Chamber Music & Recitals

Ingmar Bergman (1918- 2007) made fifty films, directed more than 150 theatre productions and wrote several books, but the recurrent thread running through his life was music. He often said that if he hadn't become a director he would have wished to...

In this third volume of Edward Gardner's Walton series with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, James Ehnes leaves his violin to tackle the taxing soloist role in the Viola Concerto. In a recent Strad interview, Ehnes confesses: 'This is a piece I have loved...

In this fourth volume in their Richard Rodney Bennett series, John Wilson and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra turn to his Piano Concerto, commissioned by the John Feeney Trust for the CBSO and written in 1968. A chance meeting with Stephen Kovacevich...

In these recordings, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Berliner Philharmoniker present a brilliant and multifaceted interpretation of Franz Schubert's eight symphonies. This Schubert is colorful and dramatic - and represents a unique synthesis in which the...

In their liner notes for this string of estrellitas ('small stars'), Elena Urioste and Tom Poster admit to a shared love for 'an old-world, golden sound and for melodies that tug at the heartstrings'. This has resulted in a deeply personal collection of...

In their astounding new opera The (R)evolution of Steve Job, composer Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell explore the spiritual evolution of one of the most influential men of modern times as he creates a revolutionary new world of technological...

In their acclaimed series of Ottorino Respighi's orchestral music, John Neschling and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Li?ge have transported listeners to destinations as diverse as Brazil and King Solomon's Jerusalem as well as giving a thrilling...

In the words of composer Jo?l Bons, 'Nomaden is like a journey during which the protagonist - cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras - "meets" musicians from different traditions and enters into dialogue with them. It is not a cello concerto as such, but rather a...

In the veritable musical frenzy that struck Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) near the end of his life he composed several violin sonatas -a genre he had not paid much attention to since his early days. In this first in a series of three recordings presenting...

In the vast choral repertoire of the twentieth century, the music of Herbert Howells stands apart: unmatched in it's color and expressivity and unfailing in it's ability to move hearts. In this collection of choral favorites, Gloriae Dei Cantores perform...

In the spring of 2020, the Covid pandemic caused turmoil in the concert diaries of most musicians, including the conductor Andrew Litton and his wife Katharina Kang Litton, principal violist of New York City Ballet. To find an outlet for their musical...

In the handwritten catalogue of his own works, Brahms recorded that he had composed the Second Symphony in P?rtschach; and already during the summer Eduard Hanslick received the information from Brahms that he would "have a symphony played for him in...