Howard Shelley’s survey of the complete piano sonatas of Clementi was acclaimed not only as a set of benchmark performances, but also as the rediscovery of a composer who was uniquely important in hi...More

Maurice Ravel’s mature works for violin and piano have established a central place in the core recital repertoire and are considered among the most popular of the genre. These diverse works acknowled...More

The 'INITIALES' series is an invitation to discover the artists of the new generation on harmonia mundi. In the fifteen years since she began her recording career with a programme of contemporary mus...More

The 'INITIALES' series is an invitation to discover the artists of the new generation on harmonia mundi. In less than ten years Isabelle Faust has achieved a place among the leading violinists of her...More

The ‘INITIALES' series is an invitation to discover the artists of harmonia mundi. The German countertenor Andreas Scholl is today regarded as the foremost exponent of this unusual vocal register rev...More

The year 2010 marked a century since the London String Quartet, known affectionately as the LSQ, gave its first concerts. Britain’s leading chamber ensemble for two decades, it was equally well known...More

Works for chamber orchestra by the award-winning Lithuanian composer Arvydas Malcys...More

Andrea Falconieri (c 1585-1656) was born in Naples, and worked extensively throughout Europe. In his lifetime he was best-known for the light canzonette for voice and guitar, as well as for instrumen...More

The music of Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) had an explosive impact on all European musical circles. As both composer and violin virtuoso, Corelli’s reputation and fame was immense. In this regard, th...More

Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1717) is especially known for his keyboard music, explained by the fact that he held the post of organist at the most important Roman churches: the Chiesa Nuova, Santa Maria M...More

Munch met and heard Richter in 1958 during the Boston Symphony’s tour of Russia. Immensely impressed by the Soviet pianist, he invited him to appear with the BSO. More than two years later, during Ri...More

The frottola was the predominant type of Italian secular song of the late 15th and early 16th-centuries. It was the most important and widespread predecessor of the madrigal. The court of Mantua and ...More

The LCO return to disc on Signum with a new programme of French orchestral works by Ravel, Fauré, Poulenc and Ibert. Their ‘LCO Live’ series captures the vibrant, exciting performances they give at t...More

World Première Recording The Concertos for two transverse flutes without bass make up part of a thread begun in 1709 with the Suites de Pièces à deux flûtes traversières (Suites of Pieces for two tr...More

On May 8th, 2011, the festival “World Music Day Italy” involving a total of 15 different artists and ensembles took place in the BMW-Welt in Munich. The programme included madrigals, opera, folk danc...More

Robert Quinney performs a stunning recital of works by Elgar on the organ of Westminster Abbey. Quinney has been Sub-Organist there since 2004, performing for a variety of celebrated occasions includ...More

More than a half-century before Monty Python’s Spamalot, the knights and ladies of King Arthur’s court were already on Broadway, singing and dancing in gleefully anachronistic fashion in Rodgers and ...More

With the publication of L’Estro Armonico, op. 3 (1711) and La Stravaganza op. 4 (1716) Antonio Vivaldi makes his mark on the European musical population, as one of the more original creative minds of...More

Following a string of five-star reviews for their previous discs of 20th-century French choral music (Poulenc’s Figure Humaine – SIGCD197) and Renaissance polyphony (Victoria’s Requiem Mass – SIGCD24...More

Diapason D'Or - 2011 Active in Venice and Padua at the beginning of the 15th century, Johannes Ciconia was undoubtedly the most important composer of this transitional period. Born in Liège and tr...More

Following the critical success of Primakov in Concert, Vol., Bridge is pleased to release a second compilation of the great Russia/American pianist's live recordings. Volume 2 adds four new composers...More

The release of this two-disc set completes the Budapest String Quartet's historic Beethoven string quartet cycle, recorded at the Library of Congress's Coolidge Auditorium. Both the middle and late Q...More

A fascinating musical journey through the Italian arias of Mozart, from one of his earliest works Lucio Silla (composed when he was just 16) through to his final Italian opera La Clemenza di Tito. T...More

Born in Switzerland and resident in New York, Daniel Schnyder is a melting-pot all on his own. His music displays a dazzling variety of influences – from Cuban dance music and African and Arabic rhyt...More

Jansa Duo, a string duo founded in 2006 by Christine Rox and Klaus-Dieter Brandt, blends the principles of authentic performance with the accomplishments of contemporary practice. Brilliant virtuosit...More