Chamber Music & Recitals

The programme of this disc brings together pieces by Italian authors from the first half of the 17th century, both vocal and instrumental pieces, here performed by a period guitar ensemble. Many of the included works are signed by lesser-known composers,...

The programme of chamber music presented on this album essentially comprises a set of rarities, that is to say, compositions that are barely known in such arrangements or have rarely been recorded, brilliantly performed here by musicians who are experts...

The program takes you on a wonderful journey through Baroque Italy, illuminating compositions of different colors written for recorder and basso continuo. Some of the great music centers of the time - Milan, Venice and Naples - are visited and the...

The program put together by the Viennese cellist Peter Hudler for his album "Cello on Fire" aims to create a space for passion, freedom, but also for poetry that the cello can express more than almost any other instrument. This spark of passion can be...

The profound and delightful Partitas, Bach's Opus 1, sparkle in Eleonor Bindman's brilliant performance. Her unhurried tempos bring out the twists, turns and quick modulations of the dance movements and preludes of this unparalleled set of six suites -...

The production with tenor Markus Sch?fer and his accompanist Mihai Ungureanu, which bundles works by three important Romanian composers, is intended as a musical homage to Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950), who died much too early and whose unbroken fame as a...

The production of the award-winning composer Carlo Alessandro Landini is enriched with this publication of a sacred page - not common for the maestro - of rare difficulty. Difficulty due not only to the essence of a text like that of a mass, so full of...

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...