Chamber Music & Recitals

The Symphonies for the king's soupers are emblematic of Versailles and of the greatest king in the world. What other Prince would assemble the 24 king's violins and the winds of his royal ?curie for his meal? With the luxury of an opera orchestra, here...

The symphonic poems Smetana wrote during his stay in Sweden were composed during a pivotal time in his life. Financial prospects at first seemed better in Gothenberg than in his native country, while the dual influences of Berlioz and Liszt were...

The symphonic output of George Antheil, the self-proclaimed 'bad boy of music', is further investigated by the BBC Philharmonic and it's Chief Guest Conductor, John Storg?rds, in the second album of the series. Following his early experimentations with...

The sylloge proposed in this album contains five quartets belonging to different years. Each of them has been composed on the basis of common formal characteristics, but each of them develops it's own peculiarities too. The variety of musical choices,...

The Swiss-Chinese pianist Melodie Zhao teams up with the Camerata Schweiz and Howard Griffiths on this complete recording of Joseph Haydn's concertos for keyboard instruments - for harpsichord, for pianoforte, and surprisingly also for organ. Although...

The Swiss writer Friedrich D?rrenmatt, whose birth centenary was in 2021, is the protagonist of the second instalment of the MUSIC & WORDS series proposed by Facundo Agud?n and Musique des Lumi?res in collaboration with IBS Classical. The ensemble, whose...

The Swiss Piano Trio's sixth and final release featuring works for piano trio by Ludwig van Beethoven presents two early masterworks and real rarities: adaptations for piano trio of Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 and his String Quintet Op. 4, based on his...

The Swiss pianist, editor and writer, Walter Rehberg (1900-1957) was a mainstay of the German Polydor label in the 1920s & 1930s, but his work has never before been transferred to modern recording formats, and as a result he has faded from view. He was...

The Swiss musician See Siang Wong presents a compendium of new Swiss piano music in the form of works composed for him from 2001-04. Born in Holland in 1979, the Neue Z?rcher Zeitung described pianist See Siang Wong as a "subtle sound painter". He made...

The Swiss harpsichordist Michel Kiener presents his interpretation of the timeless classic, Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Michel Kiener undertook both his piano and harpsichord studies in the classes of Louis Hiltbrand (1972) and IsabelleßNefß(1975) at...

The Swiss composer ?mile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) is best remembered for his development of Eurhythmics, which teaches the appreciation of music through movement. The buoyant miniatures recorded here document his fascination with dance, including a...

The Swiss composer ?mile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) is best remembered for his development of Eurhythmics, which teaches the appreciation of music through movement. But Jaques-Dalcroze, who studied with Delibes and Faur? in Paris and with Bruckner and...