Chamber Music & Recitals

The five works brought together on our complete recording of Johann Kuhnau's cantatas once again cover a wide spectrum of forms. Presumably, these works as a whole date from the first half of his tenure as music director at St. Thomas in Leipzig -...

The five new choral works on this album - by James MacMillan, Will Todd, Anna Semple, Eoghan Desmond and Lisa Robertson - all grew from a meditation by St John Henry Newman. Newman was a theologian of towering stature and broad influence and his...

The five compositions on this album are inspired by the lives and works of five women from history. Carlotta Ferrari (b.1975) has composed numerous pieces inspired by historical figures as well as pieces inspired by literature and works of art. Several...

The five composers spotlighted on "Music at Brandeis", Harold Shapero, Irving Fine, Yehudi Wyner, David Rakowski and Yu-Hui Chang all had or still maintain deep connections to this fabled American institution of higher learning as students, professors or...

The five composers on this disc share the clarity and refinement, brio and wit, and subtle sensuality that permeate French music in the early years of the twentieth century. Each found in literature, the visual arts and the music of Debussy and Ravel.1...

The five composers behind these world premiere recordings, written for the young classical guitarist Jakob Bangso, all share a keen interest in the field of electroacoustic music. Through live electronics, sound-transforming algorithms and interactive...

The Fitzwilliam String Quartet celebrates a remarkable milestone with this special fiftieth anniversary recording of Shostakovich's last three string quartets. Fittingly, this landmark recording will look back to the music which first propelled the...

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,...