Super-Audio CD

Recorded before Sir Stephen Cleobury's untimely passing in November 2019, King's College presents a new account of one of the greatest masterpieces in sacred music - Bach's St. Matthew Passion. For this recording, Cleobury leads the Choir of King's...

Recorded at the height of the international Covid lockdown, Oliver Davis's sixth album for Signum is a feat of both technological as well as artistic achievement. Following from draws together artists from across the globe for a selection of moving works...

Ranagri (pronounced Ran-ag-rye) is a venture from four musicians who have come together to create some exciting new sounds. Consisting of flutes, ethnic flutes, electric harp, bodhran, guitar, bouzouki and vocals, Ranagri fuse worldwide folk music with...

Raised in the Danish countryside as the son of a poor folk musician, Carl Nielsen's indomitable courage and infinite curiosity helped him develop into one of the greatest symphonists of the 20th century and eventually Denmark's national composer. Carl...

Rachmaninoff's tone poem The Isle of the Dead was composed in Dresden in 1908 - 09, inspired by the 1880 painting of that name by the Swiss symbolist Arnold B?cklin. The painting depicts a ferryman rowing a coffin towards the Isle of the Dead, and...

Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil, op. 37 - Gloriae Dei Cantores releases All-Night Vigil, Op. 37 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, conducted by Peter Jermihov (internationally recognized specialist in Russian and Orthodox Liturgical music). Rachmaninoff s All Night...

Rachel Podger and Gary Cooper continue to impress the world with their Mozart seres on historical instruments. This is the fifth super audio recording in a series of eight. So far all releases in the series have received great reviews and awards...

Raaf Hekkema writes of his new release: "Since I started teaching at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, I have become more conscious of my self-chosen mission: to create a place for the saxophone within the classical music tradition. One way to do this...

Published in Rome in 1553 and rediscovered during the twentieth century, the collection Tratado de Glosas by Spanish composer Diego Ortiz offers listeners an unmatched panorama of the instrumental music of it's time. The reissue of this 1990 album in...

Published in 1733, Pietro Locatelli's L'Arte del violino for solo violin, strings, and basso continuo took both violin technique and the solo concerto as a genre into a whole new realm. The twelve concertos included in the collection also played a part...

Published in 1604, Dowland's Lachrimae was composed for an ensemble of five viols and a lute. The collection contains seven Pavans based on the air Flow My Tears (which explains the work's subtitle, Seaven Teares Figured in Seaven Passionate Pavans)...

Program music refers to music explicitly created to evoke a mood or circumstance, or to illuminate occurrences in nature or acts of humanity and while arguably the form was most predominant during the Romantic era, program music has a long history...