Chamber Music & Recitals

Violin Sonatas K301, 304, 379 & 481 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - Alina Ibragimova (violin), C?dric Tiberghien (piano) Mozart's violin sonatas span his entire career-the early ones are billed as piano sonatas with optional violin...

Violin duo String Noise (Pauline Kim Harris and Conrad Harris) team up with composer Eric Lyon, Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier, and the International Contemporary Ensemble for this wide ranging release of Lyon's Giga Concerto and his re-imagined versions...

Violin duets generally have the reputation of being grateful playing literature for teachers and gifted students, but of giving the listener only limited pleasure. With the violin duets Opp. 39 and 67, however, Louis Spohr (1784-1859) presented several...

Violin and viola duo andPlay (Maya Bennardo, violin, and Hannah Levinson, viola) release their debut recording featuring music by Ashkan Behzadi, Clara Iannotta, and David Bird. The duo's fluency with contemporary performance techniques and aesthetics is...

Violetta Fialko is an exceptionally talented Ukrainian pianist, who has been signed by Divine Art for her commercial recording debut, as winner of the 2021 Ciccolini Prize for Pianists, a new international competition which had to be held 'virtually' due...

Violet Fire is a new opera from composer Jon Gibson about the imminent inventor Nikola Tesla. Jon Gibson is a distinguished composer and performer who is an original member of the Philip Glass Ensemble and has been involved in historic first performances...

Viola Virtuosa aims to demonstrate that the viola can, in addition to producing all the deep, sad notes and songful qualities attributed to it, also be an independent solo instrument. The instrument's position, between the violin and the cello, offers us...

Viola da gambist Melisande Corriveau and harpsichordist Eric Milnes reveal the richness of the bass viol in this new recording entirely devoted to French composer Marin Marais. Though Marin Marais worked for many years for the Academie Royale de Musique...

Vingt-Quatre Caprices en Forme d'Etudes pour le Violon seul dans les Vingt-Quatre Tons de la Gamme, i.e. 24 Caprices for Solo Violin by Pierre Rode, next to an analogous cycle by Niccol? Paganini, should be considered one of the most important violin...

Vincenzo Petrali (1830-1889) was an organist-composer active in the north of Italy. Acclaimed in his own time as a master improviser, the equal in this regard to French contemporaries such as Guilmant and Widor, he left a small, beautifully crafted body...

Vincenzo Maltempo's previous Alkan CD (PCL0038) received the highest praise from international critics. On his new recording Maltempo plays the famous Le Festin d'Esope, the seldom played Trois Morceaux dans le genre pathetique, the Overture in grand...

Vincenzo Capirola is only slightly less of a mystery figure. It has been revealed that he was from Brescia, born into a wealthy mercantile family in 1474 and that he lived a long a life until he was in his mid-seventies. He is last recorded alive in 1548...