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Artist(s):il Gardellino Composer:Johann Sebastian Bach

'Schlage doch gewünschte Stunde':

Artist(s):Il Gardellino, Säman, Guillon, Kobow, Wörner Composer:J.S. Bach, G.F. Telemann, G.M.Hoffmann

A Due Viole

Artist(s):Stefano Marcocchi and Simone Laghi Composer:Emanuele Barbella

A late medieval mass on the RYSUM ORGAN

Works by Johann Walter, Hans Buchner, Josquin Desprez, Nicolaus Cracoviensis, Heinrich Finck, Nicolaus Cracoviensis, Heinrich Isaac, Tylman Susato and from the Cracow Tablature, the Tablature of Joannes de Lyublyn, the Oldenburg Tablature, the Buxheim Organ Book and the Adam Ileborgh Tablature. In the German village of Rysum, in East Frisia, a precious instrument is preserved: an ancient organ,...

ADAMO & EVA | Josef Mysliveček | il gardellino

Full of fire, spirit, and life”: this description of the Bohemian composer Josef Mysliveček’s character was made by none other than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his younger contemporary. Mysliveček (1737-1781) spent his entire career in Italy and committed himself to the life of a freelance composer: he obstinately refused to accept any type of employment in permanent service. Not only did he...

Adonia

Through centuries of re-telling the myth of Venus and Adonis, the ritualistic Adonia festival held in ancient Athens has remained a part of the story which fascinated a number of literary figures during the Italian Renaissance. The ritual was both a lamentation of love cruelly stolen by the hands of fate, and a feverish “final dance” with all of life's short-lived pleasures and desires. The...

Al compás de la vihuela

Alejo de los Reyes had his first experience of playing the guitar in Argentina with his parents, who were classical guitar players and teachers. In his parents’ home, Argentine folk music was part of every celebration and every gathering, and the tango was his grandfather’s favourite music. During his studies, De los Reyes played alternately in classical concert halls and tango salons. After...

Antonio Vandini. Complete works.

In Antonio Vandini: Complete Works, cellist Elinor Frey and Passacaille Records present the six sonatas and one concerto of one of the most noteworthy and fascinating Italian cellist-composers of the 18th century. Antonio Vandini’s works span from 1717 in Venice (just a few years before he taught at the La Pietà school alongside the legendary Vivaldi) to about the 1750s when his last sonatas...

Aquila Altera. Renaissance Keyboards

With this recording, Federica Bianchi explores the development of music for keyboard instruments from the beginning of the 15th century to the dawn of the Baroque period. The earliest works originate from the famous Codex Faenza (c. 1400-1420), a manuscript of secular songs arranged for keyboard instrument by composers such as Jacopo da Bologna and Guillaume de Machaut. The earliest printed...

Bach Concertos

Artist(s):La Divina Armonia - Lorenzo Ghielmi Composer:J.S. Bach

Bach French Suites IV-VI and Toccatas | Lorenzo Ghielmi

Bach Partitas BWV 825-830

The Partitas are the first work for harpsichord published by Johann Sebastian Bach. Between 1726 and 1730, the partitas were published separately, one per year, before being brought together in a single collection in 1731. Shortly after his appointment of Cantor of the Leipzig Thomaskirche, Bach decided to devote his Opus I to a fashionable genre: the harpsichord suite, a series of dances of...

BACH sonatas for violin and basso continuo

Sebastian Bach composed many works for violin (besides the pieces for organ and harpsichord, the two instruments he mainly played). He had learned to play the violin as a child and knew its characteristics perfectly well. Unfortunately, the manuscripts of many of his compositions were lost after his death: the three sonatas for violin and basso continuo BWV 1021, 1023 and 1024 are today a small...

BACH SONS • Controcorrente Orchestra

Symphonies of Bach’s Sons by the Controcorrente Orchestra: a new dynamic Italian Baroque Orchestra makes its debut with not mainstream symphonies! As the name indicates, they choose to swim against the current and explore hidden gems of the repertoire. But not only are they original, young, and full of dynamic energy, but the result is also simply stunningly good and makes this music come alive...

Bach. English Suites

Bach’s English Suites are entitled in a way that is as strange as it is hard to explain, at least at first glance. Contrary to what one might assume, these works are more closely related to French suites than to English music. The title is taken from the inscription “Fait pour les Anglois”, found on a manuscript owned by Bach's youngest son. In addition to an extensive prelude and four...

