Chamber Music & Recitals

The distinguished New York-based composer-pianist Bruce Wolosoff synthesizes traditional tonal idioms with lifelong enthusiasms for jazz, blues, and rock music, creating a distinct musical language that speaks to the heart, but is unmistakably...

The distance separating the composer's pen from the ears of the listeners is an emotional journey. The audience's wish, notably of contemporary music, is to comprehend the way of approaching a new work. On the other hand, the composers' wish is to be...

The discussion of vices and virtues goes back to the ancient Greeks. In the Christian understanding, the seven deadly sins developed from this, which were contrasted with the cardinal virtues - in the Renaissance with it's new image of man, the...

The discovery of the inventory of an extraordinary collection of music from the late seventeenth century has made it possible to track down a previously unknown work by Stradella: Amare e fingere (Loving and feigning), composed in Rome, but performed in...

The discovery of Rebel's (1666-1747) Dance Symphonies, a genre mixing dance and pantomime in which the narration is delivered by the dancer alone, was a defining moment in the passion of harpsichordist duo Loris Barrucand and Cl?ment Geoffroy. Rebel, the...

The discography of trio of Guillaume de Chassy, Arnault Cuisinier and Thomas Savy treads a path that skirts and blends the edges of jazz improvisation and classical repertoire. With their second release, "Bridges" adds baritone opera star Laurent Naouri...

The disc is rounded off with the imposing Fantasia in F minor. Described in Mozart's own catalogue of work as 'an organ piece for a clock', it was commissioned by Count Joseph Deym for a musical automaton that contained a small pipe organ. When...

The disc features Antal Zalai, praised by Igor Oistrakh as 'an exceptional violinist who has a perfect technique, beautiful large tone, real musical finesse and maturity as well as a noble personality'. Joining him is Jozsef Balog, one of the most...

The Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Li?ge, Daniel Weissmann, is first and foremost a violist. In the company of the pianist Jean-Louis Delahaut, he presents a recital that illustrates the rich repertory of his instrument from the age of...

The dignified bearing and quiet wisdom of Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950) gained him the sobriquet of 'the conscience of Russian music' - and those qualities are reflected in the unemphatic strength of his music. His orchestral, chamber and instrumental...

The development of the classical guitar in the 20th c., both as an instrument and as it has come to be played, is due in no small measure to the efforts and talents of Andr?s Segovia (1893-1987). This IDIS two-disc set of studio recordings made between...

The Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie, Germany's youngest top orchestra, is releasing a new album on GENUIN. Under the direction of Wolfgang Hentrich, the young musicians perform the wonderfully elegiac String Serenade by Anton?n Dvork and an energetic...