Chamber Music & Recitals

Until the middle of the 1700s the bassoon suffered from a series of technical limitations that retarded it's appreciation until new improvements allowed the classical bassoon (to distinguish it, as we do today, from the baroque instrument) to emerge as a...

Until the late 1680s, Henry Purcell composed almost exclusively for the royal court. But when the monarchy decided to reduce it's expenditure on music in 1690, he joined the United Company, a London theatre company, and devoted himself to composing for...

Until the 18th c. The boundaries between improvisation and interpretation were fluid. Soloists were able to create the musical material out of the intermediate and transitional parts of a composition freely, off the cuff. On 'Fantasia Baroque',...

Until his sudden and tragic death in 1983 at the age of 35, the French-Canadian composer Claude Vivier was an utterly original voice in new music. Even what is left to us has continued to be hugely influential on successive generations of composers who...

Until her untimely death in 2003, Susan Chilcott was placed among the outstanding lyric sopranos of her generation, one whose captivating stage presence, dramatic vitality and vocal poetry created memorable portrayals of heroines in Verdi, Jan+?cek and...

Unlimited David Garrett's Greatest Hits - Violinist extraordinaire David Garrett is releasing his first-ever Greatest Hits album. Comprising 21 songs (more on the Deluxe Edition) in total, Unlimited finds the five-time ECHO Klassik/three-time ECHO Pop...

Unlike Western Christianity, the bells of the Russian Orthodox Church are not rung but struck. The bell itself is firmly fixed and the clapper is struck at the edge of the bell with the help of a rope. The recordings on this album were made during the...

Unlike the other landmark collections that came from Bach's pen, the six flute sonatas all appear to have been "one offs" with no particular plan for publication as a set. Further, in contrast to the collections for solo strings, Bach's chamber music for...

Unlike the last Karl B?hm set with gramophone recordings of overtures and concert pieces, the recordings in this new release are all radio broadcasts. The exciting thing is that the Schubert Fifth Symphony is one of the earliest radio magnetic tape...

Unlike other contemporary Klezmer reocrdings, Khevrisa presnts gorgeous violin-led instrumentals from 19th-century Eastern Europe. A must hear!1. I. Suite in a Minor, a Freygish, D Freygish, D minor: Sher (Am) 2. I. Suite in a Minor, a Freygish, D...

Unlike many of his radical new music colleagues, Karl Aage Rasmussen (b. 1947) has had a great affection for older music, especially that of the Italian Baroque era. In this new programme of solo concertos by Rasmussen, he extends his musical...

Unlike many of his contemporaries, Johann Sebastian Bach never intended to compose flute sonatas or partitas in sets of 6 or 12, as was customary at the time (and as he himself did for violin, cello and harpsichord). Bach's flute sonatas evolved over a...