Classical Vocals

Francesco Meli is acclaimed for his mellifluous tenor in the French and Italian bel canto repertoire celebrated on this recital disc with songs and arias from Rossini to Massenet. Complementing these are song cycles by Liszt and Britten setting poems by...

Francesco Benucci was an outstanding Italian bass/baritone singer of the 18th century. This collection of Arias, featuring English operatic bass Matthew Rose, offers a fascinating insight into his world. This tribute to the larger-than-life opera star,...

Four Songs, using Hughes texts, come from 1951. Carolina Cabin is the third of these and follows Berger's determination only to write tonal music. In a quasi-strophic setting, the opening piano figure migrates to the bass and returns to introduce the...

Four CD collection. The 360 members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir represent men and women from many different backgrounds and professions and range in age from 25 to 60. They reflect a medley of unique lives and experiences and are brought together by...

Founded in 2009 by Brad Wells, Roomful of Teeth consists of eight classically-trained vocalists. During their annual residency at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the ensemble has studied Tuvan throat singing, belting and pop techniques,...

Founded in 1991, Singer Pur has become one of the most outstanding a cappella groups to date. In 1994, they won the first Price of the German Music Competition in Bonn, coveted Grand Prix of Vocal Music at the International Tampere Music Festival award...

For those who know Lanza for his pop hits and screen roles, this will come as a revelation. The first CD to bring together his most breathtaking operatic performances (live and studio) includes selections from Puccini's Tosca and La Boheme; Verdi's...

For their new album touched, Calmus has chosen songs and lieder from several centuries on themes that never fail to touch the heart and have arranged them for their own forces with the utmost skill. This recording is in a class of it's own: Sting stands...

For their debut release on Chandos, award winning Silesian Quartet presents the complete string quartets by Grazyna Bacewicz. Bacewicz's life was conditioned by the political and military events of her time, making her works reflect not only traumas but...

For music-lovers who grew up between the 1950s and the 1970s, Alfred Deller (1912-1979) was the embodiment of the countertenor voice, just as Segovia was the guitar and Casals was the cello. Many who heard his earliest LPs will have applauded the words...

'For me,' Wolfgang Holzmair once remarked, 'the song is a continuation of speech - a higher form of expressing words and thoughts.' Over the course of three decades, the Austrian baritone has been true to his own belief in a stream of recitals and...

For many years Fabio Biondi has been investing Italian scores with his own form of imaginative and deeply-considered musicality, and it is no real surprise to find him extending his reach past the Baroque and Classical eras and into early Romanticism...