Arcana

  • Bach: Cantatas and Arias for Bass
    Bach: Cantatas and Arias for Bass

    $20.99

    After releasing all the Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites, Zefiro joins forces with authoritative singer Dominik Woerner to investigate the intriguing relationship between bass voice and reed instruments in Bach's sacred cantatas. "Johann Sebastian Bach's...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 13, 2019

  • Venetian Cello Sonatas. Under the Shade of Vivaldi
    Venetian Cello Sonatas. Under the Shade of Vivaldi

    $20.99

    A tireless explorer of territories off the beaten track, Gaetano Nasillo has already addressed Venetian music with a memorable album devoted to composer and 'musico di violoncello' Antonio Caldara (A356). This new album brings us...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 23, 2019

  • Roma '600
    Roma '600

    $20.99

    This album is a journey through seventeenth-century Rome, the rough and magnificent city where Caravaggio and Stradella lived. Strict counterpoint and learned polyphony in the lute and keyboard pieces by Kapsberger, Pasquini and Frescobaldi mingle...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 11, 2019

  • Grandi: Celesti fiori - Motetti
    Grandi: Celesti fiori - Motetti

    $20.99

    Alessandro Grandi (born in Venice in 1590), regarded by scholars as "the greatest motet composer of his time," was a prominent figure of the new Venetian style in the first half of the seventeenth century....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 12, 2019

  • Heretical Angels - Rituals of Medieval Bosnia & Herzegovina
    Heretical Angels - Rituals of Medieval Bosnia & Herzegovina

    $20.99

    "When I wanted to exist, I couldn’t”. Mystical inscriptions on ancient Bosnian tombstones inspired this programme. Medieval Bosnia fascinates us with its coexistence of religions: Catholics, Orthodox, heretical Bosnian Christians, Jews and Muslims… Their texts...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 26, 2024

  • Harpa Romana - Arias & Cantatas by the 17th-Century Virtuosos
    Harpa Romana - Arias & Cantatas by the 17th-Century Virtuosos

    $20.99

    “What I have that is most precious I will preserve in my own name.” This belief likely guided a series of harpists – ranging from Leonardo Mollica, the most renowned virtuoso of the late Renaissance,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 26, 2024

  • Weinberg: The Four Sonatas for Solo Cello / Brunello
    Weinberg: The Four Sonatas for Solo Cello / Brunello

    $20.99

    Polish-born Mieczyslaw Weinberg twice escaped from Nazi invasions, finally settling in Moscow, where for more than 30 years he was Shostakovich’s closest musical friend. Composer of 26 symphonies, seventeen string quartets and seven operas, he...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 22, 2024

  • Vulnerasti cor meum - Motets from the Song of Songs / Lombardi, I Disinvolti
    Vulnerasti cor meum - Motets from the Song of Songs / Lombardi, I Disinvolti

    $20.99

    "Vulnerasti cor meum" literally translates as "You have wounded my heart" – which is not only the most classic of amorous metaphors, but also one of the most celebrated to be featured in the Song...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 22, 2024

  • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 7, 8, & 12 / Cascioli
    Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 7, 8, & 12 / Cascioli

    $20.99

    Beethoven’s music has always lain at the heart of Gianluca Cascioli’s research into interpretation. What distinguishes the present work is above all the choice of instrument: a fortepiano modelled on an 1805 Anton Walter built...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 16, 2024

  • J.S. Bach: The Six Partitas / Giulia Nuti
    J.S. Bach: The Six Partitas / Giulia Nuti

    $29.99

    Skillfully crafted, meticulously executed and utterly enjoyable, Giulia Nuti's solo recordings include three anthologies of keyboard music, the last two released with Arcana. These albums feature historically significant instruments carefully chosen by the artist to...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 26, 2024

  • Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle
    Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle

    $20.99

    After"Roma '600", dedicated to the cultured and popular music of the Eternal City, I Bassifondi explore the music of the most famous baroque guitarist in 17th-century Europe, who brought the guitar to England and then...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 12, 2024

  • Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos & Ouvertures / Bernardini, Zefiro
    Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos & Ouvertures / Bernardini, Zefiro

    $39.99

    While pursuing its constant search for music to study and rediscover, Zefiro undertook another important challenge by recording, in 2017 and 2015 respectively, the Brandenburg Concertos and Overtures, two pinnacles of the 18th-century instrumental literature....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 20, 2023

  • Un Air d’italie - The Mandolin in Paris in the 18th Century / Schivazappa
    Un Air d’italie - The Mandolin in Paris in the 18th Century / Schivazappa

    $20.99

    As an instrument from Italy, one that was exotic and evocative of Mediterranean atmospheres, the mandolin was very much in fashion in France until the end of the Century of Enlightenment: a fact also confirmed...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 20, 2023

  • Morricone: Cinema Rarities / Serino, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto
    Morricone: Cinema Rarities / Serino, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto

    $20.99

    The idea for this album came about during the recording of its predecessor Cinema Suites (BBC Music Magazine’s “Screen Choice”, Album of the Week on WDR3 etc.), when the Morricone family sent Marco Serino a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 06, 2023

  • Aretino: Sabbato Sancto - Lamentationes et Responsoria
    Aretino: Sabbato Sancto - Lamentationes et Responsoria

    $20.99

    Within the Italian polyphonic repertoire for Holy Week of the first half of the 16th century; a group of works that particularly stands out for its organic; comprehensive and unique qualities are the two books...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 22, 2023