Chamber Music & Recitals

The first audio recording of Lowell Liebermann's complete score to Liam Scarlett's ballet adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic Gothic novel. FRANKENSTEIN was recorded during live ballet performances at War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco by RR's...

The first arranger of Vivaldi's concertos was Vivaldi himself, and Julian Lloyd Webber's new versions on this recording reflect the composer's pragmatic attitude and zest for experiment. Vivaldi's Concerto in G minor RV 531 is his only original concerto...

The first and presumably only performance of the opera Dafne took place in Torgau on April 13, 1627, as part of the festivities celebrating the marriage of the Saxon Duchess Sophie Eleonore and the Hessian Landgrave Georg II. Although the libretto by...

The First and Fourth symphonies of Jean Sibelius, in previously unpublished live recordings from the early 1960s, are major additions to the recorded legacy of Thomas Jensen. As a young cellist, Jensen had known and played under both Nielsen and...

The first album to bring together all of Fanny Mendelssohn's four piano sonatas, written over the course of almost 20 years, and including the 'Easter Sonata' rediscovered in 2010. Born in 1998 to Albanian parents, the Italian pianist Gaia Sokoli has won...

The first album of orchestral works by one of Latvia's most prominent composers, Talivaldis Kenin (1919-2008), released in October 2020 has received a warm response from music critics around the world. This second volume by the Latvian National Symphony...

The first album dedicated to a Bavarian contemporary of Schubert, featuring a trio of easy-on-the-ear serenades in new recordings, played by an experienced Italian ensemble with a track record of success in reviving forgotten corners of 19th-century...

The first album by the philharmonie zuidnederland was of works by Wagner and Tchaikovksy, under their chief conductor Dmitri Liss; this second release promises to be even more spectacular. The principal work, Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, caused...

The finest recordings of these works available! The Brazilian composer (we needn't remind his most ardent supporters that he's the most significant Latin American composer of all time) behind numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...

The Fine Arts Quartet' albums of Mendelssohn' String Quintets and Glazunov' chamber music were named "Recordings of the Year" by Musicweb International, and their recording of Schumann' string quartets was hailed by the American Record Guide.1. I...

The final volume of Percy Grainger's complete music for wind band once again respects his precise instrumental demands in pieces that span the breadth of his career, from his first large work in the genre, 'The Lads of Wamphray March,' to 'The Power of...

The final volume of Paul Hindemith's(1895-1963) youthful and fresh Kammermusik series from the 1920s includes Kammermusik Nos. 4-7 performed by Kronberg Academy Soloists and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra under a true Hindemith specialist,...