Chamber Music & Recitals

The second volume in violinist Tomas Cotik and pianist Tao Lin's Complete Works for Violin and Piano of Franz Schubert, recorded in 2013 at Gusman Concert Hall in Coral Gables, FL, features the duo exploring his set of three Sonatas, D. 384 in D, D. 385...

The second volume in this series reveals once again the amazing flair that Japanese composers have for the guitar. It also explores the ways in which the more traditional aspects of the country's music are brought into the sphere of the classical guitar...

The second volume in this series (Volume1is on 8.574005) continues to explore little-known examples of Auber's elegant and refined operatic music. Julie was his first stage work, it's fantasia-like beauty foreshadowing the operas, op?ras-comiques and...

The second volume in Somm Recordings' complete survey of Charles Villiers Stanford's eight String Quartets sees the Dante Quartet return with first recordings of the Third, Fourth and Seventh Quartets. Stanford came late to the string quartet form,...

The second son by Johann Sebastian Bach' first wife, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a prolific and often original composer by the conservative standards of the times. Admired by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, he developed the style known as empfindsamer.1...

The second release of Ivo Varbanov on ICSM Records (ICSM Records 004) presents early piano works by Johannes Brahms: his Piano Sonata no. 1 in C major, Op. 1, the Scherzo, Op. 4, and the four Ballades, Op. 10. All three piano works were performed at...

The second of three volumes containing some of the greatest piano music ever written, played by Schubert specialist Anthony Goldstone. This is perhaps the greatest version of the work I have ever encountered, either live or on disc. (review in Fanfare...

The second of three settings that can firmly be attributed to Durante, the G minor Requiem is dated 27 November 1738, by which time the composer was established as a senior figure in the vibrant and fast-moving culture of 18th-century Naples. Durante was...

The second installment of the recording of Schubert's complete string quartets by the German Diogenes Quartet, featuring two early quartets: The B-flat D112 and the E major D353, 'Hausmusik.' It includes a world premiere for the Overture D470, an...

The Second Book of Madrigals of Carlo Gesualdo provides the focal point for the latest in La Compagnia del Madrigale's stunning reappraisals of the glories of the Italian madrigal on Glossa. Probably written by Gesualdo between the time of the double...

The second album in Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Schumann series with the London Symphony Orchestra travels from glorious fanfare to dream-like passages with the lively Spring and Rhenish symphonies. From the dramatic first trumpet-call which awakens the...

The second album in Lars Vogt's Johannes Brahms concerto series with the Royal Northern Sinfonia includes Brahms' 2nd Piano Concerto combined with a solo piano work, Handel Variations Op. 24, which was dedicated to Clara Schumann by the composer. Brahms'...