Chamber Music & Recitals

The Czechoslovak trio Trio Clavio was established in 2013 with the help of Polish clarinetist and conductor Jakub Bokun. Since it's successful debut at the Clarimania Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, the ensemble has been performing across Europe. This...

The Czechenyi dynasty stood at the heart of Hungary's political and musical life in the 19th and 20th centuries. Their ideal milieu lay in the vibrant, melodious dance-patterned music, of which Imre's Waltz No. 1 is a perfect example. Odon's highly...

The Czech-born Eduard Npravn?k (1839-1916) became one of the pivotal figures in the musical life of nineteenth-century Russia: as conductor of the Imperial Mariinsky Opera in St Petersburg, he gave the premieres of some of the most important Russian...

The Czech Philharmonic Quartet is a group composed of the leading soloists of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. For it's new production, the quartet chose original transcripts (edits) originally of two piano cycles by Leo Jancek - "On an overgrown Path"...

The Czech Philharmonic and it's Chief Conductor and Music Director Semyon Bychkov present a new recording of Mahler's Fourth Symphony, laying the foundation of a complete Mahler symphonies cycle to appear on PENTATONE. It will be the label's first ever...

The cycle Systema natur? includes four pieces. It's main feature is the use of acoustic instruments together with computer-controlled physical objects placed in a specific spatial organization. Two references are at the base of the whole cycle. The first...

The cycle of six solo Sonatas and Partitas by J.S. Bach is arguably one of the most powerful and most important compositions in musical history. These works have been with Linus Roth since he was nine years old, when he first learned the Gigue from the E...

The cycle of Nine Preludes, Op. 1 gained recognition already two years before it's official release. In 1904, Arthur Rubinstein - fascinated by the first contact with the Preludes, as well as with several other compositions of his later friend - used the...

The cycle of Chopin's Preludes Op. 28 and the 2 posthumous preludes No. 25 in C Sharp Minor Op. 45 and No. 26 in A Flat Major B. 86 are based on contrasts. Contrasts of expression, dynamics, rhythm and colour, revealing romanticism in it's full element...

The current recording is a double portrait: the portrait of pianist Ralf Taal portraying Fryderyk Chopin - trying to display the model from as many angles as possible. The first touches to the portrait-CD are given by a colorful Prelude bouquet followed...

The culmination of the fabulous Beethoven 250 series by French pianist Elizabeth Sombart, conductor Pierre Vallet and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; a box set featuring spectacular performances of Beethoven's piano concertos and his 'Triple' Concerto...

The crossroads of Christianity, Judaism and Islam create the backdrop to O! Jerusalem, a scintillating live recording by Apollo's Fire that interweaves the lives and music of the peoples who have inhabited the "City on a Hill" since Biblical times...