Chamber Music & Recitals

With his Op. 44 quintet from 1842, Robert Schumann transformed the constellation of piano and string quartet from one that just served as a showcase for the pianist into a true chamber ensemble. Following his example, Brahms and Dvork produced their own...

With her first solo album, Emily Hoile would like to present works rarely heard on the harp until now. She takes great joy in arranging compositions for keyboard instruments and thus expanding the repertoire available to the harp: J.S. Bach's Toccata in...

With 17 symphonies in his list of works, not to mention operas and concertos, it is easy to forget that Kalevi Aho also composes chamber music. He has in fact written some ten quintets alone, for various combinations of instrument. Two are 'normal' wind...

With 17 symphonies and 32 concertos to date, Kalevi Aho is one of today's most prolific composers of large-scale orchestral scores. The present release brings together two works separated by 35 years, but also by the reception they have enjoyed: whereas...

Wilhelm Furtwaengler conducted Beethoven's Ninth Symphony more than 100 times. + In August 1954, three months before his death, he directed his last performance in Lucerne, leading the Philharmonia Orchestra and a stellar cast of soloists (Elisabeth...

Wilhelm Furtw?ngler dedicated his life to perpetuating the traditions of Germanic culture. During the six last years of his career, he went to Vienna to preserve that city's proud tradition and it's famed Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. He conducted...

Widely recognized as one of the leading conductors of his generation, LSO Principal Guest Conductor Gianandrea Noseda presents the first release in a new series exploring Tchaikovsky's final three symphonies. Urgent, supercharged and violent in places,...

Why 'Reflections'? Because every kind of music affects each of us differently. That's why I chose to include three very opposite composers, but also because I wanted to show that for some subconscious" reason they fit together perfectly... Bach leads us...

'Why has this intense, brilliantly orchestrated, claustrophobically gripping masterpiece been so neglected since it's 1977 premiere?' asked Richard Morrison in The Times of the concert performance in the Barbican that preceded this recording. Miss Julie...

Who's afraid of big emotions? An-lun Huang's piano trios dazzlingly demonstrate that contemporary music in no way has to be accessible only to a sworn community of experts. With his skill this Chinese-Canadian composer combines the best traditions from...

While starting his career adhering to Brahms' "absolute" or "formalist" compositional approach, Richard Strauss rapidly turned into a staunch supporter of Wagner's Zukunftsmusik, writing a series of iconoclast symphonic poems full of metaphysical...

When looking at the trusting musical encounter between flute and harp, it appears that a large number of scores have been unjustly neglected. This long list of works that have been hidden in the shadows underscores the perfect match between the two...