Classical Vocals

Pianist Denis Biancucci plays the piano music of Andrea Centazzo. Previously released on Index in 2000, this is a new version that has been remixed and remastered in 2011.1. Piano Opus No. 1 2. Movement 2 3. Prelude No. 1 4. Movement 1 5. Prelude No. 2 6...

Peruvian tenor star Juan Diego Florez sings from the heart on this new album of irresistible popular songs from his native South America and Spain. From symphonic orchestral arrangements, to songs with traditional Mariachi band and intimate moments with...

Perhaps no pair of singers on record has interpreted this cycle of 46 songs with such natural accomplishment as Irmgard Seefried and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. They made this recording near the end of the 1950s - at the height of Seefried's career and...

Performed by the Choral Cross-Ties choral ensemble, conducted by Bruce Browne, present their debut recording feat. compositions by Morten Lauridsen: "Mid-Winter Songs" (on poems by Robert Graves), "Madrigali" (6 "firesongs" on Italian Renaissance poems)...

People sometimes chuckle at the fact that Emilis Melngailis and Arnold Schoenberg were both born in the same year, 1874 - just think, the apologist for ancient folk-song diatonics and the founder of twelvetone technique as peers! But one must understand...

Parnassus Records is pleased to release a follow-up to their acclaimed "Black Swans" anthology, which returned to international availability extraordinarily rare early recordings of African-American opera singers. The new release, "Black Swans at...

Palestrina's Fourth Book of Motets was dedicated to his patron Pope Gregory XIII and published in Rome in 1584. He took as his text The Song of Songs (also known as The Song of Solomon). The 29 motets, written in an age of religious tumult and...

Over the last two centuries and in today's churches, hymns may be referred to as songs, prayers, or even spirituals, but the need for them remains the same. These pieces are written as instruments of praise and worship to God, as prayers in time of need,...

Orlando Gibbons' exquisite tunes and rock-solid bass-lines for the first English hymn-book, Hymnes and Songs of the Church, were written to be sung and played both at home and in church.1. Prelude 2. A Song of Joy/Christmas Day 3. The Song of Angels 4...

Orlande de Lassus created nothing finer than the Lagrime di San Pietro, a collection of 20 spiritual madrigals and one motet for seven voices; a cycle of intense reflections on the sorrows of St Peter following his denial of Christ, it was assembled...

Originally released with different packaging this CD has the same repertoire as the original but the performances have been remastered for improved sound quality.

Originally released with different packaging this CD has the same repertoire as the original but the performances have been remastered for improved sound quality.