Chamber Music & Recitals

This new release by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu is an all-Sibelius programme featuring internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter. The album includes two major tone poems by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957),...

This new OSR recording presents the two most ambitious musical responses to Maurice Maeterlinck's 1893 epoch-making play Pell?as et M?lisande. Conductor Jonathan Nott has created a new suite of Debussy's opera, which is much more extensive, and focuses...

This new Beethoven symphony cycle with Malm? Symphony Orchestra is conductor Robert Trevino's debut release on Ondine. Trevino is one of the fastest rising young conductors and known for his fresh and vivid interpretations of both standard repertoire as...

This much awaited recording offers keenly idiomatic performances of the most famous works by Grieg, played by the composer's own orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic, and it's Chief Conductor, Edward Gardner. The drama and passion of such favourite pieces...

This long-term edition of symphonies by Johannes Brahms and Antonin Dvorak, performed by the Bamberger Symphoniker led by their chief conductor Jakub Hrusa, springs from a wish to stimulate a deliberate, interiorized and unbiased listening experience...

This lavish set documents a once-in-a lifetime concert dedicated to Jerusalem, with Jewish, Arab and Christian musicians boldly threading together musical traditions under the direction of Jordi Savall, the world's leading early music performer...

This is vol. 2 of the "Haydn Quartets" by W. A. Mozart, played by Auryn Quartet and in the guise of TACET Real Surround Sound. After strong recommendations for the previous Auryn/Imai Mozart string quintets recording (Audiophile Highlight in Stereo,...

This is the second volume in Jan Willem de Vriend & the Netherland Symphony Orchestra's survey of Mendelssohn's complete symphonies. The conductor's fresh, innovative approach to the classical/romantic repertoire is acclaimed by critics and audiences...

This is the first volume in a complete survey of Bach's harpsichord concertos, recorded by La Risonanza in one-to-a-part practice performance. With his Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, Bach had created the first ever harpsichord concerto. In Leipzig, the...

This is the first ever album devoted to the chamber music of Helena Munktell, one of the earliest female composers in Sweden. The daughter of an industrialist, Munktell received private lessons in piano and song from an early age, but soon also training...

This is the first compendium of tracks from different TACET productions. For once, the main feature of this CD is not a musician, a composer or a musical theme. Instead, the star of the piece is: The condenser microphone. Something for music gourmets...

This is how Dvorak described his first encounter with the Third Symphony by Johannes Brahms: "I can say without exaggeration that this work surpasses his first two symphonies; if not in grandeur and power of conception, then surely in beauty! It's mood...