ourth release on ONYX from “Britain’s premier chamber ensemble” (The Times) and second in their ongoing Brahms series, a generous 74 minute coupling containing the G Minor and C Minor Piano Quartets.This new recording is produced by the legendary Andrew Keener who will also produce the next title in the series, the String Quintets for ONYX in December and the remaining Piano Quartet coupled with the Clarinet Trio in 2009.Gramophone MagazineFebruary 2009“The Nash take a… traditional approach, emphasising the dark hues of the opening of the First Quartet, pianist Ian Brown making much of the bell-like sonorities of the bass. They are particularly effective in the richly coloured slow movements and bring out the earthiness of Brahms's textures to good effect.”BBC Music MagazineFebruary 2009****“It's difficult to imagine anyone who would not warm now to this deeply Romantic work and its equally ardent predecessor, especially in performances as affectionate and musicianly as these. …these players, long familiar with the works, project complete understanding and warmth of feeling.”Sunday Times23.11.08****“These are terrific, clear-sighted yet impassioned performances of two compelling chamber works, given by a first-rate team of players. In the opening two movements of the G minor piano quartet, composed in 1861, there’s a beautiful control of pace and stress, the flavour slightly restrained, though there is certainly plenty of fire in the unrelenting, brilliant gypsy music of the exuberant finale. The C minor quartet, completed in 1874, speaks of darker matter, and was first thought of when Brahms was guiltily preoccupied with thoughts of Clara Schumann. This is an appositely fiery reading.”

• Wykonawca The Nash Ensemble
• Data premiery 2008-12-09
• Nośnik CD

Prize-winning accordion virtuoso Viviane Chassot literally infuses a selection of Joseph Haydn's piano sonatas with new life on her new GENUIN release. A bubbling effervescence, an expressive sigh, a moan of complaint, the warm and versatile tone of her instrument embraces the polished clarity of Haydn's works, treating listeners to tonal colors which may never have been heard before in these works. At the same time, she stays true to the clear formal structure, with long arching lines and her unceasing rhythmic drive. As Haydn once said: "What comes from the heart, also goes to the heart ...""Chassot has pulled off a wonderful interpretation which transforms the accordion into an absolutely classic instrument."; akkordeon magazine

• Wykonawca Chassot Viviane
• Data premiery 2012-05-01
• Nośnik CD

This well-filled disc combines the first three symphonies by Dmitri Shostakovich, all written before the composer had reached his twenty-third birthday. The First Symphony was in fact the graduation piece that completed his studies at the Leningrad Conservatory, but to quote Mark Wigglesworth’s own liner notes to this disc, ‘Shostakovich’s trade-mark musical gestures are all immediately obvious. Nervous tension and sarcastic wit, passion and intelligence, contemplation and action, nobility and banality – all expressed with an economy of means that is simultaneously subtle and direct.’ The work was an immediate success, and soon gained worldwide recognition through performances by Walter, Toscanini, and Klemperer. ‘The Soviet Union had discovered its first international star, and the authorities proclaimed him as an exaltation of the new at the expense of the old.’ The two symphonies that followed fared much less well, however, and are still rarely performed in concert. At least nominally, there is a political theme to both works - the Second Symphony was a commission from the State Publishing House to honour the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, and the Third, with its subtitle ‘The First of May’, was a celebration of the international Worker’s Day. Both works end with choral finales, to texts which proclaim mottos such as ‘Labour, joy and song’ and ‘Revolution, march with a million feet!’, but the scores themselves proved too experimental for the taste of the Soviet authorities, and did little to enhance the standing of their composer. This disc is the penultimate in what ‘could be the most important Shostakovich cycle of recent times’ according to the reviewer on MusicWeb-International. Wigglesworth and his players in the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra have received great acclaim for their performances of the mature symphonies such as the Eighth or Thirteenth, ‘Babi Yar’, and here offer us the beginnings, works which in Mark Wigglesworth’s words ‘encapsulate all the musical ideas that were to remain present throughout the composer’s life.

