Chamber Music & Recitals

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...

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...