Chamber Music & Recitals

Too bad it's only been around for a hundred years! This is what the Trio Roseau thought about it's ensemble form, the "trio d'anches" featuring the oboe, clarinet, and bassoon and first established in the 1920s. But what to do when the ensemble's own...

To visit the great Venetian cathedrals in the 17th century was to bow deeply to the polychoral or "cori spezzati" style that reigned there, pioneered by Giovanni Gabrieli. The young Heinrich Schutz was no exception. Unable to resist the sparkling sounds...

To celebrate their 10th season together, the members of the choral ensemble Stile Antico present this superb mid-priced SACD collection of the group's personal favorites, drawn from five centuries of glorious repertoire. From Byrd's Vigilate to Gibbons's...

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vaughan Williams, we are proud to reissue this outstanding symphony cycle. Started in 1999 by Richard Hickox and the London Symphony Orchestra, this was the first Vaughan Williams symphony cycle to be...

Tippet Rise Opus 2017 is the second compilation album to emerge from the summer music season at Montana's Tippet Rise Arts Center, which features performance spaces of acoustic perfection amidst a sculpture-laden terrain of awe-inspiring beauty, nestled...

Thuringia-born Johann Melchior Molter (1696-1765) is at best known to some as the composer who wrote some of the earliest concertos for the clarinet, which had just been invented at the time. Otherwise, the practical exploration of the oeuvre of the...

Throughout his life, Johann Sebastian Bach arranged and parodied his own and other composers' works. This openness to the practice of transcription, which has been demonstrated in so many ways, encourages the composer to venture into new instrumentations...

Throughout his career, Sergei Prokofiev wrote a large number of works for the stage - some of them highly successful, others less so. Whichever the case, Prokofiev would rarely miss the opportunity of recycling the score in one way or another - staying...

Throughout his career, Ilya Gringolts has devoted himself to performing contemporary music as well as the great concert repertoire, while also developing a keen interest in historical performance practice. The focus of his latest recital disc is...

Thomas Albertus Irnberger, violin, and Pavel Kapar, piano, lead us with their album Salon de Budapest into the bourgeois salon of the late 19th century - an oasis amid the 'good old days' which weren't, of course, that good to begin with: mired turmoil,...

This version of the three act Leonore of 1805 was recorded during a concert performance in the Grand Hall of the Vienna Musikverein on 14 December 1970. Starring as Fidelio/Leonore and Florestan were Gwyneth Jones and James King, who were incomparable in...

This second release from versatile cellist Mayke Rademakers on Challenge Classics features a well-thought-out selection of Spanish and Latin American works based on flamenco and tango music. Rademakers first undertook tuition from Hungarian cellist...