Chamber Music & Recitals

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...

The mezzo-soprano Elena de Simone and the Ensemble Il Mosaico are the interpreters of this production that continues the journey of Tactus in the precious rediscovery of various female characters forgotten by history, that played a fundamental role in...

The mezzo-soprano Dagmar Peckov decided to give herself and her friends and fans a very personal gift in the form of this Christmas album. The listener is treated to Bohemian and Moravian carols and to the tender poetry of Christmas songs from...

The Messiah of a Significant Church Composer The Messiah of Gottfried August Homilius was performed by the S?chsisches Vocalensemble and the Batzdorfer Hofkapelle under the conductor Matthias Jung at St. Anne's Church in Dresden on the occasion of the...

The Messiaen Monster, ridiculed by critics at it's premiere - in the best tradition of works of genius - is now, "established as one of the most astonishing classics of the twentieth century," as Nigel Simeone writes in the booklet of this brilliant new...

The Messa di Gloria belongs to the period before Cavalleria Rusticana: the lack of a choral or a fugue as well as the simple, almost ingenuous tonalities reveal the dominance of the operatic style over the religious one. Only a careful listening can...