Giuseppe Clemente Dall’Abaco: Cello Sonatas - Elinor Frey

SEIS CAPRICHOS : SPANISH GUITAR MUSIC AROUND 1930 -...

Spanish Guitar music from around 1930 with works dedicated to Regino Sáinz de la Maza (1896-1981). Yiannnis Efstathopoulos performs with an historical informed approach, using a Spanish guitar modelled on the type that was used around 1930 with gut strings. this results in highlighting each string’s individual character and the delicate balance between the high and low strings. Works by Julián...

Mendelssohn: Complete works for cello and Pianoforte

Artist(s):Sergei Istomin & Viviana Sofronitski Composer:Felix Mendelssohn

Un dolce affanno: Music for and by the Emperors at...

The prodigious flowering of musical culture in the Imperial Court of Vienna in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is undoubtedly a phenomenon unique in the history of the city: four successive emperors were themselves in their leisure time active musicians, and also enjoyed an excellent reputation as composers! This Cd shows us their musical world, with music both by the emperors and by...

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...

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...

Ouvertures

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

Organ concertos opus 4

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

Liederkreise

Artist(s):José Pizarro, David Aijón Composer:Robert Schumann

Le Chant de Leschiquier:

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

EPOS

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

Flute Quartets & Clarinet Quartet

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

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...

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

Mozart piano works

Artist(s):Michel Kiener Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Bach Concertos

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

Ouvertures

Artist(s):Il Fondamento & Paul Dombrecht Composer:Johann Joseph Fux