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Tristan und Isolde - the opera in which "Richard once wanted to be completely symphonic"; as his wife Cosima wrote - in a gripping one-hour paraphrase for string septet which, shortly after its premiere by...

Format: CD

Release Date: September 15, 2023

$22.99

Riot Ensemble’s fourth disc on Coviello Contemporary sees them return to Deutschlandfunk with their soprano Sarah Dacey for a recording of chamber music that spans from the giant architectural spaces of Alex Groves Three Forms...

Format: CD

Release Date: August 11, 2023

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When I sang my first Bach St Matthew Passion, it was difficult for me to create the recitative about the death of Judas, because I had the interpretations of many other evangelists in my ear...

Format: CD

Release Date: August 11, 2023

$22.99

The five works on Sarah Saviet's debut solo album each explore resonances and textures on the violin in unique ways. In Liza Lim's The Su Song Star Map, the scordatura and throaty bow gestures create...

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Release Date: August 11, 2023

$22.99

Is the greatest song cycle ever written. - at least Glenn Gould is very clear in his judgement of Paul Hindemith's Marienleben. This superlative does not necessarily have to be shared, but it is certainly...

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Release Date: May 19, 2023

$22.99

Even in the early 17th century, Hamburg was an extremely attractive city - thanks to its harbour and connection to the world's oceans, and through skilful alliance policy, it was an important trading metropolis, politically...

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Release Date: May 19, 2023

$21.99

The proud Hanseatic city of Hamburg enjoys a special status in northern Germany - and that was already the case 400 years ago. Maritime trade made it prosperous even back then, and through skilful diplomacy...

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Release Date: March 17, 2023

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Asian musical culture is still largely unknown in the Western world: occasionally, one adorns oneself with a little exoticism under the keyword "Peking opera", but often that is it. Two young artists want to change...

Format: CD

Release Date: March 17, 2023

$20.99

One of them was, according to contemporaries, a veritable child prodigy of Mozartian dimensions, the other was described by her friend Edvard Grieg as "one of his favorites" after her early death. There must have...

Format: CD

Release Date: January 20, 2023

$21.99

Cellist Idlir Shyti presents this new release of solo works, which takes its name from the first track on the album, Tan Dun’s Intercourse of Fire and Water. The work was written for and dedicated...

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Release Date: November 18, 2022

$16.99

Prominent examples abound, and have done so for millennia - from Orpheus in ancient mythology to the troubadours of the Middle Ages to numerous stars of our day: playing an instrument to accompany oneself while...

Format: CD

Release Date: November 18, 2022

$34.99

How science and art cross-fertilize can be studied in the city of Göttingen in the late 18th century. Founded in 1734, the university there is not one of the oldest in Germany, but it is...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 21, 2022

$20.99

The Ares Trio brings together two requiems in the form of piano trios by two composers whose active periods fell within those of the Soviet Union and who were harassed by the cultural bureaucracy there:...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 21, 2022

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Homage to the powerful was nothing unusual in the Baroque era; Thomas Selle, however, took it a bit further: he paid tribute to several members of his prince's family with musical "Laudationes. Selle combined the...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 21, 2022

$21.99

The "promotion of the worship of God and German loyalty, cultivation and improvement of the German language and poetry" was the goal of the so-called Pegnitz-Schäfer, formulated in baroque floweriness. The poets' association, based in...

Format: CD

Release Date: September 16, 2022