Chamber Music & Recitals

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...

The set of Six Concerti Armonici for strings and basso continuo, published without ascription in the Hague in 1749, is such good music that it has seldom been out of circulation since, through it's authorship has been a mystery until recently. The...

The series of the complete Mahler Symphonies with the D?sseldorf Symphonic under the baton of ?dm Fischer continues here with the release of the Symphony No. 9. Over the last two years ?dm Fischer's Mahler recordings grew to a most successful recording...

The series of Mozart symphonies, recorded by Johannes Klumpp with "his" Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen at GENUIN, enters the second round. The tradition-steeped orchestra now juxtaposes the first and last symphonies of the Viennese composer of choice:...

The series 'L'Oreille de...' from Cypres and the Huelgas Ensemble, that began with "L'Oreille de Zurbarn" and "L'h?ritage de Petrus Alamire," juxtaposes the music of a particular period and the creative world of a contemporaneous painter, scribe or...

The Serenata a 3, RV 690, is the least familiar and in certain respects the most enigmatic of the Vivaldi serenatas. The sole surviving source is the autograph manuscript of the score, preserved at the Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria of Turin. Many of...

The Serbian-American Paris-based pianist Ivan Ilic has signed a new multi-album recording contract with Chandos Records, following internationally acclaimed recordings of works by Godowsky and Feldman. His first project on the label is a series devoted...