10,76 €
ENCHIRIADIS NEW RELEASE
Victoria – 18 Responsories
Shadows illuminated his soul. Much more so than his letters and prefaces, than his plans and meditated destinations and responsibilities, than his mysterious swan song. Close to the four-hundredth anniversary of his death, we still know of Tomás Luis de Victoria’s life the little that he chose to show us, this man who to our eyes was inscrutable, (...+)
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13,45 €
MUSIÉPOCA NEW RELEASE
Charles Desmazures - Pièces de Simphonie
In september 1701 the organist of the Cathedral, Charles Desmazures, devoted to the Queen a collection of seven suites in four parts, representing the classical stage of the French orchestral suite, in the period inmediately after Lully and prior to the characteristic music of François Couperin. (...+)

17,06 €
KAIROS NEW RELEASE
Ramón Lazkano – Hauskor
In Basque the word Hauskor refers to that which potentially has the quality of breaking itself up into dust thanks to the inner dynamism of the material after which it is named. Thus comes the initial idea of the piece: eight cellists who, because of their new position in space, (...+)
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13,45 €
VERSO NEW RELEASE
Fernando Remacha – Complete Symphonic Works
Albeit being himself one of the composers of the so called “Generación del 27”, Fernando Remacha has completely being forgotten. Conductor José Luis Temes, recently honoured with the National Price of Music of Spain and its Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra (...+)
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16,15 €
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Prokofiev – String Quartets; Sonata
The Pavel Haas Quartet, one of the very finest chamber ensembles of the present time, earned for their first two CDs (Janácek, Pavel Haas) numerous prestigious accolades (Classic FM Gramophone Award, BBC Music Magazine Award, Cannes MIDEM Classical Award, etc.). (...+)
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80,77 €
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Richter in Hungary (1954-1993)
Not only was Richter one of the most important pianists of the twentieth century: he was a great personality, who drew his audience into his aura of refinement, determining the taste of whole generations and their concepts about music and culture. (...+)
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23,63 €
COLUMNA NEW RELEASE
Toldrà – Complete Voice & Piano Works
The gigantic stature of Catalonian composer Eduart Toldrà reveals itself in its greatest form on his music for voice and piano: 43 songs in Catalonian, 6 in Castillian Spanish and 1 in Galician –all works indebted to his very own talents- plus 2 collections of Spanish folk songs. (...+)
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16,15 €
ALQHAI NEW RELEASE
Les Violes du Ciel et de L'Enfer
After the exhilarating vision of the Italian Seicento that la Accademia del Piacere delighted us with in their former –and first- release, Le Lacrime di Eros, this ensemble keeps pulling out all of the stops with their innovative, brand-new vision of the virtuoso viola da gamba repertoire: French music of the late Baroque era. (...+)
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26,91 €
DYNAMIC NEW RELEASE
Rossini - L'Equivoco Stravagante
L’Equivoco stravagante stages the classic situation of the young girl who does not intend to be wedded to the traditional rich braggart but prefers a timid young man who is short of money. Seasoned with fanciful language, made up of bold neologisms and licentious double meanings, (...+)
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10,76 €
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Britten – Unknown Britten
This CD features 8 world premiere recordings: 3 additional songs of Les Illuminations, In memoriam Dennis Brain, Rondo Concertante, Elegy for Strings, Variations for Solo Piano and the completion of Movements for a Clarinet Concerto. The stunning performance of Les Illuminations by world-renowned soprano Sandrine Piau (...+)
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16,15 €
ACCENT NEW RELEASE
Beethoven – Violin Sonatas, vol. 2
Hiro Kurosaki has had a longstanding musical partnership with Linda Nicholson, concentrating on the Classical and Romantic repertoire. Linda Nicholson is one of the foremost keyboard players specialising in the performance of baroque, classical and early romantic music on instruments of the period. (...+)
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16,15 €
RAUMKLANG NEW RELEASE
Vocation – Improvisation after H. von Bingen
Raumklang’s third production featuring the music of Hildegard of Bingen approaches the songs of this fascinating abbess in an unusual manner. Marie-Luise Hinrichs established a connection to the present day and transfered the flowing expanses of this music to her instrument, the piano. (...+)
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16,15 €
MDG NEW RELEASE
J. Strauss II - Waltzes (arrangements by Schönberg, Berg…)
It is a little-known fact that Schönberg had a fine sense of humor. During a tour of his “Pierrot lunaire” ensemble the master created as a contrast a new version of the “Emperor’s Waltz“ that has been a popular encore piece ever since then. While Strauss had composed the piece for the Prussian Emperor William II, (...+)
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13,45 €
ABC NEW RELEASE
Margaret Sutherland – Concertos
Australian composer Margaret Sutherland came to the UK in the 1920’s and took private tuition from Arnold Bax. Of this disc 4 works, her tone poem, Haunted Hills with its arpeggio-swept opening, suggesting in flavour and approach an influence of Bax. Concerto Grosso is, as the title suggests, (...+)
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16,15 €
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Le Concert des Violes
French composers remained faithful to the principles of polyphonic music with their fantaisies that were still intended for ensembles of viols; the role of the violin in France at that time was still limited to providing music for dancing. Such knowledge of polyphony was demanded not only from composers (...+)
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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, (...+)
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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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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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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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