Chamber Music & Recitals

Saint-Sa?ns's chamber music broke new ground in France at a time when public taste tended to favour opera and op?ra-comique. His first Sonata for violin and piano, one of the earliest composed in France, is a masterpiece of boundless beauty. It's...

Running through this album is a path from despair and sin through revelation, repentance and belief, to life, triumph and finally love. The stations on the way are eight five-part fantasias for viols by Michael East (1580-1648), unusual in that each of...

Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) was a major Danish late-Romantic composer who did not gain recognition in his mother country. His greatest successes took place in Germany and Austria, where his Symphonies Nos. 2 and 6 were met with considerable acclaim. Back...

Rued Laggard's string quartets are passionate, youthful works. Includes the world premiere recording of Rosengaardsspil (Rose Garden Play) the prizewinning Nightingale String Quartet offer distinctly dramatic interpretations of this music. This recording...

Royal... noble sound in a courtly context is a short description of the music of the famous renaissance lutenist John Dowland, which is the focus of Stefan Koim's second album. On the one hand, compositions by Dowland are presented; compositions that...

Ronald Brautigam has recorded more than 60 albums for BIS, including the complete solo keyboard music by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven on the fortepiano. But his first releases on the label, in the mid-1990s, were Mendelssohn's concertante works for piano...

Roberte Mamou writes: "The CONNECTION... Carl, Johann Nepomuk, Franz, Ludwig, Wolfgang and Joseph... all in Vienna during one century! Vienna, more than Salzburg, is at this time the center of attraction for musicians and the meeting point of musical...

Robert Schumann wrote four symphonies: These four orchestral works are closely linked to the development of his career. The first and the third symphonies somewhat eclipse the other two works. Marcus Bosch and the Cappella Aquileia explore the nuances of...

Robert Schumann was the most confessional of composers. And many of the songs from his great Liederjahr of 1840 were in essence love songs to Clara Wieck. In them he could express overtly what had been merely implicit in his piano music: his fears and...

Robert Schumann rated the string quartet genre very highly, describing it as 'noble' and considering it to be one of the most revealing in terms of compositional craftsmanship. Possibly it was the high regard in which he held the genre that for so long...

Risto-Matti Mann writes of this new release: "Only a small sample of recent Finnish piano repertoire can be included on this one [album]. The purpose of this collection is not to paint a complete picture of what new Finnish piano music is. Also, I awoke...

Richard Strauss' father, Franz Strauss, was one of the most prominent horn virtuosos of the time, and the horn was one of the instruments for which Richard had a predilection throughout his life. With his "Serenade," Strauss junior convinced conductor...