Chamber Music & Recitals

This is no less than a seminal and milestone recording in modern piano music. History of Photography in Sound, a five and a half hour epic of genius, was recorded in several sessions between 2004 and 2006 by Metier, whose previous owners only recently...

This is music of confident, muscular vitality which breathes new life into the Requiem Mass. There are moments of great intimacy and solace to be found amongst the drama of this setting and the unequivocal final impression is one of true celebration and...

This is music of brute force and elemental clout. The listener absolutely cannot resist the penetrating power of the three pieces brought together on this release by the Gewandhaus concertmaster Andreas Seidel and the perennial discoverer Steffen...

This is Lucile Boulanger's first solo recital. The French gambist, universally praised for her natural and moving playing - BBC Music Magazine even described her as 'the Jacqueline du Pr? of the viola da gamba' - juxtaposes Bach with Carl Friedrich Abel,...

This is great Chopin, transparent and warm at the same time, fabulously played in both the left and the right, dosed with masterful touch and filled with an inexpressible longing for something that is impossible and yet let's it materialise somehow. In...

This is Emanuele Cardi's fourth album for Brilliant Classics after recordings which display this talented organist's wide musical sympathies and talents. "He is a great connoisseur of Baroque repertoire," noted the Spanish magazine Codalario of Cardi's...

This is domestic music, and the instruments of the day were scaled to such private performances. Modern instruments are designed to project, and Ibragimova and Tiberghien's readings were conceived to do just that: first in the Wigmore Hall, where they...

This is Centaur's second volume in The Opera Fantasies for Violin and Piano by Jean Baptiste Singelee, featuring Thomas wood and Bryan Dykstra. These are wonderful, idiomatic arrangements from the great operas. A Belgian classical composer of the...

This is Asasello Quartet's second Genuin CD featuring works by Michael Jarrell, Conclon Nancarrow and Rolf Riehm.1. Zeitfragment 2. I 3. II 4. III 5. Tempo Strozzato

This is an original coupling on disc - Debussy's sole quartet is nearly always paired with Ravel's - but also a natural and pleasing one, serving to illuminate two lesser-known string quartets with an earlier masterpiece of the genre. Szymanowski's music...

'This is an important release,' remarked MusicWeb International of the sacred music by Tarquinio Merula, which is one of several Brilliant Classics releases by the Ensemble Il Demetrio to receive international attention and critical praise. The Italian...

This is an extraordinary journey through the most preeminent of classical symphonies. With an ensemble of only 12-16 top-quality musicians, the Pocket Philharmonic Orchestra explores Beethoven's musical origins. All the great conductors and orchestras...