Chamber Music & Recitals

These three compositions by three Portuguese composers pay direct and indirect tribute to the music of Beethoven. The Piano Quintet by Jo?o Domingos Bomtempo was written in the style of the Viennese Classical mainstream even as Beethoven was changing...

These stunning arrangements made by Chika Inoue and Scott Morris include Schubert's epic Arpeggione Sonata and the much beloved Ave Maria. This beautifully recorded album will give listeners a rare treat to enjoy a classical recital of Mozart and...

These songs for one and two voices come from the first four of D'India's five books of Musiche, a series containing masterpieces of astonishing originality in the style of monody (solo melody with accompaniment), which had eclipsed the polyphonic...

These sonatas were published in 1780 in Venice, where Giovanni Battista Grazioli (1746-1828) had become an organist at St Mark's Basilica two years earlier; and in 1785 he would be appointed principal organist, on the death of Baldassare Galuppi. He was...

These sonatas date from a high-point in the career of the Czech-born Jan Ladislaus Dussek (1760-1812), at a time when he was established in London as a sought-after performer and fashionable piano teacher. His partnership with the instrument-maker John...

These sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti seem to contain all the vivid colours of Naples: in the hands of Olivier Cav?, they spring to life as playful tableaux, dreams where the notes resemble reminiscences, each of them conjuring up a noisy, turbulent city...

These sonatas are remarkable for their extraordinary inventiveness and technical innovation. Drawing on musical traditions, and sounds of everyday life, in both Italy and Iberia, Scarlatti endowed an instrument once thought to have a limited capacity for...

These seldom-heard Schubert lieder- setting verses by German poets including Schiller and Goethe- reflect the Romantic era's artistic obsession with the classical myths and literature of ancient Greece. The resulting songs and duets reveal levels of...

These recordings of Balakirev's complete solo piano works by the much-lauded pianist Nicholas Walker have been hailed as 'the reference set' by the American Record Guide. Originally released between 2013 and 2020, these critically acclaimed performances...

These pieces are imbued with folk music of Spain and reminiscences of Seville. The Sinfonia sevillana of 1920 immediately won first prize in a composing competition, and some claim it as the greatest Spanish symphony. Like most of Turina's music, the...

These performances are splendid in every way, and the recording is equally fine. I can't imagine a better introduction to this long-neglected music. - George Chien, Fanfare Magazine.

These orchestral songs by the English composer Michael Csanyi-Wills - best known for his film music - all deal with the subject of loss. In Three Sogns: Budapest, 1944 Csanyi-Wills uses documentation from his own family history to shadow the fat of...