Chamber Music & Recitals

This recording gathers four string quartets by American composers who are widely divergent in style and manner, and who have made a distinctive and personal contribution to this endlessly re-inventive format.1. Moderato 2. Andante Espressivo 3. Allegro...

This recording from the 2018 G?ttingen Handel Festival presents two rarely heard works by George Frideric Handel: "The Choice of Hercules" and the "Te Deum for the Victory of Dettingen". In "The Choice of Hercules" from 1751, Handel musically processes...

This recording from Owain Arwel Hughes and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is the first in a cycle of all seven of Sibelius's symphonies. Symphony No.1, from 1899, is coupled with No.3, from 1907. Although bound by classical conventions, and the...

This recording from Gerald Finley and Julius Drake features an inspired coupling of two contrasting, yet complementary, sets of "swan songs." Despite the three decades in age that separate Brahms and Schubert at the time of writing, both are among their...

This recording forms part of a series of 10 reissues celebrating the glorious Decca recordings from the 1950s-1970s of the Wiener Oktett (Vienna Octet), made up of key principals from the Wiener Philharmoniker and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. This...

This recording focuses on romantic works from the 20th century that deserve greater recognition. Most are original, and include fine examples from Russia, America, Hungary, Argentina, and Great Britain. Featuring Nicholas Bayley on double bass and...

This recording focuses on concertante works for two flutes and orchestra by Italian contemporaries of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. There is documentary evidence for Mozart and Cambini having met in Paris. Common to all three works are high-spirited...

This recording features three performers from storied backgrounds. Hagai Shaham began to study the violin at the age of six and was the last student of the renowned Ilona Feher. Arnon Erez studied with Arie Vardi, and is a graduate of Tel Aviv University...

This recording features the works of Russian composers who were outstanding personalities in the musical life of their country during their lifetime: The Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35, by Tchaikovsky and the Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 82, by...

This recording features music by two German composers: Raimund Sch?cher (b.1960) and Andreas Willscher (b.1955). Each composer is represented by three varied, yet characteristic, pieces. Raimund Sch?cher's years of work as an editor of late medieval and...

This recording features a very special newly built organ, showcasing it in the roles in which it's predecessors were used in their heyday at the turn of the 16th century. This particular type of organ, small in scale and with open pipes all made of...

This recording explores some of the lesser-known music from 18th-century Vienna that combines solo voice with virtuoso trombones. Many of the arias presented on this CD are drawn from the large-scale oratorios performed in the Imperial Chapel. The music,...