Chamber Music & Recitals

The practice of composing for two keyboard instruments, very common in the illustrious Bach family, naturally achieved it's apotheosis with Johann Sebastian, whose three concertos for two harpsichords are performed here by Olivier Fortin and Emmanuel...

The powerful and amazingly varied music of Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff, whose art was suppressed by the Nazi regime and who died in captivity in 1942, is given stirring performances by brilliant young players from the Colburn School, Los Angeles'...

The positive response to Capriccio's first recording of his Piano Quartet and Piano Quintet (C5390) has enabled this series to be continued now with three works representative of Labor's oeuvre from the early 1890s. In Vienna, Labor was part of Johannes...

The Portuguese composer and pianist ?scar da Silva (1870-1958) was one of the major figures in Portuguese and Brazilian musical life in the first half of the twentieth century He left an extensive legacy of compositions for his instrument, cast in a soft...

The portrait of the British composer Rebecca Saunders, who lives in Germany, begins with her 2011 two-part violin concerto Still written in 2011. It was premiered at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn (with Carolin Widmann as soloist). The chamber music...

The popular overture from Vaughan Williams' incidental music for Aristophanes' the Wasps introduces a suite whose mischievously witty, noble and farcical movements underline the play' satire of the Athenian legal system.1. I. Overture 2. II. Entr'acte 3...

The Polyphonia Ensemble Berlin, which was founded by musicians from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, presents French chamber music from around 1900 on this recording. The featured composers - Th?odore Dubois, Vincent d'Indy and Andr? Caplet -...

The Polonaise in C-sharp minor, Op. 26 No. 1 and the Polonaise in E-flat minor, Op. 26 No. 2 were composed by Fr?d?ric Chopin in 1836. Both of them were dedicated to Josef Dessauer. Both Polonaises require considerable technique and stamina to be...

The Polish tenor Tadeusz Szlenkier joined by pianist Mariusz Rutkowski in a collection of Italian popular easy listening songs.

The Polish ensemble Diletto, in a collection of sacred works that in keeping with the title indeed spotlights lesser known composers who bridged the Baroque and Classical eras. Well known during their lifetimes, the vagaries of fame and circumstance has...

The Polish composer Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) is best remembered for a handful of virtuoso piano pieces, but he also produced a substantial body of orchestral music, most of it unperformed for decades. Astonishingly, he was only in his early twenties...

The Polish composer Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) is best remembered for a handful of virtuoso piano pieces, but he also produced a substantial body of orchestral music, most of it unperformed for a century or more. The first volume in this first-ever...