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Shostakovich was in his early thirties when he first turned to the string quartet. He planned to produce a full cycle of 24; he completed 15. These works embody his resistance to a crushing Soviet...

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Release Date: February 11, 2022

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Very popular during Chopin's lifetime, the waltzes have long been a favorite with professionals and amateurs alike. Highly virtuosic - most of them were clearly not intended to be danced - and sometimes melancholy, they...

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Release Date: February 11, 2022

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Christophe Rousset leads Talens Lyriques in Mozart's first oratorio, Betulia liberata. It was composed in 1771 to a libretto by Metastasio that traces the well-known biblical story of Judith and Holofernes. The Assyrians have led...

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Release Date: October 30, 2020

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2021 release from the acclaimed French mezzo-soprano. Artists: Beatrice Uria-Monzon (mezzo-soprano) - Orchestra of Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste / Conductor: Fabrizio Maria Carminati

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Release Date: July 09, 2021

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Editions of Domenico Scarlatti's almost 600 keyboard sonatas were for a long time based on uncertain sources. The resulting editorial confusion gave rise to different readings at different times and in different places. A prime...

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Release Date: February 11, 2022

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There is a link between the style of the early masters and that of the innovators, asserted Sch�nberg. The program of this recording seeks to prove this saying of the master of the Second Viennese...

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Release Date: March 11, 2022

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The prestigious Schola Cantorum of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, London, returns to it's prime vocation with music from the liturgical choir tradition. These gems cover almost 400 years of British music, from Purcell to...

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Release Date: June 11, 2021

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AUGUSTIN PFLEGER: LIFE & PASSION OF THE CHRIST - Augustin Pfleger from the Bohemian town of Schlackenwerth (today: Ostrov) was court kapellmeister in G�strow in Mecklenburg and in Gottorf Palace in Schleswig-Holstein. Among the baroque...

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Release Date: June 11, 2021

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After Mozart's youth symphonies, the Freiburger Barockorchester returns to the composer with his concertante music. A 'portrait of the artist as a young man', his last three violin concerto were composed when he was twenty...

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Release Date: February 17, 2023

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Women poets, composers, dreamers, and mothers; their femininity is expressed through their artistic creations and works. From the Virgin Mary to Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz, via Mother Earth or Pachamama, Diana Baroni, Ronald...

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Release Date: March 03, 2023

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Liszt's predestination for sacred music doubtless stemmed from his childhood, when he had close ties to Catholicism through his father. He went on to compose many works expressing the virtues of various saints, and to...

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Release Date: December 30, 2022

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Fran�ois Couperin's early publications include a number of airs serieux, as well as several short pieces that were included in the collection of Pi�ces choisies pour le clavecin published by Ballard in 1707. Here Christophe...

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Release Date: December 30, 2022

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After two recordings devoted to the harpsichord pieces of Savoyard composer Pancrace Royer, Christophe Rousset, this time conducting, turns to the composer's orchestral suites. Taken from Royer's operatic works and (with the exception of a...

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Release Date: May 19, 2023

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In 1928 Maurice Ravel described the violin and the piano as "essentially incompatible". Yet by then he had already composed for those instruments two sonatas (one of which was published posthumously), Tzigane, and the Berceuse...

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Release Date: November 04, 2022

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Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques make a foray into the Romantic repertoire with this tribute to Pauline Viardot, who was not only the most influential singer of the nineteenth century, but also a pedagogue...

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Release Date: November 04, 2022