Super-Audio CD

While it is no surprise to learn that many composers, including Reger and Webern, made arrangements of Schubert's Lieder, what is surprising is how seldom they tend to feature in concert or on record. This release showcases thirteen Schubert songs in...

Where should I begin? with the music or the recording technology? Both are equally thrilling!... (Pizzicato) "Now, without wishing to go OTT about it, this is one SACD which I think I can unreservedly recommend to EVERY reader of this website who likes...

Where late the sweet birds sang is a gorgeous contrapuntal choral collection of works by three of the leading Elizabethan composers featuring some of the repertoire's best singers. Directed by Philip Cave Magnificat specializes in the restoration and...

When we recorded this album, in March 2022, no-one could have imagined that it would be Bramwell Tovey's last recording. Chandos Records would like to dedicate this recording to the memory of Bramwell Tovey, with whom the company had collaborated for...

When looking at the trusting musical encounter between flute and harp, it appears that a large number of scores have been unjustly neglected. This long list of works that have been hidden in the shadows underscores the perfect match between the two...

When Kamilla Schatz plays the violin, she becomes one with her instrument; she revels and sings"- with these words the Berliner Togesspiegel hailed the debut of Swiss violinist Kamilla Schatz at Berlin's Philharmonie Concert Hall. Since then, she has...

When in March 2018 the first bars of Schubert's "Unfinished" reached the recording equipment, this was not the everyday life of musicians who fulfilled their daily tasks, but the birth of a new body of sound: the KlangKollektiv Wien. Under the baton of...

When he was only a child, Jordi Savall entered a church in which musicians were rehearsing Mozart's Requiem. It made such a impression on him that he said to himself: "If music has such a power, I want to be a musician." Now 81, having recorded 230...

When he died, Nicolaus Bruhns was just 31 years old, and only twelve of his vocal works and five organ compositions have survived. On the strength of these, he is nevertheless considered one of the most prominent North German composers of the generation...

When Franz Schubert in 1827 invited a friend to the first performance of his Winterreise, he called it 'a cycle of horrifying songs'. The texts that he had chosen to set were by the poet Wilhelm M?ller, whose 24 poems form a psychodrama which starts with...

When deciding on the repertoire for his d?but disc, James Newby's first choice fell on An die ferne Geliebte, songs that he had been performing ever since the beginning of his career. But Beethoven's song cycle - and perhaps even more so the...

When Andreas Haefliger conceived this unusual combination of concertos it was with the aim of putting into perspective three pieces, each a unique and highly expres-sive highlight from the composers' output. That Maurice Ravel's Concerto for the Left...