Chamber Music & Recitals

Edward Gardner leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Schubert's Symphonies Nos. 2 and 6 in this second volume in the acclaimed series. Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra since October 2015, Edward Gardner has led the...

Dvork's 9th symphony paints the town red, for sure. But that's not all! The strings of Andrs Keller are able to blossom like flowers. They don't play uniformly but with a seemingly congenital naturalness as if it were easy for 14 violins to sound as...

During the second half of the 19th century, a French school of trumpet playing was established, with French musicians and composers at the forefront of the instrument's musical and technical development. As a result, it was entrusted with a more...

During the fourteen years in which he worked on his First Symphony, Brahms was under a high pressure of expectation: in the shadow cast by Beethoven, he was forced to take a compositionally convincing position both with respect to the dominant father...

During the eighteenth century the cello gradually emerged from the anonymity of the continuo group, and by the beginning of the Romantic era the instrument had become an indispensable tool for composers. Robert Schumann, who had himself taken cello...

During the 2010s, Sebastian Fagerlund focused on a series of orchestral compositions and concertos, making one single excursion into vocal music: the opera H?stsonaten (Autumn Sonata, 2017). One of his most important works, the opera has influenced his...

During the 1930s, Bliss, Britten, and Berkeley all contributed major works to the repertoire for string orchestra, following in the footsteps of Elgar and Vaughan Williams. They are joined on this album by Frank Bridge whose Lament was composed during...

During the 17th and 18th centuries, Naples' fame as a musical center attracted travelers, composers, instrumentalists and virtuoso singers alike. Among the aspiring musicians, the most highly-trained and sought-after were the castrati, promising boys...

During his lifetime, Hugo Alfv?n became known as one of Sweden's principal composers of his time, with works that struck a chord with a wide audience. As a result of his popularity, a nationwide collection was held in celebration of his 70th birthday in...

Duo Aeternica consists of clarinet player Kjell Fageus and Love Derwinger, Sweden's best grand-piano player. The album contains a nice selection of romantic classical music from various composers including Franck, Faure, Nadia Boulanger, Lili Boulanger, T

Dorothy Khadem-Missagh continues the musical tradition of her family in the fourth generation. The young Austrian pianist is a multiple prize winner of the International Beethoven Competition Bonn. On her album she combines works by Beethoven with those...

Dominik Hellsberg writes: "Ignace Pleyel's string quartets represent an attractive challenge for experienced chamber musicians. The style is very familiar, yet the music is entirely new and full of surprises. For example, one discovers discrepancies...