Chamber Music & Recitals

We continue our astonishing Bruckner cycle with the rarely performed 2nd Symphony. As in the case in the 1st, Venzago has chosen a top orchestra of relatively small instrumental dimensions. 'After the many new recordings of the Bruckner symphonies,...

We are now in the year 2022: as chance would have it, this album's release coincides with the 300th anniversary of the first volume of the Well-Tempered Clavier. Our lifestyle has changed in many ways over the past three centuries. We travel at much...

We are indeed fortunate that Fritz Kreisler was still at the peak of his powers when electrical recording arrived in 1925. He was as busy as ever in the year covered by these recordings, using Vuillaume and Guarneri del Gesu violins that he said 'breathe...

We are greeted by a slender and lively sound of the piano trio when we listen to the debut GENUIN release of the Eldering Ensemble. In addition to Beethoven's "Ghost Trio" and Mendelssohn's dark Trio in C minor, two of the major works in the repertoire,...

We are facing the first recording of complete Guitar Sonatas of Leo Brouwer, the most important guitar music composer of the modern era. In his music in general and in his Sonatas for Guitar in particular, tradition is intermingled with the latest...

We all know artists these days have a varied repertoire. Still, Harr & Hartberg took the music industry in Norway by surprise when they released their first jazz album. Their music feature a triple treat; Sublime lyrics by the famous Norwegian author...

Wayne Marshall was eight years old when, at home in England, he heard a Gershwin concert broadcast on the radio - a pivotal listening experience as he recalled fifty years later in a WDR video clip. It may have set his life in a new direction, eventually...

Waves & Lines is a 50-minute multimedia song cycle for soprano, electronics and chamber ensemble. The album is based on a collection of Afghan women's folk poems called landays. These poems are passed down secretly as a sung oral tradition and were...

Water Damage turned into luck The Rhine is where Richard Wagner's cycle of operas "Der Ring des Nibelungen" begins and ends - and it was beside the Rhine in 1851 that the composer first dreamed of this equally visionary and monumental work. Even if...

Was John Coprario taking credit for someone else's work when, under his own name, he made transcriptions of more than fifty Italian madrigals for a consort of viols? Such an accusation would be based on false premises, as anything resembling copyright...

Warning: this recording is not intended for musicological purists. But if you love spontaneous music making in the most select of company, this is definitely the right recording for you. Radek Babork, for example, does not hesitate to arrange a discarded...

War is one of the oldest things we know. For too many reasons, few good, we of the human race are drawn into conflict with and against each other to resolve, or to gain. Especially when we lose the ability to accept that words, compassion, patience, and...