Chamber Music & Recitals

The seductively charming sound of the Baroque-era viola d'amore takes center stage in this new, all-Vivaldi recording with Billboard classical chart-topping violinist Rachel Barton Pine and the veteran Chicago-based period instrument ensemble Ars...

The seductive, addictive potential of this music can be heard and felt straight away. His film music, an important pillar of his livelihood, embodies almost everything that characterizes Schnittke's music as a whole. It heralds a musical personality...

The seductive sound and renewed interest in the Tango has brought the music of the Argentinian composer, Astor Piazzolla, into the world of the popular classics. His large catalogue of works is unique in using the Tango as the basis for all of his...

The Secret Garden offers a voyage of discovery into the songs of Alexander Dargomyzhsky - a much admired Russian composer of the 19th century. His chamber vocal compositions, some of which are written to original French and Italian texts, provide an...

The second volume of Giovanni Bellucci's Beethoven cycle for Brilliant Classics takes the listener on a journey of six eventful years, from Op.22 of 1800 to the 'Appassionata' Sonata of 1806. During that time Beethoven established himself as Vienna's...

The second volume of French works for clarinet and harp featuring works by Jean-Baptiste Bedart, Paul Veronge de la Nux, Gabriel Pierne, Serge Lancen and Laurent Coulomb.1. Jean Baptiste Bedart: Duo I. Allegro 2. Jean Baptiste Bedart: Duo II. Andante...

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...