Chamber Music & Recitals

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...

The title "Seelen-Music" (Soul Music) refers to the first complete collection of all the extant Cantatas by Johann Theile for soprano solo with viol accompaniment, presented here with the recording premieres of Sacred Concertos by Theile's fellow...

The title "Bach Organ Landscapes" heralds a new complete recording of Bach's organ works, to be released over the next few years. The project is planned round ten historic organ builders who played a part in the life of Johann Sebastian Bach. No other...

The title "Bach Organ Landscapes" heralds a new complete recording of Bach's organ works, to be released over the next few years. The project is planned round ten historic organ builders who played a part in the life of Johann Sebastian Bach. No other...

The 'time of breakthroughs' contained in the title of the album, which is the key for the selection of the repertoire recorded on it, can be interpreted on multiple levels. On the one hand, it refers to the period of rebirth of Poland - to one of the...

The three works that make up this highly attractive program from Trio Isimsiz's Michael Petrov and Erden Misirlioglu span a century. Franck's sonata, in it's officially sanctioned transcription for cello, was taken from his popular violin sonata of 1886...

The three works on this second volume of Raff's piano works come from the very pinnacle of his career. The 1871 Fantasie Sonata is a fascinating and richly imaginative hybrid, whilst the Variations on an Original Theme is marked by fertility of invention...