Mozart: Piano Sonatas K. 333, 457, 545 & 576
A living legend from the Spanish piano scene, Josep Colom presents Mozart’s music in a radical way: with Colom’s own interludes between movements that play with motifs or anticipate ideas, new ornamentation, transformations, all in all evoking the art of improvisation from the time of Mozart, this album brings four piano sonatas from the Austrian ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
For its first recording project, ‘Cuando el fuego abrasa’ (When the fire burns), the Ensemble Bayona presents the hallmarks of the group’s identity: the fruitful and close Spanish-Swiss collaboration and the promotion and dissemination of music from the early 20th century. That is why the works of contemporary composers Francisco ...
Composer: Joseph Lauber (1864-1952), Francisco Coll (1985), Christoph Blum (1990), Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
For their debut album, the Yugen Trio presents what is arguably the cornerstone of the Piano Trio repertoire: Maurice Ravel’s trio, in a vital and highly expressive performance. Ravel’s masterpiece is preceded by the usually claimed ‘father of the piano trio’, Haydn, with his trio in A major, Hob.XV:35, and by one of Shubert’s ...
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
A marvelous voyage through four apparently unrelated worlds, each of them cultivated a new musical landscape in a new century: from Lisztian-Wagnerian Berg’s Sonata op. 1 to Mompou’s Variations on a Theme of Chopin, going through folk-inspired Falla’s Fantasía Baetica and Bartók’s Sonata, Javier Laso gives spellbinding ...
Composer: Frederic Mompou (1893-1987), Alban Berg (1885-1935), Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Bella Bartók (1881-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Schubert, Padovec, Ponce: Moments Musicaux
One of the greatest guitarists of his generation, Petrit Çeku guides us on this wonderful journey through Schubert’s inner world. There are many myths surrounding the great composer’s relationship with the guitar, most of them of spurious origin. Whatever the full truth about Schubert and the guitar, it is easy to understand why some guitarists and composers ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Manuel Maria Ponce (1882-1948), Ivan Eugen Padovec (1800-1873)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
Noelia Rodiles has been described as “one of the true rising stars of Spanish and international piano playing”. For her new recording project, ‘1823’, she has paired Schubert’s Moments Musicaux D. 780 with the first recording of Martín Sánchez Allú’s first Piano Sonata. ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Martín Sánchez Allú (1823-1858)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Inspired by the “Sisters of the Moon” paintings by the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, the concept behind this album revolves around the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters. According to Greek mythology, these nymphs, also known as the dancers, served the goddess Artemis. They lived a life devoted to love and rebelled against the obligation to preserve ...
Composer: Helene de Montgeroult (1764-1836), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), Amy Beach (1867-1944), Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Still a neglected work, Julián Orbón’s Partita No. 4 for piano and orchestra is one of the most important piano and orchestra works from the Spanish repertoire, and receives here a superb performance from Noelia Rodiles and the Oviedo Filarmonía under Lucas Macías’ baton. The album is completed with the first ...
Composer: Julián Orbón (1925-1991), Manuel Martínez Burgos (1970)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Hans Sitt: Viola and Piano Works
Hans Sitt (1850-1922), a highly neglected composer from late Romanticism, played a significant role in the transmission of the German tradition of Schumann and Brahms to the 20th Century. Born in Prague, he developed a brilliant career as a violinist and pedagogue, but was especially paramount in the development of the viola’s repertoire, for which he made ...
Composer: Hans Sitt (1850-1922)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Homeland is more than just a place of birth; the term connotes a deep emotional bond between an individual and their country, their culture, and their nature. It was when composers Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) and Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) began to explore the depths of their cultural homelands ...
Composer: Edward Grieg (1843-1907), Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Preludes and Dances from Brazil
Renowned Spanish guitarist Ricardo Gallén has embarked on a fascinating musical journey with his album, dedicated to the works of the legendary composer Heitor Villa-Lobos and to the Grammy-Award winner Sérgio Assad. Both Brazilian, this recording represents a homage and a celebration to the country’s folklore and rich cultural heritage. ...
Composer: Sérgio Assad (1952), Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
André Cebrián and Pedro Mateo González team up and bring together a selection of 20th-century flute and guitar masterpieces, performed in an intense and brilliant way. From Piazzolla’s quintessential Histoire du Tango to Takemitsu’s deeply evocative Toward the Sea for alto flute and guitar, this album, which also includes works by ...
Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968), Leo Brouwer (1939), Robert Beaser (1954), Feliu Gasull, Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Fanny Mendelssohn, a “sister of the Muses” has her mother would call her, was a 19th -century wife, mother and carer, but also made her own musical path and became of one the most important pianists of her time, composing over 400 pieces. The title of the album is a reference to a poem Goethe set Fanny to set it to music, highly spontaneous and ...
Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Jesús Legido, one of the greatest composers of contemporary Art song in Spain, is portrayed here in this first recording of a selection of his voice and piano songs, which draw inspiration from folklore and his poetic influences (like Antonio Machado and Federico García Lorca). ...
Composer: Jesus Legido
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
J.S. Bach: 3 + 1 Viola da Gamba Sonatas
Alejandro Marías and Jordan Fumadó inmerse themselves in Bach’s three Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord, in a sumptuous sounding performance of Bach’s masterpieces. Both artists deliver superb ensemble playing and refined and intense performances in this album, which also includes a reading of Bach’s Sonata BWV1030 from Johann Friedrich Hering’s manuscript. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Protean Quartet, winner of the prestigious first prize at the 2022 York Early Music International Young Artists Competition, explores the String Quartet repertoire of the second half of the XVIII Century, from the last of the so-called “Russian Quartets”, by Franz Joseph Haydn, to Beethoven’s Op. 18 No.1, the first of his String Quartets to be ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The astonishing imaginative powers of Vivaldi as a composer of violin concertos receive perfect attention from the inspired soloist Vadym Makarenko and Infermi d’Amore in this album, which includes four premiere recordings. These brilliant performances provide an opportunity to discover Vivaldi’s ability to take his ...
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Antonio Veracini (1669-1733)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Violin and Harpsichord Sonatas
Bach’s Six Sonata cycle for violin and harpsichord ranks among the best examples of the Baroque Trio Sonata repertoire. Unlike common practice, both instruments participate equally in the unfolding of the thematic-motivic material and the keyboard part is almost entirely specified by Bach. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
In this wonderful recording, cellist Lorenzo Meseguer and pianist Mario Mora bring together four composers who have historically been undervalued: From Fanny Mendelssohn’s Fantasia to Gustav Jenner’s Sonata in D major, the album also includes Felix Mendelssohn’s Sonata op. 58, a masterpiece for this combination, and an arrangement for cello and piano ...
Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), Clara Schumann (1819-1896), Gustav Jenner (1865-1920)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
A marvelous voyage through the aesthetic of the fragmentary, by the hand of Chopin’s 24 Preludes, op. 28 and Janáček’s first book from “On an Overgrown Path” and his Piano Sonata “1. X. 1905”. As Luca Chiantore states in the accompanying liner notes, this album “is characterised by the fleeting nature of works that speak to us of ...
Composer: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
