Chamber Music & Recitals

The Geisterinsel is a masterpiece of poetry and language: nothing more musical could be imagined. This positive judgment pronounced by Goethe in 1798 was seconded by Duke Carl August, the ruling prince in Saxe-Weimar, when he wrote in 1801 that there was...

The garden is a magical place to spend a day, and this playlist of cultivated classical pieces is the perfect accompaniment to working amid the ? owers and foliage. Hear the sun rise in Grieg's exquisite Morning Mood from Peer Gynt, waltz among the ?...

The Galax Quartet (Elizabeth Blumenstock and David Wilson, Baroque violins; Roy Whelden, viola da gamba; and David Morris, Baroque cello) is equally at home performing works by 17th and 18th century composers as well as cutting edge, newly commissioned...

The GAIA Music Festival takes place annually in Oberhofen in Switzerland. The brainchild of violinist Gwendolyn Masin, the Festival is named after the Greek goddess of the Earth, and in just a few years has grown into a thriving and captivating series of...

The Gabrieli Consort continue their series of award-winning collaborations with the National Forum of Music, Wroclaw, Poland with a new version of Haydn's great oratorio The Seasons. Using a new performing edition by Paul McCreesh, this recording is the...

The G?rzenich Orchestra Cologne, whose honorary conductor Dmitrij Kitajenko since 2009 has been associated with the conductor in a co-operation of more than 30 years, producing excellent album recordings. With this orchestra, OehmsClassics released the...

The Future is Female is a three volume series, which celebrates and highlights women composers from the 17th century to the present day. These recordings feature more than 70 compositions by women around the globe and includes many premiere recordings...

The fusion between the string quartet, the perfect expression of the European 'classical' tradition, and the bandoneon, the musical embodiment of Argentina, is presented here in two quite different works. The Five Tango Sensations were originally written...

The fruits of a long-term collaboration: "Kapellmeister" literally means "master of the chapel choir". The term designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians and today represents the bond, spanning many years, between an orchestra and conductor. It...

The fruitful partnership between the Alpha label, the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and the Palazzetto Bru Zane continues with this set of chamber music by Anton Reicha, performed by the musicians of the Chapel, young talents of an exceptionally high...

The frottola genre derived from the oral tradition of executing variations on existing melodies. Above all they were compositions with several strophes and gradually became a cultivated practice, as it was linked to the virtuoso capacities of singers and...

The friendship between Mtys Seiber and Antal Dorti dates back to their youth, when they were the two youngest students in Zoltn Kody's composition class in Budapest in the 1920s. Dorti was one year younger than Seiber and held him in high esteem from the...