Chamber Music & Recitals

When Pulse Perspective comes to an end, after all the emotion, the rhythm, the musical inspiration, it's improvisations and constructs, the overriding question is: how can a piece of music be as "visual" as this? How can it suggest so many imaginary...

When profiling the Polish composer and violinist Karol Lipinski (1790-1861), the focus is usually placed on his skills as a performer. Apart from having an incredible virtuoso technique, he had fine achievements as a composer. Somewhat forgotten these...

When Prof. Karl Laux, in his day one of the German Democratic Republic's most celebrated musicologists, was working on his book on music in Russia and the Soviet Union, he consigned a dozen or so assorted personalities to near-oblivion on a mere...

When pianist Carsten Dahl went into the studio with his perennial fellow musicians, the bassist Niels Bo Davidsen and the drummer Stefan Pasborg, it was with a special dogma: Not to say a word throughout the recording. The album was created in a...

When one thinks of Schumann, his piano works and Lieder come to mind, as well as the Piano and Cello Concertos and his symphonies. His chamber music has received rather less attention, although he showed himself particularly interested in experimentation...

When one thinks about Beethoven's choral compositions, one might think there is only one: the Ode to Joy from the 9th Symphony. But that is not the case! As the Deutscher Jugendkammerchor has impressively proved with this recording, preoccupying oneself...

When Nigel Kennedy picks up the violin, he combines the music world: first, he thrilled millions of classical music fans from around the world, on the other it is one at least as many Jazz lovers to his admirers. In spring 2010, Nigel Kennedy is a double...

When Nicholas Papador moved to Canada in 2005 he started participating in the Windsor Canadian Music Festival presented annually by the Windsor Symphony Orchestra and University of Windsor. Over the course of several years, and after exposure to a...

When Michael Nyman started reinventing the English baroque back in the 1980s, one critic described the result as "pump- action Purcell". This recording combines these two singular musical styles through the stunning voice of countertenor Iestyn Davies...

When Mark John McEncroe is asked what kind of music he composes, his reply invariably is "I don't know, I just write it." It's a clever answer: at first glance it is humble and modest, but it also reveals a considerable degree of naturalness,...

When listening to this new CD it is difficult to comprehend why the music world had a negative opinion of Robert Schumann's works for violin and orchestra for so long. Baiba Skride now offers a performer's perspective on Schumann's violin oeuvre by...

When listening to the music and poems in this delightfully curated collection, two ideas seem to run through the songs, sleep, dreaming and nostalgia. These ideas are portrayed in different styles and languages exquisitely narrated by Jessica Rivera and...