Chamber Music & Recitals

This LPO release of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphonies Nos. 4 & 8 present live concert recordings captured at Royal Festival Hall in 2013 and 2008, respectively. One of the most important symphonic voices of the 20th c., Vaughan Williams composed in...

This long-expected new double album presents Kinan Azmeh as composer, soloist and outstanding improvisator together with the Grammy-awarded Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conducted by Manuel Nawri. One album presents Kinan as interpreter of his...

This live recording of Richard Wagner's Der fliegende Hollander was made at the 2013 Beyreuth Fetival. This performance of Wagner's opera, which tells the story of Daland, a Norwegian sea captain who just before reaching home is blown off course by a...

This live recording of Ariadne auf Naxos in October 2014 took place not only at the site of the opera premiere of the version of the opera that we are best familiar with these days, but it also testifies Christian Thielemann's first conducting engagement...

This live recording features the New Jersey Chamber Singers 40th Anniversary concert celebration. The program is anchored by the Mozart Requiem and also features festive works of Bach's Reformation Cantata, Ein feste Burg, because 2018 also marked the...

This live La Forza del Destino by Giuseppe Verdi from Firenze, Italy in June 1956 stars a young and dynamic tenor Giuseppe di Stefano near the beginning of a brilliant, decades-long stage career and Renata Tebaldi, a lyric soprano blessed with one of the...

This live April, 1957 performance of Gaetano Donizetti's Anna Bolena has been dubbed by some critics and reviewers as the best Anna Bolena on record, and have also anointed this version the best sounding issue it's had, or at least far better than any...

This Latest Volume of the Ongoing Cantata Series By the J.S. Bach Foundation Presents 3 Complex Choral Cantatas in Three Live Recordings: O Ewigkeit, Du Donnerwort (Eternity, Thou Thunderous Word), BWV20, Meine Seufzer, Meine Tranen (My Sighs, My Tears),...

This latest record from Navona Records is a treasure trove of piano music by the late composer and pianist Sarah Feigin. Led by Carmela O'Flaherty, the composer's daughter, the project consists nearly entirely of previously unperformed and unrecorded...

This latest instalment of Angela Hewitt's Beethoven is bookended by the great 'Tempest' and Op 109 sonatas. The performances-incentive enough to acquire this release-are as usual complemented by Angela's own booklet notes which provide real insight into...

This latest installment in Marin Alsop's enjoyable Barber series for Naxos kicks off with a fine performance of the gorgeous Violin Concerto' notable for it's easy spontaneity and unforced eloquence. Firm of tone and technically secure' James Buswell...

This latest album by Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde unearths the historical influences and musical interactions of various cultures, and their effects on the numerous toques heard in flamenco today. Within his own avant-garde compositions, inspired by his...