Chamber Music & Recitals

This historic release couples George Crumb's earliest work for piano, the Five Pieces for Piano (1962) with his most recent piano cycle, Metamorphoses (2017). Margaret Leng Tan has long been a champion of Crumb's music, and he composed Metamorphoses...

This haunting, primal release from the EOS Guitar Quartet features works by Georges Bizet, Manuel de Falla, Camille Saint-Saens, and Astor Piazzolla, all with the theme of ritualistic dance. Bizet's Carmen Suite evokes the sensuous but deadly dance of...

This groundbreaking two-disc CD set presents world-famous Canadian composer and philsopher R. Murray Schafer's complete works for harp. From historic recordings to never-before-released works, harpist Judy Loman presents this collection for the first...

This groundbreaking CPO recording features the world-premiere recording of the fragment of a Charles Gounod's third symphony. Conductor Oleg Caetani has the great good fortune of being so closely acquainted with the Gounod family that it's members...

This GENUIN portrait album of Martin Christoph Redel depicts a composer's life, encompassing a wide variety of genres and instrumentations. The composer himself made the selection of works dating from 1982 to 2020. From Bruckner essays to fine piano...

This generous song recital of Debussy M?lodies features soprano Sophie Karth?user and baritone St?phane Degout, accompanied by pianists Eugene Asti and Alain Plan?s. Drawing on Symbolist and Impressionist poets, this program, including Trois Ballades de...

This fruitful collaboration by three eminent chamber musicians, Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt, brings together two Piano Trios by the Czech master, Anton?n Dvork (1841-1904). During the last eight years, artists forming this unique...

This fruitful "encounter" between Leonard Bernstein and Maurice Ravel juxtaposes Bernstein's intensity and rhythmic vitality with the melancholy refinement of Ravel's colors, while also highlighting the composers' commonalities, such as a shared tonal...

This fourth volume of Haydn String Quartets finds period band the London Haydn Quartet on sparkling form. Their previous recordings have been praised for the "glowing sound of gut strings played perfectly in tune... The ensemble's delicacy of nuance and...

This fourth volume in Nicholas Walker's complete edition of Balakirev's piano music is structured around his three Scherzos, which take us from the youthful influence of Chopin and Liszt in the First Scherzo, to the music of his prolific final decade,...

This fourth installment of the Geza Anda edition in the SWR music / haenssler CLASSIC historical series presents the first and the last of Beethoven's piano concertos. As in other recordings before, Anda performs in the First Concerto as both soloist and...

This formidable release features Inbal Segev performing Elgar's emotive Cello Concerto coupled with DANCE, an inspiring new work by Grammy-nominated English composer Anna Clyne that was commissioned by Inbal. On this powerful recording, Marin Alsop...