Chamber Music & Recitals

The period ensemble Orpheus Britannicus, with director Andrew Arthur, is joined by the renowned Baroque trumpeter Robert Farley for this fascinating album of works for his instrument. Charting the rise of the trumpet within art music during the Baroque...

The period covered by these recordings was a momentous one for Fritz Kreisler as the ascent of the Nazis meant he was frozen out of German musical life. In 1930 he had managed to re-record a long sequence of titles in HMV's Berlin studios that had been...

The performers in Kurzwellen react to the completely unforeseeable events which they receive on short-wave radios while performing on their instruments. But this is not improvisation. Stockhausen's score instructs them how to transform what they hear:...

The performances of Haydn's op. 20 on these discs are exemplary. Impeccable intonation, attention to detail, expressive dynamics, clarity of inner part-writing, and sensible tempos are coupled with a sufficiently fresh approach to make these discs a...

The performance of Cavalleria Rusticana republished in this album took place in the hometown of Mascagni, Livorno, on the occasion of the centenary of the premiere, which took place in 1890 in Rome, at the Teatro Costanzi. Already scheduled for some...

The Pera Ensemble, the recipient of enthusiastic critical reactions on account of it's "refined mixture of fragrances and flavors" and "a two-way exploration and enrichment of soundscapes", takes it's name from a district of Istanbul which has been a...

The People United Will Never Be Defeated! By the left-wing composer and pianist Frederic Rzewski is a landmark in American piano literature. The work comprises 36 variations on a protest song of the same name by the Chilean composer Sergio Ortega.1. No...

The penultimate album in the critically acclaimed Vaughan Williams symphony cycle from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrew Manze features the Symphony No.1, entitled 'A Sea Symphony.' Set to words by Walt Whitman, it premiered in 1910...

The pedal harp was presented in 1749 in a concert spiritual in Paris with unexpected, sensational success. Contrary to the earlier rattling, clattering harps equipped with a "manual switch", the semitones on the newly invented harp could be changed by...

The peculiarity of this release by the Austrian ensemble Pandolfis Consort playing on period instruments is that Mozart's "Requiem" is presented here in the version for string quartet made by his contemporary Peter Lichtenthal, therefore going not only...

The Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra's fourth CD for Rivermont spotlights rare and delightful songs, rags, waltzes, and tangos from the Johnny Maddox collection of over 1,500 ragtime-era orchestrations. Andrew Greene and the PRSO have selected nearly...

The Peabody Conservatory Wind Ensemble' 150th Anniversary album Collage and it's acclaimed recording of the Carmina Burana Suite and other works have secured it's reputation as belonging 'among the very top wind bands in the US'.1. I. Moderately Fast...