Chamber Music & Recitals

The concept of this series is fantastic. Buxtehude's organ works are not interpreted on a single instrument, but serve to represent the North German and Dutch organ building traditions. Several organs are presented in detail on each album, and a precise...

The concept of metanoia - that, which goes beyond thought - most commonly describes a change in the way of seeing and thinking about things. With this recording, Italo Brazilian conductor Simone Menezes and her chamber orchestra "K", together with the...

The compositions on this release, which walk along the border between past and present, were dedicated to the guitar by Glauco Cataldo. He is a free-thinking musician, working in self-imposed isolation, and deserving of fame not only for his experience...

The compositions on this album are about crashing, decaying and failing. The individual downfalls have very different qualities and consequences: Brian Ferneyhough's La Chute d'Icare is an allegorical fall: the divine punishment for the exuberant Icarus,...

The compositions of Fazil Say belong to the key works of Turkish music of the 21st century. The classical music of the Occident, jazz improvisations as well as elements of oriental folk music and Turkish music inspire his work. Fazil Say, who lives in...

The compositions of Dvorak continue to move and delight US over a century after their creation, and this 2-CD set collects his most treasured works. Excerpts from his New World Symphony; Cello Concerto in B Minor; Slavonic Dances; American String...

The compositions contained in this release allow us to become familiar with the most significant and compelling chamber music scores composed on texts by Dante between the 19th and the 20th centuries. The primary literary source is the Divine Comedy,...

The compositional style of A. J. Romani and the theme of the present recording is the idea of Romani's approachable compositions which are rooted in tonality. The first pieces for voice and pianoforte are tonal and reminiscent of the German lieder while...

The composition of Un ballo in maschera caused Verdi many problems. What began as an opera called Gustavo III was subject to censorship by the Neapolitan and Roman authorities, so it's libretto, location and title all changed. The subject, however, is...

The composition of magnificent symphonies was not exactly the domain of Italian composers of the nineteenth century. However, this became the calling of Giovanni Sgambati, a Liszt pupil very much qualifying as the most important composer of symphonic...

The composing career of Simon Bainbridge (born in London in 1952) is spanned by the four chamber works in this album, all of them cast as single narrative spans. The First String Quartet, written when it's composer was not yet twenty, blends lyricism and...

The composers of these 20th-century Italian works were all associated with the cello from a young age. Their deep understanding of the instrument reveals itself in three contrasting concertante pieces where soloist and orchestra collaborate to explore a...