Chamber Music & Recitals

Among all the many Chandos brass recordings, each release having played a major role in the label's successful history, this one may well be the loudest. In the vast acoustic of St. Jude's Church, London, rendered in surround-sound, and in the largest...

Although highly productive and respected in his lifetime as a Lied composer, Robert Franz (1815-92) has since become a peripheral figure in music history. As they began to explore the songs of Franz, Georges Starobinski and baritone Christian Immler were...

Although born in Sweden, Klas Torstensson has spent most of his working life in the Netherlands following his studies in Utrecht in the early 1970s. Stylistically, he may call to mind Var?se, Xenakis and - perhaps more distantly - Stravinsky. First and...

Although Born Forty Years Apart on Opposite Sides of the World, Edvard Grieg and Percy Grainger Have Much in Common. Both Left Their Native Countries to Gain Access to the Great, Then Dominant Central European Musical Tradition, and Both Found Their...

Already during his lifetime George Onslow was known as the "French Beethoven." This extraordinary distinction earned above all for his manifold chamber music does not do complete justice to his special rank. On this release, Markus Becker teams up with...

Alongside his celebrated performances of the classical repertory, H?kan Hardenberger is also renowned as a pioneer of significant new trumpet works. The three works on this album were all composed with him in mind, and illustrate his many-faceted musical...

Allan Pettersson's Symphony No. 15 is characterized by a high degree of tension right from the striking opening: brief, emphatic chords from horns and trombones above the tremolo of a side drum. Soon an expressive melodic subject is heard from the first...

All three composers featured on this recording were central to the Danish Golden Age, a period of blossoming in the arts and music that delivered countless gems. Here, principal players from the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra perform fine concertante works...

ALL THAT OUR MOTHERS HAVE FOUGHT is a collection of contemporary, Norwegian choral works portraying strong women. The music illustrate some of the many storms that women have had to - and still have to - weather. They tell stories about the women's...

All of the works gathered on this album have - as different as they may be - one thing in common: they can be heard in the popular and idealized folk tone popular in the Romantic period. Whether Schumann's Fantasiest?cke or Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata,...

Alexei Ogrintchouk is the principal oboist of the Royal Concertgebouw and one of today's outstanding oboists. He is joined in the C minor Concerto for oboe, violin, strings and B.C. by dazzling young violinist Alina Ibragimova, who toured Australia in...

Alexandre Tansman was one of the most important Polish composers of the 20th century. He enjoyed an excellent reputation as a composer, conductor and pianist. His guitar works, mostly commissioned for Andr?s Segovia, were an important element of his...