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  • La Prima Diva
    La Prima Diva

    $18.99

    •The Venetian Faustina Bordoni (1697-1871) was one of the most acclaimed celebrities in the forerunner of a star system that appeared in the world of Italian opera and thrilled the whole of Europe during the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 27, 2014

  • L'occidente nel labirinto
    L'occidente nel labirinto

    $18.99

    •Alessandro Spazzoli’s work has no descriptive purpose and does not want to create any correspondencebetween motifs and chords, emotions and concepts. Deeperstill is the relationship established between the the music and Andrea Panzavolta’s texts, a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 27, 2014

  • Caldara: Sounate da camera Op. 2 & Cello Sonatas
    Caldara: Sounate da camera Op. 2 & Cello Sonatas

    $21.99

    Venetian musician and composer Antonio Caldara (1670-1736), unlike some of his contemporaries who today are quite famous but experienced little fame during their lifetimes, enjoyed enormous success, then faded inexplicably from music history. +Alongside a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 10, 2014

  • Ferrini: Opere per clavicembalo
    Ferrini: Opere per clavicembalo

    $13.99

    Classical Music


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 10, 2014

  • FANTASIE OPERISTICHE
    FANTASIE OPERISTICHE

    $18.99

    "The enormous popularity of the opera gave rise to the tradition of transcribing the public’s favourite arias in order to make it possible to perform them by a limited number of musicians. From the first...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 10, 2014

  • Lasso: Cantiones duum vocum
    Lasso: Cantiones duum vocum

    $18.99

    Orlando di Lasso, 16th century musician and composer, is one of the masters of 16th century polyphony, considered by many the most versatile. +For over thirty years from 1560, he remained at the court of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 10, 2014

  • Salieri: Ouvertures, Scherzi, Divertimenti / Paolo Pollastri, Quartetto Amati
    Salieri: Ouvertures, Scherzi, Divertimenti / Paolo Pollastri, Quartetto Amati

    $13.99

    Antonio Salieri’s (1750-1825) catalog of instrumental music is not particularly extensive. +The symphonic works known from available recordings include two symphonies, several concerti, serenades and the like. +There is, also, a small body of chamber...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 10, 2014

  • Claudio Merulo: Toccate D'intavolatura D'organo, Complete Edition
    Claudio Merulo: Toccate D'intavolatura D'organo, Complete Edition

    $42.99

    Claudio Merulo (1533–1604) enjoyed great renown in his time. + His famous Toccate expresses most vividly his considerable skill in the practice of intavolare diminuito. + These world premiere recordings present the entire corpus of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 08, 2014

  • Gianella: 3 Duos concertants, Op. 2
    Gianella: 3 Duos concertants, Op. 2

    $18.99

    From the scanty information we have about the life of Luigi Gianella (1770ca.-1817), we know his fame among his contemporaries must have been much greater than we can imagine today. His compositions were staged at...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 12, 2014

  • Berardi: Sinfonie a violino solo, Op. 7
    Berardi: Sinfonie a violino solo, Op. 7

    $18.99

    Angelo Berardi (1636–94) maintained in his day that modern music had reached “greater perfection compared to the past” and that the practice of music was more important than theory; he asserted, moreover, that a good...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 12, 2014

  • Il Codice di Guardiagrele
    Il Codice di Guardiagrele

    $18.99

    The Codex of Guardiagrele includes several compositions by artists (from Abruzzo and other regions) that worked in Guardiagrele at the Santa Maria Maggiore church. These compositions expose the then-richness of polyphonic music in this region....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 12, 2014

  • Palestrina: Il primo libro di madrigali
    Palestrina: Il primo libro di madrigali

    $13.99

    The Primo Libro di Madrigali a quatro voci was, chronologically speaking, the second work published by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. On the publication’s title page the composer refers to himself as «Cantore nella Cappella di...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 09, 2014

  • Pergolesi: Cantate da camera, Op. 2
    Pergolesi: Cantate da camera, Op. 2

    $13.99

    The four cantatas by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi recorded here were published in Naples c. 1736. A short while later, perhaps 1738, a new edition of the cantatas was published. The fact that the two publications...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 09, 2014

  • Opere contemporanee per clarinetto
    Opere contemporanee per clarinetto

    $18.99

    This ten-track, single-disc overview of the clarinet in a 20th c. contemporary musical context offers up performances and interpretations by the skilled Italian virtuoso and avant-garde music specialist Josè Daniel Cirigliano. These works, all but...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 09, 2014

  • Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia nella trascrizione per Harm
    Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia nella trascrizione per Harm

    $13.99

    The second half of the 18th c. and beyond witnessed the widespread popularity in Germanic and Hapsburg regions of a particular type of wind ensemble of varying forces known as Harmonie. The repertoire consisted of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 09, 2014