First Hand Records
108 products
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![Of Arms and a Woman: Late Medieval Wind Music]()
Of Arms and a Woman: Late Medieval Wind Music$21.99
Of arms and a woman is a chronicle of love, loss, chivalry and memory built around the late medieval wind music of Dufay, Binchois, Ciconia, Landini and Machaut, performed on shawms, slide trumpet, recorders, sackbut,...
Format: CD
Release Date: March 15, 2019
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![Dowland]()
Dowland$21.99
John Dowland (1563–1626) is recognized as the greatest English composer of lute music and songs. Michael Butten presents a collection of the composer’s most popular and beautiful songs arranged for the classical guitar. A whole...
Format: CD
Release Date: June 07, 2019
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![Risonanze - music for viola da gamba]()
Risonanze - music for viola da gamba$21.99
Risonanze is the d�but solo album of London-based viola da gamba player Ibrahim Aziz, who is one of the greatest performers of the instrument of his generation. This recording is a performance of immense expression,...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 03, 2019
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![Ravel: Chamber Music / Flieder, Pantillon, Bianchi]()
Ravel: Chamber Music / Flieder, Pantillon, Bianchi$21.99
Ravel was very happy with his second Violin Sonata, written between 1923 and 1927, whose second movement adopts the Afro-American blues. This wonderful sonata is characterized throughout by the contrast between the consistently fairly dry...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 17, 2024
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![Eller: Works for Violin & Piano / Kaljuste, Rahman]()
Eller: Works for Violin & Piano / Kaljuste, Rahman$21.99
Heino Eller (1887–1970) is the founding father of Estonian professional instrumental music, both as a masterful and original composer, and as a teacher of composition over half a century. His output of around 300 titles...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 17, 2024
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![Schutz: A German in Venice]()
Schutz: A German in Venice$13.99
One of the key German composers before Bach with over 500 surviving individual pieces, Heinrich Schütz mainly composed church music. Credited with bringing the Italian style to Germany, he continued its evolution from the Renaissance...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 19, 2024
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![Vestiva / Lux Musicae London]()
Vestiva / Lux Musicae London$13.99
Vestiva: not only our red thread throughout the album, referring to one of our favourite madrigal hits Vesti va i colli, but also a metaphorical motto: “dressing up” the music with colours, diminutions, trilli, accenti...
Format: CD
Release Date: March 01, 2024
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![Fauré, Crosse & Ravel: Works for Cello & Piano / Baillie, Yandell]()
Fauré, Crosse & Ravel: Works for Cello & Piano / Baillie, Yandell$13.99
This album brings together three works for cello and piano. The first of them, Gabriel Fauré’s Cello Sonata No. 1, is a cornerstone of the repertoire for this medium. It was composed in 1917 and...
Format: CD
Release Date: March 01, 2024
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![Bacheler, Britten, Fricker, McLeod & Rosseter: Night Fancy]()
Bacheler, Britten, Fricker, McLeod & Rosseter: Night Fancy$13.99
Night Fancy is Michael Butten’s second release on FHR, his previous being the critically acclaimed recording of works by John Dowland [FHR84]. Butten, one of the UK’s leading guitarists, has won many solo guitar competitions...
Format: CD
Release Date: March 08, 2024
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![Smock Alley]()
Smock Alley$17.99
This album draws inspiration from the musical life of 18th century Dublin at the Smock Alley Theatre and its neighbourhood; exploring connections between Italian and Irish musicians working there with the atmospheric; rich and earthy...
Format: CD
Release Date: September 15, 2023
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![Mendelssohn-Hensel: Lieder / Parker-Langston, Parker, Wake-Edwards et al.]()
Mendelssohn-Hensel: Lieder / Parker-Langston, Parker, Wake-Edwards et al.$17.99
HENSEL: Lieder (contains 17 première recordings) – Complementing the historically important 2021 publication of the complete songs of Fanny Hensel, this album has been curated to guide the listener through the rich and varied musical...
Format: CD
Release Date: July 21, 2023
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![Bruckner: Motets / Lucas, St. Albans Cathedral Choir]()
Bruckner: Motets / Lucas, St. Albans Cathedral Choir$13.99
Although he remains best known for his symphonies, Anton Bruckner’s output of sacred choral works is sizable and represents the essence of a composer whose Catholicism was both profound and almost entirely unwavering. These works...
Format: CD
Release Date: June 23, 2023
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![Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet, Op. 64 (excerpts); Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36]()
On SaleProkofiev: Romeo & Juliet, Op. 64 (excerpts); Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36$11.99 Regular price
$17.99The present release comprises two works by Russian composers of differing generations, in music which has long been central to the repertoire of composer and conductor Álvaro Cassuto who is heard conducting the Portuguese Symphony...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 12, 2023
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![Tessa Lark: The Stradgrass Sessions / Lark, Hull, Meyer, Cleveland, Batiste]()
Tessa Lark: The Stradgrass Sessions / Lark, Hull, Meyer, Cleveland, Batiste$13.99
"This album is a snapshot of the way I live in music. Diversely; organically; intimately; sometimes collaboratively, sometimes solitarily; always sincerely; and anywhere, be it a concert hall or home studio. Stradgrass is the exploration...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 05, 2023
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![The Future is Female, Vol. 3: At Play / Sarah Cahill]()
The Future is Female, Vol. 3: At Play / Sarah Cahill$17.99
THE FUTURE is FEMALE is a three-volume series, which celebrates and highlights women composers from the 17th century to the present day. These albums encompass 30 compositions by women from around the globe and include...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 28, 2023
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