Chamber Music & Recitals

This recording of a performance of the complete Suites Hebraiques gives us a particularly intimate view of the creative life of Srul Irving Glick (1934-2002), one of Canada's most prolific composers. His musical depictions of Jewish life in his Suites...

This recording juxtaposes two contrasting classical musical styles: Bruce Prince-Joseph performs Vivaldi, Bach and Mozart on a two-manual pedal harpsichord and the Hufstader Singers perform largely 16th century madrigal works from England, France and...

This recording is the final volume in Lars Vogt's new cycle of Beethoven's Piano Concertos on Ondine. It includes Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 4, two outstanding examples of Beethoven's writing. Conducting Royal Northern Sinfonia from the keyboard, Vogt's...

This recording is the culmination of a process spanning several years, in which the performers delved into the works of composers found right in their own backyard. The facts are that all but one of the composers on this recording were born in the 1940s...

This recording is Imogen Cooper's third Chandos release, following earlier discs of works by Brahms and Robert and Clara Schumann. Ms. Cooper describes Schumann's Davidsbundlertanze, op. 6 as a "work of stirring beauty and humor that make it one of the...

This recording is centered around the performance style found in mechanical musical instruments (generally barrel organs and organ clocks) produced in 18th-century England. It features a combination of pieces which appear in treatises or other...

This recording is about contrast. Universes of timbres, harmonies, colors, rhythms and textures; acoustic music, electroacoustic, concrete, mixed; leading composers alongside burgeoning ones; Mexican and Argentine; traditional and alternative notations;...

This recording is a synesthetic homage to music which explores the passion, lust, love, hallucination, and healing induced by herbs and flowers. It is a sensuous quest for the melting point at which very different repertoires and literatures dissolve...

This recording is a magnificent synthesis of artistry and scholarship giving profound insight into the seminal influences of Bach's oeuvre. "... an increased and integrated experience of improvisation in teaching, in live performance, and in music-making...

This recording is a choral tribute to the sacred music of two visionary composers who, among their other achievements, made distinctive, lasting and much-cherished contributions to the musical repertory of the English Church: Charles Villiers Stanford...

This recording intends to remind everyone of old traditions of Christmas and to enjoy something beautiful. This grouping of short pieces allows the listener to recognize both traditional and well-known Christmas melodies, featuring Sibylla Rubens...

This recording includes the world premiere recording of an oratorio written by Julian Anderson (b. 1967), one of the most remarkable British composers of our era, conducted by the late Oliver Knussen and performed by Susan Bickley and the BBC Symphony...