Bach. Goldberg Variations

With this disc, Swiss harpsichordist Michel Kiener presents his interpretation of the Goldberg Variations, one of Bach’s absolute masterpieces. Kiener completed both his piano and harpsichord studies at the Geneva Conservatoire, where he won the prize of virtuosity in both disciplines. He perfected his art with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam and was laureate of the Bruges International...

Beethoven Sonata Lunatica

Vienna. 1803. George Bridgetower, a violinist of Afro-European descent, causes furore with his virtuosity and captivates Beethoven, who writes a devilish and magnificent sonata for his unique and exotic character. Despite the premiere’s enormous success performed by both of them, an unfortunate comment by the violinist about one of the composer’s female friends leads to this famous sonata being...

Berlin Cello Sonatas

Artist(s):Elinor Frey, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Marc Vanscheeuwijck Composer:C.F. Abel, J.C.F. Bach, C.Ph.E. Bach, F. Benda, J.Ph. Kirnberger, C.H. Graun

Brahms 4 Hands

Brahms composed only a small number of original works for piano four hands, but arranged almost all of his chamber music and orchestral works for this instrumentation. He played most of them immediately after their completion with Clara Schumann and greatly appreciated her opinion. In his Hungarian Dances Brahms brilliantly transformed original Hungarian melodies and rhythms into multi-coloured...

Breathtaking

Artist(s):Bruce Dickey Hana Blažíková Composer:Cazzati, Corradini, Palestrina, Sances, Merula, Tsoupaki a.o.

C.P.E BACH CELLOCONCERTOS - CHRISTOPHE COIN -...

During the four years between 1750 and 1753, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach composed three concertos for the violoncello with strings and basso continuo. The A minor concerto (Wq.170/H.432) and the B- flat major concerto (Wq.171/H.436), were written in Berlin in 1750 and 1751, respectively, while the A major concerto (Wq.172/H.439) is dated 1753 in Potsdam

C.P.E. BACH : Oboe Concertos Wq 164 & 165 / Sinfonia...

The concertos for oboe and strings Wq 164 and 165 are transcriptions of harpsichord concertos which Bach made in Berlin in 1765: they were very probably performed at a private concert at the court of Frederick the great, which counted a number of excellent oboist among its musicians, like Joachim Wilhelm Dobbert and Johann Christina Jacobi: Bach adapted the harpsichord scores particularly well...

Canzoni

Artist(s):Liuwe Tamminga, Bruce Dickey and Doron Sherwin Composer:Giovanni Gabrieli (1554/57 - 1612)

Chamber Music with Friends

Oxalys is one of Belgium leading chamber music groups who specialises in the repertoire of the 20th century.

Claviorganum. Handel Concertos & Sonatas

As the name suggests, a claviorganum is a keyboard instrument with a harpsichord and an organ section, which can be played individually or together on one or two manuals. While this instrument may seem like a curiosity today, many sources confirm that "curiosities" were rather the norm on the European continent from the 15th to the 17th century. There was a variety of different keyboard...

Codex Tarasconi 'diminuito'

Artist(s):I Fedeli - Josué Mélendez Composer:Palestrina,Willaert, De Rore,Bassano...

Concertos for organ and violin

Artist(s):La Divina Armonia, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Stefano Barneschi Composer:Joseph Haydn

Contrafacta. Pergolesi-Iribarren. Stabat Mater-Motets

Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater was extremely popular throughout Europe soon after it was composed in 1736. Countless printed and handwritten versions of this work, which was considered the stylistic ideal of sacred music in the 18th century, can be found in libraries all over the world. There are five manuscript copies of the Stabat Mater in the archives of Málaga Cathedral. This recording presents a...

CPE BACH LUCAS PASSION

CPE Bach. Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu

Radical, daring and extremely refined: that’s how C. P. E. Bach saw his new path for the Oratorio, after his father’s Passions had marked the climax of the baroque era. Encouraged by his godfather Telemann and liberated from the yoke of the capricious Frederick of Prussia, he found himself in Hamburg with an audience hungry for new music. And he brought them his oratorios, no longer in churches...

