Chamber Music & Recitals

The very special mixture of virtuosity and melancholy, so characteristic for the British way of making music, is clearly dominated by composers like John Dowland or Britten, Henry Purcell or the Beatles. So, by arranging the tunes written by Jimmy Page...

The very present sound image underlines the playing of the musicians, as clear as it is free of ornateness, so that the effect of the interpretations is not only thanks to their musical ability, but to the recording technology that has captured Haydn's...

The very first audition brought Oliver Mascarenhas to the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover in 1997. This was followed by a busy concert schedule, radio and television productions, and successes at international competitions. On his first album production,...

The Vertavo Quartet is recognized as one of the most exciting and experienced string quartets of our time. On this new release, the Quartet tackles works by Giuseppe Verdi and Jean Sibelius. While Verdi does not attempt to emulate the rigorous...

The version submitted by Howard Arman for the Bavarian Radio Chorus is based on surviving Mozart sources as well as on S??mayr's additions; in several places, however, it reaches new conclusions that are implemented with due caution and humble respect...

The Venetian-born Antonio Caldara was the son of Giuseppe Caldara, a violinist and, allegedly, a youthful pupil of Giovanni Legrenzi. For more than thirty-five of the forty years of his creative life, vocal music - whether in the shape of cantatas,...

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...