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We may wonder whether the violin was a northern Italian invention, for the instrument was also to be heard in the great cities of southern Italy at an early stage, from the beginning of the 17th...

Il violoncello di Corelli leads us to the origins of the solo cello literature - although one should actually use the term violone. In fact, the cello, as we know it today in it's standard form, had...

25 years after the revolutionary recording with IlßGiardinoßArmonico, EnricoßOnofrißpresents a new exciting version of Vivaldi's Le quattroßstagionißon PASSACAILLE, in which he has put all his...

Niccol? Jommelli (1714-1774) was one of the most sought-after opera composers of his time when he was appointed Court Kapellmeister in Stuttgart in 1753. Three years later he composed a requiem in...

Koll / Pianca / Bach / Gesualdo Giants: Bach & Gesualdo & Monteverdi CD1. Partita in C Major, BWV 997(J.S. Bach) 2. Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro in E Flat Major, BWV 998(J.S. Bach) 3. Belt?, Poi Che T...

This release on PASSACAILLE with the exceptional baroque violinist Mayumi Hirasaki presents masterpieces of the virtuoso violin literature with scordatura, which had it's heyday between about 1600...

?Does anyone know the violinist Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, who was born in northern France at the beginning of the 18th century? Despite his fairly regional career, Lamoninary knew plenty about the...

The early English Baroque composers Henry Lawes (1595-1662) and John Wilson (1595-1674) were friends and colleagues in Oxford; both were members of King's Musick and employed at the Chapel Royal,...

The Leuven Chansonnier (1470-75) includes not only fifty compositions by such leading 15th century Franco-Flemish names as Johannes Ockeghem, Antoine Busnoys and Firminus Caron but also twelve newly...

Tim Mari?n uproots and challenges the musical experiences to which we as listeners are accustomed. Above all, the use of unconventional tunings makes one feel at first like a stranger in the music of...

From the budding blossoms of first love and the heat of passion, to when feelings subside and fade away, "the seasons of love" are the overarching theme of this program of madrigali concertati by...

Mendelssohn / Istomin / Sofronitsky Complete Works For Cello & Piano CD1. Lied Ohne Worte - Felix Mendelssohn - Felix Mendelssohn 2. Allegro Assai Vivace 3. Allegretto Scherzando 4. Adagio 5. Molto...