Chamber Music & Recitals

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...

The combination of cello and piano has long been a favored choice among composers. Detailing a selection of works by two of the world's greatest; this release celebrates one of music's most enduring partnerships through showcasing some of the duo's best...

The Colourful Telemann presents works from different periods of Georg Philipp Telemann's life, reflecting his lively personality and exploring his seemingly unlimited invention over a wide variety of styles and genres. A contemporary of Bach and Handel,...

The Cologne quintet Lariza around the singer Lena-Larissa Senge, who also plays the synthesizer, creates a world of it's own from acoustic and electronic sounds on it's debut album "Weave". Almost all of the ten songs that can be heard here are from...