Chamber Music & Recitals

The organ works of Axel Ruoff, born in Stuttgart in 1957, constitute one of the most important contributions to the literature for the instrument by any composer since Messiaen, with Ruoff often using it's unparalleled resources to write music of...

The organ was a formative part of Edward Elgar's musical upbringing, and for a time he was organist at St George's Catholic Church in Worcester. The symphonic scale and distinctive themes of the First Sonata contrast with the more liturgical atmosphere...

The organ sonatas of Josef Rheinberger still feature large in the repertoire of church organists everywhere, thanks to their attractive melodies and fluent writing for the instrument. Rheinberger's industry and his skill as a teacher have overshadowed...

The Organ Sonata by Elgar is relatively well-known, not least thanks to it's orchestration by Gordon Jacob, but the only other work he originally composed for organ is the Cantique Op.3 No.1, which moves solidly forward in the Victorian tradition without...

The organ of the minster in the Benedictine Abbey of Zwiefalten was built in the fifties by the Biberach organ builder company Reiser. On this recording Franz L?rch presents the instrument with works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt, C?sar Franck...

The organ of the Badia Fiorentina monastery in the centre of Florence is one of the finest surviving examples of an Italian renaissance organ, completed in 1558 by the Tuscan organ builder Onofrio Zeffirini. The characteristically Italian timbre of the...

The organ music of Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-83) presents a meeting of contrasts: it can at the same time be both angular and lyrical, and it spans an enormous dynamic range, from intimate delicacy to sheer, raw, hieratic power. Her reputation as one of...

The organ in St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town, came from St. Margaret's, Westminster in 1909. Parts of this instrument date from 1675, and it has undergone several rebuilds, extensions, and work up until 1988. This first solo recording of the William...

The organ duo Marion Krall and Lars Schwarze take us to enchanted lands with their new GENUIN album, playing their own transcriptions of great orchestral works for organ with four hands and four feet. Since the Baroque era, orchestral works have been...

The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Mikko Franck continue their collaboration with Alpha Classics and here invite the Ma?trise and Chúur de Radio France to join them in a Debussy program. This recording couples La Damoiselle ?lue, a work...

The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Mikko Franck continue their collaboration with Alpha and here invite one of the label's flagship pianists, Nelson Goerner. The programme is devoted to Richard Strauss, coupling several of the German...

The orchestral works on this recording include two of Xenakis' adventurous spatialized works along with Metastaseis, the work with which he emerged onto the international avant-garde scene. Metastaseis A is the original version, which is better known by...