16,15 €
AEON NEW RELEASE
Guillaume de Machaut – Ballades
The work of Guillaume de Machaut dominates the whole French 14th Century. Thanks to the research of 20th century musicologists, we can now assess the full importance of this work. The knowledge now acquired allows today’s performers to read his music directly on the manuscript sources and make us more and more familiar with this ancient media. (...+)
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26,91 €
TESTAMENT NEW RELEASE
Brian – Symphony nº 1‘The Gothic’
The symphony’s world première was a semi-amateur performance at Central Hall, Westminster on 24 June 1961 conducted by Bryan Fairfax. But its first fully professional rendition was the performance captured on these discs. The final rehearsals for this historic performance were held in the BBC’s Maida Vale Studio 1. (...+)
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21,51 €
ARSIS NEW RELEASE
J.S. Bach – The Cello Suites
In spite of their stylistic unity, each Suite has its personality: the first amiable and flowing, reposeful and meditative the second, the third more emotional, the fourth dramatic, the fifth sweet and touched with sadness and the sixth luminous and immaterial. The supreme lesson Bach teaches us in these intricate and demanding scores, (...+)
THE ARSIS CATALOGUE

17,06 €
NEOS NEW RELEASE
Maderna – Orchestral Works, vols. I & II
Everything must be looked at again: Maderna followed this post-war maxim in his choice of simple “workshop” titles. Composition, practice, improvisation – this meant the greatest amount of freedom possible, but it was also his way of recognising how to realise polyphony, logic and flexibility of thought. (...+)
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26,91 €
GLOSSA NEW RELEASE
Debussy – Music for the Prix of Rome
Claude Debussy presented himself as a candidate for the Prix de Rome on three separate occasions during the 1880s, the most innovative decade in the history of that competition. Presented on this two CD set is a group of little known compositions by Debussy: (...+)
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32,30 €
WERGO NEW RELEASE
Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series, vol. 2
Earle Brown’s legendary Contemporary Sound Series will be released on WERGO CDs. Recorded between 1960 and 1973, the original eighteen LPs have been highly sought after in the secondary market since 1978 when they were discontinued. (...+)
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25,10 €
ORFEO NEW RELEASE
Smetana – The Bartered Bride
Vienna has played an important role in the performance history of Smetana’s The Bartered Bride ever since the work achieved its international breakthrough in the city at the time of the 1892 World Fair. This 1960 production was headed by Irmgard Seefried, (...+)
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16,15 €
ONDINE NEW RELEASE
Martinu – Piano Concertos 2 & 4
This CD release pays tribute to Martinu and the 50th anniversary of his death in 2009. Star conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, who conducts the Sinfonieorchester Basel on this disc, is known as a great champion of Czech music. These recordings of Second and Fourth Piano Concertos (...+)
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16,15 €
RAUMKLANG NEW RELEASE
Canto Novello – Maria!
Songs of a spiritual, social and musical renewal: a melting pot, a conglomerate of the centuries-old tradition of the music of the Christian church and the rich poetry of the people, individual, powerful, and stirring. The ensembles Ars Choralis Coeln and Oni Wytars (...+)
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53,95 €
DUX NEW RELEASE
Chopin – Complete Piano Works
This unique set has been drawn together by using only the compositions that Chopin personally accepted for publication and to which he assigned the opus number by his own hand. The opus numbers, starting from number 23 is, with the odd exception, chronological. (...+)
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17,91 €
TAHRA NEW RELEASE
Scherchen conducts Beethoven, vol. I
Scherchen discovered the world of Beethoven at the age of fourteen. Like Bach, Mahler and Schoenberg, Beethoven accompanied Scherchen throughout his career. He conducted the symphonies over 235 times. Between 1951-1954 he made the mono recordings of all nine symphonies for the US label Westminster, (...+)
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17,91 €
MDG NEW RELEASE
Schoenberg – Orchestral Works
What a program! On his first recording as the conductor of the Beethoven Orchestra of Bonn, Stefan Blunier offers us a look at four important phases in the life of the composer Arnold Schönberg. The selection ranges from the late-romantic Notturno through the Orchestral Songs op. 8 (...+)
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16,15 €
