Christophorus

  • Lieder / Ensemble Leones
    Lieder / Ensemble Leones

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    For this recording, the renowned early music expert Marc Lewon and his Ensemble Leones have put together a program that does justice to Oswald von Wolkenstein's importance as a poet and musician, presenting not only...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 07, 2021

  • Open The Gates - Christmas Music at the Thomaskirche / Johann Rosenmuller Ensemble
    Open The Gates - Christmas Music at the Thomaskirche / Johann Rosenmuller Ensemble

    $20.99

    Before the history of the string quartet entered its "classical" phase with Luigi Boccherini in Paris and Joseph Haydn in Vienna, it went through a long process of development marked by exciting experiments and compositional...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 16, 2020

  • Ich Will Den Herrn Loben
    Ich Will Den Herrn Loben

    $20.99

    Georg Christoph Strattner (c. 1644-1704) received his first training from his cousin Samuel Capricornus, who took him from Pressburg (Bratislava) to Stuttgart, where he was employed as a chapel boy. Strattner took up his first...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 07, 2021

  • Nachthimmel - Lieder Der Romantik / Franz Vitzthum, Katharina Olivia Brand
    Nachthimmel - Lieder Der Romantik / Franz Vitzthum, Katharina Olivia Brand

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    Gloomy and threatening, almost completely covered by low-hanging clouds and wafts of mist, the night sky weighs down on the poetic world of Romantic poetry, directing our gaze into the abysses of the human soul...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 15, 2021

  • Herzens-Lieder / Feuersinger, Capricornus Consort Basel
    Herzens-Lieder / Feuersinger, Capricornus Consort Basel

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    This album of German Baroque Cantatas is entitled “Herzens-Lieder” or “Songs of the Heart.” This new release features compositions by Christoph Graupner, Johann Kuhnau, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Johann Sebastian Bach. Austrian soprano Miriam Feuersinger...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 25, 2016

  • Hoppstock & Willcocks: Works for Guitar / Hoppstock, Los Angeles Guitar Quintet
    Hoppstock & Willcocks: Works for Guitar / Hoppstock, Los Angeles Guitar Quintet

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    There is a lack of guitar music from the time of Impressionism. This was the reason for Tilman Hoppstock to compose a variety of works for guitar solo under the pseudonym of the fictitious figure...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 18, 2019

  • Martini: Requiem pour Louis XVI et Marie Antoinette / Franconia Festival Choir, La Banda
    Martini: Requiem pour Louis XVI et Marie Antoinette / Franconia Festival Choir, La Banda

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    Louis XVI was the last king of France (1774-92_ in the line of Bourbon monarchs preceding the French Revolution of 1789. Louis and his queen consort, Marie Antoinette, were guillotined in 1793 on charges of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 17, 2017

  • Heinrich & Kunigunde: Gregorian Chant for an Imperial Couple / Pees, Schola Bamberg
    Heinrich & Kunigunde: Gregorian Chant for an Imperial Couple / Pees, Schola Bamberg

    $16.99

    Emperor Heinrich II and his wife Cunigunde of Luxembourg were an extraordinary Imperial couple. Henry was canonized in 1146, Cunigunde in 1200. Both were revered as saints in the Middle Ages. Bavarian Duke Heinrich II...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 06, 2019

  • Hidden Music of the Russian Church / Tolkachev, Moscow Patriarch Choir
    Hidden Music of the Russian Church / Tolkachev, Moscow Patriarch Choir

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    The second CD from the Patriarch Choir of the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow is devoted to Russian sacred music which was composed after the 1917 revolution. During this time, most churches and monasteries...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 24, 2016

  • Gift & Gegengift - Vices and Virtues in Renaissance Songs / Tecardi, Vitzthum, Dryades Consort
    Gift & Gegengift - Vices and Virtues in Renaissance Songs / Tecardi, Vitzthum, Dryades Consort

    $20.99

    The discussion of vices and virtues goes back to the ancient Greeks. In the Christian understanding, the seven deadly sins developed from this, which were contrasted with the cardinal virtues - in the Renaissance with...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 17, 2021

  • Flores espanolas - Music for Viol Consort & Guitar / Ferre, Les Escapades
    Flores espanolas - Music for Viol Consort & Guitar / Ferre, Les Escapades

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    Art flourished in Habsburg Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries, with its rich and diverse range of works. El Greco and Diego Velásques, the court painter of Philip IV, or Miguel de Cervantes, celebrated...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 16, 2018

  • Die Zeit Nunmehr Vorhanden Ist / Nussbaum, Schola Heidelberg
    Die Zeit Nunmehr Vorhanden Ist / Nussbaum, Schola Heidelberg

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    The COVID-19 pandemic has changed and slowed down social life in large parts of the world in 2020. Musicians are of course particularly affected by this as all of their performances have been cancelled for...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 20, 2020

  • Die Grossen Minnesanger / Various
    Die Grossen Minnesanger / Various

    $53.99

    There is no label which has ever documented the Medieval “Minnesang,” the German courtly love song, as extensively as Christophorus. A compilation in 12 albums in now presented, which includes authors such as Walther von...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 16, 2018

  • Bollius: Johannes-Oratorium / Paduch, Johann Rosenmuller Ensemble
    Bollius: Johannes-Oratorium / Paduch, Johann Rosenmuller Ensemble

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    Little is known about composer Daniel Bollius. Scholars know that he lived between 1590 and 1642, and that he was one of the early German users of the new Italian style. Bollius’s Johannes-Oratorium is presented...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 25, 2016

  • Bell Rings of Famous Russian Orthodox Chruches
    Bell Rings of Famous Russian Orthodox Chruches

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    Unlike Western Christianity, the bells of the Russian Orthodox Church are not rung but struck. The bell itself is firmly fixed and the clapper is struck at the edge of the bell with the help...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 18, 2019