Chamber Music & Recitals

The history of world music knows many examples of revival from non-existence and of rediscovery of both compositional legacy and names of composers themselves. Such phenomena also include the output and figure of Giedymin Prosper Rodkiewicz. Until...

The history of the organ stretches back to the ancient world. Until medieval times organ instruments have been considered as secular and were used to accompany songs and dances. Around 600-700 years ago the first organs appeared in churches, probably...

The 'History of the Joyous and Victorious Resurrection of Our Only Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ', composed by Heinrich Sch?tz in 1623, is regarded as the first oratorio in the German language. When Sch?tz had taken up his functions at the Dresden...

The history of the JAZZPAR AWARDS constitutes, in retrospect, a significant development in the recognition of jazz by international arbiters of taste, and by distributors of monetary recognition. Between 1990 and 2004, the award was made to several...

The history of the JAZZPAR AWARDS constitutes a significant development in the recognition of jazz by international arbiters of taste. Set up by the Danish Jazz Center and sponsored by Skandinavisk Tobakskompagni, it was the first award in the jazz field...

The history of Scriabin's piano music is like a condensed history of piano music, for his style changed perhaps more than any other composer during his life. It has been said that young Scriabin kept Chopin's music under his pillow, and the early...

The history of Polish music has seen many cases of instrumentalists and composers who enjoyed great success abroad while collecting a number of neutral or negative reviews in their home country. This group of distinctive, outstanding artists of the...

The history of Polish contemporary music can be easily seen in the wake of simple oppositions. Vanguard versus reaction, sonorism versus new romanticism, tape versus orchestra. The case of Andrzej Dobrowolski (1921-1990) undermines these dialectical...

The history of musical theatre can be written in many ways. One of them is a perspective of duos, which often constitutes nodal moments in the work's drama. A duo brings either a combination of two elements into one harmonious whole or a collision of...

The history of Argentine concert music during the 20th century was a process of the absorption of various European influences and their melding with more indigenous traditions. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries Argentine composers tended to study...

The Hilliard Ensemble TITLE: Renaissance & Baroque Vocal Music (7CD) - The male-voice quartet the Hilliard Ensemble was founded in 1974 and was disbanded after 40 years in 2014. It's singers were praised by Gramophone for "the superlative purity of their...

The highly valued discography of Ivan Moravec (1930-2015), one of the 20th century's piano legends, comes to a great extent from recording studios. However, thanks to radio microphones some of his remarkable concert performances in Prague concert halls...