Chamber Music & Recitals

The first recording of the David Oistrakh Quartet received much praise from the press ("No sooner formed, this young quartet already reaches excellence.") Achieving comparison with the Borodin and the Beethoven Quartets, this young group offers an...

The first Recording of the complete songs by Dallapiccola, one of the most influential composers of 20th century Italy. His political engagement and his experiments with the 12-tone technique established him firmly in the European Avant-Garde. The main...

The first piece to be decided was Box Balaenae by George Crumb. This composition, embellished with theatrical elements that break down the boundaries between genres, has for some time now been part of Trio Wiek's repertoire and has therefore been made...

The first piece composed by Max Bruch during his child prodigy years was a song, and the Five Songs op. 97 number among the last creations with which he closed the files on his long artist's life shortly after World War I. This fact alone would suffice...

The first performance of 'The Trumpeter of Sackingen' on May 4, 1884 at the Stadttheater in Leipzig was an unprecedented success. For the hundredth Leipzig performance there was a procession with flaming torches in honor of the composer. 'The Trumpeter'...

The first performance of the Second Concerto took place in Chickering Hall, New York on 5 March 1889 in a concert which also included the American premi?re of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. One critic praised 'a splendid composition, so full of poetry, so...

The first performance of I Rantzau took place at the Pergola Theatre in Florence on 10th November 1892. It was a triumphal success right from the dress rehearsal; the ovations for the composer were so great that according to the reports of the time his...

The first of two discs containing the complete piano quartets and string trios of Max Reger, this release features the String Trio in a minor of 1904, a work of almost Mozartian clarity and the 1910 Piano Quartet in D minor.1. Sostenuto - Allegro Agitato...

The first of two CDs of the complete piano sonatas - 88 sonatas in total - by Domenico Cimarosa played by Italian pianist Dario Candela. A first complete recording1. Allegro 2. Andantino 3. Minu? 4. Allegretto 5. Allegretto 6. Piano Sonata No. 6 in E...

The first of three volumes containing some of the greatest piano music ever written, played by Schubert specialist Anthony Goldstone. The more I listened the more I was impressed by his sound technique, linear clarity and solid musical structures -...

The first of the four pieces presented on Adam Wesolowski's monographic album, the Euphory Concerto, is a three movement concerto for euphonium and string orchestra, in which the composer presents this beautiful-sounding instrument from various...

The first notes of the descending chromatic theme break the silence and it seems as if time has stopped. The listener is drawn into the world of John Dowland, the greatest lutenist of all, in a journey through multiple shades of melancholy and lucent...