Chamber Music & Recitals

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...

This music will take you into a sphere that is interwoven with emotions and infatuating melodies. Inspired by composers like Ennio Morricone, John Barry or Michel Legrand, I found the artistic power to create this album. The musical themes arose from...

This music seems to me to be perfect, declared Friedrich Nietzsche. Here is a recording made far from the sterile world of the studio which palpably demonstrates how the master conductor, aided by a top-flight cast, brings the work to life on stage...

This music knows when to be gentle, when to be harsh; when to quiet down, when to erupt; it knows when to change, and it knows when to be still. A meticulously designed sonic organism that is living, breathing, and evolving. Makiko is listening. The...

This multi-album set of piano works by Scriabin is the fourth and final installment in Dmitri Alexeev's monumental endeavor to record Scriabin's entire oeuvre for the piano on Brilliant Classics, an eight-album collection that includes the earlier...

This much admired series continues with an evocative travel album that shows Turina at the height of his descriptive powers.1. I. Retrato 2. II. El Casino de Algeciras 3. III. Gibraltar 4. IV. Paseo Nocturno 5. V. Fiesta Mora en Tanger 6. I. Luz en El...

This moving project is derived from the research that Delilah Sharon Iska Gutman carried out on the poetics and artistic path of Amedeo Modigliani, the Italian man with Jewish roots who collected the dream of Love. It is a tribute to Ded? (as the close...

This most important first release marks the start of a major extended project to record, close to entirety, the world's most famous, historic and valuable violins. Some of these prized instruments have not been played for centuries, being specially...

This monumental set of recordings, originally on Das Alte Werk LP, collects Fran's Bruggen performing a variety of pre-baroque, baroque and rococco works for recorder(s). Fran's Bruggen put the recorder on the map as a solo instrument, and no one before...

This monumental release, which includes 23 albums, features the complete oeuvre of Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. Most known for his symphonies and masses, Profil has selected the very best recordings of these works in their catalog, featuring some of...

This mischievous recital celebrates works inspired by the Devil: From Tartini's Devil's thrills, written after the composer dreamt that he had sold his soul to the devil, to the infernal whirlwinds of Saint-Saen's Danse Macabre and Dompierre's Les...