Chamber Music & Recitals

These Bavarian Radio recordings, first released in 2005, constitute Rudolf Serkin's third and final edition of the Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos, and were the only performances to be recorded in the concert hall, not in the studio. As such, they...

These Bach sonatas for solo violin and bass continuo are among the lesser known and less often performed of his works of this kind. These sonatas provide the accompanist with great freedom to embellish and improvise their part. The bass parts are written...

These aren't really all of the national anthems out there, but you do get to hear a sampling, from Belgium to Turkey, Mexico to Japan. Liner notes provide background and lyrics. This release combines two original Folkways Records LPs, FW03881 and FW03882...

These are two great contemporary works that deserve a wide audience. Chicago Pro Musica was founded in 1979 by composer/pianist Easley Blackwood and Chicago Symphony Orchestra clarinetist John Bruce Yeh. Honored with the 1986 Grammy Award for "Best New...

These are two great chamber works that are far too often performed. These are truly beautiful performances, by the Czech-based pianist Ivo Kahanek and Janacek String Quartet. A musician of tremendous emotional power, depth and expressiveness, Ivo Kahnek...

These are the first recordings that Rapha?l Faás devoted to flamenco, and his double album is today a reference. Faás, a virtuoso guitarist in his own right, was close to the genre's master, Paco de Lucia, and this set marked the first signs of what...

These are taken from the Beaux Arts Trio's highly acclaimed second cycle of Beethoven's complete works for piano trio. As a group the line-up of Menahem Pressler, Isidore Cohen, and Bernard Greenhouse at this point was ideal, and perform with a...

These are special performances and as a group make a highly effective addition to Jean Muller's intended Mozart cycle. I hope that the next volume will not be delayed too long. I found the disc a sheer joy from start to finish and I hope others do too...

These are not only renowned organs with splendid sound, but here as recorded by renowned sound engineers with great experience and success in organ recordings1. Verdi; Grand March (Aida), Noel Rawsthorne, Coventry Cathedral 2. Elgar; Imperial March,...

Thesauri inventio 1 & 2 is in fact two albums in one digipack, one featuring music from the Di Martinelli Music Collection and other from the Kromer?? Music Collection. In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, numerous music compilations appeared that...

There's Stravinsky, there's Bart?k, there's Hindemith; but where is Piazzolla? With this question, the leading composition teacher Nadia Boulanger set the course of a musical about-turn in the work of her student Astor Piazzolla. We speak of tango nuevo...

'There's real authority and vision' to Proshayev's Schumann," observed The Guardian on Denys Proshayev's debut album for Piano Classics in 2013: "the cleanness and clarity of his playing are hard to ignore." A second album focused on Alfred Schnittke...