Chamber Music & Recitals

The complete Haydn recordings of the Auryn Quartet grow continually and bring joy to the listener just as continually. Joy especially because no discussions are raised here. This Haydn is indubitably good and beautiful, sovereignly played and interpreted...

The complete Carnegie Hall debut of the then 25 year old Martha Argerich in 1966 is the subject of this marvelous collection highlighting as it does her incipient musical gifts that continue to enthrall audiences today. Argerich's performance can be...

The competition's Gold Medal winner, Ukrainian Vadym Kholodenko, captured the attention of audiences and critics alike for his powerful performances marked by vibrant imagination and intelligence. His cadenza in Mozart's Concerto K. 467-which he composed...

The common question as to who was the most important Hungarian composer of the twentieth century - Bart?k or Kody - would have been vehemently rejected by the two like-minded friends. On the one hand, they shared many ideas and goals, such as researching...

The comic-heroic romp Matilde di Shabran was Rossini's last commission for the theatres of Rome, the city where he'd had great successes such as Il barbiere di Siviglia. Rossini took advantage of the agile, sparkling style of librettist Jacopo Ferretti...

The Comedian Harmonists were a world-renowned, all-male German close harmony ensemble that performed between 1928 and 1934 as one of the most well-known and successful musical acts in Europe before the Second World War. They had a wide repertoire,...

The combination of organ and violin goes back to the Baroque era. Many sonatas for violin and basso continuo can be executed just as well on the organ as on the harpsichord, sometimes even more colorfully than with harpsichord accompaniment. It was this...

The combination of oboe, clarinet and bassoon attracted several French composers in the first half of the last century and inspired witty and elegant divertissements from the likes of Ibert, Francaix and Poulenc. But the character of the trio held an...

The combination of Johann Sebastian Bach's music with jazz has a long tradition, the beginnings of which go back to the middle of the last century. For a very special recording of this exciting hybrid genre, the artistic director of the ensemble,...

The combination of flute, viola and harp instruments is one of the most unusual and delightful chamber music combinations, as the Trio Partout brilliantly proves with their album "Play of Colors". Probably the first work in music history for this line-up...

The combination of flute and guitar was a feature of early tango recordings - instruments central both to the genre and to the music of Astor Piazzolla. The composer's quintessential Histoire duTango charts the form's evolution from it's appearance in...

The combination of clarinet, viola and piano has not been used much by composers throughout the ages, and the most representative works are on this recording. Featured on this fourth release of Oslo Philharmonic Chamber Group are solo clarinetist Leif...