Chamber Music & Recitals

The San Francisco Chronicle has called them 'today's finest piano duo.' the Boston Globe has said 'talent is what the Paratore Brothers are all about.' on one piano or two, Anthony and Joseph Paratore have electrified audiences all over the world, since...

The Salzburg Festival was founded in 1920. Ever since then artists and music lovers from around the world have been meeting annually at this crossroads of European culture. Much loved and often chided, the Salzburg Festival was exposed to many varied...

The Salzburg Chamber Soloists were formed by Lavard Skou-Larsen in 1991 with the goal of performing chamber music with the freedom and expression of soloists. Vivaldi's Four Seasons are instantly recognizable even to those with a low affinity for...

The Sacred Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart including H?ndel?s Messiah -transcription by Mozart. Reference recordings of various artists: Helmuth Rilling, Thomas Quasthoff, Christian Oelze, G?chinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Karl Richter,...

The sacred vocal music of Johann Caspar Kerll (1627-1693) has attracted it's fair share of attention, with recent recordings devoted to his Masses and the Requiem he composed in 1669 while still a court musician in his home city of Munich. However,...

The Saalfeld Saur organ is one of the four most important romantic organs in Thuringia. Compared to Bad Salungen, Ilmenau and Muhlhausen it is a link between the purely mechanical and the purely pneumatic organs. The instrument was built in 1894 as Opus...

The Russian-born Mischa Spoliansky (1898-1985) became one of the major names in cabaret in 1920s Berlin and then, as a refugee from Nazi Germany, in London, he became one of the best-known composers of film scores. He also wrote a handful of orchestral...

The Russian word romans ("romance") denotes an art song whose lyrics usually - but not always! - deal with the subject of Romantic love. A counterpart to the German Lied or French romance, the Russian romans embarked on it's journey late in the 18th...

The Russian violinist Evgeny Sviridov, winner of the MA Festival Bruges Competition in 2017, has chosen to devote his first recording to the sonatas of Giuseppe Tartini. As heir to the Baroque tradition of the early eighteenth century, Tartini developed...

The Russian viola sonata is a rare bird, not least because the instrument itself was frowned upon by the Soviet authorities, and as a result Russian music for the viola has a rather patchy history. It begins in earnest in 1931, when the 1825 Sonata by...

The Russian piano trio reached it's apogee with Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A minor, dedicated to the memory of Nikolay Rubinstein. A monumental piece in the repertoire, it is cast in only two movements, and was played at Tchaikovsky's own memorial...

The Russian pianist REM Urasin is most closely associated with Chopin, winning numerous prizes and performing every piece the composer wrote over the course of 11 concerts in 2009/2010. Here, though, he turns his attention to his native repertoire,...