Chamber Music & Recitals

The roots of handbells as musical instruments go back to the 17th century England where the first miniature copies of church bells were cast. First designed as practice instruments for the carillon players, they soon acquired the status of independent...

The Romantic Leygraf- This headline might raise a few eyebrows. This is the second volume in the archive series with legendary Swedish pianist Hans Leygraf (1920-2011). Leygraf was known worldwide for his meticulous work with classics such as Haydn,...

The Roaring Whirl is a musical journey across the North Indian Punjab - the setting for Rudyard Kipling's 'Kim'. The work was originally commissioned by clarinetist Geraldine Allen as a piece to take on tour, and she approached composer Sarah Rodgers for...

THE RIVER OF TIME, Navona Records' latest release, is a captivating tour de force by conductor Mike Fansler and the Western Illinois University Wind Ensemble. Recorded by legendary engineer Bruce Leek - whose recording portfolio includes the President's...

The Riva series is essential for anyone interested in Spanish piano music. This final volume in the Naxos edition of Granados' complete piano music begins with the composer's final work, an impassioned and colourful transcription.1. No. 1. Jeunesse...

The Richter-Ensemble plays music from the 17th to the 20th century exclusively on gut strings and uses it's experience with historical performance practice to sharpen the sense for the development of musical language over the centuries. It is...

The richest single source of Tudor polyphony, preserving almost 170 works many of which survive nowhere else, is a set of manuscript partbooks copied between about 1575 and 1581 by John Baldwin, a lay clerk at St George's Chapel, Windsor. This album is...

The rich variety of colors and rhythms in South American culture and music are an essential feature of this program, which focuses largely on music by composers from the Ecuadorian Andes. Opening with Durn's popular and crowd-pleasing Leyenda incsica,...

The rich profusion of musical idioms employed by Pancho Vladigerov, filtered through the prism of his dazzlingly virtuoso piano writing, makes for some exciting listening. Nadejda Vlaeva responds thrillingly to the extreme pianistic challenges.1...

The RIAS Kammerchor Berlin and it's chief conductor Justin Doyle present Handel's Messiah, together with the Akademie f?r Alte Musik Berlin and an all-British quartet of outstanding soloists, consisting of Julia Doyle (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor),...

The Rhine is where Richard Wagner's cycle of operas Der Ring des Nibelungen" begins and ends - and it was beside the Rhine in 1851 that the composer first dreamed of this equally visionary and monumental work. Even if Wagner's plans for a festival would...

The Rhine is where Richard Wagner's cycle of operas Der Ring des Nibelungen" begins and ends - and it was beside the Rhine in 1851 that the composer first dreamed of this equally visionary and monumental work. Even if Wagner's plans for a festival would...