nations of the world, Hungary perhaps does not come to mind first. But the more we think about it, the higher the country rises in such a ranking. For Salaputia Brass, Hungary has played a leading role since the 20th...

When Torbjorn Iwan Lundquist in 1962 was asked to compose the music score for the screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlof's Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (Adventures of Nils Holgersson), he was already a well-known composer of film music. By...

When Tora Augestad releases a musical portrait together with the Oslo Philharmonic, there's nothing less than Kurt Weill, Marcus Paus, and Charles Ives on the menu. Augestad's repertoire for "Portraying Passion" takes the musical qualities of modernist,...

When this piano trio came to life in 2009, they were greeted with great enthusiasm from audiences that found themselves bowled over by the intense musicality of this exciting new ensemble. Their first CD, of Mendelssohn piano trios, was launched in...

When The Soul Speaks paradoxically presents music of ancient texts through some of the present day's youngest voices. Performed by the Bonifantes Boys' Choir and the Czech Soloist Consort, these sacred texts rise to life through the performances of one...

When the Siberian-born 'Arctic Circle Pianist' Ekaterina Litvintseva heard "Blumenleben" ('Life of Flowers') for the first time, she immediately resolved to find out more about the life and music of Dora Pejacevic (1885-1923). This resolution prompted...

When the Russian art historian and critic Vladimir Stasov declared in 1867 'how much poetry, feeling, talent, and intelligence are possessed by the small but already mighty handful of Russian musicians'.1. Pesnya Mefistofelya V Pogrebke Auerbakha...

When the German troops occupied Austria in 1938, Alexander Zemlinsky fled with his wife Louise via Prague to New York, with the short score of Canduales in his luggage. Zemlinsky attached great hopes of producing the piece at the Met but on account of...