Chamber Music & Recitals

A part of the fantastic Pentatone's Remastered Classics series, and originally released in 1996 culled from two sessions recorded in the early and mid-1970's, this chamber cornucopia of Debussy pieces is a sublimely perfect showcase for this incarnation...

A most promising start to an essential, richly recorded survey', observed Gramophone about the first volume of Vagn Holmboe's complete string quartets by the Nightingale String Quartet. In this, the second instalment, the Nightingale's continues...

A mere two years younger than Johann Sebastian Bach, his music already points to the next generation: Johann Balthasar Christian Freislich was musically absolutely on the cutting edge. Far away from the traditional music centres of Europe, he created...

A lyrical suite of seven chapters for mixed choir a cappella, Jesper Koch's Choirbook is a meditation on nature, complex and yet simple, communicating openly with the listener. Sincerity and a sense of timelessness pervade this large-scale work based on...

A gripping interpretation passing every comparative test. This was the press verdict concerning the MDG debut of the Meccore String Quartet with the string quartets of Edvard Grieg. Now the young Polish ensemble turns to works by Tchaikovsky. The...

A gaping hole in the flute repertoire opened during the first half of the nineteenth century. It was not until the genial Theobald Boehm carried through his technical improvements on the transverse flute, formerly imperfect but now endowed with radiant...

A fresh new recording of Jean Sibelius' early breakthrough work by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under it's conductor Hannu Lintu. This recording with two male choirs, the Estonian National Male Choir and the Polytech Choir, brings up the full...

A few weeks before Schubert's death in November 1828, the last two piano sonatas, A major D 959 and B flat major D 960, were written, which together with the C minor Sonata D 958 belong to the "Sonata Triad" - which can probably be called the crowning...

A famous historical quote provided the idea for this program: Marin Marais and Antoine Forqueray, the outstanding French baroque viola da gamba virtuosos, were like "angel" and "devil" for their contemporaries - antithetical figures who produced greatly...

A double stroke of luck: the Sauer organ in the "Glocke" concert hall in Bremen has survived almost unchanged since 1928, despite all attempts to adapt the instrument to contemporary taste and fashion. The original pitch of 435 Hz has also been preserved...

A deeply satisfying listening experience awaits with this recording featuring the LaSalle Quartet joined by Lynn Harrell (cello) and James Levine (piano) in an idiom defining chamber music set. Including Schubert's String Quintet in C major, D 956,...

A composer cannot view the world in which he lives with indifference. Human suffering, oppression, injustice... all that comes to me in my thoughts. Where there is pain, where there is injustice, I want to have my say through my music. (Isang Yun) This...