Chamber Music & Recitals

Violinist Krzysztof Jakowicz alongside the Witold Lutoslawski Chamber Philharmonic in Lomiza bring us this album filled with beautiful violin works from composers Jarzebski, Vivaldi, Bach, Pachelbel, Haydn, and Lutoslawski. Krzysztof Jakowicz (b. 1939)...

Violinist Julia Smirnova and cellist Konstantin Manaev are a duo not only on the concert stage, but also in their private lives. "We play two instruments and have two temperaments," they say, "we embody yin and yang, as it were. All the works on this...

Violinist Josh Modney presents this release highlighting his remarkable versatility as a performer, collaborator, and improviser. The album is elegantly cohesive across the entire program, as concerns with alternate intonation systems, experimental...

Violinist Jennifer Koh's Bach & Beyond Part 2 is the latest of a projected three-CD cycle based on her groundbreaking, multiyear recital series of the same name. Koh, "a masterly Bach interpreter and a champion of contemporary repertory" (The New York...

Violinist Jean-Jeaques Kantorow and guitarist Anthea Gifford present a recital recorded at "the house where time stood still," the Calke Abbey, Derbyshire. Together they perform music from Paganini to Beethoven.1. Adagio Cantabile 2. Rondoncino...

Violinist Isabelle Faust and a gathering of first-rate chamber musicians have recorded Franz Schubert's "Octet in F major, D. 803" for Harmonia Mundi, and the collaboration is remarkable because the presumably ad hoc ensemble plays with the ease and...

Violinist Giuliano Carmignola and cellist Mario Brunello: one of the greatest interpreters of Vivaldi and Bach, whose recent recording of the Sonatas and Partitas was described by the authoritative magazine Gramophone as 'a definite first choice among...

Violinist Esther Abrami's eponymous Sony Classical debut album is a creative melting pot of different styles of classical music - full of new and inspiring compositions. Collaborating with a great variety of contemporary composers and musicians as well...

Violinist David Park, with pianist Melissa Garff Ballard in some works, performs a program of works by the great composer and violinist Fritz Kreisler. This is a truly exciting album of virtuosic violin works. DAVID H. PARK, 'a soloist with extraordinary...

Violinist Chlo? Hanslip and pianist Danny Driver have received critical acclaim for their musical partnership both on stage and in the studio. Gramophone described Volume 1 of their Beethoven sonatas cycle as 'engaging and accomplished... they create a...

Violinist by profession, the Japanese-born Viennese musician Tomoko Mayeda also learned to play the piano from the age of four. Her teacher and mentor Paul Badura-Skoda often took the time to teach her at the piano in addition to his support as a...

Violinist & pianist Kiyoshi Tomagawa present exciting, passionate short works by Paganini, Wieniawski, Kreisler & other composers, 10 tracks1. Scherzo-Tarantelle, Op.16 2. Sonatensatz, Op. Posth 3. Tambourin Chinois, Op.3 4. Thais: Meditation 5. Il Noce...