Composers Archive

Louis Lortie’s second volume of music by Gabriel Fauré features Nocturnes, Barcarolles, and the Theme and Variations in C sharp minor. There are also transcriptions of the “Pie Jesu” and the “In paradisum” from the …

Bavarian soprano Christiane Karg made her Wigmore Hall debut in 2012 with a beautiful song recital which also became her first CD release. Ms. Karg is a regular guest at the world’s leading opera houses, …

For his second volume of Scarlatti sonatas, pianist Federico Colli takes as his starting point the double sonata KK 63 and KK 64. These are two dances, the first (G major) full of lightness and …

Jean Sibelius was born in Hämeenlinna, Finland, on December 8, 1865, and died at Järvenpää, near Helsinki, on September 20, 1957. Sibelius began work on his Violin Concerto in 1902, completed it in short score …

This album includes Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet, one of the most seminal works for the instrument – combined with Hungarian dances and waltzes by Brahms, all newly arranged to include additional material from Brahms’ original musical …