Chamber Music & Recitals

There's a wealth of character in his playing, which is deeply poetic and dignified (BBC Music Magazine of MC3102 Chopin Ballades & Impromptus) "Kvapil is considered the finest exponent of Czech piano music... A performer with such a specialized...

There's a wealth of character in his playing, which is deeply poetic and dignified (BBC Music Magazine of Chopin Ballades & Impromptus); (Fibich): Kvapil does sterling work championing his compatriot's music; he has chosen an engaging, varied selection...

There's a beautiful marriage happening with Greg Abate's "Magic Dance." It's the union between Abate's multi-instrumental gift of bebop and Kenny Barron's varied and sublime compositions. Abate, with Barron, who handles keys on this recording session,...

There would be much to say on the importance and reasons of the practice of tablature transposition and transcription in the evolution of music for keyboard instruments. What we can point out, however, is that, in the case of some great composer who did...

There was a particularly rich vein of Nordic writing for the violin between the years 1910 and 1930. In this recital Henning Kraggerud, an exemplary stylist lauded for his Sibelius and Sinding concerto disc, Naxos 8. 557266 (CD) and 6. 110056 (SACD)...

There is something deeply troubling and inscrutable in Carlo Gesualdo's music, something that any listener, even the most inexpert one, will unfailingly experience. This most particularly holds for Tenebrae Responsoria (1611), his definitive statement,...

There is only a small number of orchestral pieces in Johann Sebastian Bach's oeuvre- which is surprising considering that the composer worked with excellent ensembles in both of his positions- as "Konzermeister" and Kapellmeister" - in Kothen and Weimar...

There is no surviving autograph manuscript of Bach's 'English' Suites, and for such a set of magnificent pieces, an important and well-loved part of the baroque keyboard 'canon', surprisingly little is known about it's history. What we do know is that...

There is no misprint: these really are Franz Hoffmeister's 21st and 24th Flute Concertos, and they are moreover half an hour long apiece. German Hoffmeister was one of the seemingly countless truly prolific composers of the eighteenth century, and the 25...

There is no doubt that the lute played an important role in Bach's oeuvre: he composed and arranged works for solo lute throughout his career, moreover, the lute's particular sonority enriched several of his orchestral scores, too. His lute suites are...

There is no composer who binds the intimate and the grand so inextricably as Franz Schubert, writes pianist Shai Wosner in an essay for his latest album. Wosner has established a reputation as one of the world's great Schubert interpreters, with his...

'There is more Spain in Offenbach's brain than in Spain itself', said a journalist entranced by Ma?tre P?ronilla. Understandably so, given the charm and humor of this operetta in which no fewer than twenty-two characters are kept busy unravelling a...