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Scarlatti: Opera omnia per tastiera, Vol. 2
Tactus Jan 2009
CD
$21.99

Bach: Suite in C Minor, BWV 997 & Trio Sonatas Nos. 1, 2 & 5
Dynamic Feb 2016
CD
$18.99

Shostakovich / Schnittke: Cello Sonatas / Stravinsky: Suite
BIS Jan 1986
CD
$21.99

Scriabin: The Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 / Vacatello

Stradivarius

$18.99 Feb 16, 2024

A new precious chapter has been added to Mariangela Vacatello's project of complete recording of Alexander Scriabin’s piano sonatas. A record series, to which the second volume is now added, that becomes a virtuosic journey into the world of sonatas where, as Guido Salvetti illustrates in the accompanying notes: "They thus reflect the composer's entire artistic itinerary: from the fiery romantic gestures of Liszt to the dissolution of rationality in the more symbolic esotericism." The sonatas date from 1891, in the last months of study at the Moscow Conservatory, and 1913.
In this new publication, Mariangela Vacatello delves with a personal touch into the creative plots of the sonatas n. 2 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8, revealing its expressive complexities and countless emotional cues. A new record release that reflects the intense and virtuosic exploratory research of the pianist, an opportunity to rediscover the creative and human universe of the Russian composer in its expressive and narrative density".

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Scriabin: The Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 / Vacatello
Stradivarius Feb 2024
CD
$18.99

VIOLIN SONATAS

Gramola Records

DVD + Blu-Ray

$43.99 ~~$57.99~~ Save 25% Jan 27, 2017

Beethoven's first Sonatas for violin and piano Op. 12/1-3, composed during the years 1797 and 1798, contain unmistakable elements of his later composition style, which challenged his contemporaries’ critical taste accordingly. The violin sonatas No. 4 Op. 23 and No. 5 Op. 24 and their composition correlate, according to findings of musicologists, closely with Beethoven’s own relationships. The former one seems to portray the darker side of love, its unfulfillment, whereas the later so-called ‘spring sonata’ – as a sort of characterization of a loving heart’s feeling of spring – references the sweet, beautiful aspects of love. The three sonatas Op. 30/1-3, composed in 1802, the year when he also wrote the ‘Heiligenstädter Testament’, reflect Beethoven’s emotional state and are characterized by heavy mood swings. Maybe the most famous work is the ‘Kreutzer’ sonata No. 9 in A major Op. 47, once termed unplayable by its dedicatee, the French violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer. By contrast, Beethoven’s final violin sonata No. 10 in G major Op. 96 seems more heartfelt in tone and was praised by critics as the ‘most poetic and musically most sensitively crafted’ of his sonatas. Thomas Albertus Irnberger and Michael Korstick furthermore present the variations ‘Se vuol ballare’ WoO 40 on a theme from the opera Le nozze di Figaro by W. A. Mozart. The Rondo in G major, WoO 41, and the Six German Dances, WoO 42, were written in 1794/96 and convey ease and almost juvenile cheerfulness – a trait also prevalent in the interpretation of Irnberger and Korstick.

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VIOLIN SONATAS
Gramola Records Jan 2017
DVD + Blu-Ray
~~$57.99~~ $43.99

Weiss: Sonatas For Lute Vol 1 / Robert Barto
Naxos Jun 1997
CD
$19.99

F. Scarlatti: Dixit Dominus - Mass / Monks, Armonico Consort

Signum Classics

$19.99 Apr 14, 2023

Their tenth album with Signum Classics, the Armonico Consort directed by Christopher Monks return with two works by Francesco Scarlatti. This recording has been made using new editions of the works, (made especially for this recording) that were created from autograph scores. Armonico Consort began life in 2001, set up by Christopher Monks and a group of university colleagues with a shared passion for music from the Renaissance to Baroque, coupled with the imagination to find new and unusual ways to present concerts. Audiences seemed to love their engaging and imaginative approach, and most concerts in the first years sold out.

