Chamber Music & Recitals

Maestro Marek Janowski and the WDR Symphony Orchestra present Beethoven's Fifth and Sixth symphonies. Premiered during the same concert in 1808, these two symphonies present two sides of Beethoven's musical persona. Whereas the Fifth is legendary for...

M?rchenhaft (Swedish "sagolikt") is a concert program by Nordic Light Duo inspired by the wonderful fairy tale world of the popular children's book author Elsa Beskow. Devotedly and lovingly designed, Beskow's fairy tales and illustrations run like a...

Lutz-Werner Hesse studied with Gunter Fork and Jurg Baur at the Cologne University of Music. Since 1984 he has been a full time lecturer, and is today Professor and Managing Director at the Wuppertal location of the HfMT Cologne. From 1997 to 2011 he was...

Luise Adolpha Le Beau was a celebrated pianist who scored successes with compositions of her own, prevailing against all the resentment working against women composers during the middle of the nineteenth century. The three young musicians Bartek Niziol,...

Ludwig van Beethoven's first printed work was a set of variations, published in 1783 when he was only twelve years old and his final keyboard composition was the massive set of thirty-three variations on a theme by Anton Diabelli, composed almost four...

Ludwig van Beethoven took his first musical steps in the chapel of the prince-bishop's court in Bonn. With the "Edition Hofkapelle", the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn is searching for traces. The first series of Harmoniemusik reveals something astonishing:...

Luciano Berio's Coro has been described as the work that 'exemplifies all the qualities that made him one of the leading composers of our time'. The work's full title is 'Coro for voices and instruments', and the 40 voices and 44 instrumentalists do...

Love is a rollercoaster, and so is this swinging new take on Virgil's classical tragedy. Dido & Aeneazz is a recomposition of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas by Raaf Hekkema, combined with newly-composed music arranged by Eric Vloeimans. The album...

Louis Vierne (1870-1937) undoubtedly led the Organ Symphony to it's stylistic climax. In the tradition of this original French genre he stands in line with his teachers and pioneers C?sar Franck and Charles-Marie Widor. The last two relevant works were...

L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) is often described as the first opera. The composer himself used another term for his work, however: 'favola in musica', a musical tale. Taking this as their point of departure, the performers on the present...

Longingly awaited: L'Arte dell'Arco now at last has recorded more instrumental works by the composer Francesco Veracini for CPO. The first release met with an unanimously enthusiastic response: "Here everything fits perfectly; here instrumentalists...

London Symphony Orchestra Principal Guest Conductor Gianandrea Noseda continues his survey of Shostakovich with the monumental Symphony No.4. Extravagant and challenging in equal measure, it's a work of epic proportions, requiring over a hundred...