$41.99

The 1845 three act opera Tannhauser by Richard Wagner is based on two German legends: Tannhauser, the legendary medieval German poet, and the tale of the Wartburg Song Contest. The opera focuses on the struggle...

Format: CD

Release Date: June 16, 2017

$27.99

That a simple visit to an exhibition of English art could have impelled Stravinsky to compose his last neoclassical masterpiece is really only slightly credible. It is true that the ultra-renowned series of engravings by...

Format: CD

Release Date: August 04, 2017

$27.99

Karl Bohm was born in Graz, Austria, on the 28th of August 1894. Upon leaving school, he moved to Vienna for a year where, at the Staatsoper, he heard Leo Slezak, Carl Burrian and Enrico...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 04, 2018

$41.99

This brilliant recording of Mozart’s Don Giovanni was taken live in the Auditorium del Conservatorio G. Verdi di Milano in April of 1960. Sure to become a reference recording, this release features Leyla Gencer in...

Format: CD

Release Date: July 14, 2017

$41.99

Mauro Giuliani was a composer deeply rooted in the everyday musical life of the Vienna of his era, a city on which Mozart had recently left his mark, where Haydn's art had come to his...

Format: CD

Release Date: June 01, 2018

$55.99

An overall glance at the history of opera shows that in many ways, the growth of multinational record companies after the end of the Second World War has had far-reaching effects. Up till then the...

Format: CD

Release Date: March 09, 2018

$13.99

Notes left by Gustav Holst reveal that he began recording his compositions in 1895, and continued until his death. In the pages dating from 1909, we find the first mention of the 1st Suite for...

Format: CD

Release Date: February 16, 2018

$13.99

The compositional style of A. J. Romani and the theme of the present recording is the idea of Romani's approachable compositions which are rooted in tonality. The first pieces for voice and pianoforte are tonal...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 04, 2018

$27.99

This new release introduces two Requiems. The first is a German Requiem by Johannes Brahms in an unusual version translated into Italian and performed at RAI in Turin in April 1954 with a stellar cast...

Format: CD

Release Date: August 04, 2017

$13.99

Any attempt at a review of compositions devoted to the bassoon, will inevitably reveal how few of them there are, despite the fact that, in our century, greater exploration of the possibilites of this instrument...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 06, 2017

$27.99

A short article can hardly hope to do justice to the memory of Boris Christoff, the famous Bulgarian bass born in Plovdiv on May 18th 1914 who died in Rome on June 28th 1993. One...

Format: CD

Release Date: July 14, 2017

$13.99

The compositions on this release, which walk along the border between past and present, were dedicated to the guitar by Glauco Cataldo. He is a free-thinking musician, working in self-imposed isolation, and deserving of fame...

Format: CD

Release Date: April 06, 2018

$13.99

Songs wthout a sequence. The series 'Canti selz'ordinale' (1966) for voice and harp has been written for Elena Arcuri and Paola Devot by setting text of various origin to music; it has no order except...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 06, 2017

$13.99

Italian composer, teacher, and pianist Camillo Togni came from a wealthy family, and was thus able to pursue his art as he saw fit. He began studying piano at the age of 7. Eventually he...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 05, 2017

$13.99 Regular price $27.99

This album is a tribute to the great Romanian conductor Otto Ackermann (1909-1960) and includes live recordings from 1952 to 1956 with the Orchester der Tonhalle Zurich. In the Antonin Dvorak Cello Concerto in B...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 05, 2017