(2000) Basque Music Collection, Vol. IV: Andres Isasi

Following recordings dedicated to the music of Jesús Guridi (Claves CD 50-9709), José María Usandizaga (Claves CD 50-9814) and Jesús Arámbarri (Claves CD 50-2001), the fourth recording in Claves’ Basque Music Collection features composer Andrés Isasi, a native of Bilbao....

(2016) George Robert plays Michel Legrand

Official release date: 24.06.16 « I love this recording. We could stop there, as that is the core of the message I want to share with you. We won’t, however. I’ll share with you some of the elements that grabbed...

(2019) Gregorio Zanon: Works for solo piano

JOURNEY TO THE END OF FREEDOM It’s been twenty years since the first public performance of Gregorio Zanon’s music. It was in 1999, in Geneva. The pianist Xavier Dami, who had encouraged Zanon’s early attempts at composition and helped him...

(2020) Alla Virtù della Sig. Maria Pignatelli - Unpublished italian baroque cantatas

(Accéder au Français) AN ENIGMATIC MANUSCRIPT The Antoniana Library in Padua holds a manuscript called Cantate alla virtù della Signora Maria Pignatelli. A true vocal anthology of the early 18th century, this period canzoniere contains forty-eight secular cantatas, almost all...

(1988) Boccherini: Complete Cello Concertos

Luigi Boccherini a réussi ce paradoxe d’apparaître clairement, aux yeux de ses contemporains, comme le parangon du violoncelliste virtuose, original et moderne, et, en même temps, de s’entourer de mystère quant à sa production pour son instrument favori lorsqu’il le...

(1986) Musiche Veneziane

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(1987) Canciones Españolas: Granados, Turina, Guridi & Toldrá

Who would expect anything as moving as the small cycle « La Maja dolorosa I-III » by Enrique Granados (1867-1916), which opens Teresa Berganza’s choice of songs and which, regarding its emotional intensity, can be compared only to Schumann’s «...

(1993) The St. Mark Passion

During his lifetime and decades after his death, Reinhard Keiser was considered Germany’s greatest composer. He was a fascinating individual: worldly, generous, energetic, inventive and assiduous. Keiser spent most of his life in Hamburg working as a composer, as the...

(1997) Claude Gervaise : Danceries (A quatre parties)

Alongside Italy's prolific but also highly inspired, sometimes to the point of grandiloquence, a less rhetorical but more playful musical genre was developing in France: the air de danse. The melodic theme of each dance was commonly called timbre. These...

(1997) Jesus Guridi: Diez Melodias Vascas / Homenaje A Walkt Disney / Una Aventura De Don Quijote / Euzko Irudiak

Basque composer Jesús Guridi (1886–1961) has earned particular fame and honor in his homeland, the Basque region of Spain; but his music is performed throughout Spain and internationally. The multi-faceted artists composed works in nearly all genres: operas, zarzuelas, orchestral...

(1991) Mendelssohn: Lieder

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(2018) The colours of Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, Oleg Kaskiv plays the Caspar Hauser from c. 1724, Ysaÿe Six Sonatas for Solo Violin Op. 27

“My enthusiasm flows towards the heritage of the phenomenal Cremonese violins. After displaying the wonderful golden period violin of 1718 by Antonio Stradivari ex Deszö Szigeti /ex Benno Walter (private edition by the author), it is my pleasure to present...

(1992) Joaquín Turina: Danzas Gitanas / Rapsodia Sinfónica / Tema Y Variaciones / Serenata Op. 87 / La Oración Del Torero

Joaquín Turina is the composer who best represents Andalusian musical nationalism. Turina did not seek to base his compositions on specific popular melodies (even though he did occasionally employ them), but to portray the «spirit», the atmosphere, the landscape and...

(2009) J.S. Bach: Missae breves BWV 234 & 235

After a first album dedicated to polyphonic rarities by the Franco-Flemish composer Philippe de Monte (Claves CD 50-2712); the Ensemble Orlando de Fribourg and conductor Laurent Gendre; escorted for the occasion by the ensemble La Cetra from Basel; have set...

(1988) Grieg: Violin Sonatas

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(1987) G.F. Handel: Sonaten Für Querflöte

The 12 sonatas for German flute and recorder take an important place in Händel’s works for chamber music. The present recording comprises those pieces which are especially dedicated to the German flute. Probably composed around 1711-12, the sonatas Opus 1...

(1986) Schubert: Impromptus

With these eight pieces Schubert creates a new genre of piano music (only comparable in its significance to Mendelssohn’s songs without words). Indeed, some predecessors of the lyrical piano piece are to be found in Czechoslovakian music, but it is...

(1988) Franz Schubert: Selected Dances, D146, D783, D790

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(1993) Jean Perrin: De Profundis / Cello Concerto

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(1999) Verdi: Requiem (Live Recording, The Hague 1970)

Verdi’s Requiem stands at the summit of nineteenth century liturgical music. First performed in a church in Milan in 1874, it is written in a musical language closer to the dramatic than to the devotional. Verdi’s intention was to express...

(1988) Baldassare Galuppi: Passatempo Al Cembalo

If I want to find another word for music it is again and again Venice - Nietzsche. Baldassare galuppi was born on the island of Burano, near Venice. His long and busy life was spent mostly in the picturesque world...

(1997) Weber: Overtures

Weber’s genius is most succinctly and most engagingly represented in his overtures. He was an inspired melodist, a brilliant orchestrator and a consummate designer of single-movement structures which – although their primary function was to create the appropriate atmosphere in...

(1983) Musiche Veneziane Per Voce E Strumenti

Teresa Berganza was born in Madrid and studied at the Madrid Conservatory while at the same time a member of the chamber choir “Cantores de Madrid." At the age of eighteen she was admitted to Lola Rodriguez de Aragon's Voice...

(1995) Arriaga: The Three String Quartets

The premature death of Juan Crisostomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola (Bilbao 1806 – Paris 1826) ended the promising career of a gifted performer, composer and teacher. Arriaga first began performing as a child-prodigy on the violin, appearing in...