Super-Audio CD

This album contains a selection of solo cantatas, both secular and sacred, from the Italian, German, and English traditions. Including works by Handel, Vivaldi, and Bach in settings large and small, with obbligato instruments ranging from oboe to chimes,...

This album brings together the first ever surround sound recordings of the great Harrison & Harrison organ set within the chapel of King's College, Cambridge. Performing three popular, virtuosic works for the organ by Liszt, Reubke and Mendelssohn,...

This 1983 landmark recording of Couperin's French baroque masterpiece Les Nations, featuring Jordi Savall, Ton Koopman, Chiara Bianchini and Hopkinson Smith, is available once more as part of Alia Vox's Heritage series.1. Premier Ordre : La Fran?oise...

Thirty years after having recorded Dvork's complete Symphonies on Chandos, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and it's laureate conductor Neeme J?rvi tackle another romantic Czech composer: Julius Fuc?k, famous for his more than 400 polkas, marches,...

These works for wind octet - by Klein, Kvandal, and Yun - are regarded as cornerstones of the recent literature. Oslo Chamber Academy is a new ensemble featuring some of Scandinavia's leading wind soloists. Oslo Philharmonic's solo oboist, David...

There was no great cunning master plan that brought noted jazz instrumentalists Bob James {keyboards}, Lee Ritenour {guitar}, Nathan East {bass} and Harvey Mason {drums} together to form a supergroup. Released in October 1991, Fourplay - aided by the...

There is hardly a more perfect musical formula for the beginning of the Christmas season than the festively recited opening motif of Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio. But in his six cantatas, assigned to the individual holidays, the great...

There is hardly a better way to approach Ludwig van Beethoven than through his piano concertos. Beethoven's own instrument was the piano, and in his improvisations - which made him the darling of the Viennese salons - he merged virtuosity and unbridled...

There is a new recording of Mozart opus KV 551 and KV 543! Some reviewers shake their heads. "Yet another one!". Fortunately, these two are so devilishly good that centuries after their creation they still knock people who have an antenna for it off...

There are many questions surrounding Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Six Solos for violin', or the Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, as they are usually called today. When did he compose them, and why, and for whom? In what circumstances were they...

There are always musical child prodigies. Faster, more powerful, more perfect than previously imaginable. But there are also "senior prodigies". They reveal not only structure and time earned wisdom but also an inner sense of greatness. At the same time...

Theodor Leschetizky, born 1830, was a pianist and an internationally renowned and sought-after mentor to a large number of pianists. Although Leschetitzky was also active as a composer, his music is largely ignored nowadays, and in his liner notes Tobias...