The founder and Artistic Director of Armonico Consort and its ground-breaking education program AC Academy, Christopher Monks has established himself as a versatile and prolific conductor and keyboard player. Specialising in the performance of music from the Baroque and late Renaissance, Christopher is equally at home with major and modern choral repertoire.

REVIEW:

The performances are strong, superbly shaped by Monks, and played and sung, one voice to a part, with great precision.

-- Gramophone

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F. Scarlatti: Dixit Dominus - Mass / Monks, Armonico Consort
Signum Classics Apr 2023
CD
$19.99

The Great Book of Flute Sonatas, Vol. 1

Hungaroton

$21.99 Mar 17, 2017

For the first volume of this series of seven albums, Gergely Ittzes has selected seven sonatas representative of the flute music of the 18th century. The works are played on modern flute but informed by authentic performance practice. Original obligato keyboard parts are played on piano while continuo realizations are performed on harpsichord. The players have aimed at an analytic, though spontaneous, rendition. Gergely Ittzes won several prizes and awards including the Aleksander Tansman International Competition of Musical Personalities. Alex Szilasi and Anthony Newman join Ittzes on the keyboards.

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The Great Book of Flute Sonatas, Vol. 1
Hungaroton Mar 2017
CD
$21.99

Horatiu Radulescu: Complete Solo Piano Works, 1967–2007

Metier

$25.99 Sep 25, 2026

In September 2026, Metier Records presents an outstanding contemporary release - the complete acknowledged output for solo piano by Romanian composer Horatiu Radulescu, performed by premier Metier artist Ian Pace, a world-renowned interpreter of new music. Pace knew and worked closely with Radulescu for two decades and gave the world premiere of the Piano Sonata No. 6, specially written for him. The 2-CD set includes authoritative recordings of all six piano sonatas plus Omaggio a Domenico Scarlatti (1967) and The Origin p (1999), and an excellent, extensive article on these works by Ian Pace in the booklet notes. Horatiu Radulescu was the leading figure in the field of Romanian spectral music, which derives massive, overwhelming sound masses from the very basics of harmonic spectra. In the second half of his career, he combined this with Romanian folk music and Byzantine chant, often in startling contrapuntal combinations employing techniques developed during the European Renaissance. The first Piano Sonata 'Wiege an den Abgrunden/Cradle to Abysses' (1968) from his early student days in Bucharest alludes to Liszt's final Symphonic Poem and features dramatic and austere music evoking a multitude of 'Abysses'. The remaining five are all closely linked and collectively known as the Lao Tzu Sonatas, inspired by the Taoist philosopher. Their chant-like or folk-derived materials are continually juxtaposed with more abstract spectral harmonies, derived in part from Radulescu's earlier idiom. They retain traces of song, ritual, and dance, but they are also transformed into something larger: continuous bodies of resonance, rhythm, and colour. The Second Sonata, 'being and non-being create each other' (1991), composed 23 years after the first, is viewed as ushering in Radulescu's 'second period'. The Third Sonata, 'you will endure forever' (1992, rev. 1999), the largest of the six, is the first of Radulescu's piano works to draw explicitly upon pre-existing musical materials, specifically Byzantine chant. In the Fourth Sonata, 'like a well older than God' (1993), Radulescu makes prominent use of three different Romanian Christmas carols, all originally collected and set by Bartok. The Fifth Sonata, 'settle your dust, this is the primal identity' (2003) employs a wide range of Romanian folk melodies. The Sixth Sonata, 'return to the source of light' (2007), was Radulescu's last completed work, and premiered by Ian Pace. Omaggio a Domenico Scarlatti (1967) from the composer's student days in Bucharest displays many aspects of post-war modernism and connects to the scale and performing features of Scarlatti's keyboard music. The piano piece The Origin p (1999) is Radulescu at his most uncompromising with what he calls 'spectral resonance' created by metal bars holding down all black notes and most white ones. Radulescu was born in Bucharest and studied violin with Enescu pupil Nina Alexandrescu at the Bucharest Academy. During this period, a shift came about from the dominant neo-classical style towards a greater engagement with European modernism. Radulescu graduated in 1969 and went to Paris, taking French citizenship in 1974. After this, like other emigre Romanian composers, his music was barely played at all during the remainder of the communist era.

