Over thirty years ago, Fretwork made its first recording – well, technically speaking it was the second album to be recorded, but the first t...

In the turbulent religious climate of Elizabethan England William Byrd wrote — and, more audaciously, published — a huge amount of music for the ...

NEW RELEASE! When four friends create an ensemble where their biggest love is playing Baroque music on recorders, one has to get creative. There i...

During the height of the Greek economic crisis, the 13th International Pharos Chamber Music Festival on the island of Cyprus was in jeopardy of b...

During a recording career that stretches over almost 30 years, Swedish recorder virtuoso Dan Laurin keeps returning to one particular set of work...

When Dan Laurin and Masaaki Suzuki joined forces in Händel’s recorder sonatas (BIS-CD-955), the reviewers waxed lyrical: "The allegros sparkle li...

Masterpieces of the Baroque concerto as you’ve never heard them before: the sixth Brilliant Classics album from a much-acclaimed, ground-breaking y...

Lute concerti by Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750), recorded by Tempesta Di Mare Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra with solo lutenist Richard Stone....

This album presents three rarely performed or heard early German cello concertos, played by Alexander Rudin. The multi-prize winning soloist is a...

The specialist early-music ensemble Da Camera marks the 250th anniversary of Telemann’s death with this unique recording of original trio sonatas...

All of the music from The Choral Pilgrimage 2008 The turbulent years of Reformation and religious change in England presented composers working f...

Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination - the British Library's first major exhibition to bring together the Library's Royal collection, a ...

Two-disc CD set. ‘Layton has directed this annual St John Passion for several seasons now. His readings, which are becoming ever more dramatic and ...

  Five Italian Oboe Concertos: music by Vivaldi, Albinoni, Bellini, Marcello & Cimarosa. Recorded in  St Barnabas's Church, North Finch...

Mahan Esfahani again highlights the radicalism, virtuosity—and sheer joyousness—of the works recorded here, both in his playing and in his un...

The exuberant vitality of Bach’s toccatas—works which the young composer probably wrote to demonstrate his own brilliance and technique as a per...

Two-disc CD set. Gramophone-Award-winning harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani has recorded Rameau’s Pièces de clavecin in the historic setting of the Mus...

Flanders Recorder Duo: The name of the ensemble rightly suggests that it emerged from the Flanders Recorder Quartet, which ended its incredibly suc...

Yuuko Shiokawa and András Schiff are heard here in an insightful – and delightful – programme of sonatas for violin and piano which begins with Bac...

András Schiff returned to the Goldberg Variations in 2003, in what was be regarded as one of the classical music events of the year. Two decades af...

Tastar de Corde - Early Italian Lute Music Music by Aquila, Phalèse, Milano, Dalza, Capriola, Bossenensis, Attaingnant, Thibault, Neusidler, Crema...