Maximilian Schairer - Fantasien Fur Klavier - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Featuring world premier recordings - Kaija Saariaho is renowned across the world for her vivid orchestration. Her chamber works highlight her ability to create unique sound worlds with only a few instruments. Here she also adds live electronics to create a unique color. Saariaho advanced her profile in North America with her recent stint as composer-in-residence at Carnegie Hall. Meta4, formed in 2001, is one of the most internationally successful Finnish string quartets. In 2012 they were awarded both the Record of the Year by the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE and the Emma prize (the Finnish Grammy) for Classical Album of the Year. This is in tribute to Saariaho who turned 60 in 2012.

Nate Sib's 2026 debut album 'Reborn' features 10 tracks, including InchLet You GoInch and InchFace Card.Inch

Piano music from Vienna - the composers who first come to mind will rarely be Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alban Berg, Christoph Ehrenfellner and Fritz Kreisler. The young Viennese pianist Maximilian Kromer, who can already be heard internationally on the biggest stages, deliberately leaves out Viennese Classicism with it's somewhat well-trodden paths, and illuminates an even wider, refreshing spectrum of Viennese piano music with his debut album. While grand complexity and thorough chromatic explorations are imminent in the piano sonatas of Korngold's and Berg's, the New Viennese Dances by Ehrenfellner (composed in 2019) and the dances InchLiebesleidInch and InchLiebesfreudInch by Kreisler, transcribed by Rachmaninoff, combine the element of the Viennese waltz, which, like the so-called Second Viennese School, is part of the musical DNA of the performer's hometown.