Chamber Music & Recitals

V?kingur ?lafsson - "Goldberg Variations" Celebrated for his visionary interpretations of J.S. Bach, V?kingur ?lafsson, one of the greatest pianists and musical minds of today, now embraces Bach's monumental Goldberg Variations. ?lafsson brings his...

Uwe Ungerer writes: "The orchestral piece "Oliver Twist Now - Symphonic Pictures", which I composed between November 2020 and February 2021, is based on a musical for children's and youth choir, which I had already successfully performed several times in...

Utterly stunning solo piano compositions by Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, an Ethiopian nun living in a convent in Jerusalem. Born to an aristocratic family in Addis Ababa in December of 1923, Emahoy spent much of her youth and young adulthood studying...

Ute and Mark Miller perform original duos for violin and viola by Mozart and Brydern. This is a world premiere recording of the Brydern works.1. Allegro 2. Adagio 3. Rondeau. Allegro 4. Hoover's Holiday 5. Cookies in Space 6. Purzelbaum 7. Roosevelt's...

Using the sounds of handmade paper, electronics, and surf guitar among others, Ted Coffey composes a sometimes fragile, sometimes brutal order that swings from texturalism to song. Written for dance, both fixed media and live computer-mediated...

Using the newly developed K2 Mastering process created by JVC the reissue of this classical recording by Phillips is a splendid tribute to Flamenco. Featuring the extraordinary talents of Pepe Romero on classical guitar, "Flamenco" originally released in...

Using a polyphonic musical language that draws on medieval Byzantine chant, Petros Petridis can be considered one of the most important proponents of the Greek National School. The Requiem for the Emperor Constantine Palaiologos mourns the end of the...

US pianist Michael Brown has been hailed by The New York Times as 'one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers'. His artistry is shaped by his creative voice as a pianist and composer, praised for his 'fearless...

Uruguayan-born American Sergio Cervetti is sure to please listeners with MORTAL DREAMS, his ninth album with NAVONA. Cervetti, who, on previous releases, has firmly established himself as one of the most unique voices in contemporary serious music, again...

Ursula Mamlok's Three Bagatelles are miniatures characterized by a free application of serial technique, courting expressionist parallels with rhetorical, concentrated gestures. In Tumbo, Tania Leon uses a string bass pattern from her native Cuba without...

Upon hearing a chamber piece by Joseph Michl in Munich in 1772 the English composer and music historian Charles Burney wrote, 'I hardly ever heard a composition that discovered more genius and invention.' Even though Michl achieved success writing for...

Upheld by many as a queen amongst her peers, violinist Camilla Wicks led a stellar career in the dozen years following World War II. At the peak of her fame she retired from the concert stage, later resuming her career where she remained an outstanding...