Heinz Holliger is amongst the most versatile music personalities of our time. The concert – recorded in the Basel Music Academy – brings the multiple award-winning composer and oboist together with the internationally known Keller Quartet with works…

Live from Paris 1977

Barbara Thompson has long been acknowledged as the first lady of the sax. Together with her band "Paraphernalia" and Jon Hiseman, she ranks among the world's top Jazz-rock ensembles.

This assemblage of authentic luminaries recreates the sound of Paris in the 50's and 60's when the City of Light was Europe's mecca for American jazz musicians. The Paris Reunion Band was formed as a homage to Kenny Clarke and the spirit of his…

"Roots Revisited" is what Maceo Parker, one-time saxist in James Brown's Band, calls his earthy soul and funk combo.

Alfred Brendel is arguably the most outstanding exponent of Schubert's piano music currently before the public, a man capable of bringing to vibrant life not only the verve of this music but also its poetic intensity and intellectual depth. In this…

Ludwig van Beethoven's Octet in E-flat major Antonin Dvorak's Serenade in D minor Recorded in the famous Jaspis-Hall in the New Chambers - directly beside Sanssouci, the Summer Palace of Friedrich the Great.

They started out in 1981 as a New York City street band, playing jazz, gospel and classics. Now they're an internationally acclaimed quartet forming a tighly-knit unit with their own distinctive identity, performing both traditional and experimental…

After the huge success of the famous "Guitar Trio" with Al di Meola, this performance presents two masters of the acoustic guitar in an even more intimate performance, exploring the musical frontiers between Flamenco and Jazz.

The ensemble makes its point both with the fantasic playing of the wind instruments as well as the virtuosic precision of Dave Holland's bass.