ARCANA RECORDS

The splendour of Mozart's motet Exsultate, jubilate stands out in a repertoire that has for too long remained in the shadows: the magnificent output of church music composed in 18th-century Milan,...

Mozart En Harmonie CD1. Sinfonia 2. Cinque... Dieci 3. Se Vuol Ballare, Signor Contino 4. Non Pi? Andrai, Farfallone Amoroso 5. Porgi Amor, Qualche Ristoro 6. Che Soave Zeffiretto 7. Ecco la Marcia 8...

The heterogeneous output of Santiago de Murcia, one of the key figures in the Baroque guitar repertory, includes a number of transcriptions from the op. 5 of Arcangelo Corelli, the famous collection...

Born in Bonn around 1620 to Veronese parents, Massimiliano Neri was choirmaster at the Ospedaletto and organist at St. Mark's in Venice, where he published his first volume of Sonatas and Canzonas...

Celebrating the golden age of English keyboard music from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, this personal anthology features works by the greatest composers of the time. John...

Because of it's favored geographical situation, the city of Lyon, with it's four annual trade fairs, was the unchallenged economic capital of the kingdom of France during the Renaissance period: as...

Palestrina / Odhecaton / Da Col Missa Papae Marcelli CD1. Sicut Cervus, Motet for 4 Voices (From Motets Book II for 4 Voices) 2. Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 Voices: Kyrie 3. Missa Papae Marcelli, for...

Davide Perez, born in Naples in 1711, has a personal history that strictly entwines with Portugal: thanks to his internationally achieved reputation - he was already renowned in Europe for his...

El soto dei Frari, "the lame man of the Frari": this was the nickname given to the Venetian Giovanni Picchi, perhaps a pupil of Giovanni Croce, in the charges pressed against him in 1610 for teaching...

Giovanni Platti (1697-1763) left nine Concerti per il cembalo obbligato that represent not only some of the earliest examples of keyboard and string compositions, but also - and more importantly -...

The Italian composers of the seventeenth century, living at the time of Galileo, were at the forefront of a musical revolution that offers some surprising analogies with the birth of the modern...

Purcell / Feldman / North / Cunningham / Moroney Henry Purcell: Ayres & Songs From Orpheus CD1. Ah! Belinda, I Am Press'd with Torment 2. From Rosy Bow'rs 3. Music for a While 4. Fly Swift, Ye Hours,...