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Horatiu Radulescu: Complete Solo Piano Works, 1967–2007
Metier Sep 2026
CD
$25.99

Scriabin: Piano Sonatas Vol 1 / Glemser
Naxos Mar 1996
CD
$19.99

Weiss: Sonatas For Lute Vol 4 / Robert Barto
Naxos Aug 2001
CD
$19.99

Suonate per violino e violone o cimbalo, Op. 7, Vol. 2

Challenge Classics

$16.99 Jul 03, 2026

Ensemble Castor continues it's acclaimed journey into the sound world of Johannes Schenck with the second volume of Suonate per violino e violone o cimbalo, Op. 7 presented here as a complete world premiere recording. Published in 1699, Opus 7 stands as a dazzling compendium of Schenck's compositional imagination, blending Italian sonata form, French dance suites, and the expressive freedom of the Stylus phantasticus into a richly varied musical tapestry. Far from the modest claim that these works were written "quickly for beginners," the collection reveals profound artistry, virtuosic interplay, and an almost inexhaustible delight in experimentation from inventive Capriccios to the radiant Aria XVIII with it's six variations crowning the cycle. With their deep commitment to historical performance practice and their refined chamber music dialogue, the Austrian musicians of Ensemble Castor bring this extraordinary repertoire vividly to life. Following the international success of the first volume, praised worldwide for it's brilliance and stylistic authority, this new release further illuminates Schenck's genius a composer-virtuoso whose music transcends borders and fashions. In the hands of Petra Samhaber-Eckhardt, Philipp Comploi, and Erich Traxler, Opus 7 unfolds as a living conversation across centuries: bold, elegant, and irresistibly expressive.

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Suonate per violino e violone o cimbalo, Op. 7, Vol. 2
Challenge Classics Jul 2026
CD
$16.99

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Scarlatti: Cantate da camera
Tactus Jan 2000
CD
$21.99

CONCERTI GROSSI AFTER SCARLATT

Digressione Music

$19.99 Oct 28, 2016

The story that is narrated here begins in Naples and after touching Venice, Madrid, Lisbon, London and Newcastle will close again - although, we are sure, in non-definitive manner - in South Italy. This story begins in 1685, annus mirabilis for the European music that will assist in a few months to the birth of three of its most important coryphaei: George Friedrich Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti, who is precisely one of the main protagonists of our history. Domenico was born in Naples and was the son of Alessandro Scarlatti, famed Italian composer at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centures. Domenico moved and worked throughout Europe where he found great loves, admirations and friendships to inspire his most famous works.

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CONCERTI GROSSI AFTER SCARLATT
Digressione Music Oct 2016
CD
$19.99

Lonati, Uccellini: Sonatas / Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi Feb 2011
CD
$17.99

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Enescu: Piano Sonata No. 1 - Suite No. 2
Naxos Oct 2010
CD
~~$19.99~~ $13.99

Scriabin: Complete Piano Sonatas [2 CDs]
Vox Jan 2002
CD
$29.99

GAMBA SONATAS BWV1027-29 CHORALE - ICH RUF ZU DIR

HYPERION

$18.33 Sep 11, 2015

Bach wrote three sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord. Scholars estimate they were composed in the early 1740s, possibly for Carl Fredrich Abel, son of Bach's colleague Christian Ferdinand Abel. They are paired here with Scarlatti's Gamba Sonata and a Violin Sonata by Handel. These works are performed by violinist Robin Michael, cellist Steven Isserlis and harpsichordist Richard Egarr in a program of haunting tranquility.

