Early music

Aapo Häkkinen: harpsichord Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Goldberg Variations BWV 988 Aria mit verschiedenen Verænderungen vors Clavicimbal mit 2 Manualen (1741) FORMAT: SACD...

Jean-Philippe Rameau Pièces de clavecin en concerts (1741) Aapo Häkkinen harpsichord Petri Tapio Mattson violin Mikko Perkola viola da gamba French Baroque Music This new release features a...

Soloists: Bejun Mehta, Eva Liebau, Regula Mühlemann Orchestra, choir: Collegium 1704, Collegium Vocale 1704 Conductor: Václav Luks Director: Ondej Havelka The Baroque theater at eský Krumlov Castle...

Soloists: Jeremy Jackman, Colin Mason, Alastair Hume, Simon Carrington, Bill Ives, Anthony Holt Director: Peter Bartlett The King's Singers have established a reputation throughout Europe and...

The five players and soprano Kajsa Dahlback are clearly very comfortable with the Venetian style, and they have chosen music of the highest quality-by nine composers-to demonstrate their strengths. In...

Decca Classics is thrilled to announce Grammy Award-winning violinist Nicola Benedetti's new baroque album. This is Benedetti's first album recorded with a period-instrument ensemble...

Domenico Cimarosa's operas were remarkably successful and were performed and reprised in opera houses across Europe. His success in his hometown of Naples led to court appointments and royal...

Led by Aino Peltomaa, Ensemble Gamut! has quickly become one of Finland's most interesting bands that move seamlessly between genres. The band has created its unique sound by combining elements of...

The Italian newspaper La Repubblica calls him almost Italy's "most talented Bach pianist," and Andrea Bacchetti has performed internationally on the world's greatest classical music...

Soloists: Peter Schreier (Evangelist and arias), Bernd Weikl (Jesus), Mitsuko Shirai (soprano), Marga Schiml (alto), Franz Grundheber (bass) Orchestra, choir: Hamburg Ballet, St. Michaelis Orchestra...

Soloists: Peter Schreier (Evangelist and arias), Bernd Weikl (Jesus), Mitsuko Shirai (soprano), Marga Schiml (alto), Franz Grundheber (bass) Orchestra, choir: Hamburg Ballet, St. Michaelis Orchestra...

Soloists: Roger Daltrey (Macheath), Stratford Johns (Peachum), Patricia Routledge (Mrs. Peachum), Carol Hall (Polly Peachum), Rosemary Ashe (Lucy Lockit) Orchestra, choir: English Baroque Soloists...

Soloists: Roger Daltrey (Macheath), Stratford Johns (Peachum), Patricia Routledge (Mrs. Peachum), Carol Hall (Polly Peachum), Rosemary Ashe (Lucy Lockit) Orchestra, choir: English Baroque Soloists...

Five Cello Sonatas Sonata in C major G6 Sonata in C minor G2 Sonata in A major G4 Sonata in A major G13 Sonata in B flat major G565 Jukka Rautasalo, cello (solo) Jussi Seppänen, cello Cello classics...

Kari Vuola: The Organ of the Naanali Convent Church, Finland FORMAT: SACD

Joseph Martin Kraus was one of the most talented and progressive composers of the 18th century, and Haydn considered him one of two geniuses he knew, alongside Mozart. After the successful audition of...

**** Four star review in Pizzicato website Courage to Experiment Antonio Vivaldi: The Folk Seasons; Barocco Boreale; 1 SACD, Alba, ABCD 402, recording 06/2016, release 10/2017 879’31) - review by...

Bach: Sei Solo is an album released by Leonidas Kavakos in 2022. The album is a 2-CD set of classical music. Complete sonatas and partitas. One of the masterpieces of the violin. A new album from one...

Including many world-premiere recordings, the first-ever album dedicated to the music of a 16th-century lutenist-composer from Padova: a sequence of virtuosic, restlessly inventive fantasias and...

Experience one of the most significant works in the history of classical music performed by the Westminster Abbey Choir. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli is not only a...

Croatian-born Lovro Peretic has chosen a panoramic program that looks back to the 18th century and forward to the present day. This recital features Peretic's own arrangements of Brahms's...

Virtuosos Face Off The new album A Virtuoso faceoff features music by two major Baroque composers, Heinrich Biber (1644–1704) and Georg Muffat (1653–1704). The composers’ careers overlapped in...

The hallmarks of Franz Xaver Richter's mature style are already evident in the six major symphonies published in 1744, several years before he joined the famous musical life of the Mannheim court....

The hallmarks of Franz Xaver Richter's mature style are already evident in the six large symphonies (series 1 and 2) published in 1744, several years before he joined the famous musical life of...

Pauliina Fred, flute Heidi Peltoniemi, cello Aapo Häkkinen, harpsichord Franz Xaver Richter's Sonata da camera shares many of the musical characteristics that make his symphonies so distinctive:...

Bach, JS: Cantatas & Sacred Masterpieces, John Eliot Gardiner, released October 20, 2023. This version of Bach, JS: Cantatas & Sacred Masterpieces is available on 22 CD BOX SET. Christmas Oratorio -...

J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 - Conc, Frank Peter Zimmermann, released May 30, 2002, includes the following tracks: "2. Adagio, Sempre Piano (No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046),"...