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  • Seconde Stravaganze: Venetian & Neapolitan Music for Viol Co
    Seconde Stravaganze: Venetian & Neapolitan Music for Viol Co

    $20.99

    Guido Balestracci’s passion for the viol consort, especially with Italian music, took flight with this 1999 recording of Seconde Stravaganze, now available on Glossa Cabinet. Balestracci – with his ensemble L’Amoroso – conjured up an...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 29, 2014

  • J.C.F. Bach: Sonatas for Traverso and Fortepiano
    J.C.F. Bach: Sonatas for Traverso and Fortepiano

    $20.99

    A welcome reintroduction to the Glossa catalogue of Marcello Gatti’s interpretations of transverse flute Sonatas by J.Ch.F. Bach. These sonatas were composed around the time of his visit to see his brother Johann Christian in...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 29, 2014

  • Motets from Northern France the Cambrai manuscript A 410
    Motets from Northern France the Cambrai manuscript A 410

    $20.99

    With Motets, Björn Schmelzer and Graindelavoix conclude their innovative exploration of musical worlds comparable to that of 13th c. Northern French artist Villard de Honnecourt. + Graindelavoix’s director Björn Schmelzer contributes his usual striking, iconoclastic...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 18, 2014

  • Platinum - Bach: The Six Suites / Paolo Pandolfo
    Platinum - Bach: The Six Suites / Paolo Pandolfo

    $37.99

    When I first looked at this CD, my initial reaction was not the most enthusiastic, I must say. Good Lord, one more arrangement of these poor mistreated works! And, to boot, a rather weird one....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 07, 2005

  • Beethoven: Idylle Heroique - Violin Concerto & Triple Concerto / Sinkovsky, Rudin, Musica Viva Orchestra
    Beethoven: Idylle Heroique - Violin Concerto & Triple Concerto / Sinkovsky, Rudin, Musica Viva Orchestra

    $20.99

    Dmitry Sinkovsky is one of the most exciting artists of the young generation. He had began his career working with prestigious Early Music ensembles (Il giardino armonico, Accademia Bizantina). He is closely tied to the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 18, 2020

  • Rameau: Les Indes galantes / Vashegyi, Santon-Jeffrey, Watson, Gens, Orfeo Orchestra
    Rameau: Les Indes galantes / Vashegyi, Santon-Jeffrey, Watson, Gens, Orfeo Orchestra

    $32.99

    With Les Indes galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau, György Vashegyi – along with his Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir – makes a further dazzling addition to their Glossa series of French dramatic masterpieces from the Baroque,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 03, 2019

  • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
    Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6

    $20.99

    It was but a few years after founding the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century in 1981 that Frans Br�ggen first turned his attention to the music of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies. He returned to immerse himself...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 29, 2014

  • Lost Concertos For Anna Maria / Guglielmo, Sardelli, Modo Antiquo
    Lost Concertos For Anna Maria / Guglielmo, Sardelli, Modo Antiquo

    $20.99

    The so-called “Anna Maria Partbook” consists of an elegantly bound volume in red leather containing the violin parts of 31 violin concertos, of which 26 are by Antonio Vivaldi. It was the personal repertoire of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 02, 2020

  • The Melancholic Bach / Moreno, Zapico
    The Melancholic Bach / Moreno, Zapico

    $20.99

    With The Melancholic Bach, Emilio Moreno delves pensively and wistfully into the realms of the music that Bach might have written for the viola. This new Glossa album is in fact, by turns, a reflective...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 17, 2020

  • Vivaldi: I Concerti Dell'addio - The Farewell Concertos
    Vivaldi: I Concerti Dell'addio - The Farewell Concertos

    $20.99

    Since the early 1990 s, Antonio Vivaldi and Fabio Biondi have become an inseparable pair for many music lovers around the world. In his latest recording for Glossa, Mr. Biondi offers further proof of Vivaldi's...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 24, 2015

  • Gesualdo: Tenebrae / Schmelzer, Graindelavoix
    Gesualdo: Tenebrae / Schmelzer, Graindelavoix

    $42.99

    There is something deeply troubling and inscrutable in Carlo Gesualdo’s music, something that any listener, even the most inexpert one, will unfailingly experience. This most particularly holds for Tenebrae Responsoria (1611), his definitive statement, his...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 17, 2020

  • Vivaldi: Concerti per la Pieta / Biondi, Europa Galante
    Vivaldi: Concerti per la Pieta / Biondi, Europa Galante

    $20.99

    Violinist Fabio Biondi has a singular capacity for finding something new and exciting in the music of Antonio Vivaldi whenever he considers it, a prodigious feat which he demonstrates with Concerti per La Pietà, a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 07, 2020

  • Ninna Nanna: Lullabies from Baroque Italy / Vittorio, Pavan, Laboratorio '600
    Ninna Nanna: Lullabies from Baroque Italy / Vittorio, Pavan, Laboratorio '600

    $20.99

    With Ninna Nanna the haunting tones, dramatic intensity and richly characterized singing of Pino De Vittorio once again grace a recording project led by Franco Pavan. Call it Wiegenlied, berceuse, nana, ninna nanna – or...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 17, 2020

  • The Spanish Guitar / Moreno
    The Spanish Guitar / Moreno

    $64.99

    With a capaciously-filled set of a dozen albums made up of attractive individual programmes and entitled The Spanish Guitar, Glossa reintroduces the superb playing of José Miguel Moreno. And with recordings from 1991-2004 which still...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 15, 2019

  • Orlando - Amor. Gelosia. Follia. / Mineccia, Garcia, The New Baroque Times
    Orlando - Amor. Gelosia. Follia. / Mineccia, Garcia, The New Baroque Times

    $20.99

    In 1516 Ludovico Ariosto published his powerful epic “Orlando furioso”, a sequence of intertwined heroic adventures. The story of the knight Orlando, driven mad by a disappointed love for the princess Angelica, serves the entire...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 18, 2020