Chamber Music & Recitals

The inhabitants of the animal kingdom have long been a subject of fascination for visual artists, and a source of inspiration for composers as well. Whether voicing their affection and awe, or mocking the human animal, composers have paid tribute to our...

The influential critic Karl Flodin commented after the premiere of Sibelius' Second Symphony: "A symphonic poem the like of Sibelius' Second Symphony has never been heard before, it's something rarely heard in the genre of modern symphony. The more you...

The influential critic Eduard Hanslick was shocked by the discovery that 'Brahms the serious, the taciturn, the North German, the Protestant, the man who detests the world writes waltzes!' In this regard he underestimated Brahms just as he did Liszt and...

The influence of the Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer Heinrich Isaac extends into today with his extraordinarily prolific output. The period ensemble, Cantica Symphonia led by Giuseppe Maletto gives an inspired performance in this release that...

The industrious Simone Stella has produced critically acclaimed complete sets of keyboard music by Buxtehude, Bohm, Reincken, Walther, Froberger and Pachelbel. Now he ventures further off the beaten track with the complete surviving organ music of...

The indefatigable Antonio Florio, along with his associates from Cappella Neapolitana, has succeeded, with a work by Donato Ricchezza, in unearthing another major rediscovery from the Neapolitan Baroque. The labors of Florio - coupled with the ability to...

The incubation period is a mere thirty seconds: that is how long the symphonic first spark takes to ignite, with the four musicians dragging the child empress out of silence at the beginning of the first Razumovsky Quartet and again and again projecting...

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...