Kreuzjoch Duo

The album contains stylistically diverse works by Polish composers from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Encompassing the trends of the era and the inimitable soul of a composer at the dawn of Romanticism, Schubert's four-hand piano works unveil the relationships that the composer nurtured with society and his circle throughout his life.

Seven outstanding artists, five composers, two phonographic premieres and almost 90 years of history of pieces for brass instrumentation in a piano setting. Monika Kucharczyk and Któryukasz D Kubski from Temporal Duo release the album Beyond the Horizon!

From his time as a student at the Leningrad (today’s St Petersburg) Conservatory, Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) developed a strong connection with cinema, earning a living in the 1920s as a pianist for silent films. He would go on to write scores throughout his career for dozens of sound films, among them Aleksandr Faintsimmer’s The Gadfly (1955), beloved in the Soviet Union for its themes of revolution and atheism. The writing, with its highly diversified contours, combines in an extraordinary way severe accents and romantic outbursts of a purely Russian style with atmospheres of a Mediterranean character. Vadim Borisovsky’s viola and piano arrangement is based on the suite for orchestra prepared from Shostakovich’s score by Lev Atovmyan.

Duo Entre-Nous is a clarinet and saxophone ensemble dedicated to the evolution and continued progression of new music. Formed in 2014 by Jackie Glazier and Don-Paul Kahl, the duo particularly focuses on the performance and commission of a new repertoire for this combination.

Invisible Guests is a hauntingly beautiful collection of arrangements and original compositions by guitarist Chris Stell, based on the music, landscape, poetry, and mythology of Armenia.

The reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603) and her successor James I (1603–1625) saw a golden age of English lute music.

“I am a tango man, but my music makes people think. Those who love the tango, and those who like good music.” Astor Piazzolla

I&K performs The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky, the same version that Stravinsky premiered with his friend Debussy in a private recital for a group of friends before writing the orchestral version.