Chamber Music & Recitals

Arden creates sensual, spheric sound structures. With her instrument the harp, her ethereal vocals and minimalistic electronic sounds she explores a musical world between chamber pop, neoclassical music and ambient soundscapes. She uses loops, layers,...

Anyone who takes an interest in Schubert's late works will sooner or later come across clich'-like interpretations of his music that have been associated with a foreboding of his early death. Robert Schumann on the other hand was more objective when he...

Anna Clyne: Mythologies became an instant media and popular success when it was released in October 2020 - "hands-down one of the half-dozen best classical albums of 2020", according to New York Music Daily. The album is now presented in a magnificent...

Andr? Previn - Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, Concerto (2LP) As a luminary in the worlds of classical music, jazz and show business, Andr? Previn is the ideal interpreter of these ground-breaking works by George Gershwin. Previn, here...

Among all those sacred compositions that deal with the end of life, Mozart's Requiem penetrates one's heart and soul like no other apocalyptic work. One reason for this is surely the rather mysterious story surrounding it's composition, a mixture of...

Alula is the new album from Brooklyn-based composer and performer Caroline Davis. The record is available exclusively through New Amsterdam's Bandcamp subscription as part of the Windmill Series, a new digitally-focused set of releases for subscribers in...

Alma opens a whole new door for pianist Yaron Herman. After ten albums, here he is, launching himself into the void and, for the first time, offering us an entirely improvised body of work, at once a staggering snapshot of the present and a rich mirror...

Alex Vizorek revisits Saint-Sa?ns's Carnival of the Animals. The French composer never imagined that his bestiary would become one of the most famous works in musical history, a staple repertory piece on a par with Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. The...

Aizuri Quartet's debut album Blueprinting features new works written for the quartet by five amazing American composers. Though the works on the album traverse a wide emotional and stylistic terrain, there is a unifying sense of wonder, joy and...

After the huge success of her first album for Alpha, Crazy Girl Crazy (Alpha 293), which received a Grammy Award, a JUNO Classical Award in Canada, the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, FFFF in T?l?rama and DIAMANT in Op?ra Magazine and was BBC...

After all is said and done, after 30 years, after a pandemic which shattered the world, after thousands of kilometers travelled and many more thousands of notes played and sung, what remains ? A deep love and respect for great music and the greatness in...

Adriaen Willaert must have already been a prolific composer before he assumed the position of kapellmeister at the Basilica of San Marco in Venice. After all, a second Mass of his was included in a large, illuminated choral manuscript that was produced...