Chamber Music & Recitals

To mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, Russian born arranger Paul Struck has arranged two of the composer's great mid-period chamber masterpieces for soloist and string ensemble. Expanding the sonorities of the 'Kreutzer' Sonata -...

To mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth, the renowned Leipzig String Quartet presents a world premiere recording of the 5th String Quartet from Joachim Raff's much under-appreciated chamber music. In addition, the four musicians present the...

To mark the 180th anniversary of Anton?n Dvork's birth, Supraphon has released a special 3-album set. Presenting a wide selection of the composer's chamber, orchestral and vocal works, it contains recordings made by superb musicians in the second half of...

To mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Canadian composer Jacques H?tu, ATMA Classique and Classica Festival present a new recording of the Piano Concerto No. 2 with pianist Jean-Philippe Sylvestre, and the Trombone Concerto with Alain Trudel as...

To many contemporaries it might seem incomprehensible that Pfitzner had his poetic and musical masterpiece Palestrina followed by this slight fairy-tale opera, whose libretto could scarcely satisfy higher artistic demands. Pfitzner was captivated by the...

To make the dream come true and record the music for the album, Kaczka and Nadrzycki had to conquer thousands of kilometres and overcome numerous obstacles. The mental barrier turned out to be the hardest: if they wanted to focus strictly on the music,...

To make it's performance easier, Norbert Duechtel has adapted the Christmas Liederspiel "Christnacht" by Joseph Haas (1879-1960) for organ. The cantica nova holzkirchen choir under the direction of Katrin Wende-Ehmer - with inserted texts read by Alex...

'To have written that, you must be a poet', Massenet told Reynaldo Hahn when he read through the score of L'?le du r?ve. Composed when the young man was not yet eighteen years old, this 'curtain-raiser' already had the qualities of the great works of the...

To have the Romanian-German pianist Herbert Schuch's complete Oehms discography collected into a single box set provides a valuable overview of this brilliantly talented performer who balances superb technique with the ability to find the essence of the...

To have been a composer in late 19th century Germany must have been a mixed blessing. The pantheon of greats featured the refined Brahms, the revolutionary Wagner, and the romantic Reinecke. This left little room, therefore, for composers of less renown,...

To forge chamber music from orchestral scores and make music of the highest order with like-minded colleagues - this was the ambition of eight section leaders of the Dresden Staatskapelle when they founded the Dresden Octet to give a chamber concert...

To follow the release of it's November 2015 recording of "Das Rheingold" - the "preliminary evening" of Richard Wagner's cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen" - BR-KLASSIK is now continuing the cycle with "The Valkyrie". The concert performances were recorded...