Chamber Music & Recitals

The music in this program covers a spectrum of genres that have flourished in Greece in recent years, from jazz to contemporary avant-garde. These have all had a strong impact on guitarist Dimitris Soukaras's development as an artist, and in making this...

The music in this new album is characterized by modern jazz inflections within a neoclassical framework and with a hint of contemporary classical influences. Amos Gillespie's music has been heard on WFMT in Chicago, WQXR in New York City and PBS. His...

The music in this album spans a forty-year period from 1948 to 1988 and reflects Dutilleux's stylistic development as a composer. He considered the Sonata to be the first main work in his catalogue and it represents a turning away from tradition and...

The music in this album sings and dances, in Abel's "colorful blend of styles that serve the emotional nature of each work to bracing and poignant effect" (Gramophone). It further clarifies why Abel is "one of the most interesting figures in American...

The music for CHOROS made for texts from the 7th to 5th centuries BC came about through an intensive approach to the ancient world of sound: the instruments reconstructed by Paul J. Reichlin formed the basis of the music. These are the result of over 20...

The music featured on this release is a real discovery. The French composer Marie-Martin Marcel de Marin (1796-1850) was a mathematician, a Captain of Versailles' Dragoons, a violinist and, overall, the greatest harpist of his era. According to F?tis,...

The music captured by 2L features Norwegian composers and performers and an international repertoire reflected in the Nordic atmosphere. These immersive recordings not only transform the entire listening experience, but also - more radically - these...

The music archives of the Italian region of Marche preserve a treasured testimony of an important past artistic activity. By narrating the political and cultural history of this region, the chapel masters make up an important, although less known musical...

The music and poetry of Pietism offers a beauty that hardly any form of Lutheran religiosity can rival. It is rarely found more radiantly beautiful than in the great collection of hymns Troens rare Klenodie (The Rare Treasure of Faith) by the most...

The Muscovite Alexander Tchaikovsky (b. 1946) - nephew of Boris Tchaikovsky but no relative to Pyotr Ilich - is one of the most highly respected composers at work in Russia today, and yet his music has had little exposure to western audiences. His...

The Munich-based American composer Gloria Coates is best known as a symphonist, though she has also composed nine string quartets as well as vocal and chamber music.1. I. Fluendo Espressivo 2. II. Moderato 3. I. Prelude 4. II. Fantasia 5. III. Berceuse 6...

The Munich performances of Verdi's MESSA DA REQUIEM in October 1981 with Jessye Norman, Agnes Baltsa, Jos? Carreras and Yevgeny Nesterenko, the Bavarian Radio Chorus, and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks conducted by Riccardo Muti were...