Chamber Music & Recitals

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Friedrich Gulda belongs to the irrational sort, whose threatening extinction is a great loss to the world" (Manfred Gr?ter, WDR). After years of virtual abstinence from the classical music business - Gulda cursed at it's protagonists being schei?reaktion

Maestro Celibidache, Sergiu (1912-1996) was one of the most uncompromising figures in the music world, demanding three times as much rehearsal time as other conductors and with an ardent dislike of makingrecordings because he feared they misrepresented...

John Gay (1685-1732), a genial poet and playwright with a talent for satire, got the idea for The Beggar's Opera from his friend, the satirist Jonathan Swift, who had mentioned to him that A Newgate pastoral might make a pretty sort of thing". It was sta

On 7 April 1923, Ciboulette premiered at the Th??tre des Vari?t?s in Paris, and, as one of Reynaldo Hahn's most elegant and refined works, it is considered one of the last masterpieces of French operetta. The story tells of the pretty market gardener...

The purity of classical dance meets the opulent exoticism of the Maharajas' India in this 150-year-old ballet, glorified by Nacho Duato for the Mikhailovsky Ballet. Of Ancient India, composer Ludwig Minkus made in his La Bayad?re the shiny background of...

What if chamber music returned to it's traditional venue: within well-loved artists' homes? Initially, chamber music was composed for the private sphere, but ended up losing part of it's essence as this form started performing within venues that...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was a child prodigy whose early genius was recognized and admired by the likes of Gustav Mahler and Giacomo Puccini. His musical style, deeply affected by music for the theatre, possessed great lyrical breadth; he managed to...

Premiered on May 21st, 1892 at Milan's Teatro Dal Verme under the baton of Arturo Toscanini, Pagliacci was immediately a huge success, and today it's Leoncavallo's most represented operas as "Vesti la giubba" is perhaps one of the most famous operatic...

Sergey Prokofiev's operatic tragedy The Fiery Angel was never performed in the composer's lifetime - the music's brittle energy, drama and eloquent lyrical tenderness would re-emerge in his Third Symphony. The narrative focuses relentlessly on Renata,...

Ottorino Respighi's La Bella Dormente Nel Bosco (The Sleeping Beauty) was originally commissioned by the renowned puppeteer Vittoria Podrecca. The revised version we hear today preserves much of the kaleidoscopic approach and magnified characters and...

George Frideric Handel was one of those rare composers who excelled in works sacred and secular, instrumental and operatic, leaving us extraordinary masterpieces in every field of music. Already renowned in Italy, Handel made himself known in London with...