George Kentros and Mattias Petersson in a live performance of their recomposition of Vivaldi’s "Four Seasons" for violin and live electronics. Originally the album was released 2008 and the biggest Swedish daily paper Dagens Nyheter named this…

In this pilot to a new series about the European musical heritage, soul musician Joy Denalane embarks on a journey to Austria to encounter the world of folk music. For centuries, this musical genre has provided a vital space for love and romanticism…

“Jazz is more than just a style of music”, says Amro Salah. “It’s about freedom.” Salah, a jazz pianist, is an enthusiastic promoter of the genre. Every year he organises the Cairo Jazz Festival, but doesn’t view himself as a festival director: He is…

Roman Zaslavsky understands how to contrast the two ingenious opposites Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt side by side, on one recording giving each one his due, thus offering a completely new approach to their music and also to two rather different…

It was one of the most anticipated performances of the Verbier Festival 2016. It was no less than three of the world’s top soloists performing together: Star violinist Leonidas Kavakos, cellist Gautier Capuçon and pianist Daniil Trifonov each sell…

“For those with ears to see and those with eyes to hear” is the motto of this vast collection of recordings, including live concerts, musical clips, a Guillaume Connesson talk regarding chamber music, Boris Giltburg‘s Five Minute Library, as well as…

Cello and piano: The combination has been loved and celebrated by composers throughout all epoques - and rightly so, as Quentin and Moreau prove in their performance. Together, they perform works by Brahms, Schumann, Poulenc, Chopin and Fauré -…

A beloved combination: Cello, violin and piano. For their concert at the Verbier Festival 2015, Truls Mørk, Ilya Gringolts and Daniil Trifonov chose works by Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms - thus showcasing how three famous German composers from the…

A promising concert featuring two of the Verbier Festival's most iconic artists performing chamber music works by Brahms together! Now praised on the whole classical music planet, the Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos took the world by storm in 1985…

Recorded at the Verbier Festival 2013, this programme features the Swedish cellist Frans Helmerson, joining forces with the Ébène Quartet to perform Schbert’s String Quintet in C Major, Op.posth. D956. Completed just two months before the composer’s…