Giuseppe Clemente Dall’Abaco: Cello Sonatas - Elinor Frey

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...

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...

Dolce Napoli

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

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

Bach and the clavichord

Artist(s):Jovanka Marville Composer:J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Harpsichord sonatas and Fandango

Artist(s):Nicolau De Figueiredo Composer:Antonio Soler

Fryderyk Chopin : Complete works for cello and piano

Artist(s):Sergei Istomin & Viviana Sofronitsky Composer:Fryderyc Chopin

BACH : Leipzig Chorales - Lorenzo Ghielmi

Lorenzo Ghielmi performs the Leipzich ChoralesBWV 651–668, which are a set of chorale preludes for organ prepared by Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig in his final decade (1740–1750), from earlier works composed in Weimar, where he was court organist. The works form an encyclopaedic collection of large-scale chorale preludes, in a variety of styles harking back to the previous century, that Bach...

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

Quartets for Flute, viola, cello and pianoforte

Artist(s):Jan De Winne, Marten Boeken, Roel Dieltiens, Shalev Ad-El Composer:Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Giacomo Puccini the organist/DIAPASON D'OR!

Artist(s):Liuwe Tamminga Composer:PUCCINI

Katerina Chrobokova

Artist(s): Composer:C.P.E. Bach, J.B. Vanhal, Georg Muffat, L.N. Clérambault, Baldassare Galuppi

Bach French Suites IV-VI and Toccatas | Lorenzo Ghielmi

TRIO'S

Just like most German composers of his time, Telemann was very well acquainted with the stylistic developments in the other European countries, Italy and France in particular, and in his own compositions he assimilated the various national styles: the Lully Ouverture, the stylized French dances and the Italian trio sonata and concerto. Telemann’s contribution to these forms and genres was...

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...

Neshima LP

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...