Chamber Music & Recitals

The magnificent Graz premiere of Joseph Marx's Herbstsymphonie (Autumn Symphony) was held on 28 September 1922 under the expert conductor and sound specialist Clemens Krauss. It was a great triumph for Marx, and when Krauss selected this work for a...

The magnificent Christopher Purves performs a recital of Handel's bass arias. This unique collection demonstrates the range and brilliance of Handel's writing for this voice, featuring a selection from Italian and English operas, English classical drama,...

The Magnificat, written to celebrate Mary's joy after the Annunciation, and the oldest Christmas Cantata of Bach (Weimar, 1713), overwhelming fresco of a Nativity, foundation of the world. With these masterful works, Johann-Sebastien Bach opens up for us...

The magic, enigma and uniqueness of Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) Sonata "Kreutzer" in A major Op. 47 have influenced not only music history but also literature from Tolstoy to D?rrenmatt, and it takes a long search to find a chamber music work that...

The Maggini Quartet' Naxos recording of Edmund Rubbra' String Quartet No. 2 was praised as 'uperbly integrated... undeniably a great success' by Gramophone. His remaining three string quartets, heard here, mark Rubbra as a great, though still undervalued...

The Magdeburg Telemann Festival was first held in 1962, at the initiative of the Georg Philipp Telemann Work Group, and has been presented jointly by the City of Magdeburg and the Telemann Work Group since 1967. It's conception and implementation are...

The madrigal, written for courts and patrons, was the ultimate secular song. The genre reached it's zenith with the works of Claudio Monteverdi in successive books that trace his technical and expressive innovations. In them, Monteverdi explored themes...

The lute was a very popular instrument in Bach's day. The various types of lute had for centuries been influential in shaping the development of music. Certain musical terms are in fact directly derived from lute-playing technique, including the...

The lush foliage of Juan Esquivel's 'enclosed garden' is expertly tended by de Profundis, who reveal the neglected output of another master of the Spanish Renaissance.1. Esquivel: Regina Caeli 2. Rodrigo de Ceballos: Hortus Conclusus 3. Esquivel: Missa...

The love of nature and Sufi poetry are the threads running through the production of this album. I've been looking for a way to connect these two themes to music for a long time. At the age of thirteen, my first guitar teacher, Leo van Rutte, introduced...

The love for the Latvian landscape is audible in the piano works of Latvia's greatest living composer, Peteris Vasks (b. 1946), especially in his Seasons, the composer's most frequently performed piano work. For this album pianist Reinis Zarin has...

The Loreley is one of the most famous figures of the romantic era, and even today the massive rock in the Rhine is notorious for threatening the river's skippers with shipwreck. The legendary female figure with her seductive beauty today no longer haunts...