Chamber Music & Recitals

The incomparable, soul-searching playing of the veteran Russian pianist Nelly Akopian-Tamarina is captured in a rare studio recording for PENTATONE with a luminous performance of Brahms's towering Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, Op. 24 and the...

The incomparable violinist Jascha Heifetz lends his prodigious talents to four performances of three famous film composers of the middle of the 20th century. Enjoy the work of Korngold, R?zsa and Waxman like never before in Heifetz's deft hands.1...

The incomparable Siberian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky - best known for his Verdi roles - is joined by rising star soprano Asmik Grigorian and other notable singers in a gripping album of Russian arias and scenes that marks his return to the operatic...

The impressively rich instrumental legacy of Georg Philipp Telemann, one of the most prominent German composers of the late Baroque era, was a complement to the main area of his activity, which was church and opera music. The composer found great...

The importance of Mieczysowski's 24 Preludes for solo cello, written for Rostropovich, lies beyond their superficial resemblance to Bach' Well-tempered Clavier or the piano preludes of Chopin or Weinberg' colleague Shostakovich.1. Prelude No. 1 2...

The importance of Christmas inspired many composers to write music for the occasion, some designed to be performed in church services, others for concert or secular celebration. This 6 album set combines oratorios and concertos by Sch?tz, Telemann, Bach,...

The immense popularity of the piano trio enabled Haydn to explore countless formal and harmonic experiments. While the keyboard remains the central element in the musical structure, the strings give the discourse a subtle coloration, and the violin is...

The immediacy and power of La Gaia Scienza and Paolo Beschi takes your breath away. The sound of these outstanding musicians on original instruments is amazing and appealing, the phrasing and the interaction are exemplary, every note and every bar has...

The imaginative musician that is harpsichordist Ignacio Prego directs a new selection of the concerti grossi by Charles Avison drawing inspiration from keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. The Madrid-born Prego is alive to the variety of musical ideas...

The imagery of musical forms emptied of earthly meaning, of solitude, and of a connection to the divine were irresistible to Federico Mompou. A desire to be alone had shaped Mompou's early musical direction: as natural shyness ended his ambitions to be...

The idiosyncratic French composer's complete songs, his one chamber work, his complete 4-hand music, the ballet music and Socrate (in it's only available recording for multiple voices and orchestra). Frank Glazer and Richard Deas, piano;...

The idiom of Toru Takemitsu fits the classical guitar like a tailored suit of pure lines where simplicity conceals the thought and art behind their design. The range of sonority is wide yet subtle in the set of three Folios (1974) which became his first...