Chamber Music & Recitals

It is well known that Felix Mendelssohn's sister Fanny was a highly talented musician, but fewer are familiar with the fact that there were two other musical siblings in the Mendelssohn family: Rebecka, a gifted singer, and Paul, a very competent amateur...

It is striking that two of the true classics in English orchestral music were composed within the short space of some fifteen years around the turn of the previous century. Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations have charmed as well as fascinated listeners...

It is strange that when I write these simple melodies, it is as if I am not the composer - it is people from my childhood or the Danish people who want something through me. Thus said Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), who was devoted to renewing the Danish song...

It is shocking to see how often, since time began, political, religious, economic and social conflicts have led to war. With over 17 million casualties from 40 nations, the First World War must certainly count among the most horrific of all. This...

It is primarily for his large-scale orchestral works that Sebastian Fagerlund (b.?1972) has attracted attention, but throughout his career he has also composed chamber music. In his production, orchestral and chamber music have a fruitful relationship in...

It is one of the tragic losses of music history that not a single note of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Mark Passion is of certain transmission. Attempts to reconstruct it have usually not advanced beyond the halfway point, but Andreas Fischer has now...

It is a young, fresh, unspoiled view on the music of centuries past that has secured the Schumann Quartet, since it's foundation in 2007, the uninterrupted attention of music public. Together with Estonian violist Lisa Randalu, the ensemble's latest Ars...

Internationally acclaimed for his music for orchestra (17 symphonies and 31 concertos to date), Kalevi Aho has also composed chamber and solo works. The present disc combines six such pieces, ranging across the composer's career. The earliest work on the...

International lawyer by day and piano virtuoso by night, Paul Wee made his recording d?but in 2019 with some of the most technically demanding piano music there is: Alkan's Symphony and Concerto for solo piano. He now returns with music which presents a...

Instead of comparing music from different creative periods of a composer's life, this recording brings together works by three composers, created in similarly creative, experimental periods of their musical journey. With his final piano sonatas for novel...

Inspired by Miles Davis's legendary album Sketches of Spain, this project intend to conjure up Spain 'as if through a prism - as a concept rather than a place'. Guitarist Jacob Kellermann and conductor Christian Karlsen worked with hyped young composers...

Initially enjoying popularity first in Germany-speaking lands and then in France, the genre of the piano duet (four hands, one piano) went on to blossom in England during the 20th century. On this album Emma Abbate and Julian Perkins present the complete...