Arcana

  • Telemann: Viola Di Gamba / Lorenz Duftschmid, Armonico Tributo Austria
    Telemann: Viola Di Gamba / Lorenz Duftschmid, Armonico Tributo Austria

    $11.99

    Throughout his life, from his very beginnings right up to the end, Telemann wrote for the basse de viole (as the French called it) and especially in chamber music. Of course, the viola da gamba...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 08, 2021

  • Stradella: Amare e fingere / Carlo, Ensemble Mare Nostrum
    Stradella: Amare e fingere / Carlo, Ensemble Mare Nostrum

    $29.99

    The discovery of the inventory of an extraordinary collection of music from the late seventeenth century has made it possible to track down a previously unknown work by Stradella: Amare e fingere (Loving and feigning),...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 12, 2021

  • Schutz: German Funeral Music Of The 17th Century / Strobl, Voces Suaves
    Schutz: German Funeral Music Of The 17th Century / Strobl, Voces Suaves

    $20.99

    The Musicalische Exequien of Heinrich Schutz, composed for the ceremonial obsequies of Heinrich II Posthumus, count of Reuß-Gera, is probably the best known example of German funeral music of the seventeenth century. However, it is...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 09, 2021

  • Schubert: String Quartets Nos. 4 & 13, "Rosamunde" / Festetics Quartet
    Schubert: String Quartets Nos. 4 & 13, "Rosamunde" / Festetics Quartet

    $11.99

    Celebrated for their only complete recording of Haydn’s string quartets on period instruments, the Festetics Quartet also tackled the world of Schubert, by matching two quartets which since the very first bars depict the twilit,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 08, 2021

  • Swithun! / Livljanic, Dialogos
    Swithun! / Livljanic, Dialogos

    $20.99

    Open the door onto one of the best-kept secrets of medieval music… It is the music from the Winchester Troper, one of the earliest, and most stunning sources of medieval polyphonic music, written in the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 24, 2021

  • Suite Case: Violin Duos from Vivaldi to Sollima / Zanisi, Barneschi
    Suite Case: Violin Duos from Vivaldi to Sollima / Zanisi, Barneschi

    $20.99

    Underplayed, under-recorded, and quite underappreciated, the repertory for two unaccompanied violins rose in popularity in the first decades of the eighteenth century. But few listeners are aware that Antonio Vivaldi was among the first to...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 06, 2018

  • Pulchra Es / Il Ricercar Continuo
    Pulchra Es / Il Ricercar Continuo

    $11.99

    The Italian composers of the seventeenth century, living at the time of Galileo, were at the forefront of a musical revolution that offers some surprising analogies with the birth of the modern scientific method. Just...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 13, 2020

  • Perez: Mattutino De' Morti / Invernizzi, Vitale, Prandi, Coro E Orchestra Ghislieri
    Perez: Mattutino De' Morti / Invernizzi, Vitale, Prandi, Coro E Orchestra Ghislieri

    $11.99

    Davide Perez, born in Naples in 1711, has a personal history that strictly entwines with Portugal: thanks to his internationally achieved reputation – he was already renowned in Europe for his successful opere serie -,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 08, 2021

  • Schubert: The Complete Piano Sonatas / Badura-Skoda
    Schubert: The Complete Piano Sonatas / Badura-Skoda

    $42.99

    After the tremendous success of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas, Arcana re-releases the companion set of Schubert sonatas with a new design and the addition of the indispensable booklet notes written by Paul Badura-Skoda. An...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 11, 2021

  • Napoli: At The Crossroads Between Popular & Art Music
    Napoli: At The Crossroads Between Popular & Art Music

    $42.99

    “I’m leaving. I shall not forget via Toledo nor all the other districts in Naples. To my eyes it is incomparable, the most beautiful city in the world.” Stendhal Stendhal describes the Naples we love....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 27, 2019

  • Mozart: Divertimenti & Eine Kleine Nachtmusik / Piovano, Archi di Santa Cecilia
    Mozart: Divertimenti & Eine Kleine Nachtmusik / Piovano, Archi di Santa Cecilia

    $20.99

    The Arcana label continues its fruitful collaboration with the Archi di Santa Cecilia, the Rome-based ensemble formed from members of the famous Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. The ensemble is conducted by...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 10, 2020

  • Merulo: Toccate, Ricercari, Canzoni / Fabio Bonizzoni
    Merulo: Toccate, Ricercari, Canzoni / Fabio Bonizzoni

    $11.99

    Suspended between the Renaissance and Baroque eras, Merulo’s Toccate are unique compositions which occupy a singular role in the landscape of keyboard music. They are not prototypes, in that they are artistically too mature: rather,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 08, 2021

  • Officina Romana / Zanzu, Vistoli, La Stagione
    Officina Romana / Zanzu, Vistoli, La Stagione

    $20.99

    Following the success of his solo recordings, Paolo Zanzu returns at the head of his ensemble Le Stagioni with ‘Officina Romana’, featuring the countertenor Carlo Vistoli. In the early eighteenth century, Rome was one of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 26, 2021

  • Frescobaldi: Toccate, Capricci & Fiori Musicali / Cera
    Frescobaldi: Toccate, Capricci & Fiori Musicali / Cera

    $54.99

    Girolamo Frescobaldi is one of the most extraordinary figures in the history of music for harpsichord and organ, and had an enormous influence on other composers up until Bach. His brilliant toccatas reveal an inner...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 26, 2019

  • Forqueray Unchained / André Lislevand, Jadran Duncumb, Paola Erdas
    Forqueray Unchained / André Lislevand, Jadran Duncumb, Paola Erdas

    $20.99

    The debut album of the young gambist André Lislevand is devoted to the great oeuvre for viol of Antoine Forqueray. Ambiguity: a word that can easily have a negative or derogatory meaning but which also...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 09, 2021