Chamber Music & Recitals

This new album from renowned British pianist William Howard features sixteen world premiere recordings from composers such as Judith Weir, Nico Muhly and Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry. Entitled Sixteen Contemporary Love Songs, the album marks the next...

This new album from notable Czech mezzosoprano Eva Garajov with great pianist Miroslav Sekera presents Slovak Songs by Czech composer V?tezslav Novk (1870-1949). Slovak Songs is released on these two albums as a world premiere and it shows the...

This new album features overtures, choruses and intermezzos drawn from masterworks by Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni, and Boito, played with mastery by Music Director Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Having presented these works...

This new album by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra focuses on works by Perttu Haapanen (b. 1972), one of the most important and interesting Finnish composers of his generation. It includes a recently-written Flute Concerto with Yuki Koyama as soloist...

This new album by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and it's chief conductor Hannu Lintu is dedicated to works by American composer Peter Lieberson (1946-2011). This album features award-winning bass-baritone Gerald Finley as soloist in Lieberson's...

This new album by the award-winning Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir together with Tallinn Chamber Orchestra led by Risto Joost includes one of T?nu K?rvits' (b. 1969) most recent works, You Are Light and Morning (Sei la luce e il mattino). K?rvits,...

This new album by Lapland Chamber Orchestra conducted by John Storg?rds is dedicated to works by one of the most exciting Finnish composers of her generation, Outi Tarkiainen (b. 1985). This album, first of it's kind with Tarkiainen's orchestral works,...

This new album by Charles Richard-Hamelin presents two important works from Frederic Chopin's repertoire, 24 Preludes, Op. 28 and Andante spianato & Grande polonaise brillante, Op. 22, and confirms that he is one of the world's elite pianists. Writing...

This new album album features 27 lovely and appealing songs in various styles by French-Canadian composer Lionel Daunais, including some world premiere recordings. For over fifty years, Lionel Daunais exerted an undeniable influence on the Quebec opera...

This Naxos recording explores the long and artistically fruitful friendship between the composer and the musical Ceccanti family. The first presented primarily early works, but these works date from his more mature period. The music is no less...

This Naxos disc presents Laura Mikkola's performances of the solo piano works of Einojuhani Rautavaara. While not a complete survey, it does cover Rautavaara's most substantial solo piano pieces. The "Icons" (1955) were inspired by Orthodox iconography...

This musical presentation by Capella de Ministrers leaps out from it's origins in mediaeval myths and literature to give listeners a direct connection with the true meaning of the Grail. It is a journey encompassing the various musical traditions along...