Chamber Music & Recitals

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...

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...