Following their début album, Belle Époque, the Orsino Ensemble turns it's attention to music from Bohemia. There is a strong tradition of Czech wind playing, and hence a wealth of great repertoire on... more

Bella Adamova can shortly be characterised through her triumphs at competitions (e.g. laureate of the International Robert Schumann Competition, Zwickau, 2021; winner of the Franz Schubert and Modern... more

Grammy Award-winner Alex Klein, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's principal oboe emeritus, and pianist Phillip Bush perform works by composers from both sides of the Atlantic who were caught up in or... more

The composers on this disc are part of what is sometimes called the Lost Generation - those who because of their Jewish background were prevented from working, deported or imprisoned. While some,... more

While the concept of the programmatic and autobiographical quartet seems to have been introduced by Beethoven, nowhere has it been taken up more forcefully than in the Czech lands, as the works... more

This collection of duos for oboe (specifically English horn) and piano are related not only by the period in which they arose, but as haunting documents of artistic expression in a time of gathering... more

This collection of music for oboe offers six examples of the instrument's singular affinity to express grief and suffering. Each piece is concerned primarily with tragedy and loss in various forms,... more