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  • Handel: Sonatas for Violin & Basso Continuo - Se in fiorito
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    Handel's violin sonatas composed in London stretch from the heyday of the Royal Academy of Music's Italian opera productions to his last English oratorios. The original purposes, contexts and performers of the sonatas are unknown:...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 09, 2025

  • J.S. Bach: Toccata, Partita & Suites for Solo Violin - Metam

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    Though naturally closely associated with the organ and harpsichord, Bach had a special relationship with the violin, his father's instrument, throughout his life. Moreover, we know that he was a highly skilled player, performing regularly...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 04, 2025

  • Arianna in Rome - Arias, cantatas & laments for the 17th-cen

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    Alongside the renowned female composers of the 17th century, such as Francesca Caccini and Barbara Strozzi, and the leading singers (the prime donne) that dominated the stages of opera houses, such as Anna Renzi and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 14, 2025

  • Mozart: Sonatas for Fortepiano & Violin, K301, K378 & K454

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    Boasting a musical partnership of over 15 years, during which they have played in concerts throughout the world (recently at the Wigmore Hall in London and the Suntory Hall in Tokyo), the violinist Sayaka Shoji...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 14, 2025

  • Sold Out

    After the success of Officina Romana (awarded 5 Diapasons, 5 stars in Musica, and selected amongst the best albums in Le Monde in 2021), Le Stagioni, under the direction of Paolo Zanzu, invites the listener...


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  • The Ghosts of Hamlet - Lost Arias from Italian Baroque Opera

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    Ambleto is a fascinating curiosity in music history: a baroque libretto by Apostolo Zeno on the legend of Hamlet, not based on Shakespeare's tragedy but on it's primary source, the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Gramaticus....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 28, 2025

  • W.F. Bach, Benda & C.P.E. Bach: The Age of Extremes

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    This recording combines three of the most significant musicians belonging to the generation of the empfindsame or "sentimental" style. As a reaction to the late baroque of J.S. Bach and Handel, they systematically explored contrast...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 21, 2025

  • Dresden

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    An ensemble selected from the excellent Capelle of Friedrich August I in Dresden, the Cammer-Musique and its leader, the phenomenal oboist Johann Christian Richter, inspired some of the leading German composers and Italian guests at...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 20, 2017

  • The Queenes Maskes - A Varietie of Lute Music from the Early

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    Throughout it's Golden Age, England cultivated the masque, an elite entertainment featuring dialogue, song, and dance. As part of these spectacles, courtiers-and at times even the queen herself-often graced the dance floor. But it was...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 10, 2025

  • Stradella: Un angelo del Paradiso - The Orrigoni Songbook

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    A great composer and his angelic singer: a history of crossed destinies. Marc'Antonio Orrigoni, one of the most famous castratos of his generation, rediscovered through an imaginary songbook collecting the arias composed for him by...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 15, 2024

  • No Strings Attached - Concertos, Overture & Sonatas for Oboe

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    With the release of The Queen's Favourites in 2021, La Petite Ecurie provided listeners insight into the original repertoire for the Oboe Band, which was very much in vogue at the time of Queen Anne...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 01, 2024

  • Weiss: Selected Works for Lute

    $29.99

    After the success of the complete works for lute by J. S. Bach, crowned by the recognition of international critics (Diapason d'Or, Choc de Classica, Excepcional Scherzo, Record Geijutsu, Eccezionale di Musica, Joker Absolu Crescendo),...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 18, 2024

  • Scarlatti: A Man of Genius

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    Having dedicated his first two albums for Arcana to Johann Sebastian Bach (Little Books, A480) and Georg Friedrich Handel (Winged Hands, A499), Francesco Corti turns to Domenico Scarlatti, the third great keyboardist of the 1685...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 04, 2024

  • J. S. Bach: Mass in B Minor

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    25 years of La Cetra Basel! To celebrate this anniversary, La Cetra and Arcana are releasing the "greatest musical masterpiece of all time", as the work was called in the 19th century: Bach's Mass in...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 04, 2024

  • Bach's Roots - Early Influences on the Young Master

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    This first joint project by the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin and the Basel-based vocal ensemble Voces Suaves is dedicated to the musical milieu into which Johann Sebastian Bach was born, and especially to those...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 06, 2024

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