Chamber Music & Recitals

The tenor Julian Pregardien joins ALPHA for several recording projects that will showcase every facet of his talent, notably lieder and oratorio. His first album on the label is devoted to one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of music,...

The Tennessee Tech University School of Music is proud to present the TTU Faculty Contemporary Chamber Ensemble in it's premiere performance. This special ensemble, made up exclusively of faculty members from the School of Music, was formed in the Fall...

The tangos of legendary performer and composer Astor Piazzolla are informed by a multicultural upbringing which saw him introducing the influences of Classical, Jazz, Rock and Klezmer music into a unique Nuevo Tango style which still sounds fresh and...

The talented Chemirani family - Keyvan, Bijan and Maryam - have recorded an album called H?l (pronounced 'Hol'), which explores the intersection of Iranian, Indian and Irish music. Subtitled 'Love ballads', it features love poems with texts sung in...

The talented American composer JOHN PATRICK THOMAS presents his new work "How It Goes On", together with the enchanting soprano voice of JULIA HENNING and the great organist CONSTANZE KOWALSKI, an atmospheric album with exciting sounds.

The tale of Hans Winterberg (1901-91) is a strange one. A survivor of the Terez?n concentration camp, where he had been interned as a Czech Jew, he settled in Munich after the War as a German citizen, and his music enjoyed a number of broadcasts - but...

The Takcs Quartet have recorded much of the great Classical and Romantic quartet repertoire during their fruitful career. Now they turn to three masterpieces of the twentieth century. Benjamin Britten's three String Quartets span the composer's life, the...

The 'tablature of Jan of Lublin', as this significant collection is commonly known, belonged to the monastery of Canons Regular in the Polish city of Kras?nik near Lublin, and was bound in 1540. The owner and primary scribe was this Jan, or Johannes, of...

The Symphony No. 5, which came about over a very short time period some twelve years after beginning his career, today one of Tchaikovsky's most popular works. As early as the world premi?re in St. Petersburg it was already a great public success. More...

The Symphony No. 3, called the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, for solo soprano and orchestra, Op. 36 by Henryk Mikolaj G?recki (1976) is often mentioned in different contexts as one of the most original masterpieces of 20th-century music not only to come...

The Symphony No. 1 in D minor op. 9 belongs to Dohnnyi's early years of success. Among all the influences of the late Romantic tradition, that by Brahms' music can be discerned here once more. From it, Dohnnyi forms a kind of early Neo-Romanticism that...

The Symphony in E major (D 729) from the summer of 1821 is one of five unfinished symphonies by Franz Schubert. Recently it has often been counted as Schubert's 7th symphony. Unlike his other symphonic fragments, the symphony in E major exists in a...