Philippe Jaroussky OMBRA MAI FU

“Beyond the great musical interest that Cavalli offers, his operas are notable for their richness and modernity, and for the diversity and ...

Shunske Sato / Il Pomo D'Oro / Zefira Valova BACH Violin Concertos

It was never going to be a complete surprise to find these four concertos to be an exquisitely joyous and exciting listen, when on the tic...

Quatuor Ébène ETERNAL STORIES

The New York Times has described the French ensemble as “a string quartet that can easily morph into a jazz band” and its recordings of H...

Thibaut Garcia BACH INSPIRATIONS

The 24-year-old Franco-Spanish classical guitarist Thibaut Garcia’s third recording – his second for Erato – revisits the music of Bach and...

Alexandre Tharaud BARBARA

It is 20 years since Barbara died, aged 67, on November 24th 1997. Alexandre Tharaud’s idea for this album dates back to the day of her fune...

Emőke Baráth, Il Pomo d'Oro, Francesco Corti VOGLIO CANTAR

The Venetian singer and composer Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) was probably the most remarkable, talented, famous and successful woman of he...

Diana Damrau / Jonas Kaufmann / Helmut Deutsch ITALIENISCHES LIEDERBUCH

  Diana Damrau and Jonas Kaufmann, reigning stars of opera, are also consummate interpreters of song. In early 2018, with master pianist H...

I Barocchisti / Diego Fasolis GLUCK Orfeo ed Euridice

Gluck, Mozart opines in Peter Shaffer’s play Amadeus, created characters “so lofty they sound as though they shit marble”. Shaffer’s imagi...

Joyce DiDonato / Brentano String Quartet INTO THE FIRE

Recorded live at London’s celebrated Wigmore Hall, this captivating recital by Joyce DiDonato and the Brentano Quartet was conceived around...

Maria João Pires / Gulbenkian Orchestra / Michel Corboz J.S. BACH Piano Concertos BWV 1052, 1055 & 1056

Maria João Pires recorded this recital some years ago; it is thankfully back in the catalog now, finally available again after so many year...

Peter Eötvös / Ensemble InterContemporain / Quatuor Arditti NUNES Esquisses - Musik der Frühe

Emmanuel Nunes was born in 1941 in Lisbon where he studied harmony and counterpoint between 1959 and 1963 in the Academy of Music with Franc...

Emmanuelle Haïm / Le Concert d'Astrée HANDEL Aci, Galatea e Polifemo

This Italian-language, Neapolitan "cantata a tre" from 1708 bears no resemblance (save for the Aci-and-Galatea-are-in-love-and-t...