Chamber Music & Recitals

Neeme J?rvi returns to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a dazzling album of suites from the ballets Sylvia, La Source, and Copp?lia by Delibes. Born into a musical family, Delibes enrolled at the Paris Conservatoire aged twelve, studying under...

Nancy Dalberg (1881-1949) completed three string quartets, and they hold a place of their own among her compositions. No. 1 in D minor was the very first instrumental work that she presented at a public concert (1915). No. 2 in G minor, op. 14 (1922),...

Mystical tales, legendary figures, elves, demons, fabulous characters... All compositions of this recording have one thing in common: the supernatural. To trace the underlying legends, stories and mythologies means to give expression to the different...

My aim with this recording is not only to realize a beautiful dream, to conquer the stage and to touch people's hearts, and to lead my listeners on a journey of great emotions in the world of music. I would like to uncover the dreams that lie dormant in...

Musica Nova Harmony Des Nations 15 This new recoding by Jordi Savall and his ensemble Hesp?rion XXI enables us to discover the best pieces for consort of viols composed between 1500 and 1700. London, Venice, Rome, Versailles, Madrid : all the great...

Music has always been used throughout the ages to convey certain states, emotions. Especially in the music of the 19th century, it was important for composers to express inner states - landscapes of the soul - in their music. They seek nature as a...

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and yet cannot remain silent, wrote Victor Hugo in 1864. Half a century later, his words had never felt more pertinent. Every composer writing during World War I found a unique way, through their music,...

Multiple prize-winning conductor Ren? Jacobs and the B'Rock Orchestra continue their Schubert cycle on PENTATONE with a recording of the composer's Second and Third Symphony. Jacobs approaches these pieces as a symphonic pair revealing contrasting...

Much has been written about the compositional history of the Piano Concerto in D minor by Johannes Brahms: how the composer initially planned a sonata for two pianos and then a symphony; how Beethoven's overwhelming legacy inhibited him; how the young...

Mozart's horn concertos are so well-known that for many listeners the sound of the horn and Mozart are virtually synonymous. Mozart was not the first composer to write solo concertos for the horn, however, and works from earlier on in the eighteenth...

Mozart's early bassoon concerto KV 191 is one of the best known of it's kind, offering the soloist a lot of opportunities to show off their virtuosic skills effectively. Together with the popular Piano Concerto KV 467, the soloists and the Argovia...

Mozart's brilliance at the keyboard is well known, but it was his joy in playing the viola - and the musical dialogue and kinship of playing with friends - that led the composer to write his music for string trio. This album features Mozart's...