A fascinating album featuring spellbinding recordings of Bach’s Suites and Partitas on the guitar, interspersed by first recordings of György Kurtág’s four short pieces extracted from “Darabok a Gitáriskolának”. Performed with finesse and utmost sensitivity, Pedro Mateo González guides us in a voyage through Back and Kurtág’s music, recorded in ...
Composer: György Kurtág (1926 ), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classcial
Subgenre: Instrumental
Cellist Fernando Arias and pianist Noelia Rodiles team up for this recording, portraying 30 years of Slavic masterpieces for this combination: From the still neglected Dohnányi’s Sonata, op.8 to one of 20th Century’s chamber music masterpieces: Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata op. 40. Intense and brilliant performances in this album ...
Composer: Ernö Dohnányi (1877-1960), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Chiaroscuro (Works for clarinet and piano)
Clarinetist Ona Cardona and pianist Josep Colom join forces on this recording, performing Brahms’ late masterpieces, the clarinet sonatas op. 120. Superb performances of both sonatas that framed Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, op. 73 and a wonderful arrangement for clarinet and piano of Clara Schumann’s largely ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
A voyage through a universe of unique colours and sonorities, different works melting into one another as they guide listeners on their musical journey. “Ad Illam” features pieces either dedicated to or written by women, and together they help us explore the different facets of the feminine personality. ...
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), García Demestres, Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992), Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), Susana Gómez Vázquez
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Fredric Mompou: Música callada
Probably the most important Catalan Classical piano work, Frederic Mompou’s Música callada, performed by the most eminent Catalan pianist of our time, Josep Colom. Mompou’s Música callada is a very special, elusive work of the piano repertoire. Their pieces speak with a minimalist simplicity; as Mompou himself stated: ...
Composer: Frederic Mompou (1893-1987)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Schubert & Schumann: Sonata D. 960 - Davisdbündlertänze, op. 6
Eudora Records is thrilled to welcome Javier Laso to the label. As the great pianist Josep Colom states in the accompanying liner notes, “Javier Laso is inspired”, for “he connects directly with the music, a music which shows us a mysterious place which extends beyond the vicissitudes of life and only a performer who sees that place can reveal it to us.” ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Encounters - Music for Viola and Piano
Berlin Philharmonic member Joaquín Riquelme and pianist Enrique Bagaría explore a century of viola and piano masterpieces, including spellbinding performances of Brahms’ Sonata op. 120/1 and Hindemith’s Sonata op. 11/4. Schumann’s lyrical and brilliant Adagio and Allegro op. ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), George Enescu (1881-1955)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Winner of the Citiy of Alessandria Competition, French guitar virtuosa Gaëlle Solal delivers a buoyant, heart-filled, Villa-Lobos-based programme she has put together after several years of research and writing her own arrangements. Works of the great Brazilian composer alternate with delicate and exuberant compositions of Pixinguinha, Nazareth, ...
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
Chopin wrote his Sonata in B minor, op.58 in 1844, the year in which his father died. Like its predecessor, the Sonata in B flat minor, op.35, it is cast in four movements (Allegro maestoso, Scherzo: Molto vivace, Largo and Finale: Presto non tanto), but its structure is rather more conventional and conforms more closely with the canons of the genre ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
On her Eudora debut, pianist Noelia Rodiles brings together three of her favourite Romantic composers (Schumann, Mendelssohn and Schubert) and three of the best-known Spanish composers of recent years (Jesús Rueda, David del Puerto and Joan Magrané). Noelia Rodiles commissioned ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), David del Puerto (1964), Joan Magrané, Jesús Rueda
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Two leading artists team up and bring together a selection of violin and piano masterpieces, performed in an outstanding and insightful way. Debussy’s sonata, composed in the last years of the French composer’s life, is full of sensuosity, while Janáček’s four-movement sonata is full of ...
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864–1949), Leóš Janáček (1854–1928), Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Duo animAcorde explores two centuries of music for violin and guitar in this delightful album which includes two first recordings, Ferdinand Rebay’s Kleine Suite and Antón García Abril’s Alba de soledades. Paganini’s Sonata Concertata, Giuliani’s Variations op.24a and Ibert’s Entr’acte ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven: Late Piano Sonatas & Bagatelle
Josep Colom’s latest album includes Beethoven’s legendary last three piano sonatas (Opp. 109-111) and Bonn genius’ latest piano work, the Bagatelles op.126. Colom’s original and exceptional vision brings out a fresh and different view on Beethoven’s masterpieces, one which creates a single narrative path ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Winner of the 2016 David Russell Bach prize, Bin Hu offers a fresh look into guitar transcriptions of Bach’s solo violin works. With exquisite sensibility and expressiveness and by the use of scordatura and a careful programming, Bin Hu gives personal and ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
Winners of the Pablo Sarasate and the ARD Competitions respectively, Ana María Valderrama and Víctor del Valle team up to offer a very personal and insightful rendition of two masterpieces in 19th century chamber music: Brahms’s Third Violin Sonata and Franck’s Violin Sonata. ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Ricardo Gallén, one of the one of the most distinguished and accomplished classical guitarists, offers an intimate immersion into Latin American guitar music, alternating brilliant and nostalgic pieces. “En Silencio” presents a selection of some of the least and the best known works of ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Bach’s influence on Chopin’s music is apparently subtle yet powerful. Ever since the Polish master was introduced to Bach’s compositions by his first teacher, Adalbert Zywny, Chopin constantly turned to Bach as a supreme point of reference. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Frederic Francois Chopin ((1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The Brahms Project - The Complete Piano Quartets
Four of the foremost Spanish musicians of their generation join forces in exploring three of German Romanticism’s highest peaks. Brahms’s piano quartets are cornerstones of the chamber music repertoire and works of symphonic scope, and the Brahms Project offer the listener a very personal ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
19th Century Guitar Duos (Works from Sor, Haydn/Fossa, Moratti, Mertz)
For their debut album, L’Encouragement Guitar Duo bring us a selection of 19th century guitar duos played on romantic guitars. This captivating recital explores the potential of this much beloved setting, from a lesser known composer such as
Composer: Fernando Sor, Joseph Kaspar Mertz, Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Federico Moretti
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Founded in 2009, Cammerata bring us for their debut album an exploration of the string orchestra repertoire, in a path from the 18th century to the present day, joined by viola soloist Joaquín Riquelme -member of the Berlin Phiharmonic-
Composer: Salvador Brotons, Georg F. Händel, Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