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GAMBA SONATAS BWV1027-29 CHORALE - ICH RUF ZU DIR
HYPERION Sep 2015
CD
$18.33

Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Works, Vol. 7 / Tasini

Tactus

$29.99 Jul 02, 2021

With this seventh 2-album volume, Francesco Tasini terminates the recording of the Alessandro Scarlatti's opera omnia for keyboard, that is completed in parallel with the printed edition also by Tasini. The fifteen fugues contained in the first album are performed at the historic 1836 Carlo Serassi organ of the Santa Maria di Campagna basilica in Piacenza, constitute a rich handbook of models for teaching contrappunto techniques developed by Tasini according to the practice of the time. The second album instead contains some pieces, again for organ, and three toccatas for harpsichord in the typical Scarlattian articulation in several movements (the instrument used is an original eighteenth-century by an anonymous artist from Ferrara complete with a pedalboard).

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Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Works, Vol. 7 / Tasini
Tactus Jul 2021
CD
$29.99

Scarlatti: Daniele - Il Daniele nel Lago de' Leoni

Signum Classics

$20.99 Jan 10, 2025

Armonico Consort present their next instalment of works by Franceso Scarlatti, this time his only surviving oratorio 'Il Daniele nel Lago de'Leoni' or Daniel in the Lions' Den. Scarlatti's Daniele conforms in all general aspects to the typical Sicilian oratorio of the late-seventeenth century, which was itself closely modelled on Roman practice: four or five singers inhabit character roles, without a separate narrator, together with a chorus often consisting of the soloists singing in ensemble.

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Scarlatti: Daniele - Il Daniele nel Lago de' Leoni
Signum Classics Jan 2025
CD
$20.99

BEETHOVEN: PIANO SONATAS

TACET Musikproduktion

$23.99 Jan 15, 2009

Very old - and yet completely new! Beethoven sonatas once again? Yes, once again. For the Austrian pianist Markus Schirmer really has something to say to Beethoven. The way Schirmer illuminates the text and places emphasis on certain aspects is very fresh and personal. A must? - Yes, a must!" (Wiener Zeitung)

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BEETHOVEN: PIANO SONATAS
TACET Musikproduktion Jan 2009
CD
$23.99

Suonate per violino e violone o cimbalo, Op. 7, Vol. 1

Challenge Classics

$16.99 May 30, 2025

The renowned Austrian Ensemble Castor presents the first part of the world premiere recording of Johannes Schenck's complete Op.7. This is the only work written by Schenck for violin and basso continuo.. Schenck's exciting music is a subtle combination of suites, sonatas, and pieces in the so-called "Stylus phantasicus". The result is an exquisite blend of elements of the French, Italian, and Dutch style. The pieces show an impressive variety of forms and demand of violin technique and offer a wide range of moods from vivid dances to expressive slow movements. Castor Ensemble is a reknown ensemble that in the past recorded for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and Pan Classics.

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Suonate per violino e violone o cimbalo, Op. 7, Vol. 1
Challenge Classics May 2025
CD
$16.99

Tradella: Cantate Per Il Ss:mo Natale / Enrico Gatti, Civica Scuola Di Musica Di Milano

Arcana

$20.99 Jul 13, 2010

There is no doubt that the best of Alessandro Stradella's output lies in his valuable sacred works. The Christmas cantatas are representative of his typically Roman art and illustrate the story of the Nativity with a certain theatricality, by means of polichorality. We are at the origin of the concerto grosso genre, with a large ensemble in conversation with a concertino of soloists, while delicate, heavenly vocal atmospheres alternate with infernal fury. The recording reveals Stradella as one of the greater geniuses of the seventeenth century, possibly the most versatile in both vocal and instrumental writing. Enrico Gatti The complete Christmas cantatas. Alessandro Stradella was one of the most important Italian composers of the seventeenth century. This recording presents the only two cantatas Stradella composed for Christmas, preceded by the instrumental Sonata di Viole, the earliest entirely instrumental works (i.e., unconnected to a vocal source) for the concertino-concerto grosso ensemble in the history of the genre.

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Tradella: Cantate Per Il Ss:mo Natale / Enrico Gatti, Civica Scuola Di Musica Di Milano
Arcana Jul 2010
CD
$20.99

Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 5 "Spring’" 7 & 9 "Kreutzer"
DUX Oct 2026
CD
$39.99

SONATA - MUSIC FOR TRUMPET AND
EBS Jan 2012
CD
$16.99