Chamber Music & Recitals

Sibelius wrote a very large mass of highly genial and attractive music. I'm thinking of all those delightful suites, symphonic poems like en saga and Pohjola's Daughter and that rather strange composition - very strange indeed - The Oceanides, which,...

'She clearly was born to play the cello,' wrote theNew York Timesof Jacqueline du Pr? in 1967. Just five years later her career was cut tragically short by illness. Providing a treasurable memento of her art, this is a newly-assembled 5 LP collection of...

She clearly was born to play the cello, wrote the New York Timesof Jacqueline Du Pr? in 1967. Just five years later her career was cut tragically short by illness. This LP provides a treasurable memento of the "perfect balance of youth and maturity" that...

Seven years after their triumph with quartets by Dvorßk, the Pavel Haas Quartet are making a triumphant return to Dvorßk's music. For the recording of the quintets, they have invited two guests: the pianist Boris Giltburg (winner of the 2013 Queen...

Sarah Willis is a tireless ambassador for her instrument, the French horn, which she champions around the world. A horn player with the famous Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since 2001, she launched what was soon to become a famous TV programme, 'Sarah's...

Samuel Ljungblahd, born December 26, 1976 in Ume?, is a Swedish songwriter and soul singer with a Christian profile. His musical training from the age of 20 was received through involvement in the Salvation Army and contained much exposure to gospel...

Ron Brown writes: "Perhaps Sonny Terry's blindness has isolated him from the world to such an extent that he's been able to shrug off a cloak of sophistication more than would normally be expected of a man who's been in demand by blues audiences the...

Roger Eno releases his second solo album the skies, they shift like chords on Deutsche Grammophon. His new album the skies, they shift like chords builds on the soundscape of piano and strings that Eno first introduced on his first solo album The Turning...

Rimma Sushanskaya conducts The Locrian Ensemble of London with Fiona Kelly on flute and Jean Kelly on harp. For many of the Chasing the Dragon albums they have been using 3 microphones used in a "Decca Tree" array to capture the main stereo image...

Released a few months before the 100th anniversary of Claude Debussy's (1862-1918) passing, this LP contains a recital full of poetry by the French pianist Samson Fran?ois, a master in this repertoire in which he conveys to us a unique vision with his...

Playful, eloquent, intimate and existentially cool, Terry Riley's Autodreamographical Tales is a musical dream diary - a no-holds-barred journey into the creative unconscious, rendered with a compelling joie de vivre by one of the most influential...

Pianist Clemens Christian Poetzsch has always known what he wanted from music - freedom. Freedom to improvise, to create new musical worlds, and to follow his instincts wherever they take him. As a child in Dresden, Germany, Poetzsch received his first...