STRADIVARIUS NEW RELEASE
Grondona plays Asturias
Stefano Grondona, who has confirmed during his development a defining influence by Andrés Segovia, has decided to include his first recorded version of Asturias within a production in which the piece recovers the lustre that it could have had when Segovia began to perform it on his European tours in the 1920s. (...+)
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16,15 €
CPO NEW RELEASE
Von Suppé – Pique Dame
No, Franz von Suppé’s operetta “Pique Dame”, which received its premiere in 1864, has practically nothing in common with Pushkin’s story “Pikawaja Dama” of 1834, except for the fact that both are about playing cards. There are only nine numbers, but they show the still-young genre of Viennese operetta and how it absorbed all the music that had ever been heard in this city. (...+)
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54,90 €
ECM NEW RELEASE
Windfall Light – The Visual Language of ECM
Following the success of Sleeves of Desire (1996), a second publication about the ECM label is now devoted to its sleeve designs from 1996 to the present. Since its founding in 1969, ECM, has been dedicated primarily to jazz and contemporary classical music (...+)
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13,45 €
BIS NEW RELEASE
Albéniz – Piano Music, Vol. 6
This series of the piano music of Albéniz has so far focussed on solo works. For the sixth volume, Miguel Baselga has chosen to also record two works for piano and orchestra: the First Piano Concerto and Rapsodia Española. (...+)
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16,15 €
COLUMNA NEW RELEASE
Ànima – Catalan Opera, vol. 1
With this first volume of the new collection we have set about compiling an anthology of Catalan opera with recordings of works that form part of our national repertoire. In the present collection we offer a brief anthology, (...+)
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22,46 €
MUSIKENE NEW RELEASE
Sorozábal – Juan José
After several decades in the musical oblivion, at least comes to CD Pablo Sorozábal’s best creation ever, the “proletarian opera” Juan José, one of the “doomed” operas of the Spanish catalogue. (...+)
SOROZÁBAL IN DIVERDI

54,95 €
RICERCAR NEW RELEASE
A Guide to Period Instruments
This Guide to Period Instruments endeavours to answer the questions that every lover of early music has about the instruments used in these periods of music history. (...+)
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39,95 €
ALIA VOX NEW RELEASE
Le Royaume Oublié - La Tragédie Cathare
Catharism had its roots in the Occitania, which had the misfortune of being the collateral victim fo the Albigensian Crusade, used to be the crossroad of many cultures. From this melting pot emerged a very refined culture, which culminated with the troubadour tradition. (...+).
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16,15 €
TRITÓ NEW RELEASE
La guitarra modernista
All the composers which were include in this CD represent the interaction betwen the romantic nationalism and the modernity of the pèriod and, although with very different aesthetics and motivations, their works reveal a common substrate, (...+)
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32,30 €
BONGIOVANNI NEW RELEASE
Michele Carafa - I Due Figaro
The Rossinian Bad Wildbad Festival nourishes the talents of the non-less Rossinian Michele Carafa with his most reknowned and finely crafted opera, I due Figaro, after Beaumarchais’ character. (...+)
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17,06 €
COL LEGNO NEW RELEASE
Sciarrino - 12 Madrigals
Salvatore Sciarrino, in league with the Neue Vokalsolisten Stuttgart, embarks on the investigation of a new ecology of sound, through a form of polyphony reduced to chamber-music scale. (...+)
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16,15 €
PAN CLASSICS NEW RELEASE
Padre Soler - El Diablo vestido…
Since his early days, Diego Ares has been infatuated with the music of Padre Soler: “this music has not ceased to accompany me and, now taking the first opportunity of dedicating a recording to his works for harpsichord, (...+)
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16,15 €
ARSIS NEW RELEASES
Alfonso Romero – Orchestral Works
Alfonso Romero’s language does not fit into any avantgarde but consciously sets out to go beyond them all. Important here are his studies in economics, which opened up other ways of looking at the world, (...+)
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17,06 €
NAÏVE NEW RELEASE
Richard Strauss – A Cappella
A favourite source of inspiration of both Strauss and Gustav Mahler, the Bavarian poet Friedrich Rückert was also an orientalist, translator of the Persian Hafez, and prolific author of ‘oriental’ poems, intimate elegies, and introverted lyrics. (...+)
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