Verdi the Organist

Liederkreise

Artist(s):José Pizarro, David Aijón Composer:Robert Schumann

Ysaÿe. Six sonates

When Eugène Ysaÿe composed his cycle of 6 sonatas op. 27 for solo violin in June 1923, gut strings were still very common and highly appreciated - statements by contemporary violinists such as Mischa Elman, Toscha Seidel and Jacques Thibaud confirm this. However, neither the dedicatees of Eugène Ysaÿe’s solo sonatas nor other contemporaries made recordings of these works. Martin Reimann has now...

Organ Works: World première recording!

Artist(s):Liuwe Tamminga Composer:Puccini

Tchaikovsky Roccoco Varations and PianoTrio Op. 50-...

Hymnos. Benjamin Britten: Canticles and Purcell...

Without doubt, Benjamin Britten (1913-76) left an indelible impression on every genre of 20th century English music. However, it is his smaller scale vocal repertoire that is particularly fascinating. Featuring three of Britten’s “Canticles” as well as a selection of his best realizations (or “arrangements,” if you will) of songs by Henry Purcell (1659-95), this recording represents the mature...

Richard Strauss - Music for wind instruments

Artist(s):Octophoros, Paul Dombrecht Composer:Strauss

Brahms - Piano Works - Piet Kuijken

Artist(s):Piet Kuijken on Pianoforte J.B. Streicher N° 6680 (1868) Composer:Johannes Brahms

Brahms 4 Hands

Brahms composed only a small number of original works for piano four hands, but arranged almost all of his chamber music and orchestral works for this instrumentation. He played most of them immediately after their completion with Clara Schumann and greatly appreciated her opinion. In his Hungarian Dances Brahms brilliantly transformed original Hungarian melodies and rhythms into multi-coloured...

Mendelssohn: Complete works for cello and Pianoforte

Artist(s):Sergei Istomin & Viviana Sofronitski Composer:Felix Mendelssohn

Giacomo Puccini the organist/DIAPASON D'OR!

Artist(s):Liuwe Tamminga Composer:PUCCINI

Beethoven Sonata Lunatica

Vienna. 1803. George Bridgetower, a violinist of Afro-European descent, causes furore with his virtuosity and captivates Beethoven, who writes a devilish and magnificent sonata for his unique and exotic character. Despite the premiere’s enormous success performed by both of them, an unfortunate comment by the violinist about one of the composer’s female friends leads to this famous sonata being...

Fahrende Gesellen

Artist(s):Oxalys & Dietrich Henschel Composer:C. Debussy, A. Zemlinsky, F. Busoni, G. Mahler

Voyage au pays du tendre

Artist(s):Oxalys ensemble Composer:Debussy, Martin, Caplet, Pierné

VIENNA 1905-1910. Schoenberg, Webern, Berg: String...

The Richter Ensemble performs music from the 17th to the 20th century exclusively on gut strings and uses its experience with historical performance practice to heighten the sense for the development of musical language over the centuries. The ensemble is passionately dedicated to the music of the Second Viennese School and, based on its research, has decided that the time is ripe to steer the...

Fryderyk Chopin : Complete works for cello and piano

Artist(s):Sergei Istomin & Viviana Sofronitsky Composer:Fryderyc Chopin

Schubert. The Small Song Cycles

In addition to his famous large-scale song cycles, Schubert also composed and published numerous smaller song compilations. Some of these “miniature cycles” consist of songs written at different times and under different circumstances, but which Schubert himself assembled on the basis of thematic and textual connections. The selected cycles appeared in print during Schubert’s publishing career...