Chamber Music & Recitals

The Silk Road is one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilizations. Along this great Silk Road travelled not only the executors of trade, but also the cultures of nations, spiritual values and religious ideas. Silk has been one of...

The shadow of Johann Sebastian Bach looms large over the few compositions for organ by Johannes Brahms which escaped their composer's destructive hand around 1880. Several date back to Brahms' youth when in 1856 he studied the organ in Dusseldorf as a...

The sextuplet motive that opens Left at the Fork in the Road quickly yields to a dry accompaniment over which a flute intones a logical melody. A somber midsection pairs the flute and bassoon, who state a forlorn theme in unison - a rarity - while the...

The seventh, closing volume of Gergely Ittzes's flute sonata project places the middle of the twentieth century at it's center. The sonatas on the recordings in this series have so far been grouped according to their stylistic or national characteristics...

The seventh volume in this acclaimed series is devoted to two works of Alb?niz's early maturity. The 12 Piezas caracter?sticas is a cycle of exquisite miniatures encompassing a wide variety of styles, including the assimilation of Andalusian folk music...

The seventh release in the series of live concert recordings featuring the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra under conductor Paul M?gi presents a program of popular and well-known overtures by Gioacchino Rossini, including those from the opera La gazza ladra...

The seventeen string quartets of Weinberg span nearly half a century, from his student days in Warsaw to the end of his career in Moscow, and show his development as a composer more clearly than his work in any other genre. The Second Quartet, composed...

The seven works brought together on Vol. 4 of our complete recording of Kuhnau's cantatas offer a remarkable cross section featuring sacred works - and more. They have also been transmitted in all sorts of different ways. The spectrum ranges from extant...

The seven Lachrimae Pavan of 1604 are widely held to mark not only the high point of Dowland's work but the entire genre of viol consort music. Dowland takes a lamenting pavan that he had written some years earlier and develops it's theme into a cycle...

The Seven Deadly Sins is a satirical parable and the last co-operation between Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht. The present album is a re-release of the SWRmusic bestseller 93.109 having the outstanding Anja Silja as Anna. The 'sung ballet' is in nine...

The seven compositions commonly called works for lute by Johann Sebastian Bach, despite more than a century of studies, do not seem to want to completely reveal the mystery of their birth, of their real instrumental destination and of Bach's decidedly...

The set of six sonatas and partitas for solo violin is widely regarded as one of the summits of Bach's output as a composer, and of the entire repertoire for the violin. With this new album the Brodsky Quartet give us the opportunity to hear some of this...