Chamber Music & Recitals

These two works for string orchestra were composed on either side of the flight of the Viennese composer Richard St?hr (1874-1967) from occupied Austria to the USA, and from prominence and danger to liberty and obscurity, and they reflect the change in...

These two patrician French musicians were leading lights at American Columbia from the 1940s until well into the 1960s. During World War II, violinist Zino Francescatti and pianist Robert Casadesus began performing as a duo (they were both also...

These two new books of metaludios, which continue the three already recorded on an album released in 2018, explore new sound territories through the piano. Science is once again the main pillar underlying the compositional process of these twelve new...

These two masterpieces are shadowed by the events of the First World War. Elgar's Cello Concerto, an intensely poignant, reflective and individual musical statement, has enjoyed unflagging popularity among musicians and listeners for over 100 years. By...

These three recordings cement the bond between the award-winning composer Richard Danielpour and the conductor Misha Rachlevsky, one of the composer's most dedicated and perceptive interpreters. It was Rachlevsky who gave the American premiere of...

These three piano concertos provide new insights: two discoveries from the classical era that alter our perspective on the seemingly familiar. Giovanni Battista Martini was a leading music theoretician of his time. His compositions caused a sensation...

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...