Chamber Music & Recitals

This year, the outstanding Czech pianist and composer Karel Ru?icka (1940-2016) would celebrate his eightieth birthday. To mark this occasion, Animal Music releases, four years after the artist's death, the last album recorded by Ru?icka in 2010, which...

This year, legendary cellist Antonio Meneses celebrates his 60th birthday and the 40th anniversary of winning first prize and the gold medal at the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition. Shortly after that triumph Antonio made a renowned recording of Brahms'...

This year sees the centenary of Estonian independence. One of the main figures in the 'national awakening' in the half-century that preceded independence was Karl August Hermann (1851-1909). Hermann was indefatigable: he was a linguist, journalist,...

This year has been an extraordinary success story for the 15 year old Mark Vincent. Winner of Australia's got talent 2009, mark has started his journey in establishing himself as Australia's newest, and youngest opera virtuoso. To celebrate this...

This world premiere recording presents four sonatas and four duos by Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724-1808), a cello virtuoso and teacher whose reputation took him across Europe - including to London, where for a time during the 1760s he was employed by...

This world premiere recording is the first complete recording based on the new Curci edition of the famous 20 Studies of the Spanish composer Fernando Sor selected by Andres Segovia and edited by Angelo Gilardino. Composer, guitarist, musicologist and...

This world premi?re recording of the second volume of JOS? ANTONIO BOTTIROLI's complete piano music, is performed once again by his award-winning prot?g? Fabio Banegas. The nocturnal themes heard in this album were inspired by the clear skies over the...

This work of a few hours to deliver an almost complete history of political Islam. This ideology which was born and which has evolved in the shadow of the Great History of Muslim civilization has been nourished, in each era, by particular contexts and...

This work is based on texts that in various ways have a connection with the northern part of Scandinavia. In my composing, metaphors are always of major importance, but especially so when I was working on Poesis. The texts are a catalyst and the very...

This wonderful new recording from Ex Cathedra and Jeffrey Skidmore casts a dazzling light on composers whose names are as obscure as their music is revelatory. Discover Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia's Missa pastoril para a noite de natal, Andre da Silva...

This wind band arrangement of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana is entirely instrumental in concept, the vocal music having been fully incorporated into the band itself.1. I. O Fortuna, Velut Luna 2. II. Fortune Plango Vulnera 3. III. Ecce Gratum 4. IV. Tanz:...

'This West Indian tragedy has remained the sole dramatic work of a heroic world in pre-Columbian times that, after a flourishing heyday, was abruptly terminated by foreign violence.' Egon Wellesz (1925). In musical terms, the Opferung shows Egon Wellesz...