Chamber Music & Recitals

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...

The work of Gabriel Faur?, one of the most significant composers for the development of the French music at the turn of the 20th century, is not easily classified under a specific artistic trend. On the one hand, the pieces he wrote in the early stages...

The work of Dieterich Buxtehude (ca. 1637-1707), which appeared surprisingly not printed during his lifetime, with few exceptions, has survived only thanks to some manuscripts. This doubtless explains why it was totally unknown for a long time and...

The work of artists, poets and composers forms some of the most eloquent responses to the grave crisis and unutterable horror of the First World War. As humanity confronted it's potential for destruction on a grotesque and unprecedented scale, new depths...

The work is performed here with Rossini's original instrumentation and also includes the hymn for soprano and piano 'O salutaris hostia', which is often omitted. As a world first, a bonus track 'O salutaris de campagne' is included. The four soloists are...

The work group formed by Telemann's overture suites is regarded as exemplary and even today offers a wealth of discoveries - and the three works presented here in album recording premieres certainly answer this description. It is difficult to determine...

The work "REBIRTH" is composed of 11 unpublished works for piano, through which the author has tried to convey perceptions and emotions lived in intensely vivid moments of life, in the continuous search for an intellectual, sentimental and moral rebirth...