Chamber Music & Recitals

The stories we tell, stemming from our experiences of people, places, and events, reveal how we understand and express the world around us. Composer Carl Vollrath presents works for clarinet and piano that depict his interpretations of past events and...

The still-dazzling piano pyrotechnics, the lush tone poems 2 CDs of the greatest works of Franz Liszt! Includes Hungarian Rhapsodies No. 2; Nocturne in a Flat Major from Liebestreume; Mephisto Waltz No. 1; Piano Concerto No. 2 in a Major; Prometheus;...

The Steinway used by TACET makes the three composers seem like contemporaries - that's how present and delicate this sound is. It fully meets the highest standards. How wonderful it is the way the grand piabno learns to sing under Mahler's and Reinecke's...

The starting-point for this unique recital is a true Mozart rarity, the Sonata for bassoon and cello K292 which Mozart wrote in 1775, pairing the bass members of string and wind families not to comic effect but rather demonstrating their expressive...

The starting point for Barbara Hannigan's third recording for Alpha is a work by G?rard Grisey (1946-98) that is particularly close to her heart. Grisey wrote: 'I conceived the Quatre Chants pour franchir le seuil [Four songs for crossing the threshold]...

The start of a major new series on Brilliant Classics - historically informed accounts of the violin sonatas by a Classical-era master of Rococo charm and invention. Boccherini, still in his mid-20s, dedicated his Op. 5 violin sonatas to the Parisian...

The Stamic Quartet's repertoire ranges from Baroque to 21st-century music, yet the ensemble mainly focuses on works dating from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. Following the revelatory premiere recording of Josef Bohuslav...

The St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the greatest works in the history of music. Whenever I study this epochal composition, I always ask myself the question: How can a work of music, which is performed each year in thousands of...

The St Catharine's Girls' Choir, Cambridge, with director Edward Wickham, celebrate ten years since their foundation with this album of works for upper voices. In marking the momentous occasion in 2008 when St Catharine's created the first college-based...

The spirit of Gustav Mahler looms over the pages of Shostakovich's turbulent, sprawling and enigmatic Symphony No. 4, a work so uncompromising that for many years he suppressed it's performance, fearing public censure. Mixing bombast with banality,...

The spirit of Amalgam is that no two chords, motives, lines, phrases, rhythms are exactly the same. Everything is transforming - everything is an amalgam. Amalgam unfolds a chain link of transformations, variations and outgrowths. Musical connections are...

The sparkling overture to Leonard Bernstein's 1956 musical Candide immediately found a prominent place in concert programs all over the world and is now one of his most frequently performed pieces. Many of Bernstein's best loved works drew inspiration...