Antonio Vivaldi – Opus 2: 12 Sonate For Violin And Continuo

Antonio Vivaldi – Opus 2: 12 Sonate For Violin And Continuo Recorded in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 1977 About the author: The creator of hundreds of spirited, extroverted instrumental works, Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi is widely recognized as the master of the Baroque instrumental concerto, which he perfected and popularized more than any of his [...]

Joseph Haydn – L’Incontro Improvviso (Eszterhaza Opera Cycle)

Joseph Haydn – L’Incontro Improvviso Recorded at The Grand Salle, Epalinges, Switzerland on September 1977 (opera) and June 1980 (arias). About this Opera: L’incontro improvviso (The unexpected encounter) is an opera in three acts by Joseph Haydn first performed at Eszterháza on 29 August 1775 to mark the four-day visit of Archduke Ferdinand, Habsburg governor [...]

Francesco Geminiani – Pièces De Clavecin

Francesco Geminiani – Pièces De Clavecin Recorded at the Castello Sforzesco, Milano, Italy in November 2000. About this work: Geminiani knew how to elevate the transcription to the category of art. Exactly famous is its orquestration of Opus 5 of its teacher, but it published other adaptations, among them, two collections of Pièces of harpsichord [...]

Joseph Haydn – Missa “Sunt Bonna Mixta Malis” & Ofertorium “Non Nobis, Domine”

Joseph Haydn – Missa “Sunt Bonna Mixta Malis” & Ofertorium “Non Nobis, Domine” Recorded at The Stadtpfarrkirche Bad Tötz, Germany on June 4, 1992. World première. About this work: The obvious importance of this new release is the first appearance on disc of two recent Haydn discoveries, the brief Offertorium Non nobis, Domine and fragments [...]

George Frideric Händel – Ariodante

George Frideric Händel – Ariodante Recorded June 7-11, 1995 in the Stadthalle, Göttingen, Germany. About this opera: Ariodante (HWV 33) is an opera seria in three acts by Handel. The anonymous Italian libretto was based on a work by Antonio Salvi, which in turn was adapted from Canti 5 and 6 of Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando [...]

John Dowland & William Bird – Goe Nightly Cares

John Dowland & William Byrd – Goe Nightly Cares Recorded at The Maltings, Snape, Suffolk, Great Britain, in December 1987 and April 1989. About these works: The Lachrimae pavans form the English Renaissance composer John Dowland’s most famous instrumental work. It is a set of seven pieces written for five viols and lute, each of [...]

Christoph Willibald Gluck – Orfeo Ed Euridice

Christoph Willibald Gluck – Orfeo Ed Euridice Recorded at Glyndebourne, Great Britain on June, 1982. About this Opera: Orfeo ed Euridice (French version: Orphée et Eurydice; English translation: Orpheus and Eurydice; Spanish Translation: Orfeo y Eurídice) is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck based on the myth of Orpheus, set to a libretto by [...]

Arcangelo Corelli – Sonate A Violino E Violone O Cimbalo

Arcangelo Corelli – Sonate A Violino E Violone O Cimbalo Recorded at the Badia Cavana Church, Langhirano, Italy from My 25th to June 2nd, 2003. About the work: These dozen sonatas fully constitute one-sixth of Corelli’s published output and strongly influenced the form of the violin sonata in the early decades of the eighteenth century. [...]

Giacomo Puccini – La Bohème

Giacomo Puccini – La Bohème Recorded in England on May 1979. About the Opera: La bohème is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. The world première performance of La bohème was in [...]

Yo-Yo Ma – The Soul Of Tango (The Music Of Astor Piazzolla)

Yo-Yo Ma – The Soul Of Tango (The Music Of Astor Piazzolla) About the work: Yo-Yo Ma might seem like an unlikely protagonist for the tango, but this intrepid musical explorer has taken his task seriously, collaborating with experienced tango musicians. Ma even participates in a posthumous collaboration with one 1987 Piazzolla recording. Furthermore, while [...]