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  • Lalande: Grands Motets / Schneebeli, Les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Collegium Marianum
    Lalande: Grands Motets / Schneebeli, Les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Collegium Marianum

    $20.99

    One of the great composing figures from the French Baroque, Michel-Richard de Lalande is starting to receive his just dues through modern recordings, and Glossa is happy to unveil a new release featuring Olivier Schneebeli...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 19, 2018

  • Gesualdo: Sesto libro de madrigali / Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco
    Gesualdo: Sesto libro de madrigali / Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco

    $11.99

    Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613) is one of the most fascinating composers. It is hard to escape the temptation of seeing in his madrigals the tortured reflection of his psyche, beginning with the murder he committed in...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 20, 2021

  • Feo: San Francesco di Sales / Biondi, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
    Feo: San Francesco di Sales / Biondi, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

    $31.99

    Fabio Biondi’s immense curiosity for characterful music – especially of forgotten scores from the Baroque – yields another fabulous surprise with Francesco Feo’s oratorio San Francesco di Sales. Feo’s reputation is at last starting to...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 23, 2018

  • Claudio Monteverdi: The Complete Madrigal Books
    Claudio Monteverdi: The Complete Madrigal Books

    $74.99

    Limited edition, and available only for a limited time. The extraordinary series of recordings of the nine published books of madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi, by Claudio Cavina, with him directing (and singing in) the Italian...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 30, 2014

  • Caldara: The Cervantes Operas / Espada, Obregon, La Ritirata
    Caldara: The Cervantes Operas / Espada, Obregon, La Ritirata

    $20.99

    In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, La Ritirata and Josetxu Obregon have created a program for Glossa sallying forth on the back of music composed by Antonio Caldara...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 30, 2016

  • Brescianello: Concerti, Sinfonie & Ouverture / La Cetra, Barockorchester Basel
    Brescianello: Concerti, Sinfonie & Ouverture / La Cetra, Barockorchester Basel

    $13.99

    Placing the spotlight on an unfairly neglected figure from the late Baroque, Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, this recording is being reissued from 2002 on Harmonia Mundi and 2011 on Glossa. Brescianello was an Italian who worked...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 29, 2016

  • Villancicos de Portugal / Gonçalves, A Corte Musical
    Villancicos de Portugal / Gonçalves, A Corte Musical

    $11.99

    In the 16th and 17th centuries, the city of Évora was one of the most important center of Portuguese polyphony. The so-called "Portuguese school" developed at the city's Gothic cathedral, from which many important musicians...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 20, 2021

  • The Di Martinelli Manuscript - Violin sonatas of the late 17th century / Rosin, Wienand, Keller, Saladin
    The Di Martinelli Manuscript - Violin sonatas of the late 17th century / Rosin, Wienand, Keller, Saladin

    $20.99

    The so-called Di Martinelli Collection is preserved in the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), and contains a total of sixty-five manuscripts and thirty-two prints, including a remarkable manuscript with thirty-two late 17th-century violin sonatas from...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 18, 2021

  • Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt / Vashegyi, Orfeo Orchestra
    Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt / Vashegyi, Orfeo Orchestra

    $32.99

    The conductor György Vashegyi and his ensembles, the Orfeo Orchestra and the Purcell Choir, are fluent in various fields of baroque and classical music, with a particular predilection for French baroque opera. But one of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 02, 2021

  • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Schayegh, Musica Fiorita
    Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Schayegh, Musica Fiorita

    $20.99

    With her version of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Leila Schayegh continues her exploration of the violin repertory, always combining musical insight, virtuosic brilliance and historical understanding. Over the last years, the Swiss musician and professor in...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 06, 2019

  • Sainte-Colombe: Pièces de Viole / Pandolfo, Boysen
    Sainte-Colombe: Pièces de Viole / Pandolfo, Boysen

    $20.99

    Just once in a while?a long while?a disc will come along to make one curse the all-too-easy use of superlatives to which our fatuous age is devoted. We curse their misuse because it deprives us...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 03, 2005

  • Rossi: L'orfeo / Sartori, Allabastrina Ensemble
    Rossi: L'orfeo / Sartori, Allabastrina Ensemble

    $42.99

    Today's music lovers associate “L’Orfeo" first and foremost with Claudio Monteverdi's famous opera from 1607, while the version by Luigi Rossi (1597-1653), premiered four decades later, has remained less well-known. Rossi had served as a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 15, 2021

  • Te Deum
    Te Deum

    $11.99

    A masterpiece of French music, Charpentiers Te Deum was a song of thanksgiving flourishing with the military fortunes of Louis XIV, king of France, who was leading his country in a protracted war. But, curiously,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 20, 2021

  • Monteclaire: Jephte / Vashegyi, Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra
    Monteclaire: Jephte / Vashegyi, Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra

    $32.99

    In Jephté by Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, György Vashegyi directs – with style and energy – another riveting account of a neglected French Baroque opera. The work, based on the Biblical tale of a conquering...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 06, 2020

  • Paganini: Sonatas for Violin & Guitar / Biondi, Pinardi
    Paganini: Sonatas for Violin & Guitar / Biondi, Pinardi

    $20.99

    Fabio Biondi has chosen a selection of delightful virtuoso chamber music pieces by Niccolò Paganini to mark his tenth album for Glossa. Together with his long-term colleague from Europa Galante, the plucked-string specialist Giangiacomo Pinardi...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 22, 2018