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2012-04-01
• Nośnik SACD

The Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) spent the last 35 years of his life in Dresden, first as a double bass player and then as composer for the court, writing primarily for the church. Zelenka's music is always fresh and creative, often surprising in its sudden harmonic turns and demanding instrumentations. His compositions are marvellous examples of a subtle blend of Italian and French manners with a most distinctive personal style. Fluency of declamation and wide phrases with elegantly shaped melodies in his choral works are clearly Italianate. French influence is seen in the formal organization of the music into relatively short and contrasting sections. One of the most impressive and most intellectually profound of Zelenka’s late works is a mass in E minor ZWV 18, composed in 1739 and named Missa votiva by the composer. Its structure – the main parts of the mass are subdivided into smaller sections – allows for a wide variety of scoring, including different configurations of soloists, solo arias, chorus alone, and chorus with solo singers. Zelenka also fully employs his orchestra to drive and guide and support the vocal parts.

• Wykonawca Taylor Daniel , Lunn Joanne
• Data premiery 2010-01-01
• Nośnik CD

Recognized as one of the great communicators on the concert stage today, Steven Isserlis has written the liner notes to this disc, his third release on BIS, noting that the bond between the works he has chosen to record is their tragic inspiration – ‘the most terrible, senseless conflict the world has ever known.’ The conflict in question is the First World War, and Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo and Frank Bridge’s Oration, subtitled ‘Concerto Elegiaco’, spring directly from their creators’ reactions to its ‘grey hopelessness and the mindless, irreplaceable waste’. Schelomo was composed during the war itself, inspired by the boundless despair expressed in the text of Ecclesiastes: ‘Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities…’ Bloch, who had originally intended to use the text itself in the work changed his mind after an encounter with the Russian cellist Alexander Barjansky. Naming it after King Salomo, traditionally regarded as the author of Ecclesiastes, Bloch created what has become one of the most frequently performed works for cello and orchestra from the 20th century. Less well-known, but no less deeply felt, is Oration, composed in 1930 by Frank Bridge, whose early works had been in a traditional vein with influences from Fauré and Brahms. A convinced pacifist, Bridge had been horrified by the war, and this greatly contributed to the radical changes in his musical language. One of the finest examples of this is the present ‘Concerto Elegiaco’, which Steven Isserlis describes as ‘taking us, almost cinematically, into the mud and slaughter of the battlefields, its cries of brutal suffering forming a musical protest.’ Closing the programme is The Loneliest Wilderness, a work which takes its title from a poem by Herbert Read published in 1919. More than eighty years later Stephen Hough, who as a pianist has collaborated extensively with Isserlis, composed his elegy, but it still resonates with the anguish of the Great War.

• Wykonawca Isserlis Steven , Tapiola Sinfonietta
• Data premiery 2013-02-01
• Nośnik SACD

Komplet dzieł na fortepian solo Piotra Czajkowskiego w wykonaniu znakomitej pianistki Valentiny Lisitsy. Tracklista: CD 1: Early Works 1 – 2. 2 Pieces, Op. 1 3 – 5. Souvenir De Hapsal, Op. 2 6. Valse-Caprice, Op. 4 7. Romance, Op. 5 8. Valse-Scherzo, Op. 7 9. Capriccio, Op. 8 10 – 12. 3 Morceaux, Op. 9 13 –14. 2 Morceaux, Op. 10 CD 2: Songs & Dedications 1 – 3. Romances, Op. 16 4 – 22. 6 Morceaux, Op. 19 23 – 28. 6 Morceaux (Composés Sur Un Seul Thème), Op. 21 CD 3: The Sonatas 1 – 4. Grand Sonata Op. 37 5 – 8. Sonata In C-Sharp Minor, Op. Posth. 80 CD 4: The Seasons 1 – 12. The Seasons, Op. 37a CD 5: Children's Album & 6 Morceaux, Op. 51 1 – 24. Children’s Album, Op. 39 25 – 30. 6 Morceaux, Op. 51 CD 6: 12 Morceaux, Op. 40 & Dumka 1 – 12. 12 Morceaux Pour Le Piano, Difficulté Moyenne, Op. 40 13. Dumka, Op. 59 CD 7: Late Works 1 – 18. 18 Morceaux, Op. 72 CD 8: Works Without Opus Numbers 1. Anastasie-Valse  2-11. Theme With Variations In A Minor 12 – 61. 50 Russian Folk Songs (For Four Hands) – Featuring Alexei Kuznetsoff 62. The Volunteer Fleet March 63. Nathalie-Valse 64. Impromptu-Caprice 65. Valse-Scherzo In A Major 66. Impromptu In A-Flat Major 67. Moment Lyrique 68. ‘Tis Not The Wind That Bends The Branch 69. Allegro In F Minor (Unfinished) CD 9: The Nutcracker 1 – 25. “The Nutcracker” Op. 71 Ballet - Solo Piano Arrangement CD 10: Orchestral Works 1. Mazurka From Dmitry The Pretender And Vasily Shuysky 2. Potpourri On Themes From The Opera ‘The Voyevoda’ 3. Marche Slave, Op. 31 4. Coronation March 5. Aveu Passionné In E Minor 6. Military March For The Yurevsky Regiment In B-Flat Major 7. 1812 Overture, Op. 49  

