Classical Vocals

Recorded live inside an abandoned cistern on the grounds of Fort Warden in Port Townsend, WA, composer, director, and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Barry uses the cistern's otherworldly acoustic properties to propel his music beyond our normal perceptions...

Recorded between 1950 and 1964, these holiday carols are sung by some of the finest recital singers of that time, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Rita Streich, Erna Berger, Elisabeth Gr?mmer. In tandem with exquisite arrangements that transcend...

Rare choral pieces by Taneyev_ Tchaikovsky's Student and follower1. Twelve Choruses to Words By Yakov Polonsky. ?.27 (1909): At the Graveside 2. The Tower Ruins 3. A Cliff Seen from Behind a Cloud 4. Stars 5. Two Gloomy Clouds O'er the Hills 6. On Days...

Ralph Vaughan Williams' sublime Mass in G minor reveals the composer' absorbing interest in using the modal harmonic language and contrapuntal textures of the English late Renaissance to achieve a huge emotional and dynamic range.1. The Voice Out of the...

Purity of Sound and Perfect Craftsmanship Marked Anton Webern's Journey from His Intensely Expressive Early Songs Through to the New Perspectives Cultivated in His Opp. 23 and 25 Settings. Webern 'Rehabilitated the Power of Sound' and in So Doing Broke...

Published together in 1611, Gesualdo's Fifth and Sixth Books of Madrigals can be seen as musical 'twins', concluding a collection of madrigals by a composer whose boundless invention and creativity was unrestrained by an employer's demands or the...

Proudly introducing O Radiant Dawn, the new album from British vocal ensemble Apollo5. From sacred music to pastoral, folk and spiritual repertoire we explore the human journey through birth, love, struggle, the end of life and reflection. We have chosen...

Previously unpublished radio performances by one of the greatest vocal artists of the twentieth century. This collection presents Anderson in a wide range of repertoire, including songs and arias by Bach, Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, Brahms, Faur?,...

Presented on CD for the first time and newly remastered, a pair of Romantic Lieder recitals by the Welsh contralto who inherited the mantle of Kathleen Ferrier. The history of British contraltos on record stretches back to Constance Shacklock and before...

Premiered in 1996 in Italy and 1998 in California, Tina is the second Andrea Centazzo opera and so far the most successful. It's inspired by the life and art of Tina Modotti, photographer, artist and revolutionary. This is a new 2011 version that has...

Poets and composers have always found inspiration in the themes of Easter and it's many moods: from awe, festivity, and hope; to disappointment, betrayal, and anguish; to victory and boundless jubilation. Seen in relation to the Passions, there are few...

Placido Domingo offers an affectionate tribute to Italian and Neapolitan songs. For a declaration of love, it's never too late! Hard to believe, but Plcido Domingo has waited forty years before recording repertoire that is self-evident for a tenor with...