De Profundis

Artist(s):il Gardellino- Marcel Ponseele Composer:Bach - Graupner

De Profundis Miserere & Requiem (code: 9528)

Artist(s):Il Fondamento Paul Dombrecht Composer:Jan Dismas Zelenka

DEUXIÈME LIVRE DE SONATES

Artist(s):Anaïs Chen, Maria Gonzàlez, Daniel Rosin: Ensemble Daimonion Composer:François Francoeur

Die Stille Nacht

Artist(s):Peter Kooij, L'Armonia Sonora, Mieneke van der Velden Composer:Georg Philipp Telemann

Discovering the Piano

Artist(s):Linda Nicholson Composer:Scarlatti, Handel, Paradisi, Giustini, Soler, Platti,

Dolce Napoli

Artist(s):Inês d'Avena, La Cicala Composer:N. Fiorenza, F. Mancini, F. Rosa, L. Leo, P. Pullj, D. Sarri

Early Modern English Music : 1500 - 1550

Artist(s):Tasto Solo - Guillermo Perez, David Catalunya, Angélique Mauillon Composer:

Enrico Onofri - Bach: Sonatas & Partitas BWV...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sei Solo for unaccompanied violin figure amongst the baroque works on which the performance traditions of the 19th and 20th centuries weigh most heavily. Rediscovered halfway through the 19th century after having been forgotten for more than a century, these works quickly entered the repertoire of works performed by violinists during the Romantic period: from that moment...

EPOS

Artist(s):Cantilena Antiqua/ Stefano Albarello Composer:

Estro Vivaldiano

Artist(s):Mensa Sonora - Gabriel Grosbard Composer:VIvaldi, Gentili, Albinoni, Schreyfogel, Bicajo, Ziani

Fioré - Cello Sonatas and Arias

Artist(s):Elinor Frey, Suzie Leblanc, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Esteban La Rotta Composer:Angelo Maria Fiorè (1660-1723), Marc’Antonio Ziani, Carlo Monza, Paolo Magni (1650 ca. - 1737)

Flute Quartets & Clarinet Quartet

Artist(s):Oxalys - Toon Fret - Nathalie Lefèvre Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Frescobaldi: Organ Works & Motets • Lorenzo Ghielmi,...

Gabrieli : Dialoghi Musicali - Liuwe Tamminga & Leo...

In the present recording, the organists Liuwe Tamminga and Leo Van Doeselaar have selected eleven double-choir instrumental pieces (from Giovanni Gabrieli. This selection of eight-to-twelve-part pieces, performed on two of the most beautiful and suitable organs for this repertoire—the two magnificent organs of the San Petronio Basilica in Bologna (unfortunately no comparable organs have...

Giuseppe Clemente Dall’Abaco: Cello Sonatas - Elinor...

Passacaille Records and cellist Elinor Frey, with harpsichordist Federica Bianchi, lutenist Giangiacomo Pinard, and cellist Mauro Valli, present the first recording of cello sonatas by Giuseppe Clemente Dall’Abaco (1710-1805). Dall’Abaco’s sonatas are full of cantabile melodies with the lightness of folk songs, passagework that demands brilliance and facility, and extraordinary slow movements...

Giuseppe Porsile - Cantatas - La Cicala - Stefanie True

Giuseppe Porsile (1680-1750) was born in Napels, worked in Barcelona and moved on to Vienna where he worked at the imperial court till 1750. Beside opera's Oratoria, Masses and instrumental works he wrote a considerable number of beautiful chamber cantatas. This Cd presents some of the most beautiful examples of his work. This is the third production of Inês d'Avena for Passacaille in which she...

Guerau

Xavier Diaz-Latorre, baroque guitar performs the complete works Francisco Guerau

Harpsichord Sonatas

Artist(s):Nicolau De Figueiredo Composer:Johann Christian Bach

Haydn. Deutsche Lieder

With this recital dedicated to German songs by Joseph Haydn, Alice Foccroulle and Pierre Gallon leave their familiar territory - that of Baroque music - and present a personal, thoroughly informed interpretation of these songs, free of the many layers of varnish that have built up over the centuries on these little treasures of vocal music. It is free of the many layers of varnish that have...

Hymnos. Benjamin Britten: Canticles and Purcell...

Without doubt, Benjamin Britten (1913-76) left an indelible impression on every genre of 20th century English music. However, it is his smaller scale vocal repertoire that is particularly fascinating. Featuring three of Britten’s “Canticles” as well as a selection of his best realizations (or “arrangements,” if you will) of songs by Henry Purcell (1659-95), this recording represents the mature...

Ignazio Cirri: Six sonatas Op. II • Sezione Aurea

World Premiere recording of the Six Sonatas for harpsichord with violin accompaniment of Cirri. Ignazio Cirri was maestro di cappella from 1759 at the Cathedral of Santa Croce, now the Duomo in Forlì. In that same year he was granted entrance to the Philharmonic Academy in Bologna.  It is not certain whether his teachers included Giovanni Battista Martini who was only five years older. It is...

IL SUD | Seicento violin music in Southern Italy | Exit

We may wonder whether the violin was a northern Italian invention, for the instrument was also to be heard in the great cities of southern Italy at an early stage, from the beginning of the 17th century onwards. Certain southern Italian composers had clearly understood that the instrument was unequalled in its ability to express emotion allied to virtuosity, including Montalbano in Palermo,...

