Chamber Music & Recitals

The Morgenstern Trio's second release for Azica Records highlights their passion for music with works by Frank Bridge, a new work composed for the trio by Pierre Jalbert, Ernest Bloch, and Ilham Baran. To name a piano trio after the popular nineteenth...

The Morgenland All Star Band first came together in 2012 at the Morgenland Festival in Osnabr?ck. Uniting musicians from the Middle East and Europe, the group is defined by the diverse artistic backgrounds of it's members and by the crossing of musical...

The Moravian Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst is a dazzling example of the nineteenth-century violinist-composer, of whom the greatest was Ernst's sometime rival, Paganini. Indeed it was the Italian who persuaded Ernst to follow the life of a touring virtuoso, in...

The Monteverdi contemporary Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) is now unfortunately almost exclusively seen as an important and influential composer of works for keyboard instruments, but he also composed both sacred and secular vocal music throughout his...

The monks of Solesmes celebrate the birth of Jesus at Vigils, Midnight Mass, and the Mass of the Day with Gregorian Chant. In Christmas- The Night Office Vigils the monks of Solesmes celebrate the birth of Jesus at the same time of night he was born in...

The Monkey King is the leading superhero in the 16th-century famous Chinese novel "Journey to the West." Over the centuries, the tale has become one of the most popular comic stories. It is about a mischievous yet determined mythological being who rises...

The modern-day appreciation of Francesco Bartolomeo Conti takes a decisive turn in the direction of his church music with this early eighteenth-century composer's Missa Sancti Pauli given an ideal recording on Glossa by Gy?rgy Vashegyi, the Purcell Choir...

The Missa Solemnis is a worthy successor to the late Haydn Masses. It's brilliant orchestration, inventive and flexible choral writing and technical resourcefulness are the work of an experienced and gifted composer. While the work obviously owes much to...

The Minetti Quartett marked it's fifteenth anniversary by devising and performing a cycle of concerts during the 2017-18 season at Vienna's newest venue, the MuTh Konzertsaal in the city's Augarten. The debut concert in Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie, this...

The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music is a vast recorded panorama of the rich body of Jewish music, both sacred and secular, that has developed over the course of American history. This abundant repertoire, in it's remarkable breadth and diversity...

The Mighty Handful, also known as The Five, were a group of prominent nineteenth century Russian composers who strived to produce a specifically 'Russian' style. The group consisted of Mily Balakirev, Cesar Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai...

The mid-20th century has a tragic and many-faceted story to tell where musicians from Europe, both Jewish and non-Jewish, are concerned. So many were either blacklisted, dismissed from their positions and forced into exile or transported to the camps and...