Chamber Music & Recitals

The corona distancing rules meant that Symphonia Momentum did not play in early August 2020. Instead, on the initiative of concert master and soloist Joel Bardolet, a trio of Catalan musicians who knew each other well but had never played together before...

The cornerstone of this anthology is the renowned Silvius Leopold Weiss who exerted an influence on entire generations of lutenists with his outstanding compositions. A major regional focus here is Bayreuth, the cultural center so important for the lute,...

The Copenhagen Chamber Ensemble, founded in 1978, consists of a group of friends and alumni from the Copenhagen Choir School, who have each pursued careers as instrumentalists. The ensemble has performed across Europe, the USA and South America. This...

The conventual franciscan Orazio Colombano (c.1554-after 1595) hailed from Verona and came to the ancient city of Vercelli, in Piedmont, east of Turin, in 1579 to take up his first professional appointment as Moderator for Music at the Cathedral, a...

The continuous change of timbres, lines and textures characterizes the three ensemble pieces on the present portrait album of Lula Romero. Instrumental and vocal parts merge with the manifold interacting live electronics to fluctuating, surreal...

The continuing growth of Maik Krahl as a melodic improviser, bandleader, and composer is distinctly evident in this new release. In-Between Flow, Krahl's third outing as leader, is a portrait of a young artist who has gone through many years of dedicated...

The contemporary guitar music scene of Mexico is a vibrant and active community of composers, many of them concert guitarists themselves. The new generations of composers are creating a fascinating new repertoire which, while rooted in the historical...

The considerable variety of Johann Sebastian Bach's output for the lute stands witness to different periods of his life and career. This collection comprises Bach's complete lute works, amply demonstrating his interest in it's expressive qualities. These...

The conductor Ulf Schirmer has a special knack for the light Muse - as his regular operetta performances with the Munich Radio Orchestra, many of them documented on cpo, have shown over the years. Munich was also the site of the 1906 premiere of Die vier...

The conductor Neeme Jarvi and the pianist Kalle Randalu, together with the composer Arvo Part and the conducting sons of Neeme Jarvi, Paavo and Kristjan, are among Estonia's most famous musical figures. Although they have worked abroad frequently and for...

The conductor Gy?rgy Vashegyi and his ensembles, the Orfeo Orchestra and the Purcell Choir, are fluent in various fields of baroque and classical music, with a particular predilection for French baroque opera. But one of their favourite lines of work is...

The conductor Arthur Nikisch described Wanda Landowska as the high priestess of the harpsichord, "prima clavicembalista assoluta" and "Bachante", not least on account of her intensive Bach studies. Her concert activities, her influence as a teacher and...