Olde Focus Recordings

  • Capricornus: The Jublius Bernhardi Collection / Meineke, Bach Choir of Holy Trinity, Acronym
    Capricornus: The Jublius Bernhardi Collection / Meineke, Bach Choir of Holy Trinity, Acronym

    $32.99

    Baroque string ensemble ACRONYM is dedicated to giving modern premieres of the wild instrumental music of the seventeenth century. Playing with “...consummate style, grace, and unity of spirit” (The New York Times), the group formed...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 03, 2017

  • Oswald, J.C. Bach, Geminiani et al.: The Galant David Rizzio / Makaris
    Oswald, J.C. Bach, Geminiani et al.: The Galant David Rizzio / Makaris

    $21.99

    In the early eighteenth century, a number of the most popular traditional Scottish songs were bizarrely attributed to David Rizzio, who more than 150 years earlier had been brutally murdered while serving as secretary to...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 08, 2022

  • Monteverdi: Vespro Della Beata Vergine / Green Mountain Project
    Monteverdi: Vespro Della Beata Vergine / Green Mountain Project

    $21.99

    TENET Vocal Artists, NYC’s pre-eminent early music ensemble, releases an album of the final performance of its Green Mountain Project. For the past ten years, the Green Mountain Project has been made up of some...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 04, 2020

  • Valentini: Secondo libro de madrigali / Les Canards Chantants, Acronym
    Valentini: Secondo libro de madrigali / Les Canards Chantants, Acronym

    $19.99

    "Brilliant and moving" vocal ensemble Les Canards Chantants and "groundbreaking, gutsy" (Early Music America Magazine) Baroque string band ACRONYM present the first recording of Giovanni Valentini's "Secondo libro de madrigali" (Venice, 1616)—the earliest known madrigal...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 11, 2016

  • Love Enfolds Thee Round / Tenet Vocal Artists
    Love Enfolds Thee Round / Tenet Vocal Artists

    $18.99

    TENET Vocal Artists, NYC’s prëeminent early music ensemble, releases a Christmas disc of music spanning medieval to modern day repertoire. TENET’s pristine, one-on-a-part singing lends itself well to both well-known and rarely heard songs and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 20, 2020

  • C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concerti / Fishman, Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra
    C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concerti / Fishman, Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra

    $18.99

    Cellist Guy Fishman releases a follow up to his critically acclaimed Vivaldi Concertos on Olde Focus with this recording of the concerti of C.P.E. Bach. Along with his colleagues from the Handel and Haydn Society,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 05, 2018

  • Aeternum / Le Strange Viols
    Aeternum / Le Strange Viols

    $21.99

    The Elizabethan manuscript from which this album is entirely drawn is known by its British Library shelf-mark: Additional Manuscript 31390. Add. MS 31390 contains 135 pieces, which capture a snapshot of musical life in the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 20, 2018