Chamber Music & Recitals

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...

The first monographic recording entirely dedicated to Francesco Rasi is released for the 400th anniversary of his death (30 November 1621). The first interpreter of Monteverdi's Orfeo, an astonishing tenor and poet with a life studded with triumphs,...

The first major commercial recording by Pierre Boulez, made in 1966 with London's New Philharmonia Orchestra, was of music by a composer he particularly revered, Claude DeBussy. Praised for it's "clarity and cool" (New York Times), Boulez's radical...

The first instrumental collection by Giovanni Legrenzi, Sonate a due e tre Op. 2, was published during the composer's last years as organist at the Santa Maria Maggiore Church in Bergamo, along with three other collections, including 'Sonate da chiesa,...

The first in a series of recordings celebrating 50 years of the famed Flentrop organ at Saint Mark's Cathedral in Seattle, Washington. In this recital from 2001, Roger Sherman undertakes a twin mission, exploring both selected repertory of composers who...

The first half of the XVIII century witnessed the triumph of the harpsichord. The 1685 generation gave a solid contribution to the development of the proceeding: this was the year when Bach, H?ndel and Scarlatti were born. A remarkable generation, along...