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The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century continues true to its original guiding spirit, with a new recording of the six Hamburg Symphonies, Wq 182 by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. This second son of JS Bach,...

Format: CD

Release Date: November 17, 2023

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Jean-Marie Leclair’s Scylla et Glaucus provides an excellent opportunity for György Vashegyi, a luxury cast and music scholars at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles to revisit the French Baroque operatic canon and emerge...

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Release Date: October 20, 2023

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Like all castrati, Gaetano Berenstadt's hormones had gone crazy, but Berenstadt’s were particularly strong: with a height of about 185 cm, he is said to have had 130 cm long legs, arms that were far...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 20, 2023

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Himmelsburg is the name of the former chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle in Weimar; Johann Sebastian Bach's "workplace" during his time as court organist and chamber musician at the Weimar court. This chapel was irretrievably destroyed...

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Release Date: September 15, 2023

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Early in 1870; a codex containing early Spanish vocal music had been discovered in the library of the Palacio Real in Madrid. The pieces which had been copied into the manuscript – entirely unknown up...

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Release Date: September 15, 2023

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In his younger years, Mozart was fiercely in love with the young Mannheim star singer Aloysia Weber (he was later to marry her sister Constanze). He tailored concert and interlude arias for her, which showed...

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Release Date: September 29, 2023

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With her soulful timbre, the Catalan singer Nuria Rial (born 1975) always appears intimate and authentic in the most natural way. Rial received her training at the conservatory of her hometown Barcelona and at the...

Format: CD

Release Date: August 04, 2023

$12.99

Captain Tobias Hume was not only a military man, but also an accomplished musician and composer. Emma Kirkby and Paolo Pandolfo prove that in former times active military personnel were also capable of outstanding artistic...

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Release Date: September 29, 2023

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When people spoke of the "great Bach" during the 18th century, they were not referring to Johann Sebastian but to his son, Carl Philipp Emanuel. He was one of the main representatives of the Empfindsamer...

Format: CD

Release Date: September 29, 2023

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Gaetano Nasillo is one of the most renowned baroque cellist. He regularly collaborates as a soloist with the most prestigious European ensembles on historic instruments, among them Ensemble 415, Concerto Vocale, Zefiro, Le Concert des...

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Release Date: August 04, 2023

$22.99

Although Bach obviously felt at home composing for the recorder and used it in important works such as the Brandenburg Concertos and several cantatas, he never composed a concerto for solo recorder - in fact,...

Format: CD

Release Date: June 30, 2023

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The David harp is a type of harp from the German Baroque period. The figure of King David is usually depicted on the head of the harp column. The strings are fitted with brays, which...

Format: CD

Release Date: June 30, 2023

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On 3 July 1502, a remarkable letter with a bold and daring proposal went on a ship from Genoa to Istanbul, signed by one of the most brilliant minds of his time: Leonardo da Vinci....

Format: CD

Release Date: May 19, 2023

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The birth of opera began around 1600 in Florence, where this new genre was used to accompany important political events. The court conductor Marco da Gagliano, who had also become acquainted with Monteverdi's new style...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 19, 2023

$48.99

With Jean-Baptiste Stuck’s Polydore, György Vashegyi’s directing talents alight once again on a French opera from the era between Lully and Rameau. Whist Louis XIV’s reign was gradually drawing to a close, his nephew, duke...

Format: CD

Release Date: April 21, 2023