Chamber Music & Recitals

Walter Zimmermann is a leading figure in German new music, a prolific composer and a tireless advocate of other artists' work.-deserving to be much better known, his works, set in a deceptively simple way, are best heard in groups so as to emphasize his...

Walter Gieseking, though German, was born in the French city of Lyon and is admired above all as a brilliant and entrancingly perceptive interpreter of Debussy and Ravel. "He created a sound world in this repertoire that had no precedent, except perhaps...

Walter Gieseking was best-known as one of the greatest pianists of the first half of the 20th century, but he also was an excellent composer. This album features some of his Lieder, piano works and chamber works. These are all first recordings.

WALTER Gieseking (1895-1956) has long been regarded as one of the supreme interpreters of Debussy, his recordings having achieved almost definitive status. But it's generally his later recordings from the early 1950s which have been reissued time and...

Walter Braunfels wrote his first two string quartets in 1944; they were followed after the war by the String Quintet (1946/47), the Third String Quartet (1946/47), and the new Final Movement composed for the latter (1953). All these works meet the...

Walter Braunfels studied law and economics at the university of Munich until, after seeing a performance of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, he decided to shift his focus to music. He went on to study with Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna before...

Walter Braunfels is a composer whose music died twice: Once when the Nazis declared his music "degenerate art". Then again when post-war Germany had little use for the various schools of tonal music; when the arbiters of taste considered any form of...

Walter Braunfels is a composer whose music died twice: Once when the Nazis declared his music "degenerate art". Then again when post-war Germany had little use for the various schools of tonal music; when the arbiters of taste considered any form of...

Walter Braunfels is a composer whose music died twice: Once when the Nazis declared his music "degenerate art". Then again when post-war Germany had little use for the various schools of tonal music; when the arbiters of taste considered any form of...

Wallace was, from his youth, steeped in Irish and Scottish traditional music. In 1848, five years after his brilliant successes in New York as a virtuoso pianist, he published his first set of arrangements.1. The Yellow Hair'd Laddie - Whistle and I'll...

Waking the Sparrow, from classical and baroque guitarist Robert Nathanson and soprano Nancy King, performing as Duo Soreno, is the result of a twenty-year long journey exploring the grandeur of the human voice blended with the vibrancy of the guitar...

Wagner's visionary Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) was first performed as a cycle of four operas in 1876. It's mythic plot examines the relationship between love and earthly power through the agency of a ring which confers ultimate...