A Compilations

ORFEO presents Georg Gagnidze's long-awaited debut album. Georgian baritone George Gagnidze - characterized by the American opera magazine Opera Now as a "gentle bear of a man" - on his long-awaited debut album presents celebrated and diverse opera...

Opera-comique emerged in the 19th century as an intermediary between grand opera and burlesque operetta. This album charts it's progression as a distinct genre, tracing the origins from Boieldieu and Mehul early in the century via the classic vitality of...

Open up a time capsule and enjoy the top billboard hits of 1969, including singles by The Fifth Dimension, The Zombies, The Archies and more!1. Aquarius/Let the Sunshine in - the 5th Dimension 2. Dizzy - Tommy Roe 3. Sugar, Sugar - the Archies 4. Crimson...

Only a few chamber music ensembles of the world-famous Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra are allowed to have the addition "Gewandhaus" in their name. That obliges! The musicians of the Gewandhaus Brass Quintett are all award-winning brass players and present...

Only 20 years old, Johan Dalene has already been hailed as 'a musician of special sensibilities' (Gramophone) in possession of 'a rare fire' (Diapason), and his d?but disc, with the concertos of Tchaikovsky and Barber, was described as 'one of the finest...

One of the world's foremost experts on the 10-string guitar, Pascal Boels offers us a cross-section of the finest music for his instrument from around Europe in the Renaissance and the Baroque. He identifies this as the guitar's 'golden age' - rather...

One of the very few Danish tenors known all over the world for his beautiful voice and strong stage presence here let his hear down and sings popular Danish songs in the "crooner" style done with charm and utter joy. Helge Rosv?nge was the leading tenor...

One of the UK's finest chamber ensembles, the Navarra Quartet, presents a programme of music exploring those eternal human preoccupations: Love and Death. Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata, inspired by Beethoven's work, in turn prompted Jancek to write his...

One of the most exceptional female artists of the 19th century celebrates her 200th birthday in 2019. The acknowledged Clara Schumann expert Ragna Schirmer has devoted a special act of homage to her artistic predecessor, taking two original concert...

One of the modules in the exhibition MusicaFemina - Women Made Music, presented in 2018 in Vienna, featured 100 female composers who have characterized female composition of music from the time of Sappho to the present day. When the exhibition was open...

One of Brilliant Classics's best-selling boxes has been a 25-album compilation of rarely heard piano concertos from the Romantic era in much-prized recordings from the 60s and 70s. Here is an imaginatively designed prequel: concertos written at a time of...

One hundred and fifty years of harpsichord music at Versailles, under the reigns of Louis XIII, Louis XIV and Louis XV: French harpsichord music is inseparable from the Court, which gave rise to it's greatest performers. The Harpsichord Cycle at...