Chamber Music & Recitals

The Venetian composer Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690) wrote a total of eight cantatas and canzonettas for bass voice with a continuo accompaniment, all but one presented here in new, historically informed recordings by a distinguished Italian ensemble...

The Vanderbilt Wind Symphony is the premiere wind-performing ensemble at Vanderbilt Univ. And includes the most outstanding woodwind, brass, harp, and percussion students in the School of Music. Thomas E. Verrier is Director of Wind Studies and Assoc...

The use of the trumpet for martial and ceremonial occasions has a long history. Imperial Fanfares ranges from the heyday of the Habsburg Empire to the contemporary, from banquet music and equestrian ballet to a sombre reaction to the events of 11th...

The unjustly neglected and often dissident music of Ruth Gipps is with this album finding all the resonance it deserves by Rumon Gamba and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, having already championed many British composers from the twentieth century...

The University of Kansas Wind Ensemble offers musically enriching and artistically outstanding performances of the finest wind band repertoire.1. Wild Nights! 2. Shadow Dance 3. Dusk 4. I. the Flight of Night 5. II. Night Mares 6. III. Sleep and Repose /...

The Universe works in strange ways. Recorded almost three years ago, none of us could have known that when this recording was released the world would have lived through a life-altering pandemic or a tumultuous upheaval in the cultural awareness that now...

The universe of Charles-Eric Charrier and Laurent Komlanvi Bel is composed of textures and structures which transform listening into a form of contemplation. Contemplation of the soundscapes themselves, and contemplation of the moment. Charles-Eric...

The United States Navy Band's Sea Chanters Chorus recorded this album in order to pay tribute to the many journeys that have enriched the lives of it's performers. The music on Journeys ranges from deeply moving to whimsical and has become associated...

The United States Marine Drum & Bugle Corps performs martial and popular music for hundreds of thousands of spectators each year. Comprised of 90 Marine musicians, dressed in ceremonial red and white uniforms, it is known worldwide as a premier musical...

The uniquely influential Russian musical and theatrical dynasty of the Liadov, Antipov and Pomazansky families supplied Russian culture with nearly 20 musical and theatrical performers, conductors, composers, and ballet dancers over the course of 150...

The unique instrumentation of the three works in this album was pioneered by the innovative Lou Harrison, whose 1959 concerto encapsulates his culturally wide-ranging aesthetic. More conventional instruments work alongside calibrated extras such as wash...

The unfinished yet magnificent Tenth is a fitting climax to probably the most glorious and exceptional symphonic oeuvre; truly the spirit of music. The first movement was transcribed for piano by Ronald Stevenson, and with his guidance and encouragement,...