Chamber Music & Recitals

What makes the new recordings of the Janoska Ensemble so special? Their sensitivity to subcutaneous atmospheres, the ability to transcend conventional articulatory conciseness and, last but not least, the way they deliberately turn a blind eye to genres...

What makes Olivier Messiaen's úuvre so special is, to a great extent, his ability to coalesce various influences, inspirations, and convictions into a wholly individual and perfectly coherent musical language. This includes the development of the modal...

What makes a piece of music difficult? This album introduces a pair of riveting, technically ambitious, historically important, and never-before-recorded polyphonic masses of the fifteenth century, performed by an ensemble that has developed a new...

What made her decide to be an oboist, Celine Moinet is often asked. It had to be woodwind. Not brass, not a string instrument, not the piano. "I began with the recorder in the usual way. Until I switched to the oboe when I was seven, I didn't know the...

What is percussion? To answer that question, you'd need 500 pages, if you wanted to list all the instruments and all the ways of playing them that this group of instruments has to offer. Or one needs just get the new GENUINE CD by the percussionist...

What Is Noise is an award-winning ensemble that has performed throughout the United States. The ensemble made it's Carnegie Hall debut in May of 2014 as part of their "American Stories" concert tour that included performances in Florida, South Carolina,...

What inexhaustible richness: the baritone Daniel Blumenschein, together with the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra under it's conductor Robbert van Steijn, opens the door to a vast musical land. On their new GENUIN release, they embark on a journey through the...

What if the tour de force of French opera in the Age of Enlightenment was Scylla et Glaucus? At the age of 50, the famous violinist Leclair decided to write his first operatic piece, investing irrepressible energy in it. The drama is unrelenting: the...

What if a woman wrote the song? This question drives a recital of songs by female composers performed by soprano Golda Schultz and pianist Jonathan Ware. Opening with works by Clara Schumann and Emilie Mayer (including her setting of the ballad...

What if a choir were to awaken the musical curiosity of young and old alike? The choir chúur43 presents original, imaginative arrangements for a choir of between four and sixteen voices, with nursery rhymes such as Les crocos, ? la Volette, Ah vous...

What has not been tried over the years in order to twin over children and young people to classical music? There is a veritable market devoted to attracting and luring the young. Pianist Corinna Simon always found one aspect of this endeavor rather...

What happens with valuable works by composers that have not yet been properly acknowledged? This is what Mexican pianist Claudia Corona asked herself when she came across Rolon's work and realized that his music is still widely unknown. Mexican composer...