Chamber Music & Recitals

The tradition of qawwali, originally limited to mausoleums and brotherhoods, has now spread everywhere, carried by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan -an exceptional performer: Sufi poems and incandescent lyricism. While the Mongols conquered by the sword and...

The touch and musicianship of the Hungarian pianist Klra W?rtz is amply attested by a substantial catalogue of Brilliant Classics and Piano Classics albums stretching from Mozart to Bart?k. Her latest recording turns to a pillar of the keyboard...

The Toronto-based period-instrument ensemble Tafelmusik has built in it's special field a reputation as solid as those of the New York or Berlin philharmonics, declared The Washington Post, while the New York Times praised it's impeccable discipline and...

The Toronto-based Elora Festival Singers, conducted by their founder and internationally acclaimed director Noel Edison, are one of the most exciting of contemporary choirs. + Their disc of Eric Whitacre's choral music (8.559677) was nominated for a...

The Toronto Latvian Concert Association is pleased to offer this recording as a tribute to the significant contribution made by Canadians of Latvian heritage to music and culture in Canada. All three composers represented here found a welcoming refuge in...

The topics of death, mourning and consolation move people more than ever. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this theme has come upon us in a cruel and numbing way. The music and lyrics of this new album from Elena Margolina and Boris Hait want to be...

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...