Le Fils des Etoiles / Diapason découverte!

Jean Cras - La Flûte de Pan : Oxalys Ensemble and...

Neshima CD

NESHIMA is Orí Harmelin’s exciting debut solo lute and theorbo album. Orí explores a new realm of possibilities for personal creation as a modern musician using the musical language of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The album contains Orí’s arrangements of Madrigals, Motets and Chansons by Cipriano de Rore, Josquin des Prez and Thomas Tallis, alongside his own compositions of variation...

Mendelssohn: Complete works for cello and Pianoforte

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

Fryderyk Chopin : Complete works for cello and piano

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

Brahms - Piano Works - Piet Kuijken

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

Voyage au pays du tendre

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

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...

Piano Duets

Artist(s):Alexei Lubimov - Alexei Grotz Composer:Franz Schubert

Péches d'opéra | Rossini, Salons & Horn Virtuosi

After a very successful lifetime, albeit marked by long years of physical and psychological suffering, Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) chose Passy, on the outskirts of Paris, as the place to spend the final years of his life. Here Rossini recovered his health and began composing again after years of inactivity. During these years, in addition to the wonderful Petite Messe solennelle, he wrote...

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...

SEIS CAPRICHOS : SPANISH GUITAR MUSIC AROUND 1930 -...

Spanish Guitar music from around 1930 with works dedicated to Regino Sáinz de la Maza (1896-1981). Yiannnis Efstathopoulos performs with an historical informed approach, using a Spanish guitar modelled on the type that was used around 1930 with gut strings. this results in highlighting each string’s individual character and the delicate balance between the high and low strings. Works by Julián...

Chamber Music with Friends

Oxalys is one of Belgium leading chamber music groups who specialises in the repertoire of the 20th century.

Johan Huys. Ceci n'est pas une passacaille

Flemish composer Johan Huys is equally proficient on all keyboard instruments, but he is best known as a harpsichordist. He was president of the competition at the MA Festival Bruges for 39 years. For this world-famous competition, which is inextricably linked to him, he composed several pieces for harpsichord, including the compulsory work for the 2018 harpsichord competition: Ceci n’est pas...

Giacomo Puccini the organist/DIAPASON D'OR!

Artist(s):Liuwe Tamminga Composer:PUCCINI

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...

Octet, Rondino and Quintet for Winds and Pianoforte

Artist(s):il Gardellino & Arthur Schoonderwoerd Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven