Chamber Music & Recitals

The first volume of the premiere recordings of Jurgis Karnavicius' (1884-1941) string quartets resulted in a growing number of excellent album reviews. It included the composer's romantic and folk music-inspired first two quartets. This second volume...

The first volume of CPO's two-part release of concertante quartets or 'Concerto Sonatas' by Georg Philipp Telemann features seven works, each of which is scored for a different chamber ensemble selecting it's particular combination of instruments from...

The first volume in this project, undertaken with missionary zeal by both singer and pianist, to rescue Medtner's song output from obscurity, was met with enthusiasm in the Dutch press. 'The melancholy, autumnal atmosphere evokes Tsarist Russia, of which...

The first volume (8.551400) with Vinzenz Lachner's arrangements of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concertos for piano and string quintet already showed that this would be quite a special complete recording of Beethoven's piano concertos - and not just...

The first two volumes of Anne-Marie McDermott's Mozart piano concerto cycle with the Odense Symfoniorkester have received a superb critical reception. Volume 3 of the series hears the great American pianist in Mozart's final piano concerto, K. 595,...

The first two volumes in this series - the only one ever recorded with the same pianist playing all works - were met with high critical acclaim. Jonathan Woolf wrote in MusicWeb International '... beautifully played, and recorded, the first box in Music...

The first two Toccata Classics volumes of the orchestral music of the English composer David Hackbridge Johnson presented three mighty symphonies, conceived on a large scale and powerful in their utterance. The Fifteenth Symphony, tone-poems and other...

The first true cross cultural fusion of Indian and western music was back in 1957 with John Mayer's Raga Music for Solo Clarinet and through the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties his musical output reflected his Indian roots. This release...

The first true complete recording of Robert Schumann's works for piano solo on 17 albums (in 15 volumes), played by Florian Uhlig, seeks for the first time to offer imaginative compilations on album (e.g. "Robert Schumann and the Sonata", "The Young...

The first three volumes of Anne-Marie McDermott's Mozart piano concerto cycle with Denmark's Odense Symfoniorkester have received ecstatic notices from the international musical press. Volume 4, again conducted by German maestro Sebastian Lang-Lessing,...

The first release of new material from Blue Heron since winning the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music, this two-album set is the world-premiere recording of Cipriano de Rore's landmark first book of madrigals for five voices. The set...

The first recording of works for the harp by Carlos de Seixas performed by Rachel Talitman and the Hatikva Quartet. The works were originally written for cembalo but have been adapted for the harp by Talitman. Jose Antonio Carlos Vaz 'de Seixas ' (Vaz...