• Wykonawca Lisitsa Valentina
• Data premiery 2019-02-15
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista: CD 1 1. Pepper In The Brandy/The Seven Coloured Linnet 2. The Cheshire Rounds/The Old Lancashire Hornpipe 3. George's Son 4. Medley Of Four Morris Tunes 5. Menage A Trois 6. White Fryar's Hornpipe/Shreds And Patches 7. Black Against The Snow 8. Blue Balloon 9. Step And Fetch Her 10. Bread And Jam Waltzer/Mr Gubbins' Bicycle 11. Seventeen Come Sunday 12. The Oakham Poachers 13. Gas Almost Works 14. Princess Royal 15. The Swirling Serpent/Beast Of Burden CD 2 1. Long Odds/Mr Cosgill's Delight 2. Step Dance Tunes 3. The Golden Grain/The Golden Cornpipe 4. Fields Of Gold 5. Lovely Nancy 6. Welcome To Hell 7. Shropshire Tunes 8. Accordion Joe 9. On The Road To Freedom 10. Fill 'Em Up Rosie

• Wykonawca The John Kirkpatrick Band
• Data premiery 2013-07-22
• Nośnik CD

The Romantic Piano Concerto series continues to surprise and delight with a 51st disc of 19th century pianistic splendour. This new releases includes the two piano concertos by Wilhelm Taubert, as well as one of the two works for piano and orchestra by Jacob Rosenhain. Both composers were near exact contemporaries with Mendelssohn (born 1809), Chopin and Schumann (both 1810), Liszt (1811) and Wagner and Verdi (1813). Taubert’s A major Concerto was described by Schumann as ‘one of the best’ – he also noted the parallels between it and Mendelssohn’s Op 25. But these similarities, however, do not negate the marvellous and distinctive music contained within Taubert’s Concerto. Nearly half a century separates Taubert’s first concerto and his Piano Concerto No 2 in A major Op 189 (c1874), and the second concerto reflects developments in the areas of harmonic expansion, cyclic development, and, of course, increased virtuosity.Rosenhain wrote two concerted for works for piano and orchestra, an the A minor Concertino Op 30 (probably writetn in the 1840s, though published later), and the work included on this disc, the Piano Concerto in D minor Op 73. This work is fairly conservative in its form, offering little that had not been heard before. Still, there is much gorgeous and masterful music within its traditional three-movement form. Howard Shelley directs the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra from the piano; a partnernship that has garnered the highest praise for their previous Hyperion recordings.

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2010-01-01
• Nośnik CD

Collection of works composed by Earle Brown between the 1950s and the 1990s. Among the works are 'Tracer', 'Folio and Four Systems' and 'Octet I'. Christian Wolff conducts the ensemble Ne(x)tworks.

• Data premiery 2016-01-18
• Nośnik DVD

Live performance from pianist Margaret Leng Tan, who specialises in the toy piano. Here, she plays John Cage's compositions 'Suite for Toy Piano' and 'Dream', as well as additional works, most of which have been specifically written for her.

• Data premiery 2016-01-18
• Nośnik DVD