MIRARE

Peaceful or tormented, serene or disquieting, clear or obscure, the night comes in an infinite variety of atmospheres that composers have always tried to capture. Drawing on the vocal repertoire,...

Around the Tombeau Les Regrets by Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, Mirare has collected here several of the finest pieces by the 'Orpheus of our time,' along with transcriptions for three viols modeled on...

For his fourth CD for Mirare, brilliant pianist and composer Matan Porat chose these colorful pieces, spanning through four centuries of music from Couperin to Ad?s, displaying the different and...

Revered since the height of the Classical era up to the simmering years of the 20th century, the string quartet represented an ideal genre to which composers entrusted their most innovative ideas...

In Beethoven's own words: "Music is the only incorporeal introduction to the world of knowledge... a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy... reaching beyond even the starry sky to the...

When the world stoops around us, when the structures of a civilization are shattered, it is a good thing to revert to what in history does not stoop but, on the contrary, summons up courage, gathers...

Four years after the superb 'Membra Jesu Nostri', the Ricercar Consort once again turns to Buxtehude. The majority of the cantatas in this recording are centred on Christ's Passion and Resurrection...

Bach: Consolatio This release features the first cantatas Bach composed in Leipzig. They are not only stamped with the composer's customary eloquence, but also brimming with poetry amid their...

Ricercar Consort includes an excellent selection of Beethoven's many settings of Irish folksongs, with imaginative new arrangements of his accompaniments, rescored for more traditional instruments...

In the terrible period when we were all deprived of culture, Mozart's music has really been life-saving for me, it has truly filled my life. To make up for these months of solitary confinement, I...

A major, iconic figure of the romantic period, the inventor of the piano recital, Franz Liszt, with his twelve Transcendental ?tudes, brought technical virtuosity up to a level never reached before...

The two concertante pieces and the two large triptychs gathered here testify to C?sar Franck's dazzling maturity in the last years of life, as well as to his return to writing for the piano. The...