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The trumpet had a special place in art music in the 17th century, as it was reserved exclusively for the emperor and the high nobility and was forbidden to the commoners and lower classes. Gradually,...

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Release Date: October 11, 2024

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Chandos Anthems is usually associated with Handel's name – a collection of cantatas that Handel wrote as "house composer" for James Brydges, later Duke of Chandos and the richest man in England. From 1719 -...

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Release Date: November 17, 2023

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Wondrous Machine - this is the title of an air from Purcell's Odes for St. Cecilia's Day, a hymn of praise to the music of which Cecilia is considered the patron saint, and to the...

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Release Date: October 20, 2023

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It was literally "highly virtuosic" when the great composers of the 18th century brought together solo soprano and clarino trumpet in glorious praise of God. Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen" is...

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Release Date: October 20, 2023

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Johann Joachim Quantz had already made a career as a flutist at the Dresden court in the chapels of Augustus the Strong when he was heard by the young Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia during...

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Release Date: June 16, 2023

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Johann Sebastian Bach himself described the Ascension Oratorio "Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen" (BWV 11) as an "Oratorio Festo Ascensionis Christi". In the old Bach edition it was still classified under the cantatas, but with...

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Release Date: May 19, 2023

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Only slowly is the German-Dutch composer and virtuoso Johann Wilhelm Wilms coming back into the public consciousness and his chamber music as well as symphonic works are being played again. Born in the Bergisches Land,...

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Release Date: April 21, 2023

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ACCENT presents the complete recording of all Beethoven's works for piano and violin in a 4-CD box set, recorded in 2008/09 by Hiro Kurosaki and Linda Nicholson on period instruments. The order 'piano and violin'...

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Release Date: March 17, 2023

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The granting of the postal monopoly for the entire empire brought the Thurn and Taxis court immeasurable wealth and Regensburg rose to become one of the most important music centres in the German-speaking world in...

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Release Date: March 17, 2023

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The Salzburg court conductor Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber is known today as a composer of excellent violin literature. His works are appreciated by violinists for their great artistry and virtuosity. Max Gandolf, the art-minded prince...

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Release Date: January 20, 2023

$24.99

The PURCELL Choir was founded in 1990 in Budapest by György Vashegyi for the performance of Purcell’s Baroque opera Dido & Aeneas. Few suspected at the time that the group was to become the most...

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Release Date: November 18, 2022

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Bedrich Smetana's cycle "Má vlast" ("My Country") is not only the culmination of his symphonic output, it also occupies a unique position in Czech music and conveys a very special message of national character for...

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Release Date: November 18, 2022

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La Petite Bande was founded in 1972 by Sigiswald Kuijken in order to record Lully’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, under the direction of Gustav Leonhardt. The orchestra takes its name and constitution from Lully’s own orchestra...

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Release Date: November 18, 2022

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Since 2020, Margret Koell, a proven specialist in historical harps, has been in possession of a "Welsh Triple Harp". It is a copy of an instrument by the famous harp maker Evans, whose original from...

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Release Date: October 21, 2022

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Johann Sebastian Bach has always been a fixing point in the musical cosmos of Sigiswald Kuijken and La Petite Bande. Over the years, the ensemble recorded the cantatas for an entire church year, the great...

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Release Date: September 16, 2022