Chamber Music & Recitals

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...

These medieval cantigas and lais - troubadour compositions from Galicia and France, respectively - display an innovation of the 12th and 13th centuries: themes of courtly love and Marian devotion combined, at once carnal and mystical, encompassing both...

These mainly world premiere recordings of five of Malipiero' most characteristic works fill an important gap in the catalogue. The Impressioni dal vero express the composer' feelings amid nature and Italian rural life, from three particularly beautiful.1...

These live recordings of the Second Violin Concerto by Bela Bartok and the D major Concerto by Peter Tchaikovsky, made in 1956 and 1958 at the Lucerne Festival, exemplify how Stern realized his concept of musical rhetoric on the concert platform. He was...

These Goldberg Variations present new perspectives on a well-known score. Danish composer Peter Navarro-Alonso's composition is a note-by-note reinvention of the original Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach. Thus Alpha's innovative performance adds no...

These girls are educated at the expense of the state to distinguish themselves in music. They sing like angels and play violin, flute, harpsichord, organ, oboe, cello and bassoon; in short, no instrument can deter them, however big it may be. That is...

These four works represent all of Sir William Walton's chamber music involving both violin and piano, as well as being a microcosm of his compositional output between 1918 and 1950. They offer a fascinating glimpse of Walton's stylistic journey, from the...