Chamber Music & Recitals

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...

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.