Chamber Music & Recitals

The Quatuor Van Kuijk celebrates the tenth anniversary of it's creation and it's sixth recording for Alpha with a complete set of Mendelssohn's quartets, of which this is the first volume: it opens with the Quartet op.13, composed in 1827, when he was...

The Quatuor pour la fin du temps counts as one of the harrowing musicals heritages of a horrible past history. Messiaen wrote it in 1941 while caught in a German concentration camp, and based the work on resources available. The work, which is more than...

The Quartet No. 3 "... Songs are Sung," Op. 67 by Henryk Mikolaj G?recki belongs to the late works of the composer, and for a long time it was considered to be his last opused work. It was composed in the '90s on commission of the Kronos ensemble. The...

The pure polyphonic quality of J.S. Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias cannot be overstated - they offer an agile introduction to late-baroque musical forms and imitative writing in general, while retaining a cantabile feel. These exquisite miniatures,...

The pupil Beethoven was here! - the young piano virtuoso Ignaz Moscheles caught sight of this sentence in block letters on a note in the house of his teacher Antonio Salieri, Kapellmeister to the Viennese court. "A man like Beethoven still has something...

The publishing of this complete edition of Giuseppe Tartini's Violin Concertos (with the addition of two concertos each for cello and flute) is both a triumph for Dynamic label, which in it's 36 years of activity has built a considerable catalogue of...

The published works of Semyon Alexeyevich Barmotin (1877-1939) date from a particularly rich flowering of Russian culture that preceded the Revolution of 1917. From the Romantic expansiveness of the Piano Sonata, Op. 4 to the colorful and reflective...

The publication of Vivaldi's Opus 3, 'L'estro armonico' - 'the Harmonic Inspiration', was the international breakthrough of Vivaldi that spread the composer's name and reputation across Europe. Although one would be hard-pressed to claim that none of the...

The publication of this anniversary box set celebrating 60 years of Musiques Nouvelles, a true collector's item, brings the 30-year collection of Cypres to a close in the most beautiful way. The 45 masterpieces recorded here reflect the beautiful...

The Psalmes, Songs and Sonnets of 1611 was William Byrd's final publication. And what a superbly fitting culmination to a lifetime of musical service it is! As well as being packed with variety and invention - including both sacred and secular music and...

The provocative and beguiling Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (LCCE) comprises the cr?me de la cr?me of the San Francisco Bay Area's musicians. Their motto: nothing is out of bounds, and anything is possible. Presenters of all types of music including small...

The proverbial crazy years between the two world wars produced a Parisian institution that still exists today: The bar "Le Búuf sur le toit," since 1922 a meeting place for artists and intellectuals with a pronounced penchant for the unconventional. If...