Chamber Music & Recitals

TomAs Garbizu is one of the greatest names in twentieth-century Basque music. This recording bears witness to his genius and his audacity in combining for the first time such disparate instruments as the txistu, the tamboril and the keyboard, to for.1...

Tomas Breton's distinguished career as an opera composer and leading figure in Madrid's musical life at the turn of the 20th century has tended to overshadow the significant contribution he made to Spanish chamber music. He remained true to the historic...

Together with Wolfgang Brunner on the fortepiano, the successful violinist Lena Neudauer now turns to Franz Schubert's four violin sonatas on cpo. The first three works from 1816 have continued to be incorrectly labeled as sonatinas because the original...

Together with the Berlin based Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, Mari Kodama and her husband Kent Nagano have now completed the recording of all of Beethoven's piano concertos by jumping, as it were, back in time twice: the last element of this recording...

Together with familiar music from Prince Igor, this album features the world premiere recording of the unusual Requiem, (which is based on "Chopsticks"), and Glazunov's orchestration of the charming Petite Suite. Australian conductor Geoffrey Simon is...

Together with Casella, Malipiero and Respighi, Pizzetti was one of the leading composers of the generation of Italian composers born around 1880.1. I. Vivace Ma Sereno 2. II. Adagio 3. III. Tema Con Variazioni: Allegretto Tranquillo 4. IV. Finale 5. I...

Today's music lovers associate "L'Orfeo" first and foremost with Claudio Monteverdi's famous opera from 1607, while the version by Luigi Rossi (1597-1653), premiered four decades later, has remained less well-known. Rossi had served as a musician first...

Todays finest piano duo.' - San Francisco Chronicle 'Ensemble playing of the highest order.' - London Times 'Duo pianists are a rare breed, and even rarer are those as exciting as Anthony and Joseph Paratore.' - the Washington Post.Four Winds.2004.1...

Today, there is no doubt that Johann Sebastian Bach took Baroque music to it's sublime zenith. Just how much Bach was ahead of his time can be gauged by the fact his 'piano' music engaged the greatest among his successors: Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann,...

Today, one finds female choirs in almost every nook and cranny of Norway. The time when Norwegian choral singing was dominated by male choirs can seem like the distant past. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, only eleven years after women were...

Today, it is difficult to imagine a world without the music of Handel. His operas, however, were already looked over even in the composer's lifetime. Virtuosic and bristling with difficulties, his multithreaded works in the Neapolitan style quickly went...

Today, French Baroque composer and keyboard virtuoso Louis Marchand is perhaps best known as the performer who failed to take up J.S. Bach's challenge for a musical 'duel.' Unfortunately, this colorful legend has overshadowed Marchand's ample gifts as a...