Classical Vocals

Ori. Release '07, Debut album from the Scottish Tenor whom was recently raved by the Daily Telegraph as "a voice of real distinction".1. My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose 2. Santa Lucia 3. A Chloris 4. Girls Were Made to Hug and Kiss 5. Brindisi 6. Skye...

Orfeo ed Euridice is Gluck's masterpiece. His pure and perfectly balanced musical language lends a supernatural beauty and sublime pathos to this eternal tale of love and the power of music. The soprano part (Orfeo) is crucial in this opera, and this...

Orchid Classics presents it's third volume of choral music by Richard Pantcheff in world-premiere recordings performed by the London Choral Sinfonia directed by Michael Waldron, with organist James Orford. This release again offers a wide range of...

ONLY COMPLETE RECORDING. Sir Arthur Sullivan wrote his light opera Haddon Hall when he was at the height of his considerable creative powers. Despite his intention to turn away from writing "lighter" works so that he could concentrate on more serious...

One of the recurrent highlights of Andr's Schiff's chamber music series at the Mondsee Festival over the last decade has been his duet performances with Juliane Banse. Songs of Debussy and Mozart is their first album together. A spontaneous, fresh...

One of the oldest religious choirs in the world, the Sistine Chapel Choir is presented here performing live at the Vatican. Recorded in the late 1950's, the choir is conducted by Monsignor Domenico Bartolucci. All selections newly remastered.1. Adeste...

One of Dame Joan Sutherland?s own favourite recordings, long unavailable on it's own, reissued with additional material recorded at the Geneva sessions, with rarely seen photographs and a new booklet introduction. In her introduction to this reissue of...

Ondine continues it's long-term collaboration with Einojuhani Rautavaara, the Latvian Radio Choir and Sigvards Klava by presenting the world premi?re recording of Rautavaara's Missa a cappella. Being praised by Gramophone as an outstanding body of...

Once again, the inmates of Clairvaux are given a chance to express themselves, this time in a work specially composed by Philippe Hersant whose talent is put to the service of texts written by the prisoners in the framework of writing workshops. The...

On this recording, acclaimed conductor Herv? Niquet fuses his Flemish Radio Choir and Brussels Philharmonic in a concentrated and intense performance, bringing out the expressive essence of Brahms' music which is at once grand and intimate.1. Selig Sind,...

On this recording there is Early Baroque Advent and Christmas Music of Eccard Praetorius, Schein, Hammerschmidt, Rosenmuller et al. The Baroque orchestra Les Favorites plays on early baroque instruments.

On this recording both cantatas follow a similar design, being scored for soprano, alto (originally castratos), and tenor soloists accompanied by a standard "pre-Classical" orchestra of pairs of oboes and horns, strings, and continuo. The structure, too,...