Chamber Music & Recitals

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...

Possessing a complete recording of Beethoven's Cello Sonatas gives far more satisfaction than merely having the set to fill the shelves. On the one hand it offers one the opportunity to compare Beethoven's art of composition at various stages in his life...

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...

Pentaptycháis a collection of 9 new tracks from Ryan Lott, taken from the ballet piece commissioned by theáPhilbrookáMuseum of Art and presented by Tulsa Ballet. áThe original evening-length work was choreographed by Ma Cong and included a live, original...

Pennsylvania native Keith Kenniff's output as Goldmund has established him as one of the preeminent composers of minimal piano-based ambient music alongside peers like Hauschka, Dustin O'Halloran, and even Ryuichi Sakamoto, who himself once described...

Pascal Schumacher's new album LUNA is in complete contrast to his previous release, SOL. And it's not just the play with the contrasting album titles that already points to the different moods of brightness and darkness. Both releases also come from...

Over the past half-century the transistor has transformed our world. No computer or household gadget would be possible without it these days. As regards audio technology, our question was: did anything get lost on the way, and if so, what? And: A CD made...

Otto Klemperer was very much a man of the theatre. "Here, opera and drama were truly united," he said of his time at Berlin's Kroll Theatre, a progressive and influential force in the heady years of the Weimar Republic. He was also a man with a sharp...

Osaka-born and New York-based pianist Erika Dohi is a multi-faceted artist with an eclectic musical background. From highly polished traditional classical to bold improvisation, she is a dynamic performer whose timeless style and unidiomatic technique...

Orison is a sound prayer and meditation in seven parts. Composer Chris Campbell originally conceived Orison as a spatial piece within a "sacred space". He envisioned presenting it in a church or a Zen center with performers, visual media, and planes of...

One of Germany's most prominent pianists, Alexander Krichel from Hamburg, has brought together a couple of heavyweights for his first album with Berlin Classics. He combines the "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky, a central work of the...