Chamber Music & Recitals

The Cologne based Haesen & Breidenbach is a jazz / chansons fran?aises duo consisting of vocalist Charlotte Haesen and guitarist Philip Breidenbach. Together they effortlessly combine jazz, indie-folk and other musical influences from all over the world...

The College of Music of Sant'Onofrio, one of the wonders of baroque Naples, was founded in the late 1500s as a foundling institution to train orphans and abandoned children to work as artisans. Within a few years, it's educational policy had shifted to...

The collections of the Polish Radio Archive are one of the most valuable business cards of our national music culture. Once again, we are pleased to present to you selected recordings of Roman Jablonski, one of the most recognizable Polish cellists from...

The collection of six sonatas by Jan Dismas Zelenka is composed- with the exception of the third sonata that includes the violin- for a pair of oboes, bassoon, and basso continuo. In the context of Baroque chamber music, this represents a true rarity...

The collection gathers the best relaxing tunes from the piano repertoire performed by most eminent musicians: Piotr Anderszewski, Leif Ove Andsnes, Daniel Barenboim, Bertrand Chamayou, Aldo Ciccolini, Samson Fran?ois, H?l?ne Grimaud, Stephen Kovacevich,...

The closest Leo Blech (1880-1959) gets to fame these days is being mistaken for Ernest Bloch. Actually, some might still remember his seminal work as an opera conductor in Berlin, where he worked for almost half a century (except for the Nazi years). But...

The Classicpair chamber ensemble is made up of Agata Hanko and Jakub Jarosz. Their cooperation began in 2012 during their studies at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. They have had an opportunity to perform on a number of occasions in Europe and the...

The classical guitarist is normally imagined as a solitary figure performing on stage. We think of Andres Segovia appearing as a soloist for over 80 years.. But guitarists have not only been soloists. As a teenager, Segovia himself was a member of a...

The classical figures of Medea and Lysistrata have captivated creative artists for centuries. The latest of them is Steingr?mur Rohloff, an Icelandic-German composer who found his sensual, crystal-clear musical voice while studying with Gerard Gris?y in...

The clarinet player uses his instrument as billiard cue. This little provocation on the cover indicates what is going on. It's common knowledge that Mozart composed these pieces not long before his death. But for Dirk Altmann (and booklet author...

The clarinet has long been embraced by American composers for it's jauntiness and jazzy flexibility (think of that slide opening Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue), qualities heard in abundance on this album. We hear Leonard Bernstein's Cuban-influenced...

The Clarigotto Duo presents a collection of Romantic works transcribed for the unusual combination of clarinet and bassoon and joined by piano on the trio selections in an aurally fascinating glimpse at the sonic possibilities of these two instruments,...