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NEW RELEASE! •• 'HIMMELFAHRT' WAS OUR FEATURED ALBUM FOR JULY 2024 •• Click here to read our blog about this release! Vox Luminis has teamed up with the Freiburger Barockorchester again, and together they celebrate music for Ascension Day. This topic inspired great composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, four of whose Ascension cantatas have been preserved. The festive and colourful Cantata BWV 128 was composed towards the end of Bach’s second year in Leipzig. The Ascension Oratorio BWV 11 was written for larger forces and ends with a triumphant chorus. In the case of Georg Philipp Telemann, more than thirty cantatas for Ascension Day alone have survived. The cantata Ich fahre auf zu meinem Vater (I ascend unto my Father) was composed in 1721 and receives its world premiere recording here. Lionel Meunier’s ensemble and the FBO give a fervent rendering of this captivating music with its texts focusing on the afterlife. Freiburger Barockorchester Vox Luminis Lionel Meunier director Viola Blache soprano Zsuzsi Tóth soprano Alexander Chance alto William Shelton alto Raphael Höhn tenor Sebastian Myrus bass Tobias Wicky bass ALPHA1032 • Released 2024

•• 'A GERMAN IN VENICE' WAS OUR FEATURED ALBUM FOR OCTOBER 2024 •• Click here to read our blog about this release! One of the key German composers before Bach with more than 500 surviving individual pieces, Heinrich Schütz wrote mainly church music, and is credited with bringing the Italian style to Germany and continuing its evolution from the Renaissance into the early Baroque. Although he lived most of his long life in Germany, in his twenties Schütz made two visits to Venice. The first was between 1609 and 1613 when he was taught by Giovanni Gabrieli; and the second in the late 1620s to meet and possibly study under Monteverdi. The two trips greatly influenced Schütz’s music as he absorbed and began to combine the ornate and theatrical Venetian style with the more understated Lutheran tradition in which he grew up. This album explores his solo cantatas alongside examples of the brilliant and virtuosic Venetian style instrumental music. Disc includes by Schütz, Monteverdi, Rossi, Sances, Grandi & Cavalli. David de Winter tenor The Brook Street Band Rachel Harris violin Kathryn Parry violin Tatty Theo cello Carolyn Gibley harpsichord & organ Lynda Sayce theorbo & lute Lisete da Silva Bull recorder Emily Bannister recorder FHR145 • Released 2024

After early French violin concertos with Johannes Pramsohler and North German cello concertos with Gulrim Choï, it is now the turn of Ensemble Diderot ’s harpsichordist to distinguish himself in this genre: Philippe Grisvard has chosen the repertoire of composers from the court of Frederick II, thus continuing Ensemble Diderot’s comprehensive exploration of the style of the Berlin School. The decision not to include Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in this program facilitates the rehabilitation and rediscovery of composers whose contribution to the concerto genre is no less important. The result is a completely new program of virtuoso works in which the spirit of Bach father and son shines through time and again. Christoph Nichelmann (1717–1762) Concerto in D minor Carl Heinrich Graun (c1704/05–1759) Concerto in D major, WVC:XIII:72 Christoph Schaffrath (c1710–1763) Concerto in C minor, CSWV:C:11 Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (1735–1792) Concerto in B-flat major Ensemble Diderot Johannes Pramsohler director Philippe Grisvard harpsichord ADX11211 • Released 2024

Among Finger's numerous chamber music works are several previously unnoticed trios for alto recorders and basso continuo. Two of these trios are presented here for the first time in a new edition. The selected sonatas are works that stand on a par with the best similar compositions by William Corbett, Gottfried Keller, Louis Henri Paisible and Daniel Purcell, written at roughly the same time in England. - Sonata Op. 6 no. 2 G minor - Sonata Op. 6 no. 6 in C minor

PO ref. PO1406S Alto Cornamuse by Gunter Korber (Previously Owned) in excellent condition without case. Fully serviced, revoiced and fitted with new reed by our technician. For more details about this or any other Previously Owned instruments, please do not hesitate to contact us.

PO ref. PO1405S Bass Crumhorn in F by Gunter Korber (Previously Owned) in excellent condition without case. Fully serviced, re-voiced and fitted with a new reed by our in-house technician. For more details about this or any other Previously Owned instruments, please do not hesitate to contact us.

PO ref. PO1404S Tenor Crumhorn in C by Moeck (Previously Owned) in excellent condition without case. Fully serviced, re-voiced and fitted with a new reed by our in-house technician. For more details about this or any other Previously Owned instruments, please do not hesitate to contact us.

In stock now! Summer 2024 issue of The Recorder Magazine, which includes features about LIFEM 2024, Jonathan Dove, Heidi Fardell and Matthew Mackerras. Plus the usual SRP news, ERTA news, young players' section, music and CD reviews. Edited by Barbara Law.

Terry Mann Medieval Alto Recorder in G, made in Maple and based on a surviving medieval recorder, also made in maple, found in Elblag in Poland. For more details or further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.