CPE Bach's music places complex stylistic demands on the performer that are unique in the music of his time: exceptional drama and intensity are balanced by Enlightenment elegance and Baroque...
After recording a groundbreaking selection of Johann Sebastian Bach's most important keyboard works, one of the greatest Bach interpreters of our time turns his attention to the composer's...
On this new recording, Phantasm does not shy away from adapting some of Bach's significant keyboard works for viola consort. Under the direction of Laurence Dreyfus, they set out on a conscious...
This is the third and final part of the Well-Tempered Consort series (5 Diapasons, Gramophone Editor's Choice, BBC Music Magazine's chamber orchestra selection). In a program designed by...
This is the second part of Phantasm's recording series dedicated to J. S. Bach's keyboard music. The first disc was selected as BBC Music Magazine's Chamber Orchestra of the Year and won...
Here is Johann Sebastian Bach in a new light: 24 pieces of organ chorale preludes, vocal cantatas, and orchestral sinfonias transcribed for Fred Thomas's trio and solo piano, woven into Manfred...
This CD features the work Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue) by Johann Sebastian Bach, played by Risto Lauriala.Tracks: Bach, Johann Sebastian 1 Contrapunctus I Fuga I a 4 voci 3:02 FIABA64 2...
This box set contains three unique ballet choreographies by the successful German choreographer Christian Spuck for the Zurich Ballet, which he has directed since the 2012/13 season: Giuseppe...
Mika Suihkonen viola da gamba Ballo della Battalia Rhythmically and lightly on the viola da gamba The new album La Gamba offers works by four rhythm musicians of his time who lived in the 16th-17th...
A classical LP featuring Ludwig van Beethoven's powerful Piano Concerto No. 3 , along with the Andante, performed by legendary pianist Sviatoslav Richter. Accompanied by the Philharmonia Orchestra...
FORMAT: CD Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp. 2 No. 3, 13 & 28 (Angela Hewitt) The eagerly awaited second volume of internationally acclaimed pianist Angela Hewitt’s celebrated Beethoven cycle brings...
FORMAT: CD Beethoven, Angela Hewitt – Piano Sonatas Op 27 No 1, Op 31 No 2, Op 79, Op 109 Experience the full emotional spectrum of Beethoven's piano sonatas through world-class interpretations....
The combination of piano, violin, and cello was one of Beethoven's favorite ensembles. This CD by top Finnish artists Risto Lauriala (piano), Tero Latvala (violin), and Marko Ylönen (cello)...
This CD features the Diabelli Variations by Ludvig van Beethoven, played by Risto Lauriala. Tracks: Beethoven, Ludwig van 33 Verändrungen über einen Waltzer von A. Diabelli C-dur op. 120 1 Tema...
After releasing acclaimed recordings of romantic violin concertos by Brahms, Bruch, and Tchaikovsky, Vadim Gluzman turns his attention to a work that set a new direction for the genre in the early...
When Emperor Joseph II died in 1790, Beethoven was already a member of the Bonn court music circle. To mark the occasion, Beethoven was commissioned to write two cantatas, one to mourn Joseph's...
Die Ruinen von Athen ('The Ruins of Athens') was composed to celebrate the opening of the new German theater in Pest in 1812. It was conceived as an accompaniment to August von Kotzebue's...
This recording by the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, conducted by Aapo Häkkinen and playing period instruments, contains all of Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) incidental music for Goethe's...
Apart from his only opera, Fidelio, Beethoven's connection to the Vienna theater was largely through incidental music or songs that were added to other composers' works as supplementary...
The celebration of Princess Esterhazy's name day with a newly composed mass began in the 1790s, and Joseph Haydn continued the tradition for many years. In 1807, Beethoven commissioned a...
Critically acclaimed pianist Boris Giltburg performs Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, as well as Rondo, WoO 6, which Beethoven originally intended as the finale for his second piano concerto. Giltburg...
For audiences in the 19th century, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 was the most beloved of all his piano concertos. It is the most clearly balanced in terms of high drama, tenderness, lyricism...
These works share the key of E-flat major, but represent two very different stages in the composer's life. Piano Concerto No. 0, WoO 4, written when Beethoven was 13 years old, is one of his...
The Grammy-nominated Prism project by the Danish string quartet, which combines Bach's fugues, Beethoven's quartets, and works by later masters, is getting its fourth installment. The...
Rachel Podger, “the unsurpassed British brilliance of the baroque violin” (The Times), and Grammy Award-winning pianist Christopher Glynn recorded Beethoven’s Sonatas for Violin and Piano Nos....
The award-winning duo of Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt returns to the masterpieces of European chamber music with this new album, which features three violin sonatas from Ludwig van Beethoven's...