Chamber Music & Recitals

Charles-Marie Widor: this name is the embodiment of French organ music of the nineteenth century. The illustrious organ builder Cavaill?-Coll promoted Widor's career while he was still a student and recommended him for the post of titular organist at...

Chamber music arrangements of symphonies were very common in the late 18th and early 19th century, and it is probably true that a large proportion of the people who were familiar with the symphonic repertoire at the time were so because of them. The...

Certain moments in history gave composers the possibility of saying something deeply personal, says LSO Principal Guest Conductor Gianandrea Noseda. "And Shostakovich speaks equally to us today". As Noseda and the LSO continue their journey through...

Celebrating the 130th anniversary of Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953), the present box set brings together recordings of his seven symphonies made by Andrew Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra between 2012 and 2017. Released on separate discs, the...

Celebrate Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in a new and definitive interpretation from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra! Recorded in superb audiophile sound, this release is the eleventh in the highly acclaimed Pittsburgh Live! Series on...

Carolyn Sampson has enjoyed notable successes worldwide in repertoire ranging from the early.1. Sweeter Than Roses 2. Meine Rose, Op. 90, No. 2 3. Roselein, Roselein! Op. 89, No. 6 4. Damask Roses 5. The Nightingale and the Rose 6. Le Temps Des Roses 7...

Carl Stamitz's Clarinet Quartets Op. 8 and Op. 19 are remarkable documents of the development of the clarinet's cantabile qualities, and the increasing significance of the instrument in the second half of the eighteenth century.1. Allegro 2. Andante Poco...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was the pioneer of an epochal change. For the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the most influential son of the great Johann Sebastian Bach, Yuval Rabin has taken on a very special project. This Israeli organist who...

Carl Nielsen's incidental music The Mother was written for a gala celebrating the reunification of Southern Jutland with Denmark. The score first appeared in print in 2007 and has never been recorded in it's entirety. This recording places the music in...

Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius, alongside Grieg the two giants in Nordic classical music, were both born in 1865. Both also received their first musical training on the violin, earning valuable insights when it came to writing for the instrument. Their...

Carl Maria von Weber wrote music that has been admired by composers as diverse as Schumann, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky. But in his lifetime he was also recognized as one of the finest pianists of the period, with an exceptional...

Capricho, part of Channel Classics' ongoing series focusing on the first chair players of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, features Uruguayan bassoonist Gustavo Nunez. Considered one of the finest bassoonists of his generation, Nunez studied at the...