Chamber Music & Recitals

Gy?rgy Kurtg (born 1926) composed his Kafka-Fragmente in the mid-1980s; it's forty settings of Franz Kafka text fragments remain one of his most often-performed works, commonly presented in staged versions. Many of the movements are extremely brief; in...

Guy-Claude Luypaerts completed all his musical training at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris (Conservatoire National de Musique - CNSM). There he was awarded 7 prizes, including 1st prize for flute in the class of Jean-Pierre Rampal and 1st...

Gustavo Nunez currently serves as principal bassoon with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and is considered widely to be one of the greatest bassoonists of his generation. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1965, he began learning bassoon, the instrument...

Gustav Mahler's death left his Tenth Symphony unfinished, consisting only of an unfinished score and several sketches. Ensemble Mini, a radical collective of soloists from Germany's finest orchestras, presents Michelle Castelletti's fascinating...

Growing up in Vienna, with it's great Lied tradition, Hans G had written about 100 songs before leaving secondary school. He later destroyed them, along with all his other works composed prior to 1910, but between 1910 and 1921 he wrote many more. Except...

Grigory Frid's politically and morally ambitious operas have made him known to a broader public even outside his native Russia. His chamber music is not so popular, but it too holds discoveries in store, as John Finucane and Elisaveta Blumina...

Great Performances, Great Sound, and a World Premiere! Reference Recordings proudly presents Symphony No. 4 of Johannes Brahms, with the world premiere recording of James MacMillan's "Larghetto for Orchestra", in exceptional performances from Manfred...

GRAMMY½-nominated conductor and composer Benedict Sheehan leads The Saint Tikhon Choir in his new setting of Eastern Orthodox Vespers in English. Inspired by the great All-Night Vigil setting by Rachmaninoff, Sheehan's composition expands the genre with...

Gloriae Dei Cantores marks the centenary of American composer Alan Hovhaness with a collection of sacred choral works entitled from the Ends of the Earth. With selections spanning Hovhaness' rich musical career, this SACD invites the listener to explore...

Gianandrea Noseda continues his series of recordings of the works of Luigi Dallapiccola, this time with his Danish forces. Seen by many as Dallapiccola's masterpiece, Il prigioniero (The Prisoner) is a one-act opera composed in the late 1940s, and...

German-Canadian international soloist Johannes Moser recently signed an exclusive recording contract with Pentatone. A regular performer with the world's major orchestras and most famous conductors, he has received many accolades for his recordings to...

German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser and Irish pianist Alasdair Beatson present a moving portrait of the Mendelssohn family with this recording of pieces by the siblings Felix and Fanny. Once composed for the popular Sunday Sessions at the Berlin...