Chamber Music & Recitals

The works on this album feature the Scandinavian influences that the Swedish violinist and the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg exerted on Julius R?ntgen's music for violin and piano. Amanda Maier was R?ntgen's great love and his first wife, and Grieg was...

The works of the outstanding composer C?sar Cui (1835-1918), whose name will forever be remembered in music history, are yet to be rediscovered and fully appreciated. Cui was a rare type, one of those universal prodigies who throughout his career...

The works of F?hrmann represent as it were a nec plus ultra of the art of modern organ counterpoint and organ playing; at their best they rival the works of Max Reger, equal in boldness yet appearing at times superior in their fantasy. Although the...

The works of Erich J. Wolff, Ludwig Thuille, Anton Urspruch and Siegfried Wagner share marvelous similarities. The playing of the waves as a metaphor for desire and sensuality intertwines the compositions of Wolff and Thuille. Post-romantic dance...

The works of Emanuel Mo?r (1863-1931) ought to be celebrated as among the major achievements of Romantic music, but because of Mo?r's peripatetic life - he was born in Hungary, studied in Vienna (with Bruckner), performed in the US and across Europe,...

The works of Domenico Dragonetti, a phenomenal bassist of his time who was particularly renowned for his radical approach to bowing, are here presented in a small but inspiring collection. All the works featured are taken from the Venetian's solo output...

The works of award-winning composer Chaya Czernowin have been performed worldwide at significant new music festivals and prestigious venues, and she is the first woman to be appointed composition professor at Harvard University. Commissioned by Deutsche...

The works in this collection emerged from the genre of duo concertant initially conceived as showcases for the virtuosity of Nicol? Paganini and his successors in the Franco-Belgian school of violin playing, notably Henry Vieuxtemps. He and Louise...

The works for violoncello by Karl Weigl, a Viennese composer practically forgotten today, qualify as a twofold revelation. First, they offer us an opportunity once again to hear one of the musical voices that was the talk of the town in fin-de-si?cle...

The works by Ignacy Jan Paderewski, according to the popular opinion, belong to the most original pieces composed by Polish artists. Although the musical language of Paderewski is very strongly rooted in the major-minor system, thus in the Romantic...

The workload of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach as cantor of the Johanneum and music director of Hamburg's five main churches was enormous - especially on important church holidays: During the time of the Passion, for example, ten Passions had to be composed,...

The work of the Rotterdam-born Pieter Hellendaal (1721 - 1799) has so far not been widely played or recorded. Antoinette Lohmann and Furor Musicus, always on the lookout for rare (but first rate!) repertoire, have now recorded a complete album of violin...