Olde Focus Recordings

  • Oddities & Trifles: The Very Peculiar Instrumental Music Of Giovanni Valentini

    $18.99

    Certainly the disc’s title is intriguing. But based on past experience, listening to many recordings with similar hooks where some obscure yet supposedly worthy music just didn’t live up to its billing, the most I...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 10, 2015

  • Stricturae Viola-di Gambicae

    $18.99

    The first recording of the complete consort music of little known 17th century composer David Funck. The 1677 publication Strictuae Viola-di Gambicae is the only surviving music by David Funck (1648-1699), of whom very little...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 25, 2014

  • Le Memorie Dolorose

    $21.99

    Early-music ensembles TENET Vocal Artists and ACRONYM have joined forces to make the first commercial recording of a sumptuous work by composer Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1623-1680), a sepolcro set in the tomb of Christ. The...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 19, 2019

  • Mendelssohn: Sonatas from Childhood, Adolescence & Adulthood

    $18.99

    Fresh interpretation and technical brilliance imbue "Mendelssohn: Sonatas from Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood," the first period instrument recording of this repertoire. This debut recording by the New York City based Karr-Yang Duo features three relatively...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 03, 2017

  • Cantica Obsoleta

    $21.99

    ACRONYM presents forgotten works from the D�ben Collection. The D�ben archive consists of approximately 2300 music manuscripts, assembled by and named after a family of composers who served in succession as Kapellmeisters to the Royal...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 24, 2020

  • The Battle, The Bethel & The Ball / Acronym

    $21.99

    ACRONYM's exploration of the wild music attributed to H.I.F. von Biber includes several pieces recorded here for the first time. Works include programmatic battle music, Latin church music, and dance suites. ACRONYM (Anachronistic Cooperative Realizing...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 16, 2018

  • Paradise: Instrumental Sonatas Of Antonio Bertali

    $18.99

    BERTALI 13 Sonatas • Acronym • OLDE FOCUS 901 (63: 59) Antonio Bertali (1605–1669) is one of those many composers from the Italian States who achieved prominence at the 17th-century Viennese courts of the Holy...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 25, 2014

  • Pezel: The Alphabet Sonatas

    $18.99

    PEZEL Alphabet Sonatas • Acronym • OLDE FOCUS 903 (75: 15) Pezel’s Opus Musicum Sonatarum Praestantissimarum Senis Instrumentis Instructum , or “Musical Publication of the Finest Sonatas for Old/Revered Instruments,” was published in Frankfurt in...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 25, 2014

  • Saint-Georges: Three Sonatas for Violin & Fortepiano, Op. 1b / McIntosh, Vanhauwaert

    $18.99

    Violinist Andrew McIntosh and fortepianist Steven Vanhauwaert collaborated on a historically important volume of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges's Op. 1b sonatas on Olde Focus Recordings. Interest in Bologne's music has surged in recent...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 17, 2023

  • Wisps in the Dell - Arrangements of Traditional Celtic Folk Songs

    $21.99

    In the late-classical era, an Edinburgh publisher commissioned the most famous composers in continental Europe to orchestrate traditional Scottish folk songs in their original English. A lush sampling of this music is performed here by...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 04, 2019

  • Ronde de Saisons / Science Ficta

    $21.99

    Encouraged by Camille Saint-Saëns, violist/composer Henri Casadesus founded the Société des Instruments Anciens in 1901. Casadesus played viola d'amore, his brother Marius played quinton, and additional Casadesus family members and friends played viols, keyboards, and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 03, 2023

  • Wunderkammer / Acronym

    $18.99

    The title of this release, Wunderkammer, is named for the “Cabinet of Curiosities” that was frequently found in the home of a seventeenth-century German aristocrat. The cabinet held some sort of private museum collection. For...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 13, 2016

  • Vivaldi: 7 Cello Concertos / Fishman, Handel & Haydn Society Members

    $18.99

    Guy Fishman, principal cellist of the Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra, presents a brilliant and energized period-instrument performance of seven miraculous and seminal concertos by the Red Priest, Antonio Vivaldi. Fishman made his Symphony Hall...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 20, 2017

  • Johann Rosenmuller in Exile / Blumberg, Acronym

    $19.99

    Johann Rosenmüller was one of the mos ttalented and prolific young composers in Germany: he was organist at Leipzig's Nikolaikirche and all-but-assured the upcoming Thomakantor position, when in 1655 he was arrested due to a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 03, 2017

  • Cranford: Consort Music for 4, 5 & 6 Viols

    $18.99

    LeStrange Viols presents the modern premier recording of nearly all of William Cranford's surviving works for consort, including the complete fantasias for 4, 5, and 6 viols, the substantial and virtuosic 6-part pavans ("Passamezzo" and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 11, 2015

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