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  • Bach: Solo Piano Music
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    Bach: Solo Piano Music

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    Today, there is no doubt that Johann Sebastian Bach took Baroque music to its sublime zenith. Just how much Bach was ahead of his time can be gauged by the fact his ‘piano’ music engaged...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 18, 2019

  • Bohemian Classicism
    Bohemian Classicism

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    During the early Classical period, the focus of the European music world shifted. Whereas during the Baroque era Italy, France and Germany – the core areas of the courts of absolutistic rulers – had dictated...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 18, 2019

  • Bartók: Works for Orchestra & Piano and Orchestra
    Bartók: Works for Orchestra & Piano and Orchestra

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    Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist Bela Bartok is considered to be one of the most important composers of the twentieth century. He and Franz Liszt to this day reign as Hungary’s greatest composers who have...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 18, 2019

  • Il Ritorno di Tobia / Harnoncourt
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    Il Ritorno di Tobia / Harnoncourt

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    This unique performance of Haydn’s biblical oratorio Il ritorno di Tobia, which is so rarely heard, is thanks to an unusual gift: the orchestra La Scintila, which was founded as an “original sound” ensemble comprising...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 01, 2019

  • Mozart - Mahler - Brahms: Piano Quartets / Skride Piano Quartet
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    Mozart - Mahler - Brahms: Piano Quartets / Skride Piano Quartet

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    The Skride Piano Quartet is made up of four likeminded musicians who have each achieved success as a soloist at the highest levels. The 2016-17 season included performances at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Musikverein Wien, Laeiszhalle...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 15, 2019

  • Masters Of The Mozart Era
    Masters Of The Mozart Era

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    There are composers whose oeuvres shine so radiantly that other stars almost pale next to their splendor. This fate befell a whole epoch of composers, i.e. The 'maestros of the Mozart period.' But, beside Mozart's...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 15, 2019

  • Vanhal: Missa Solemnis - Stabat Mater / Neumann
    Vanhal: Missa Solemnis - Stabat Mater / Neumann

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    Like so many Bohemian composers, the eastern Bohemian Johann Baptist Vanhal had moved to Vienna early in his career and can thus be viewed as a member of the select core of composers consisting of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 12, 2019

  • Johan Botha - Italian Opera Arias
    Johan Botha - Italian Opera Arias

    $26.99

    Johan Botha was heard at the Vienna Staatsoper a total of 222 times before his untimely death. His powerful, truly great voice shone like a beacon across the world of opera. Though he was mostly...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 26, 2019

  • Liszt: Années De Pèlerinage - Légende 1 / Piemontosi
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    Liszt: Années De Pèlerinage - Légende 1 / Piemontosi

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    If the legend of the ‘sermon to the birds’ constitutes a magnificent example of narrative art on the piano, for this way of expressing extra-musical ideas solely with notes the three series of Années de...


    Format: DVD with CD

    Release Date: May 24, 2019

  • Wolf & Reger: Orchestral Songs / Fischer-Dieskau
    Wolf & Reger: Orchestral Songs / Fischer-Dieskau

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    Hardly any other singer was more associated with and devoted to the nigh 300 songs by the Austrian composer Hugo Wolf than Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Utterly convinced by the richness of Wolf’s oeuvre, Fischer-Dieskau took Wolf’s...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 24, 2019

  • Strauss: Don Quixote, Cello Sonata / Müller-Schott, Davis, Melbourne Symphony
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    Strauss: Don Quixote, Cello Sonata / Müller-Schott, Davis, Melbourne Symphony

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    During his long and exceptionally fruitful creative life, Richard Strauss (1864–1949) composed only a few works for the cello. Only three have survived and small as that number may seem, those cello works are critical...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 12, 2019

  • Verdi Heroines
    Verdi Heroines

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    Giuseppe Verdi’s operas are notable for their strong and interesting female characters. Countless operatic divas owe their fame to one or more Verdi operas, some of them having grown into real Verdi specialists acknowledged as...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 02, 2019

  • Contrasts / Sharon Kam
    Contrasts / Sharon Kam

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    Sharon Kam is one of the world’s leading clarinetists. For her debut album on Orfeo (and performing for the first time in this trio line-up), she delivers a dramatic, sharply contrasting programme that is presented...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 13, 2019

  • Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Skride, Aadland, West German Radio Symphony
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    Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Skride, Aadland, West German Radio Symphony

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    For her eighth album on Orfeo, Baiba Skride presents a programme of works by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. In addition to his own instrument, the piano, the violin remained the most important instrument for...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 13, 2019

  • Schubert: Winterreise / Breslik, Katz
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    Schubert: Winterreise / Breslik, Katz

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    Pavol Breslik writes of his new release: “From the very beginning, I had enormous respect for Die Winterreise, because it demands everything from the narrator. Whenever I open a page where I have set the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 04, 2019