Pan Classics

  • Monteverdi, Falconieri, Verdelot & Rognoni: Arcadia
    Monteverdi, Falconieri, Verdelot & Rognoni: Arcadia

    $22.99

    The theme of the album (recorded in June this year) is Arcadia. This is a program that includes, for the most part, diminutions (the practice of ornamentation in the Renaissance and early Baroque) written by...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 19, 2024

  • Strozzi: Arias & Duets / Il Segreto delle Muse
    Strozzi: Arias & Duets / Il Segreto delle Muse

    $22.99

    Barbara Strozzi must have been a very unusual woman and is an extraordinary phenomenon in the history of music: probably the illegitimate daughter of the then famous Venetian poet Guilio Strozzi, she was adopted by...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 01, 2024

  • Carissimi & Strozzi: Weeping Philosophers / Zazzo, Jiménez, Tercia Realidad
    Carissimi & Strozzi: Weeping Philosophers / Zazzo, Jiménez, Tercia Realidad

    $22.99

    The depiction of philosophers and philosophy in early modern music is varied and colourful, at times tragicomic and by no means always 'historically informed': the noble but mocked Seneca in Monteverdi's Poppea, the hen-pecked, polygamous...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 29, 2024

  • Santa Maria: Missa "O Beata Maria" / Silva, Arte Minima
    Santa Maria: Missa "O Beata Maria" / Silva, Arte Minima

    $22.99

    The Ensemble Arte Minima takes us on a musical journey to Coimbra, the former capital of the Portuguese kingdom: the Augustinian monk and canon Francisco de Santa Maria worked at the three musical centres of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 20, 2023

  • Cavalieri: Lamentations / Profeti della Quinta
    Cavalieri: Lamentations / Profeti della Quinta

    $20.99

    Emilio de’ Cavalieri (1550-1602) might be one of the most interesting figures of his time. A diplomat; choreographer; organist and composer; his few surviving compositions are groundbreaking; and place him at the forefront of musical...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 15, 2023

  • Alfredo Kraus - The Early Years 1958-1963
    Alfredo Kraus - The Early Years 1958-1963

    $74.99

    Alfredo Kraus was considered the “grand seigneur” among the tenors of his time, an outstanding stylist, an unrivalled knight of high C (and above) - an aristocrat of tenor bel canto … there were and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 11, 2023

  • Bach: The Cello Suites
    Bach: The Cello Suites

    $34.99

    The current popularity of Bach's six cello suites can be traced back to the Catalan cellist Pablo Casals, who was the first to include these pieces in the concert repertoire. The young violinist Jorge Jimenez,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 30, 2023

  • Caldara: Bass Arias / Baldo, Ensemble Mozaïque
    Caldara: Bass Arias / Baldo, Ensemble Mozaïque

    $22.99

    Antonio Caldara, a native of Venice, spent almost two decades at the beginning of the 18th century in the service of the Habsburg Emperor Charles VI as Vice-Kapellmeister. His musical duties also included supplying the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 19, 2023

  • The Orange Tree Courtyard - Recorder Music at Seville Cathedral / The Royal Wind Music
    The Orange Tree Courtyard - Recorder Music at Seville Cathedral / The Royal Wind Music

    $20.99

    The Cathedral of Seville is a gigantic building even by today's standards – in 1401, the city's ecclesiastical superiors decided to build a huge church in place of the former mosque, which future generations would...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 21, 2023

  • Cazzati: Motets & Sonatas / Borgioni, Seicento Stravagante
    Cazzati: Motets & Sonatas / Borgioni, Seicento Stravagante

    $20.99

    Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678) is one of the most under-recognised Italian composers of the 17th century, although he was certainly one of the most prolific: 66 volumes (!) of printed music were published by him -...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 07, 2023

  • Bach: Recovered Chamber Concertos / Form, Aux Pieds du Roy
    Bach: Recovered Chamber Concertos / Form, Aux Pieds du Roy

    $20.99

    Like many of his fellow Baroque composers, Bach was an astonishingly resourceful and skilful "second user" of his own music. Some of the harpsichord concertos, for example, probably have a Weimar prehistory as chamber concertos...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 17, 2023

  • Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas; Clarinet Trio
    Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas; Clarinet Trio

    $20.99

    The encounter with the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld inspired Johannes Brahms' musical spirit to a series of last great creations. This was due not least to the sound of Mühlfeld's Ottenstein clarinet, which sounded much softer...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 17, 2023

  • Vilsmayr, Bertali & Biber: Ostinato / Letzbor, Ars Antiqua Austria
    Vilsmayr, Bertali & Biber: Ostinato / Letzbor, Ars Antiqua Austria

    $20.99

    In music, "ostinato" (Latin obstinatus: "obstinate") is a constantly repeated sequence of notes. A constantly repeated bass motif is perfect for improvisation - which in turn inspired many Baroque composers to write numerous masterpieces. Gunar...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 20, 2023

  • Sammartini: The Celebrated San Martini - Recorder Sonatas / Lalo
    Sammartini: The Celebrated San Martini - Recorder Sonatas / Lalo

    $20.99

    Giuseppe Sammartini was a famous oboist and highly respected composer of the late Baroque period who made his great career in London from 1720. Oboists in this period usually also played the recorder, and so...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 20, 2023

  • Monteverdi: Orfeo, Ulisse, Poppea / Garrido, Ensemble Elyma
    Monteverdi: Orfeo, Ulisse, Poppea / Garrido, Ensemble Elyma

    $48.99

    At the end of the 1990s, the recordings of Gabriel Garrido represented an important landmark in the interpretation of Monteverdian opera. What attracted one’s attention straightaway in his versions were the brilliance and the hedonism...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 18, 2022