Chamber Music & Recitals

Japanese 2 x Hybrid-SACD pressing. Universal. 2021.

Jan Anton?n Losy was born around 1650 of a prosperous Bohemian family. After the death of his father, the first Count of Losinthal, he inherited not only his title but also considerable wealth. He was therefore able to devote his life to music, and his...

J.S. Bach's six sonata cycle for violin and harpsichord were considered in his lifetime to be watershed compositions and among his best works, and the eminent violinist Erich H?barth and young Finnish harpsichordist Aapo H?kkinen present a captivating...

Ivan Bessonov (*2002) is an exceptional musical phenomenon: He began his professional training as early as 2012 and took up piano studies at the Central Music School for Particularly Gifted Children of the Moscow Conservatory. In 2015, he made his debut...

Ivn Fischer leads the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphonies Nos.1 and 5. The first, though rooted in his classical examples of Haydn and Mozart, was nothing less than a turning point in the symphonic tradition. It can be seen as a fitting...

It was when Delphine Constantin-Reznik took up the post as harpist in the Norrk?ping Symphony Orchestra that she first came across the name Anton Pratt?, well-known in his lifetime as a harpist and composer. Her research into the music and activities of...

It was only after his death that Franz Schubert's symphonic works made an impact in music history. In fact, the first public performance of any of Schubert's symphonies took place at a memorial concert held a few weeks after the composer had passed away,...

It was in the 1960s, with the opera Die Soldaten and his Requiem f?r einen jungen Dichter, that Bernd Alois Zimmermann became known as one of the leading composers of the German post-war generation. These and other works from the period were examples of...

It was in 1953, 65 years ago, that Herbert Blomstedt conducted the Gothenburg Symphony for the first time. Since then he has been back on numerous occasions, performing a wide range of works - only not those by Wilhelm Stenhammar. Blomstedt has told of...

It was in 1842, his 'year of chamber music' that Robert Schumann took on the combination of violin, cello and piano for the first time. He seems to have decided against releasing the resulting Fantasiest?cke as a fully-fledged piano trio, however, but...

It must have been splendid when the Council was newly elected in Gdansk. Music was played on all organs in St. Mary's Church, and the responsible Kapellmeister had to deliver festive multi-choral works for the occasion. Andrzej Szadejko and his Goldberg...

It is well-known that musicians very often sit in a circle in Tacet's recordings. With this layout, they don't just hear each other, they can also see each other. This means that the musical exchanges between the musicians are simpler and better. And it...