Classical Vocals

Limited Edition 29CD Box Set. A glorious celebration of 'the Dutch nightingale': all of Elly Ameling's song-recital albums for Philips in one original-covers box, including a premiere CD release for her first-ever recording. In a career that spanned 43...

Limited Edition 20CD Box Set. Compiled here for the first time are all of Elly Ameling's Bach recordings for both Decca and Philips: an 'original jackets' treasury of Cantatas, Passions and oratorios which would make a first-rate introduction to the...

Limited 15 CD set. Beyond the Music celebrates contralto Marian Anderson, the first black singer at the Met. This is the first release of Marian Anderson's complete recorded legacy for RCA Victor. Along with the first-ever complete release of her...

Lesley Garrett is one of the most popular performers in contemporary British opera. Committed to making classical music and the arts more accessible to the general public, her commanding stage presence, that have made her one of the most popular...

Le Miroir De Musique is an ensemble specialized in the music of the late middle ages and Renaissance, from the golden age of the troubadours to the humanist movements of the 16th century. The ensemble is based in Basel (CH) and brings together the most...

Kaminski premiered his String Quintet in F sharp minor in Munich, 1917. 10 years after it's premiere he returned to his quintet, relaxing it's polyphonic interweaves. At almost the same time his publisher encouraged him to produce a choral string version...

Just as water reflects the face, so one human heart reflects another.' 'Through this profound proverb, my statement as an artist is conceived. To be able to demonstrate in a universally understood language the emotions that link US all is a powerful way...

Judith Clurman conducts her acclaimed chorus, Essential Voices USA, in Holiday Harmonies: Sounds of Christmas, the ensemble's third recording for Sono Luminus. This holiday disc includes premiere recordings of new vibrant arrangements of seasonal...

Joseph Haas (1879-1960), an early 20th c. student of Max Reger, later professor of music in Stuttgart and Munich, and co-founder, with Paul Hindemith and others, of the "Donaueschinger internationalen Kammermusikfeste f?r Neue Musik", was a late-Romantic...

John Tavener studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Sir Lennox Berkeley and David Lumsdaine. In 1968 his dramatic cantata The Whale took it's audience by storm and led to his music being recorded on The Beatles' Apple label. Since that time Tavener...

John Rutter's long-awaited new major work The Gift of Life, his first new composition in over 10 years is a six-movement choral celebration of the living earth, of creation, and of life itself, offering a kaleidoscope of moods from contemplative and...

Johannes Ockeghem developed his art from the contrast between different modes (toni Missa cuiusvis) and the contrapuntal linking together of identical melodies (Missa prolationem). Despite the complicated composition techniques applied, listeners are...