Alpha has released Volume 1 of the complete recording of all Beethoven piano trios, featuring Op. 1 No. 1 and No. 3 as well as Op. 11, the “Gassenhauer Trio”. You can listen to it here.
Poiesis Quartet
Congratulations to the Poiesis Quartet from Cincinnati on winning first prize and the prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned composition at the 2025 Banff Competition!
Juilliard String Quartet
The Juilliard String Quartet has announced that Leonard Fu has been appointed as the ensemble’s new second violinist. Fu succeeds Ronald Copes, who has been a member of the group for 28 years and given hundreds of concerts all over the world.
Daniel Ottensamer
Daniel Ottensamer performs Brahms’ two clarinet sonatas in new orchestral arrangements by Stephan Koncz, who also conducts the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. The album also features a rare gem: Walter Rabl’s prize-winning clarinet quartet, once championed by Brahms himself. Pianist Christoph Traxler and violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley join Ottensamer, with Koncz also contributing on cello, offering a rich portrait of late 19th-century Viennese music.
Signum Quartett
The Signum Quartet’s new album was released by ECM in 2025. It contains compositions by six South African composers from eight decades.
Sebastian Berner
We are delighted to have Sebstian Berner representing us.
He won the prestigious Maurice Andrée Competition in 2022. What an accolade – a young trumpeter could not be more honoured! Grandiose musicality, utmost perfection and stylistic confidence are a matter of course for this likeable musician.
Marmen Quartet
In January 2025, the Marmen Quartet released its first CD on BIS. It contains string quartets by György Ligeti and Béla Bartók and has already been honoured by Diapason with the Diapason D’Or and by pizzicato with the Supersonic Award.
Quatuor Van Kuijk
The new album Impressions Parisiennes, which features works by Fauré, Debussy, Satie, Ravel and Poulenc that were originally composed for piano or voice, was released by Alpha Classics on 30 August 2024. The mini-series ‘Ces Messieurs: ’ by Baptiste Trotignon is dedicated to the aforementioned composers.
Further information can be found here.
Severin von Eckardstein
His new CD was released by Avi Music on 6 October 2023.
The title of the album was inspired by the name of the composition by Alexander Scriabin.
Signum Quartett
Congratulations to the Signum Quartet on winning the OPUS KLASSIK 2024 award for best chamber music recording of the year for the CD “Lebensmuth”.
All award winners 2024.
Busch Trio
The piano trios by Ravel and Shostakovich (op. 67) have been published by Alpha.
Daniel Ottensamer
On 26 May, the new CD dedicated to the music of the far north was released. In addition to the Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra by Carl Nielsen, it contains lyrical pieces by Edvard Grieg.
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Isidore String Quartet
This year the young quartet was chamber music partner of the finalists of the 64th Ferruccio Busconi International Piano Competition.
Listen to the concerts here: livestream.
String Quartet Biennale 2024 in Amsterdam
The Brentano, Signum, Marmen and Isidore Quartet were invited.
You can see a small impression here
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