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Johann Sebastian Bach was certainly familiar with the Pantaleon - a large hammered dulcimer with a wide range and full chromatic scale. Bach's contemporary Pantaleon Hebenstreit had developed the...

Johann Sebastian Bach left us three sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord. He made various transcriptions of the gamba sonata in G major, one of which was of the last movement as a trio sonata...

Surrounded by a certain air of mystery and revered as a relic, The Art of Fugue is roundly praised for it's complex, mathematical nature. However, these works are also movingly lyrical, and deserve...

Bach,J.S. / Sette Voci / Kooij Jesu Meine Freude CD1. Komm, Jesu, Komm, Motet for Chorus ; Continuo, BWV 229 (BC C3) 2. Jesu, Meine Freude, Motet for 5-Part Chorus, BWV 227 (BC C5) 3. Singet Dem...

Unlike many of his contemporaries, Johann Sebastian Bach never intended to compose flute sonatas or partitas in sets of 6 or 12, as was customary at the time (and as he himself did for violin, cello...

Bach,J.S. Partitas Clavier Ubung CD

Bassano / Attaignant Consort Le Parler Et Le Silence CD1. Pulchra Es Amica Mea 2. Fantasia 3. Canzon Decima 4. Fantasie 5. Canzon Settimadecima 6. Fantasia Seconda 7. L'enfant Amour 8. Yeux Qui...

With Cupid's assistance, the sculptor Pygmalion brings his beloved creation to life. This recording treats us to two versions of the celebrated story. Jean-Philippe Rameau's familiar one act opera...

Today there are different types of the instrument known in German-speaking countries as the Hackbrett, mainly associated with local traditional music, such as the cimbalom in Eastern Europe, the...

With the world premiere recording of a rediscovered Stabat Mater, a late work by the Bohemian master Frantiek Tuma, Pluto-Ensemble and Hathor Consort expand the Baroque discography with an...

La Serenissima's imposing standing in music history is reaffirmed again and again through the continuous presence of some of it's greatest composers and musical works in concert and radio programs...

'It is simply a badge of historical injustice that oboists must wear.' Such was the lament of Leon Goosens, echoing the commonly-held view that the nineteenth century was a time of crisis in the...