Chamber Music & Recitals

The music of Jean-Marie Leclair exemplifies the values and aspirations of the Age of Enlightenment: clarity and rationality; balance, harmony and proportion; and avoidance of excess or exaggeration.1. Adagio 2. Corrente: Allegro 3. Gavotta: Grazioso 4...

The music of Iranian composer Behzad ABDI fuses dastgah (the Iranian modal system) with Western classical forms. He wrote Iran's first national opera, Rumi (Naxos 8.660424-25), and Hafezalso exemplifies his approach to the medium. The opera's subject is...

The music of Gustav Mahler, the Late Romantic composer on the threshold of modernity, has been a firm part of the repertoire of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks ever since the early 1960s, when the orchestra's Mahler tradition was...

The music of German composer Robert Kahn, who was also Johannes Brahms' contemporary, was nearly forgotten after World War II. Included on this disc are rarely recorded pieces performed by the Hohenstaufen ensemble, featuring two of Kahn's great...

The music of George Kontogiorgos generates a mystical soundworld inspired largely by the stories and creatures of Greek mythology. Although primarily tonal, his compositions encompass a broad spectrum of music from minimalism to atonality. Dancing with...

The music of Francisco Correa de Arauxo, still regrettably neglected, constitutes a peak of organ literature in Spain and an exceptional bridge between the Renaissance and the Baroque. His Facultad Orgnica (1626) is both a treatise on the performance of...

The music of Eugene Zdor is both warmly expressive and colorful. The composer took great delight in writing for overlooked solo instruments, as his Trombone Concerto, garnished with elements of Hungarian folklore, clearly shows. The easy-going,...

The music of Estonian organist-composer Suda (1883-1920) combines contrapuntal mastery with virtuosic command of the Romantic organ. Suda's brief life and his perfectionism meant that his output - exclusively for the organ - remained small, but it is...

The music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold has enjoyed a major renaissance over the last three decades. He is no longer the neglected, unknown master, the hidden Wunderkind of 20th century classical music. Korngold in a nutshell can be encapsulated thus:...

The music of Edgard Var?se has it's own unique chromatic grammar and compositional style. Raw sound replaces notes and adds a spatial dimension. Timbre becomes a fabulous spectral variable exploited by Var?se without the help of today's electro-acoustic...

The music of contemporary composer Sophia Jani is characterized by it's great independence from structures and conventions as well as by it's musical poetry within a minimalist approach. Her debut album "Music as a Mirror" presents works for woodwind...

The music of composer-violinist Giuseppe Tartini bridged the baroque and classical periods. His 135 violin concertos are filled with dramatic emotion, expressive nuances and harmonic subtleties.1. Allegro 2. Grave 3. Presto 4. Allegro 5. Adagio 6. Presto...