Chamber Music & Recitals

Volume 5 of Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks contains the world premiere recording of a Mass by an anonymous English composer from the first half of the 16th century. Since the source of the cantus firmus has not been identified, the Mass remains...

Volume 4 of Peter Donohoe's acclaimed survey of Mozart's Piano Sonatas on SOMM Recordings focuses on the composer's adoption of the newly emerging pianoforte and his bold exploitation of it's more sophisticated voicing. Sonatas Nos.1 in C major (K279)...

Volume 2 of the RIAS Jorge Bolet recordingsis dedicated to Franz Liszt, whose works helped launch the Cuban-born pianist's career; it was also his Liszt performances that shaped Bolet's later path. JorgeBolet shot to fame with the soundtrack of the...

Volume 2 in Thomas Ad?s and the Britten Sinfonia's collaborative performances of the works of Beethoven and Barry; specifically the Beethoven Symphony Cycle and a selection of Barry's works. This CD features Beethoven's 4th, 5th and 6th symphonies,...

Volume 11 in this series of Gioachino Rossini's piano music completes Alessandro Marangoni's monumental project to record all 200 or so individual works comprising the Peches de vieillesse or 'Sins of Old Age' (including some preliminary sketches.)...

Volume 1 of the series "Handeliana Hallensis" shows three different facets of George Frederick Handel's compositional work. The 22 movements known by the name of "Water Music" belong to Handel's most popular orchestral pieces. The composer however did...

Vol. 6 of this complete recording presents what might be termed the opposite ends of the broad spectrum covered by Kuhnau's music, both in formal matters and in chronological respects. On the one hand, in "Ihr Himmel jubiliert von oben" and "Lobet, ihr...

Vol. 4 in Barry Douglas's monumental, well-regarded solo piano Brahms project prominently features the composer's first published work, his C major Sonata, op. 1.The influence on Brahms of his predecessors Beethoven and Schubert is obvious, not only in...

Vol. 3 of the symphonic works of Josef Holbrooke contains further orchestral works demonstrating that he very much could also compose with humor and joy. Holbrooke's symphonic poem Birds of Rhiannon has a great wealth of melodies that rightly enabled it...

Vol. 3 of our recording of the string quartets of Ferdinand Ries with the Schuppanzigh Quartet presents selected works underscoring his great importance as a composer! Once again Ries proves to be a master and in retrospect a pathbreaking composer who...

Vol. 2 once again demonstrates the unique stylistic quality of Felix Draeseke's works for strings. When the composer turned to the quartet genre, he ventured onto compositional terrain largely regarded as the domain of composers of traditional...

Voices of Women: From Unknown to Renowned began as an idea in a workshop soprano and album producer Heather Fetrow attended called The Twenty-first Century Singer with Soprano Susan Mohini Kane in Los Angeles in the summer of 2016. The focus of the album...