The Baroque

Pisendel:

Pi / Concerto Kohl

Concerto Köln is one of the leading orchestras for historically informed musical performances and recordings. Recent concerts of Wagner’s “Rheingold” and an album released together with soprano Jeanine De Bique have been celebrated and praised by critics and listeners alike. The conceptual originality of their work seems endless. (Berlin Classics)

1CD# 0302808BC

$23.99

Seicento Stravagante – Music for Cornetto & Keyboard

Through works by Italian composers from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the two members of Seicento Stravagante, David Brutti and Nicola Lamon, demonstrate the extravagant styles of early baroque music. Brutti perform this selection of works on three different types of cornetto, while Lamon alternates between a copy of a harpsichord from 1681 and two organs from 1578 and 1660 respectively. (BIS)

1CD# BIS-2526 $19.99

Vivaldi: Lute & Mandolin Concertos

“I enjoyed greatly some highly attractive and charming music, sensitive playing, and clean, freshsounding recordings... The Lute concerto in particular has good things... Of the Mandolin concertos, this double is most interesting, done with charm, with one mandolin each to the left and to the right, and is quite delightful. Much of the music is in Vivaldi’s best sombre G minor tone.” – Gramophone (Alto)

1CD# MOB414657 $10.99

D’Alay: The Dresden Concertos for Violin, Strings & Organ

Mauro D’Alay was a native of Parma. These concertos are formally based on models by Vivaldi, but D’Alay’s style is freer, at times incorporating a more ‘modern’ galant fashion in discoveries such as the beautiful and unique Concerto in D minor, and in pieces dedicated to the famous Venetian violinist, ‘Maestra’ Anna Maria della Pietà. (Dynamic)

1CD# DYN-CDS7982 $16.99

J.S. Bach: Tears from Babylon / Alexandra Papastefanou

New piano transcriptions by Greek pianist Alexandra Papastefanou of various Cantatas, an Organ Sonata and a Chorale Prelude by J.S. Bach, all recorded here for the first time. The famous Myra Hess transcription of Bach’s cantata Jesus bleibet meine Freude concludes a fascinating new look at some of Bach’s choral and organ works. (First Hand)

1CD# FHR141 $12.99

Bach Transcriptions – Six Concertos for Violocello

Piccolo

Bach Transcriptions is a surprising labyrinth of sound that forms the conclusion of Marco Brunello’s trilogy dedicated to Bach’s music, of works to which we listen afresh thanks to the expressive potential of the piccolo cello, an instrument that Bach himself had particularly appreciated. (Arcana)

1CD# A535 $18.99

Telemann: Complete Cantatas, Vol. 2 [2 CDs]

If you are still looking for proof that quantity and quality need not be mutually exclusive in the case of composing geniuses, you will find plenty here. Listening and discovering is pure pleasure, wrote FonoForum when the first part of Telemann’s cantatas of the French Year was released. Worth discovering, not only for Telemann fans! (CPO)

2CD# 555437-2 $33.99

Rosenmüller, Selle, Monteverdi: Love Songs & Psalms

Under the title “It is good for me”, the words from the 73rd Psalm, love songs, jubilant and psalm chants from the 17th century by Johann Rosenmüller, Claudio Monteverdi, Nicolò Corradini and others can be heard with the tenor Georg Poplutz, who is highly esteemed for his “expressive yet sensitive interpretations”. (CPO)

1CD# 555362-2 $16.99

Kuhnau:

Complete Sacred Works, Vol. 8

With the eighth album of our complete recording of Kuhnau’s vocal works, this ambitious project now reaches its conclusion. Everything is represented, from simple secular arias to sacred concertos still clearly in the 17th century tradition and elaborate cantata-like structures such as those presented by the mature Thomaskantor Kuhnau. (CPO)

1CD# 555460-2 $16.99

Becker: Sacred Concertos & Sonatas

Probably born in Hamburg in 1623, Dietrich Becker not only mastered organ playing, but also developed into an outstanding violinist and composer. His historical importance lies primarily in the field of instrumental music, but also in sacred music: five sacred concertos from his pen have survived in their entirety; they are united as first recordings on this release. (CPO)

1CD# 555464-2 $16.99