Chamber Music & Recitals

The name of Cor de Groot (1914-1993) adorned the cover of many LPs of canonic concertos and sonatas throughout the 1950s, when his qualities were summed up in High Fidelity magazine in a review of the first two concertos of Beethoven: 'De Groot is a...

The name of Claudio Veggio (1510-1543) would hardly be known were it not for the survival of the Manoscritto di Castell'Arquato, one of the earliest and most important collections of Italian keyboard music from the first half of the 16th century. The...

The name Elisabeth Lutyens is synonymous with music that is overtly serial, uncompromisingly modernist, and of daring and fearless individuality. Yet there is much to explore behind the naturally combative and provocative fa?ade of this extraordinary...

The name Astor Piazzolla may be forever linked with the tango, but the master composer/artist had another side that is finally revealed on this brand new release: chamber music. No kidding. Written primarily in the 1940s, before Piazzolla developed New...

The name Arcangelo Corelli still rings familiar even 300 years after his death. Of his pupils, however, who knew him and could pass on his style first hand, we have very little information. On this recording, in addition to a sonata by the Master, we...

The mythical figure of Pan is evoked by several composers on this album - explicitly so by Debussy, in his invocation to the Greek god which opens his set of six Epigraphes antiques and is here recorded for the first time in an arrangement for solo harp...

The myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus, as terrible as it is fascinating, has been retold by many artists over the centuries, including composers. This recording presents the first performance of Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne's opera in it's complete form since the...

The musicians on this album are some of the best in Canada. Pianist Alain Lef?vre, Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra, and it's conductor Alexander Shelley and composer Walter Boudreau have come together for the world premiere recording of...

The musicians of the S?chsische Staatskapelle Dresden were committed to their tradition of staging an annual commemorative concert even under these difficult circumstances and decided to organize a Memento Mori to mark this date that is inscribed in the...

The musicians of the multinational ensemble Klangkollektiv Wien, comprised of members of renowned Viennese orchestras, feel the need to interpret works from their everyday professional lives in another manner, outside of the music industry, in their own...

The musicians of the Berlin Baroque Soloists, who for the most part are members of the Berlin Philharmonic, are well known to Radek Babork from his time as solo horn player of the orchestra from 2003 to 2010. "That is why the recording with the Berlin...

The musicians of La Rossignol write of their impetus to record this album: "At the and of a concert with music and dances of the Italian Renaissance, given in a large capital city abroad, some illustrious ladies approached us and told us that, after what...