Chamber Music & Recitals

Three CDs. Yo-Yo Ma and long-time friend and musical partner Emanuel Ax reunite for Hope Amid Tears, a new recording of Beethoven complete works for cello and piano, on Sony Classical. Hope Amid Tears presents Beethoven five sonatas for cello and piano...

Three CDs. This limited edition presents three outstanding albums by V?kingur Olafsson in one box set including additional fan content and deluxe packaging. Including all of V?kingur's albums with the full scope of repertoire so far: Philip Glass (2017),...

Three CD set. 43 tracks. Pianst Martha Argerich is permanently invited by the most prestigious orchestras, conductors and music festivals in Europe, Japan and America, yet chamber music takes a significant part of her musical life. She regularly plays...

Though unknown to many today, Margaret Ruthven Lang was one of America's pioneering woman composers. Distinguished pianist Lucy Mauro brings Lang's remarkable and underperformed keyboard creations to vibrant life with deep sensitivity, touching emotion,...

Though the works on this album are varied in genre, from vocal to string quartet, they share a common theme, explicit in the song cycle Friendly Fire and implicit in the other works; that theme embodies grief, personal or for the plight of people...

Though the orignin's of the modern guitar are virtually unknown, the sound of the instrument is found in musical compositions dating back almost seven hundred years. Classical Guitar Favorites will take you on a relaxing journey through three centuries...

Though some of Rebecca Clarke's most successful pieces feature the piano, such as her Viola Sonata (1919), Rhapsody for Cello (1923), and Piano Trio (1921) and her writing for the instrument in those scores is both idiomatic and inventive, she only wrote...

Though perhaps not best known for composing hymns, Telemann collected the most popular chorales of his time in what became known as the Telemannisches Gesangbuch. Published in 1730, many of these 2,000 hymns are still sung today in worship. This release...

Though Miklos Rozsa became one of the most admired film composers, he had always written music in other forms and his two published string quartets reveal important facets of his musical background. String Quartet No. 1 was written in 1950 when he was...

Though Mendelssohn's two string quintets sound as if they were written one right after the other, they were actually composed 20 years apart. Mendelssohn's compositional techniques differ greatly from those found in Beethoven's chamber music, especially...

Though largely forgotten today, Wagenseil was a well-known musical figure in his day. He composed a number of operas, choral works, symphonies, concertos, chamber music and keyboard pieces. Delightful and inspired compositions from a sadly neglected...

Though it has a relatively short history, the clarinet is one of the most glamorous and tonally alluring of all instruments. It's origins lie in the effective but primitive chalumeau, which slowly developed through technical advances into the instrument...