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  • Avondano: Morte d'Abel / Mazzeo, Divino Sospiro
    Avondano: Morte d'Abel / Mazzeo, Divino Sospiro

    $34.99

    Paris, London, Naples, Venice … and Lisbon! The cartography of the (late) baroque music of Europe gives an ever better overview also of the musical happenings in the Portuguese capital in the 18th century. The...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 21, 2023

  • Gretry: Andromaque / Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel
    Gretry: Andromaque / Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel

    $22.99

    With his first Tragédie lyrique Andromaque (1780), Gretry broke unwritten laws of the French music theatre of his time: he had set to music a tragedy by the pillar saint Racine and departed far too...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 17, 2023

  • Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri / Andretta, Orchestra of the 18th Century
    Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri / Andretta, Orchestra of the 18th Century

    $34.99

    Thanks to the overwhelming success of his tenth opera L’italiana in Algeri (1813), the 21-year-old Gioachino Rossini definitively conquered the world stage as the greatest comic opera composer of his time. With this opera, which...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 17, 2023

  • Pachelbelo, Bertali, Matteis & Purcell: Ciaccona! / Schayegh, La Centifolia
    Pachelbelo, Bertali, Matteis & Purcell: Ciaccona! / Schayegh, La Centifolia

    $20.99

    Who doesn't like the ciaccona, ciacona or chaconne - the exuberant dance in which the upper voices fantasize over a bass scheme, imitating and inspiring each other? The ciaconna, which may have come to Spain...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 20, 2023

  • Handel, Vivaldi et al: Amate Stelle - Arias for Strada / Lys, Buccarella, Abchordis Ensemble
    Handel, Vivaldi et al: Amate Stelle - Arias for Strada / Lys, Buccarella, Abchordis Ensemble

    $20.99

    The young Swiss soprano Marie Lys was pleasantly surprised to discover that many of the roles she has sung in George Frideric Handel's works in recent years were written for the spectacularly virtuoso soprano Anna...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 20, 2023

  • Boccherini: The Six Symphonies, Op. 35 / Destrubé, Orchestra of the 18th Century
    Boccherini: The Six Symphonies, Op. 35 / Destrubé, Orchestra of the 18th Century

    $21.99

    Emilio Moreno’s passion, knowledge and thirst for the music of Luigi Boccherini yields a further revelation with the Six Symphonies, op.35, premiered in 1782, newly edited by violist Moreno and performed here by the Orchestra...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 18, 2022

  • Nebra: Donde hay violencia, no hay culpa - Zarzuela / Rouco, Los Elementos
    Nebra: Donde hay violencia, no hay culpa - Zarzuela / Rouco, Los Elementos

    $34.99

    In recent decades, the music of Spanish composer José de Nebra (1702-1768) has enjoyed its well-deserved renaissance, and time and again one is amazed at the melodic inventiveness and dramatic power of his works. Alberto...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 21, 2022

  • Gervais: Grands Motets / Vashegyi, Orfeo Orchestra
    Gervais: Grands Motets / Vashegyi, Orfeo Orchestra

    $20.99

    Amply demonstrating that Charles-Hubert Gervais didn’t just excel in composing operas, György Vashegyi turns his attention to the French Baroque composer’s sacred music, with a new disc of “Grands Motets” containing five extended and sumptuous...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 14, 2022

  • Vivaldi: Serenata a tre, RV 690 / Sardelli, Modo Antiquo
    Vivaldi: Serenata a tre, RV 690 / Sardelli, Modo Antiquo

    $21.99

    The Serenata a 3, RV 690, is the least familiar and in certain respects the most enigmatic of the Vivaldi serenatas. The sole surviving source is the autograph manuscript of the score, preserved at the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 16, 2022

  • Mozart: Italian Arias / Minecchia, Oberti, Orchestra Farnesiana
    Mozart: Italian Arias / Minecchia, Oberti, Orchestra Farnesiana

    $21.99

    Between 1769 and 1773, Mozart made three travels to Italy, under the guidance of his father Leopold. The present program traces the stages especially of his first two trip from 1769 to 1771, during which...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 16, 2022

  • Zamboni: Sonatas for Lute (1718) / Contini
    Zamboni: Sonatas for Lute (1718) / Contini

    $20.99

    Luciano Contini provides ample evidence of the Italian lute tradition flourishing well into the Baroque era with his recording of the Sonate d’intavolatura di leuto (1718) by Giovanni Zamboni, which now makes a welcome return...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 29, 2014

  • Wert: Madrigali / Cavina, La Venexiana
    Wert: Madrigali / Cavina, La Venexiana

    $10.99

    Giaches de Wert, a Flemish composer linked to the courts of Mantua and Ferrara, paved the way for the innovations in madrigalistic writing, that seconda prattica which became associated with Monteverdi. This recording features some...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 07, 2017

  • Vogel: La Toison D'or  / Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel
    Vogel: La Toison D'or / Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel

    $26.99

    A contemporary of Mozart, Johann Christoph Vogel also died at an early age. Forward looking in approach, this composer of a tormented disposition, sought to extend the operatic revolution undertaken by Gluck in the 1770s....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 28, 2014

  • Verdi: Macbeth / Biondi, Europa Galante
    Verdi: Macbeth / Biondi, Europa Galante

    $32.99

    A vivid demonstration of how widely Fabio Biondi’s musical imagination runs comes with his new recording of Giuseppe Verdi’s work of genius, Macbeth, issued on Glossa. It is the original Florentine 1847 version of the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 16, 2018

  • Vecchi: Requiem / Schmelzer, Graindelavoix
    Vecchi: Requiem / Schmelzer, Graindelavoix

    $20.99

    For his latest Glossa release with Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer takes his lead from the funeral rites for the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens in 1640 – which might well have encompassed the Requiem Mass...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 24, 2017