Chamber Music & Recitals

The desire to explore the innate human drive for communication is the focus of Babel. For this recording the Calidore String Quartet gathered music which transmits ideas by imitating language; it's rhythms, cadences and intentions. But it also explores...

The demand for piano duet arrangements of concert music during Schumann's lifetime was very considerable. An inveterate piano duettist himself, Schumann supervised the String Quartet arrangements made by the talented young composer Otto Dressel, whose...

The Delos Label's First-Ever Full-Length Italian Opera Recording, This Star-Studded Current Release of Giuseppi Verdi's Simon Boccanegra Promises Quite the Splash Among Today's Opera Fans. As Verdi Was Entering His Glorious Late Period (Otello and...

The Delme Quartet performs two masterpieces from the classical period, recorded in the Long Gallery at Lanhydrock, Cornwall. Features Galina Solodchin and John Trusler on violin, John Underwood on viola, and Jonathan Williams on cello. Includes "Haydn...

The decision to record works by my great-grandfather was actually made some time ago. Back in 2006 I founded the Hohenstaufen chamber music festival, which takes place annually in September and of which I am the artistic director. We play chamber music...

The debut recording from the Helton-Thomas duo is a smorgasbord of contemporary compositions that range from the ruminative to the boisterous, the melodious to the dissonant, in short a perfect reflection of the modern zeitgeist. Featuring compositions...

The debut of the Vienna Piano Trio on the MDG label set a new standard. Their brilliant recording of all of Franz Schubert's piano trios was praised by the BBC as the benchmark: best available version. It is now available for the first time as a double...

The debut of the Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet in an ear bending perception challenging collection that highlights the sonority and diversity that this little seldom recorded instrument holds.

The debut CD Wild Bird by the Duo 47/4, Music for Violin and Harp, presents a series of picturesque, contrasting 20th and 21st c works, by turns meditative, imaginative, colorful and loaded with energy. Violinist Viktoria Kaunzner and the harpist Anna...

The debut CD is always something very special for a young musician. the oboist Thomas Hecker, winner of the German music competition in 2008 and now solo oboist of the deutsche's Symphonie Orchester Berlin, ensures that his first genuine CD is also...

The debut CD by the Queens Duo dedicates itself to human fantasy and imagination and the four tracks in the collection enchantingly range from Romantic era curios to a composition by the silent film score composer Bruno Hilse to contemporary...

The debut album of the young gambist Andr? Lislevand is devoted to the great oeuvre for viol of Antoine Forqueray. Ambiguity: a word that can easily have a negative or derogatory meaning but which also accurately describes the various aspects of...