Chamber Music & Recitals

The prodigious Norwegian treble Aksel Rykkvin returns to the recording studio with a new album of Baroque works, accompanying the MIN Ensemble under trumpeter Mark Bennett and the ensemble director Lazar Miletic. Featuring both instrumental pieces and...

The process, we could call an alchemical metamorphosis, of the transformation of human breath into sound and then into music, is what has made the trumpet one of the most fascinating and most emotional instruments since ancient times. It is no...

The process behind this work originates from when Oslo Cathedral commissioned a large scaled work by Nils Henrik Asheim for the inauguration of the church's new main pipe organ in 1998. The composer suggested including a choir to create a cycle of texts...

The prizewinning Copenhagen Piano Quartet presents works by composers cosmopolitan and conservative, but each brimming with charm. German-born Friedrich Kuhlau was a leading figure in what posterity has dubbed the Danish Golden Age. From the outset,...

The prestigious Schola Cantorum of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, London, returns to it's prime vocation with music from the liturgical choir tradition. These gems cover almost 400 years of British music, from Purcell to Britten (the enchanting...

The Presses Universitaires de France and Fr?meaux & Associ?s present this history of the Vendeans, analyzed and explained by Jean-Cl?ment Martin, professor emeritus at the University of Paris 1, specialist in the history of the French Revolution, the...

The Presses Universitaires de France and Fr?meaux & Associ?s offer this biography of Cleopatra, by Christian-Georges Schwentzel, specialist in the Hellenistic and Roman Middle East. Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt (69-30 BC), is an exception in the...

The Presses Universitaires de France and Fr?meaux & Associ?s offer this biography of Charles V by J?r?me H?lie, associate professor of history, professor at the Henry IV high school and lecturer at Sciences-Po Paris. A model of the megalomaniac conqueror...

The present trio sonatas for transverse flute, violin and basso continuo by Christoph Georg Wagenseil, who was one of the most famous Viennese composers of his time, are all conceived in three movements according to the usual sonata scheme of fast - slow...

The present release, performed by SOFIA STRING QUARTET of the Bulgarian National Radio and the pianist Victor Chouchkov, continues the series Bulgarian Musical Heritage, which aims to recall the creative achievements of performers and composers who had a...

The present release synthesizes some stages characterizing the composition path of Pier Paolo Scattolin: from a cappella vocality to instrumentalism with stylistic dynamics sometimes distant but all having in common the research on sound, from the...

The present release presents three of the most well known and most performed concertos for oboe in the instrument's repertoire. It is often said that the classical era is full of intrigue and mystery, and the history of music is no exception. However,...