Orchestral & Symphonic

?In 1594 Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, arrived in Ferrara for his marriage to Donna Eleonora d'Este. His meeting with the musical circles of Ferrara, and in particular with Luzzasco Luzzaschi, was to make an important impact on the musical...

?Hilary Tann's profoundly lyrical sacred works shine in LUMINARIA MAGNA, a striking and inspiring collection of songs featuring the voices of Cappella Clausura - led by Amelia LeClair - and the exceptional organ performance of Heinrich Christiansen...

?Henryk Mikolaj G?recki (1933-2010) achieved an international success in the mid-1990s, with his Symphony No. 3, "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs". Since then, G?recki's name has been associated almost exclusively with this piece. However, his music is much...

?Gustav Mahler's cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn features on innumerable recordings - so why yet another one? Because it is... entirely different. Peter Sch?ne, a baritone with an immense sense for songs, the winner of prestigious international competitions...

?Guilty of allowing the sacred fire to go out while declaring her love to the general Licinius, the Vestal Virgin Julia is sentenced to be buried alive. But her execution is averted by a divine intervention, which rekindles the altar flame and absolves...

?Giuseppe Torelli, born in Verona in 1658, is deservedly included among the composers who contributed to the renown and success of the Bolognese School, which was undoubtedly one of the keystones of Italian Baroque music, together with the Venetian,...

?Franz Schubert (1792-1828) only ever completed one string trio, his Trio in B flat D581 (1817). The writing is clearly inspired by the works of Mozart, not from a great trio like the Divertimento KV563, but from easier and made-for-piano genres like the...

?Formed in 2016, the Spanish Baroque ensemble L'Apoth?ose has quickly established itself as a key player on the historically informed music scene. The multi awarded group (winner of the York Early Music International Young Artists Competition in 2019,...

?For today's musicologists, performers and concert-going audiences, Mozart's final symphonies are still a veritable miracle. Why they were written remains a mystery, and no-one knows whether Mozart ever heard them performed during his lifetime. One thing...

?For decades, Ludger Br?mmer has represented a unique, courageous, and often instantly recognisable voice in electronic, algorithmic, and computer music. He develops structures that lead to aesthetic experiences normally found, if at all, only in the...

?Following their critically acclaimed 'Psalms' album, St John's College, Cambridge and Andrew Nethsingha present a selection of Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis recordings from January and July 2022. Much of the third volume in their series of Evening...

?Flauguissimo duo, Yu-Wei Hu and Johan L?fving are joined by violinist Magdalena Loth-Hill, soprano Emily Atkinson, and viola da gamba player Henrik Persson for this recording of eighteenth-century sonatas, arias and trios by Johan Helmich Roman...