Chamber Music & Recitals

The conductor and harpsichordist, Bridget Cunningham brings back to life Handel's pasticcio opera, Caio Fabbricio first performed in London in 1733 and based on an earlier opera by Johann Adolf Hasse (1732) Caio Fabbricio is London Early Opera's eighth...

The conch shell exemplifies the versatility, sublimity, and transcendence of nature - a natural dwelling, a biological work of art, and, as shown by the City of Tomorrow, an instrument. Nature, the debut Ravello Records release by the City of Tomorrow...

The concertos and chamber works on this album show Villa-Lobos's unceasing enthusiasm for new colors and sonorities in his music. The Concerto for Guitar and Small Orchestra was his last work for the instrument and written for Segovia. A cornerstone of...

The 'Concerto' was published five years after the Sixth Book had appeared. It represents a clear break with Monteverdi' earlier publications: here the madrigal is transformed or, perhaps, it would be better to say it has vanished, at least in the fo.1...

The concerto occupies a central place in the works of leading Belgian composer, pianist and conductor, Robert Groslot. His experience as a renowned soloist informs the instrumental possibilities and playing techniques of his compositions, which are...

The Concerto in G major, Hob. XVIII: 4, comes from a later period, scored for harpsichord or forte piano and strings with pairs of oboes and horns as required. It was written by 1781 and in spite of it's undoubted authenticity fell under suspicion from...

The Concerto in D minor BWV 1063 for three harpsichords is an extremely individual work. The history of it's composition is completely obscure, and there are extremely divergent hypotheses about possible works on which it could be based. According to an...

The Concertino for Cello & Orchestra was found in 2016 and established as a separate fore-runner to the later Cello Concerto. The Preludes autographed edition was presented to Marina Tarasova when she studied with Weinberg in 19791. Concertino Op.43;I...

The Concerti of the violinist-composer Francesco Venturini (c.1675-1745) are a real discovery - melodious, virtuosic, elegant and dance-like, combining Italian and French stylistic elements to form a "mixed taste", as Telemann described this melange...

The concert season of the Ruhr Piano Festival 2020 has suffered heavily under the Corona pandemic shutdown - loosing more than 85% of all scheduled concerts. In the late June/July days some concerts had taken place, some were live recorded; some concert...

The concert repertoire for organ or percussion with orchestra is small, and even smaller where both organ and percussion are soloists. Eirik Raude and Lars Notto Birkeland want to bring out this combination of instruments by adding new commissions to the...

The concept that led to The Oberlin Concertos was initially hatched in a conversation between pianist and educator Xak Bjerken and a former student, Oberlin Conservatory composition professor Jesse Jones. It was Jones who suggested writing a chamber...