Chamber Music & Recitals

The second volume of "Mendelssohn - Complete Chamber Music for Strings" is dedicated to compositions from the last third of the composer's life which span a mere ten years but display a vastly different composer: Opp. 44 the well-known mature formal and...

The second solo album of the young soprano Charlotte Sch?fer, together with Concerto con Anima under Michael Preiser, contains true gems of virtuoso coloratura art, which all use texts from the libretto Demofoonte by Pietro Metastasio. Among the...

The second installment of the dogma chamber orchestra's ambitious Mendelssohn project: this time the program includes a special triad with Symphonies Nos. 4 to 6, plus the Violin Concerto in D minor with the wonderfully versatile Viviane Hagner as...

The second album from Franz Welser-Mo?st on The Cleveland Orchestra's in-house label pairs Schubert's "Great" C Major Symphony with music by the 20th century Austrian-American composer Ernst Kr?enek. These recordings serve as a unique document of the...

The sacred groove of Ulrich Zeitler's Missa Credo immediately earned it's place on the hit charts. Now the composer and church musician turns to yet another Gregorian subject. He directly interrelates the traditional Pentecost sequence Veni Sancte...

The Russian National Orchestra continues it's Shostakovich cycle with Symphony No. 13, "Babi Yar", together with bass Oleg Tsibulko, the Popov Academy of Choral Arts Choir, the Kozhevnikov choir and maestro Kirill Karabits. Inspired by Yevgeny...

The Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev was one of the giants of 20th century music. Reference Recordings is proud to present the Utah Symphony conducted by Thierry Fischer, in grand new performances of "Alexander Nevsky" and the "Lieutenant Kij? Suite",...

The Rite of Spring's 1913 premiere created one of the most famous classical music riots in history. It's intensely rhythmic score, primitive scenery and radical choreography completely shocked the audience, who were accustomed to the elegant conventions...

The restoration of the Pierre Schyven organ in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp took three years until it was completed in February 2018. Now AEOLUS releases the first recording with the newly renovated instrument. Peter Van de Velde plays works by...

The relatively rare Masses that celebrate saints other than the Virgin Mary were usually composed in response to an individual's or an institution's particular devotional interest. There is good reason to believe that Nicolas Champion composed his Missa...

The relationship between Igor Stravinsky and the violin didn't get off to a promising start: early on in his career the composer stated that he was not fond of stringed instruments, finding them 'rich in cheap expressivity'. He was also suspicious of...

The recording offers a new look at Pachelbel's keyboard oeuvre and corrects the prevailing view of him as a composer of liturgical music for practical use without higher artistic aspirations. This audio edition presents his complete extant works for...