Chamber Music & Recitals

Armenian composer Avet Rubeni Terterian's third and fourth symphonies were written in the mid-1970's, during one of his most prolific periods as a composer. Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra make a compelling case for these rarely...

Anyone wishing to engage with Johannes Brahms' piano music must first let go of any notion of virtuosic brilliance or superficial effects and subordinate themselves to the depths of the composer's emotional world. In the case of Brahms, a series of...

Antonio Vivaldi's bassoon concertos convince not only with their astonishingly authentic composition, but also with their almost inexhaustible ingenuity and their extraordinary musical quality. On her second release for Ars Produktion, featuring bassoon...

Anton Bruckner's Fourth Symphony, the so-called "Romantic", is characterized by a long history of development, stretching from the first drafts in 1874 to the third version in 1888. However, this version, which was common until the 1950s, was rejected in...

Anton Bruckner is a composer with an unmistakable musical language: darkly glowing, overwhelmingly beautiful, but also energetic and innovative. For the Berliner Philharmoniker, this music has been part of their artistic identity for over a hundred years...

Andreas Speer writes of this new album: "A soft knock at the door. Who is it? Could it be? - Hopefully it is! - Hidden feelings, longings arise, a sense of who and what it could be, and then the door opens, and it's him - rather than crashing in he...

Andreas Sp?th was a clarinetist, a violinist, an organist, and a voice teacher as well as the city music director in Neuch?tel, the concertmaster of the Ducal Court Orchestra in Coburg, and an honorary member of the Swiss Music Society. His death at the...

An indispensable part of concert life in East Westphalia-Lippe and an attractive cultural ambassador for the region beyond the borders of Europe - the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie (Northwest German Philharmonic Orchestra) lives up to these two claims in...

'An ideal mixture of clarity and stylish effervescence' (International Record Review) and 'a completely new, crisp "Mozart-feel" for the 21st century' (Stereoplay) were just a couple of the reactions from reviewers to the fresh, sometimes bracing...

An esteemed conductor who has worked with most of the major orchestras and made more than 300 recordings, Jos? Serebrier is also a prolific composer. He became established at an early age with Leopold Stokowski giving the world premi?re of his Symphony...

An astonishing success story goes into it's second overtime on Volume 8 of our Dutch Cello Sonata series. This time this release is really supposed to mark the conclusion, and for this occasion Doris Hochscheid and Frans van Ruth have selected sonatas by...

An album on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Astor Piazzolla. The arde Trio offers two world premieres on it's debut release: Fresh and new arrangements by Omar Massa, which are congenially embodied by the unusual instrumentation of the arde Trio,...