Chamber Music & Recitals

The Six Suites for Solo Cello by J S Bach composed around 1720, are generally regarded as the first and greatest masterpieces ever written for the instrument. Their scope is vast and ingenious. Although most of the time, only one note is played,...

The six Suites are today the musical bible of cellists, the work with which they touch the sky, the limit which marks their arrival to absolute maturity. And this is how Asier Polo also approaches it. His interpretation goes to the essential. It is...

The six Sonatas, which are often described as 'Trio Sonatas for Organ,' hold a unique place in Bach's oeuvre. In a sense, 'trio' is the most natural organ texture: right hand, left hand, and feet each takes one line of counterpoint. However, in the six...

The six sonatas featured in this recording are neo-Romantic pieces by composers who lived well into the twentieth century. Almost all are youthful works by composers in the first flowering of their careers. Both the Strauss cello and the Barber violin...

The Six Recorder Sonatas by George Frideric Handel are a compendium of the recorder's original literature, and have an exceptional position because of their beauty. They're typically Handelian in character, in that the upper voice is very vocal, like his...

The Six Partitas, BWV 825-830 were the first of a series of works for keyboard instruments that Bach published under the general title of Clavier?bung (Keyboard Practice). They consist of a set of six harpsichord suites, are amongst the last set of...

The six keyboard sonatas played here by Jenny Soonjin Kim are the only known instrumental works by the German composer Johann Friedrich Doles, Jr., as well as the only compositions of his ever to be published. Born in Freiberg near Dresden in 1746, Doles...

The six Cello Suites represent J. S. Bach's genius at it's most distilled, with the composer confronting the enigma of writing counterpoint for a monophonic instrument at it's core. Jeffrey McFadden's arrangement for guitar enhances the music, adding a...

The six cello suites on this recording have their parallel in six sonatas for solo violin, also from Bach's time in Kothen, before he moved to Leipzig. On the title page of the violin sonatas the composer wrote Libro primo. The original manuscript of the...

The six cello suites of J. S. Bach performed on the solo viola by the American violist Lillian Fuchs (1901-95). Also featuring the Mozart Duo for violin and viola in B-flat, K.424, and the Three Madrigals for violin and viola by the 20th-century Czech...

The singer-songwriter, storyteller, author and musician Linard Bardill sings and writes in Swiss German, German and Romansh, for children and adults. The Graub?nden native received the German Cabaret Prize and the Salzburg Bull for his music, and the...

The singers in a rainforest are like a group of musicians hidden in their orchestra pit. You can hear a great many birds in French Guiana, but actually see only a few. The trees are so tall and the vegetation is so lush that these birds remain hidden in...