Chamber Music & Recitals

A characteristic trait in Allan Pettersson's music is the use of strong contrasts - shifts between an enormous intensity and calm relaxation, between complex and violently dissonant passages and peaceful, simple melodies and harmonies. This certainly...

A broad and meticulous selection of orchestral works and concertos by Gerald Finzi is here matched by a first-class cast of soloists, supported by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sir Andrew Davis, expert in British repertoire and...

A brief glance at the list of contents is enough to reveal who the singer is - only Anne Sofie von Otter could have come up with a programme as varied and wide-ranging. And only von Otter could hold it together seamlessly by finding the resonances...

A breath of fresh air in chamber music: the young ensemble Tastenwind presents the very latest music that clarinettist Fabian Hauser has written for himself, flautist Katja Schulte-Bunert and pianist Elena Ka?mann. This ambitious debut on the MDG label...

A beginning could not be lonelier and more desolate: only a single trumpet opens the "Funeral March" at the beginning of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5. What is gripping already in the orchestral version is shockingly exposed in Otto Singer's arrangement...

A "grandiose and yet passionate libretto" Verdi wanted to put into music according to his own statement. Verdi's first setting of a drama by Victor Hugo (Hernani ou l'honneur castillan), written in 1843, fascinates listeners with the close interlocking...

2020 saw the release of the first installment in this three-album traversal of Beethoven's violin sonatas - a disc which has garnered distinctions such as Choc de Classica and Cum Laude (Luister), with performances that 'wed classical verve to a...

2013 Japanese pressing hybrid SACD. Sony.

2013 Japanese pressing hybrid SACD. Remastered. Sony.

2013 Japanese pressing hybrid SACD scheduled to include bonus material. Remastered. Sony.

2006 first prize winner at the International Paganini Competition, Ning Feng follows in the footsteps of great violinists such as Kavakos, Kremer and Accardo. Now based in Berlin and performing worldwide, the Chinese-born virtuoso has developed a...

1944 saw the premiere of the ballet Fancy Free, 25-year old Leonard Bernstein's first major composition as well as the first in a string of scores for the stage and film. In order to celebrate the centennial of Bernstein's birth in 1918, Christian...