Il Violoncello di Corelli

Il violoncello di Corelli leads us to the origins of the solo cello literature – although one should actually use the term violone. In fact, the cello, as we know it today in its standard form, had many different sizes before its current proportions became generally established. Some instruments were larger, and the smaller ones were referred to by the diminutive form of the term violone –...

Into Nature: Vivaldi Four Seasons and other sounds...

Italian Concert - French Suites I-III

Artist(s):Lorenzo Ghielmi Composer:Bach

Italian Mandolin Sonatas

Artist(s):Duilio Galfetti & Luca Pianca Composer:Scarlatti, Piccone, Sammartini

Jean Cras - La Flûte de Pan : Oxalys Ensemble and...

Johan Huys. Ceci n'est pas une passacaille

Flemish composer Johan Huys is equally proficient on all keyboard instruments, but he is best known as a harpsichordist. He was president of the competition at the MA Festival Bruges for 39 years. For this world-famous competition, which is inextricably linked to him, he composed several pieces for harpsichord, including the compulsory work for the 2018 harpsichord competition: Ceci n’est pas...

Johannes Tourout

Tonrroutt, Thauranth, Tauront, Taurath, Torenth... few composers have had their names mangled by scribes so badly as the protagonist of this recording. The identity of the composer behind these variants has long remained shrouded in mystery. It is known that a certain Johannes Tourout was cantor in the chapel of Emperor Frederick III of Habsburg. The composer must have been very popular in...

Johannespassion

Artist(s):Il Fondamento Paul Dombrecht Composer:J.S. Bach

Jomelli: Requiem and Miserere

Niccolò Jommelli was one of the most sought after composers of his time, but finally accepted to become musical director at the court of Stuttgart in 1753. Three years later he composed his Requiem to commemorates the recent death of the Duchess von Württemberg, mother of his patron, the Duke Carl Eugen.. Despite the fact that Jommelli owed his fame almost exclusively to his operas during his...

Joseph Haydn Celloconcertos

Sergei Istomin, cello  Apollo Ensemble - direction David Rabinovich 

L'Arte della Scordatura

With this CD, violinist Mayumi Hirasaki, who has been Concerto Köln’s concertmaster since 2011, explores the chameleon-like possibilities of her instrument: when playing with scordatura, instead of the usual fifths interval between the violin strings, an alternative is used in which at least one string is tuned to a different pitch. This results in completely new sonic and harmonic...

La Bella Minuta

Artist(s):Bruce Dickey, Liuwe Tamminga, C. Pasetto, L. Bortolotto, A. Rasi, M. C. Cleary Composer:Guami, Trabaci,Luzzaschi, Barbarino...

La Voce del Violoncello

Artist(s):Elinor Frey Composer:Gabrieli, Dall'Abacco,Vitali, Supriani

Lamentationes

Artist(s):Il Gardellino, Marcel Ponseele Composer:Bach - Zelenka

Le Chant de Leschiquier:

Artist(s):Tasto Solo - Guillermo Perez - diapason d'or! Composer:Binchois, Dunstable, Dufay

Leuven Chansonnier VOL. 1| Sollazzo Ensemble

Leuven Chansonnier vol. 2 Ou beau Chastel

The Leuven Chansonnier (1470–75) includes not only fifty compositions by such leading 15th century Franco-Flemish names as Johannes Ockeghem, Antoine Busnoys and Firminus Caron but also twelve newly rediscovered works that exist in no other source. The Ensemble Sollazzo here brings a selection of this music to life in an interpretation that is both brilliant and refreshing.

Mannheim Cellists

Artist(s):Marco Testori - Davide Pozzi Composer:A. Filz - J.B.Triklir - J.C.Schetky - P.Ritter

Meyster Ob Allen Meystern

Artist(s):Tasto Solo Guillermo Perez/DIAPASON D'OR! Composer:Buxheimer Orgelbuch

NARVÁEZ | Los libros del delphin | Xavier Díaz-Latorre

the Six Books of the Dolphin of Music for Vihuela (Valladolid, 1538) is the second collection published in the Iberian Peninsula dedicated in its entirety to music for vihuela, or vihuela and voice

Nature's secret whispering

HANA BLAŽÍKOVÁ soprano BARBORA K ABÁTKOVÁ soprano ALEX POTTER alto BENEDICT HYMAS tenor JAN VAN ELSACKER tenor TOMÁŠ KRÁL baritone JAROMÍR NOSEK bass VERONIKA SKUPLIK violin BRUCE DICKEY cornetto CHARLES TOET trombone SIMEN VAN MECHELEN trombone CLAIRE MCINTYRE trombone JOOST SWINKELS trombone KRIS VERHELST organ

Neshima CD

NESHIMA is Orí Harmelin’s exciting debut solo lute and theorbo album. Orí explores a new realm of possibilities for personal creation as a modern musician using the musical language of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The album contains Orí’s arrangements of Madrigals, Motets and Chansons by Cipriano de Rore, Josquin des Prez and Thomas Tallis, alongside his own compositions of variation...

