Chamber Music & Recitals

The idea for this composition came to me while visiting Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon. Amorisms sets five Shakespearean aphorisms about love. As this is a dance-piece, I wanted to keep the texts short, simple and set repetitively so...

The idea for a recital of 'Modern Lied' came about over breakfast following the first concert Sun and Schulze performed together. Realizing that they enjoy the same things, Schulze said: 'Our next program should be harder. It should be the hardest...

The iconic guitarist Julian Bream commissioned music from a number of British composers with international reputations, thus creating a whole new repertoire of guitar music. He also played an important role in the revival of interest in the Elizabethan...

The Icelandic chamber music recorded on the album by Agnieszka Panasiuk (piano) together with Anna Wandtke (violin) and Pawel Panasiuk (cello) is characterized by varied expression, high emotional load and lyricism. The rich sound color comes to the...

The Hyperion Trio, founded in 1999, has earned an outstanding international reputation over the past two decades, during which it has performed more than 250 works, including a number of world premieres, in it's concert programs and independently...

The Hungarian-born composer TIBOR HARS?NYI is now recognized as an important personality in 'L'?cole de Paris'. He had a lifelong interest in modern dance, represented here by the Petite suite and Trois Pi?ces de danse, and he also embraced jazz, which...

The Hungarian Quartet, formed in 1935, embodied the very best of the Central European tradition of string-playing, and this cycle, recorded in Paris in the early 1950s, represents an essential staging post in the quest for Beethoven "These performances...

The Hungarian pianist, Anna Adamik, studied piano teaching at the Conservatory "Franz Liszt" in Budapest with Tams F?lep, and continued to study piano concert playing at the Music University in Vienna with Paul Badura-Skoda. In 1980 she won the 2nd prize...

The Hungarian pianist has won a number of piano competitions in Hungary and abroad, including first prize in the 1973 Hungarian Piano Concours and first prize in the chamber music category at the Sydney International Piano Competition in 1977. He has...

The Hungarian Gbor Boldoczki is an exceptional trumpeter of his generation. The international press calls him a magnificent trumpet virtuoso. For his albums at Sony Classical he received great critical acclaim and was honored with several prices such as...

The Hungarian Dances were to win immediate popularity. The piano duet was, in any case, a form much in use, providing a useful element in domestic entertainment, as well as serving a more professional purpose as a means of performing transcribed...

The Hungarian conductor Ferenc Fricsay was considered to be the man for modernism when, in 1948, he was appointed Chief Conductor of the RIAS Symphony Orchestra that had just recently been founded. Thus it was only logical for him to focus on the latest...