Chamber Music & Recitals

There is hardly any other major work in the history of music where there are as many secrets about it's genesis as in Mozart's Requiem: from the ominous masked client to the repeated criticism of the completion of the fragment by Mozart's pupil S??mayr...

There is hardly a better way to approach Ludwig van Beethoven than through his piano concertos. Beethoven's own instrument was the piano, and in his improvisations - which made him the darling of the Viennese salons - he merged virtuosity and unbridled...

There is Ground Under Ground is a stratification of systems, a contemporary music where evocative images generate stories within stories, an aggregate sound mass that sets us vibrating almost irresistibly. An electro-acoustic architecture, frontal and...

There is definitely no lack of heroic roles in the Gluckian repertory apart from the very well-known Orfeo from Orfeo ed Euridice: many memorable parts were assigned by this composer for the alto voice (either male castratos or female contraltos) - and...

There is a wealth of legends about great composers and famous musicians, among them examples of musical duels such as that between the young Georg Friedrich H?ndel and Domenico Scarlatti in Rome in 1709 or Wolfgang Amad?us Mozart and Muzio Clementi in...

There is a warmth and generosity here that are undeniably attractive everything is done at the level of skill and musicality that we have come to expect from Christie and Les Arts Florissants. (Gramophone)VERITAS X2 SERIES is the leading range of early...

There is a tradition among the Greek peoples of the singing of carols ('Kalanda') on Christmas Eve. This album is a set of carols newly composed by Greek-Cypriot composer Cilia Petridou. As musical works they also qualify as art-song in fine performances...

There is a prevailing theme at the heart of Jean-Baptiste Robin's work, one from which this album draws it's name (Time Circles) and can only be translated by the language of sounds: that of time moving inexorably forward, gradually altering beings and...

There is a glorious trinity of occurrences with this live concert recording of "Das Rheingold" performed in the chamber-like space of Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz on April 24 and 25, 2015. Marking the third collaboration between Simon Rattle with...

There is a certain tradition of large-scale string chamber music in Russia. However, the diverse cultural history of Russia and Eastern Europe has concealed numerous forgotten and little known treasures, which got buried away in times of competing...

There has not been a more important or influential body of cello music written before or since the 6 Bach Cello Suites. Now treated almost reverentially by cellists, for two hundred years they were virtually unknown until a young Catalan cellist, Pablo...

There has been an upsurge of interest over recent years in Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's life and work, prompted both by her bicentenary in 2005 and a more general impulse to re-examine undervalued and neglected female artists. Those who have been exposed...