Nobilissimo Istromento

The Italian Renaissance is the golden age of the lute. In quality and quantity, the lute pieces from this period are comparable to the piano works of the 19th century. Most of the works selected for this recording are by Francesco da Milano, an extraordinary virtuoso and gifted composer who was also known as "Il Divino" (the Divine), an epithet he shared with Michelangelo and Monteverdi. In...

Nonetto

In 1959, two composers wrote nonets: Nino Rota’s melodic Nonetto, on which he would continue to work for almost 20 years, and Bohuslav Martinů’s farewell chamber music piece, a nonet, which he composed as a last piece to satisfy his longing for his homeland. Eisler did not compose his nonet in his native country either, but arrived in Mexico in 1941 as a refugee from the Nazis. There he wrote...

Nunc Dimittis. Early music from the Düben Collection

Dominik Wörner (bass-baritone) and the Kirchheimer DübenConsort he founded focus in this recording on twelve pieces from the famous Düben collection and document in an exemplary way the enormous versatility of this unique collection, which was only discovered by chance in the 19th century. Ten composers from Schütz (his Nunc dimittis can be heard in an arrangement by Gustav Düben) to...

Octet, Rondino and Quintet for Winds and Pianoforte

Artist(s):il Gardellino & Arthur Schoonderwoerd Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven

On the Breath of Angels

During the height of its popularity, from the mid-16th century into the 18th, the cornetto was frequently depicted in art as an instrument of angels. Paintings, sculptures, and engravings abound in which the cornetto takes a prominent place among choirs of angelic musicians, usually paired with at least one voice and with other instruments such as the organ, viol, lute, harp, violin and...

Organ concertos opus 4

Artist(s):Lorenzo Ghielmi, Margret Köll, Luca Pianca & La Divina Armonia Composer:Georg Frederic Handel

Organ Concertos volume 2

Artist(s):Lorenzo Ghielmi,Paulo Grazzi & La Divina Armonia - DIAPASON D'OR! Composer:Handel

ouverture La Bourse & Suites

Artist(s):Il Fondamento & Paul Dombrecht Composer:G. Ph. Telemann

PARIS 1804 | Music for horn & strings

Artist(s):Alessandro Denabian - Quartetto Delfico Composer:Cherubini - Reicha - Dauprat

Péches d'opéra | Rossini, Salons & Horn Virtuosi

After a very successful lifetime, albeit marked by long years of physical and psychological suffering, Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) chose Passy, on the outskirts of Paris, as the place to spend the final years of his life. Here Rossini recovered his health and began composing again after years of inactivity. During these years, in addition to the wonderful Petite Messe solennelle, he wrote...

Pedro Rabassa - Astro Nuevo

The Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla, in collaboration with several universities, researches valuable repertoire linked to the history of Andalusia. This Proyecto Atalaya has already produced a series of CDs with unknown jewels, which have been released on Passacaille. On this new album called Astro Nuevo we can rediscover works by Pedro Rabassa (1683-1767). As a faithful musical partner of the...

Pièces de Clavecin

Artist(s):Aurélien Delage Composer:Couperin

Pièces de clavecin en concerts

Artist(s):Sunyun Cho, Ryo Terakado, Kaori Uemura, Jan De Winne Composer:Jean-Philippe Rameau

Pièces pour Théorbe et Guitare

Artist(s):Xavier Dìaz Latorre Composer:Robert de Visée

Ricercari (1615)

Artist(s):Liuwe Tamminga on the organs of San Petronio, Bologna - Diapason d'or feb 2011! Composer:Girolamo Frescobaldi

Schubert. Complete works for violin & pianoforte

Franz Schubert (1797-1827) was an extremely prolific composer, but his entire output for violin and piano fits on two CDs. His bold use of tonalities is already evident in the early works from 1816 and 1817, which clearly reflect his admiration for Mozart. The first three are labelled "Sonatina", possibly intended to appeal to amateur musicians. However, they are highly complex works by the...