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The Patriarch Tikhon Russian-American Music Institute strives to present Russian Orthodox choral music in it's highest possible form, uniting deep spirituality, a profound love for the rich traditions of Orthodox Christian singing, and an uncompromising...

The music of the 17th century is deeply influenced by fearless innovation and bubbling creativity, characterized by experimentation with form that only with the subsequent generation of composers develops into fixed conventions and a higher degree of...

The Greek soprano Fanie Antonelou and German pianist Kerstin M?rk here join forces in an exciting project, entitled 'Affinities'. In a carefully constructed sequence of 23 songs, they explore the kinship between Greek and German art songs - a varied one,...

The "Hochschule f?r Musik und Tanz" Cologne, the WDR, ARS Produktion and the sponsors of the "Hochschule f?r Musik und Tanz" Cologne would like to make it possible for students to produce a professional album and thus especially promote it. The musicians...

Song composition has been a constant in British music since the lute and consort works of the early seventeenth century. By 1900, it had developed into a sophisticated genre embraced by almost all serious composers. The music on this amply-filled disc...

Soir?e captures the atmosphere of informal, domestic music making. Czech star mezzo-soprano Magdalena Ko?en offers an intimate and highly personal collection of international songs together with an outstanding group of musical friends, including Sir...

Silk Baroque presents a musical encounter between Wu Wei and Holland Baroque, performing a programme that ranges from Baroque greats such as Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann and Rameau to Chinese traditional tunes, all tied together by the musicians openness to...

Rudolf von Beckerath built his very first organ for the St. Elisabeth Church in Hamburg. The "Opus 1" of the later world-famous organ builder has recently been restored to it's former glory. Despite the extensive expansion of the instrument, it can still...

Resonating across more than five centuries, expressions of personal piety and prayer fill these works by a quartet of Franco-Flemish composers, all born in the 15th century, and their modern-day colleagues, Estonian Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962) and...

Renata Pereira writes of this new release: "This album is entirely dedicated to the music of Brazil. It is very different from Falando Brasileiro (2014) because it is a Brazilian music sound photograph of the twentieth century. It is also very special...

Renaissance music from Spain has come to mean the works of composers such as Toms Lu?s de Victoria or Francisco Guerrero rather than their predecessors. But composers such as Francisco de Pe?alosa - who died in 1528, the same year that Guerrero was born...

On her first Pentatone album, Czech star mezzo-soprano Magdalena Ko?en returns to the baroque repertoire that launched her early career. Il giardino dei sospiri is a collection of scenes from secular cantatas on tragic love, ranging from Handel's Qual ti...