Chamber Music & Recitals

The songs of Korean composer Young Jo Lee, chosen by singer Yoora Lee-Hoff for her Genuin debut, seem like enchanting ink drawings from the Far East. The fabulous coloratura soprano, accompanied by Michael Sch?tze on the piano, performs the little...

The songs of Dmitry Shostakovich reflect the process of allusion and concealment that permeated his larger-scale music, and this selection traces his musical career from lighthearted early experiments to his late work. Settings of the composer's most...

The Song of the Earth is Gustav Mahler's most personal composition, as the composer himself revealed. It takes on all it's twilight hues with St?phane Degout's vocal performance. Ardently conducted by Maxime Pascal, Le Balcon delivers a performance which...

The Song Company showcases a range of extraordinary vocal music from the northern European Renaissance, and with their small forces offer intimate and affectionate interpretations of lesser-known repertoire. The 1500s witnessed an unprecedented musical...

The sonatas recorded here encompass almost the entirety of Hans Werner Henze's creative life. Composed in difficult conditions just after WWII, the Violin Sonata covers the broadest range of human emotions, and is in some ways a study for the...

The sonatas on this album (except K311, this sonata was written in Mannheim) were composed in Munich as part of a cycle encompassing six sonatas. Mozart found himself in the Bavarian capital over the winter of 1774-1775 to produce his opera La finta...

The sonatas for violin and piano, which were composed on holidays to lakeside forests in the midst of sublime nature where Brahms loved to spend his summers, contain all the contradictions unique to the man who described himself as a wanderer: daring and...

The sonatas for piano and violin by Joseph Haydn have, up to now, barely been featured in concert programs, a fate they share with the sonatas of Johann Christian Bach and the early sonatas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. These works of beautiful violin and...

The sonata concertata form is perfectly illustrated in these trios by Dietrich Buxtehude which, according to Peter Wollny constitute 'a landmark in the history of the sonata'. They provide a better understanding of a composer who has owed his fame...

The son of the famous Bologna composer Giovanni Battista Vitali, Tomaso Antonio moved with his father to Modena in 1674, joining the court orchestra of Duke Francesco II d'Este, which he was later to lead, in the following year.1. Sonata 1 in D Major...

The son of Alessandro Scarlatti, who created a new school of opera in Naples, Domenico Scarlatti is particularly renowned for his remarkable keyboard sonatas, of which some 555 survive.1. Sonata in F Major, K.483/L.472/P.407 2. Sonata in F Major, K.542...

The son of Alessandro Scarlatti, who created a new school of opera in Naples, Domenico Scarlatti is particularly distinguished for his remarkable keyboard sonatas, of which some 555 are known.1. Keyboard Sonata in E Flat Major, K.193/L.142/P.254 2...