Chamber Music & Recitals

The tonal language of Beethoven's Mass in C major, the first of his two Mass settings, is that of a personal confession, making the work very modern and forward-looking and opening up entirely new worlds of expression for the liturgical text. It is in no...

The Toccata seconda for piano (1933-34) belongs to an extraordinarily fertile decade in Sorabji's creative life that saw the composition of a series of gigantic works, from Opus Clavicembalisticum to the Symphonic Variations and Tantrik Symphony for solo...

The title of this new release translates as "Now you must give me wings!" The three-album celebration from vocalist Peter P. Pachl, flautist Uwe Mehlitz and pianist Rainer Maria Klaas focuses on melodrama from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Born in...

The title of this collection of David Dzubay's recent solo, chamber, and ensemble music comes from Toni Morrison: "You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods...

The title of this album translates to "They loved each other." Cornelia Lanz sings Lieder by Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms that reflect on the love the composers shared with their significant others. German mezzo-soprano Cornelia Lanz has...

The title of the CD had to be "Soccorsi" - this mellifluous Italian word, also the title of one of Morten Eide Pedersen's piano works. "Soccorsi" means supportive, helpful, and so was Morten: he who supported, created, and helped when called upon. With...

The title of Kevin Keller's latest album sounds like a Clifford Simak novel. Comforting but mysterious. Homespun yet majestic. Inspired by Keller's recent heart surgery, which included being on life support while having his heart deliberately stopped...

The title of French Suites does not originate from Bach's hand: they were called "Suites pour le clavessin" by the composer. To judge from the number of copies made by his pupils, they likely played a significant role in domestic music-making in Bach's...

The title of "The Decalogue" has a touch of the grandiose: it means "The Ten Commandments." Yet this score, composed by Sufjan Stevens for a dance work choreographed by Justin Peck that premiered with the New York City Ballet in May of 2017, is quiet and...

The title Jolanta Smolska. Nowe kroki - Inkubacja (Jolanta Smolska. New Steps - Incubation) is the call sign of a musical statement and verbal legitimization of the existence of 'here and now' as a decisive value. Incubation is an announcement of the...

The title for Andreas' third solo album came a couple of months before the pandemic. Andreas Ihleb?k - who was born in Oslo, but grew up in Hamburg and San Francisco, and who made his living as a writer/journalist travelling around the US, Asia, Spain...

The title "Zan Tontemiquico" is drawn from a poem by Tochihuitzin, a prince and poet who lived at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. The poem was written in Nhuatl, which was spoken in the present Mexico before the arrival of Spaniards. In a free...