Chamber Music & Recitals

The Swiss Baroque composer Johann Melchior Gletle's motets are among the most notable music to survive from that era. Although Gletle's musical background and much of his biography is obscured in the mists of passing centuries, it is known that Gletle...

The Swedish award-winning string orchestra, Musica Vitae, directed by violinist Malin Broman and accompanied by pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips, is showcased here in a sparkling performance of Felix Mendelssohn's challenging Concerto for Violin, Piano...

The surviving musical edition of Dutch Golden Age "Renaissance Man", Constantijn Huygens receives a fresh new recording from a singer who has become a connoisseur of vocal music from the seventeenth century: Cyril Auvity. The remarkable Huygens, alive...

The supernatural drifts of the compositions brought together in this recording, served by the power and playing technique of Severine Ballon, reveal unexpected facets of expressiveness in the contemporary cello. Fully engaged in the renewal of its...

The superb Richard Casey, most notable for his recording for Prima Facie of the complete Works of Peter Maxwell Davies, explores an altogether different territory in the music of Paul Newland. Paul paints a vivid but bleak and minimalist landscape in his...

The suite is a crazy blend: it is cerebral and at the same time down-to-earth, archaic and modern at once, regional and universal, melancholy and energetic, harsh and tender, simple and difficult, contemplative and carefree, brilliant and mischievous- an...

The sublime early-instrument ensemble Trio Settecento (1700s Trio) took listeners on an unprecedented country-by-country Grand Tour of the European Baroque through a series of four recordings, issued individually between 2007 and 2012. Now the entire...

The stylistic pluralism which informs so much contemporary choral writing pays rich dividends in the work of Jaakko M?ntyj?rvi. This thrilling program from Trinity College Choir Cambridge and Stephen Layton is filled with exciting, accessible,...

The stylish idiom and sensitivity of this period string ensemble's previous recordings for Brilliant Classics has won wide critical praise. Concerning their 5-album set of Locatelli's Sonatas Opp. 8 & 12: 'Brilliant's collection should prove a most...

The STUMM family stands alongside Schnitger and Silbermann as one of Germany's most famous organ-building dynasties. It was founded by Johann Michael STUMM. He and five generations of his descendants built some 400 organs between Cologne and Karlsruhe,...

The struggle of dialects to be acknowledged with the same dignity as languages with a literature of their own has been a long one, and yet it seems forgotten by many. With this in mind and after a long quest for the sources of his own music, Donato...

The string quartets of Donizetti and Verdi, and the oboe concerto of Bellini, represent rare overlaps between the fields of operatic and instrumental music in 19th-century Italy. Moving into the 20th century, the operas of Respighi have gained a toe-hold...