Chamber Music & Recitals

Whatever the Cello Project does Eckart Runge and Jacques Ammon carry US off into faraway worlds, enchanting US like the magicians of the Big Screen. After having US dance in the spirit of tango and then clink our glasses with Russian vodka, they are...

What would happen if you took And Justice for All, the iconic 1988 album from Thrash Metal icons, Metallica, and reimagined it for a Classical orchestra? Add to that four emerging Jazz and Soul vocalists. You're left with one of the most intriguing...

What were the first organ concertos? The concerto style can first be heard in interior movements of Handel's oratorio Il trionfo del Temp e del Disinganno (1707). In Bach's case it has been assumed that the concerto evolved from instrumental sinfonias...

What we have here is the welcome memento of the Duke Ellington's 1959 European tour. Berlin's Sportpalast is not a concert hall and during the cursed Nazi reign often was the site of speeches by Hitler and his fellow criminals, but the hall can be said...

What was the first composition ever written for solo violoncello? What was composed before Bach created his extraordinary suites for solo cello? These questions drove the cellist Josetxu Obreg?n to devote himself to the beginnings of solo literature for...

What the largely unknown name of Georg Muffat may lack in dissemination and reputation, he makes p for in incredible variety, virtuosic power, and influence, especially on the development of instrumental music. The treasure trove of Muffat, which comes...

What Romani children lack is the sense of being welcome in the society. Their journey out of the vicious circle of living in the settlements and city ghettos into a world where they are expected to do things, where they can find confidence and achieve,...

What paths did the composition of sacred music take at the beginning of this millennium? What is it's relationship with liturgy? What prospects does it have? On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Domenico Bartolucci (1917-2013), historic...

What makes this release so very special- aside from the brilliant and virtuosic performances- is the fact that three of Paganini's original instruments have been used for this recording: the great violin Guarneri del Gesu 1742, his six-string guitar by...

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...