'A quite exceptionally fine disc, which I firmly recommend to anyone with an interest in Boccherini. Ensemble 415 is quite small with strings 4.3.2.2.1, and the balance gives plenty of prominence to ...More

King Arthur (1691), like Purcell's other great scores for the stage, belongs to a highly unusual genre: it is neither a play nor an opera but a hybrid of the two known as ‘semi-opera'.Alfred Deller's...More

• ‘Soprano Chen Reiss makes her first recording for ONYX, and has chosen a programme of arias by Cimarosa, Haydn, Salieri and Mozart - all composers working in Vienna in the 1780s. Included here are ...More

The 1915 version of "El Amor Brujo" is a stage work with sung and spoken parts, numerous dances and much more music than usual in a "zarzuela" of the "minor" variety (género chico). Recorded with the...More

"Romanesca ... is simply stunning; virtuosity so effortless as to be unnoticeable and a sense of capricious fantasy so vital to the convincing projection of such highly personal music, veering from m...More

A sumptuous farewell to the musical Middle Ages. "Certain disciples of the new school hasten without rest, inebriating men's ears without appeasing them, miming with gestures that which they cause t...More

Originally released in 1971, Raga: A Film Journey to the Soul of India documents the life of sitar master Ravi Shankar in the late 1960s and early 1970s, following him on his return to India to revis...More

The complete set of Abbey Lincoln's early recordings consists of three original albums together with some other rare pieces. The two cDs have been carefully remastered and the 32-page booklet include...More

Nancy Wilson's early studio recordings in their entirety include three original albums as well as some rare titles such as one side from 1956. Both CDs have been remastered with the greatest care. Th...More

The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner, music director of English National Opera and an exclusive Chandos artist, presents Volume 2 of their Polish Music series; a disc dedicated to vocal wo...More

Nina Simone's early studio recordings in their entirety include five original albums including one which was banned, as well as a rare single. Both CDs have been remastered with the greatest care. Th...More

• For the final volume in his Debussy edition for ONYX, Pascal Roge is joined by his wife Ami in a collection of works for piano 4 hands and for 2 pianos. • Since the release of Volume 1 Preludes I ...More

Sarah Vaughan's early studio recordings in their entirety include 41 songs released at the time as 78 rpm records, both under her own name and others. Both CDs have been remastered with the greatest ...More

Harry Christophers and The Sixteen release a disc celebrating some magnificent music from Britain’s most celebrated composers from Tallis to Tippett and Carver to MacMillan. “Let these glorious soun...More

Shostakovich's Piano Trio no.1 (op.8) shows a sure grasp of form and a confidence of argument that are astonishing from the pen of an adolescent, then still a student at the Leningrad Conservatory. M...More

Every epoch has had its group dances, and they have always been a source of inspiration to composers. In the interwar period, the Blues and Charleston meant as much to composers as the Sarabande and ...More

The "petite sainteté" of Hector Berlioz. harmonia mundi Christmas edition: a special edition of ten CDs exclusively devoted to Christmas! L'Enfance du Christ is not really an oratorio in the traditio...More

Etta Jones' early studio recordings in their entirety include two original albums as well as 27 rare titles including 25 which were first released as 78/45 rpm records. Both CDs have been remastered ...More

Kodály, Kurtág and Veress are three of the five great names of modern Hungarian music, alongside Bartók and Ligeti. And this recording provides a representative survey of their output, from the ''spi...More

Dying of tuberculosis just before his 35th birthday in 1901, Vassily Kalinnikov had precious few years to prove himself as a composer, but still had the time to write several songs and choral and orc...More

The works by the Austrian composer Kurt Schwertsik are characterised by his own particular exploration of tonality, and his sense of musical irony and humour. A pupil of Joseph Marx and Karl Schiske ...More

As demonstrated by the four works on this disc, anyone who enters Anders Hillborg’s world of sounds is in for a surprise. Complexity rubs shoulders with directness, sensuality with humour, hypnotic m...More

The Binchois Consort presents a disc which demonstrates the beauty and grandeur of the music performed daily in princely chapels of fifteenth-century England. It illustrates the sheer variety of type...More

The ‘INITIALES' series is an invitation to discover the artists of harmonia mundi. Despite the demands of a busy operatic career, Werner Güra constantly returns to the world of the lied, an art calli...More

Following the success of the Mozart Mass in C minor last year, CORO is delighted to announce the release of its second recording with Harry Christophers and the Handel and Haydn Society. Celebrated s...More

‘I never thought of becoming a virtuoso. Virtuosity, with its concert tours, has always repelled me', Manuel de Falla told a journalist in 1915, by which time he had virtually turned his back on comp...More

In spite of the fact that more than 15 years have passed since Masaaki Suzuki and his Bach Collegium Japan began recording all of Bach’s church cantatas, the team’s commitment seems if anything to be...More

The three world premiere recordings featured here comprise the complete works for piano and orchestra by both composers (an early student concerto by Cowen appears lost). In his day Cowen was a hugel...More

Haydn’s remarkable Opus 20 quartets are rightfully regarded as landmarks in the history of the string quartet. Throughout the six contrasting quartets the composer employs compositional techniques th...More

The Devine Vespers, a service of evening prayer in the Roman-Catholic Church, has provided both occasion and inspiration for some of the most sumptuous music ever composed. But not many churches in t...More