Chamber Music & Recitals

The passing away of Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016), one of the most performed Finnish composers after Sibelius, left a deep void in the field of Finnish contemporary music. This new album by cellist Tanja Tetzlaff and pianist Gunilla S?ssmann includes...

The partnership between the late Viennese pianist Paul Badura-Skoda and Michel Bernstein, the French record producer who founded Arcana, proved to be one of the most fruitful and long-lasting relationships in the history of recording. Among their most...

The Partitas are the first work for harpsichord published by Johann Sebastian Bach. Between 1726 and 1730, the partitas were published separately, one per year, before being brought together in a single collection in 1731. Shortly after his appointment...

The Parnassi Musici ensemble never fails to surprise US with it's new programs especially with previously largely unknown German and Italian sonatas, presented in the finest musical style. This album features a selection from the Sonatas op.1 by...

The Paris of love and art. A poet, a painter, a musician and a philosopher. Living hand to mouth in a freezing garret. Christmas cheer and a heart won by girl next door. The tragedies of love and poverty. Puccini's best-loved opera is touching, comic,...

The pairing on this album is unquestionably apt, bringing together as it does works by perhaps the two most famous "aitas" (priests) in Basque music: Father Jos? Antonio de Donostia and Father Francisco de Madina. Whatever the similarities and...

The Paduan composer Giovanni Battista Bassani, a contemporary of Corelli, was a fine string player and organist. An important element in his compositional output is the cantate amorose ('love songs'). His 1684 collection Affetti canori cantate et ariette...

The overtures and preludes by Richard Wagner not only are masterly composed openings to his dramatic works - as independent pieces they are also among the most popular compositions of the 19th century. For the first studio record of the new label...

The Overture from 1943 is an excellent reflection of the principles adopted by the composer, realized also in her later pieces: dense and disciplined, based on the classic three-part scheme of Allegro - Andante - Allegro.1. Ouvert?re 2. Cellokonzert NR...

The outstanding pianist Anna Kavalerova's program on this release includes such masterpieces as the deeply philosophical Symphonic Etudes by Robert Schumann, Rachmaninov's highly emotional and tragic Variations on a Theme by Corelli, and brilliant...

The outstanding musical significance of Johann Rosenm?ller, who was said to be able to merge Italian sensuality and German "gravitas" in his compositions in the most harmonious way, was already undisputed among his contemporaries. He studied in Leipzig,...

The output of Marcel Dupr? (1886-1971) is so vast and various that only scholars and fellow organists can expect to grasp it's scale. Most listeners require a discerning ear to pull out some of the many highlights. The Italian organist Alessandro Perin...