CDs

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

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...

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...

‘Full of the Highland Humours’, the debut recording from award-winning period group Ensemble Hesperi, celebrates the immense success Scottish music...

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...

For his début solo recording, Swedish lutenist Jonas Nordberg presents a delightful selection of works for Baroque lute and theorbo; the gra...

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

Cellist Angela East (Red Priest) presents the Bach unaccompanied cello suites in full across two discs. "her performance deserves to be ranked with...

"The pieces on this CD have been brought together because they are commonly taught to cello students during the early years of their training. Few ...

Inviolata Josquin des Prez by Jacob Heringman - Lute & Vihuela Two decades following his first album of lute intabulations by the renaissance c...

Jacob Heringman: Blame Not My Lute - Accompaniment CD for 58 Very Easy Pieces

Cherwell Thy Wyne - CD - The York Waits The ‘Gresley’ manuscript is a small notebook written by John Baynes belonging to the Gresley of Drakelow fa...

The Kings Pavan - CD - The York Waits Tracks: 1. Blow thy horn, hunter William Cornysh (d.1523) 2. This enderis day/Ly bens distonys/ Prenés in gre...

The White Rose and The Red - CD - The York Waits  

Zephirus: His Sweet Breeth - CD -  Blondel BLONDEL Emily Baines alto shawm, alto & tenor recorders, bagpipes Belinda Paul soprano shawm, tenor ...

Recorders within an orchestral sound: This project was a matter near to the hearts of the world-famous Flanders Recorder Quartet: music for several...

Special music for a special occasion: The world-famous Flanders Recorder Quartet celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary by presenting an unusual p...

Vivaldi as you’ve never heard him before! 300 years ago, Vivaldi’s music was so popular and influential that other composers right across Europe co...

Inspired sonatas by Telemann: ‘a performance of irrepressible joy’ Telemann:Time:Travel, Passacaglia’s fifth album, presents seven brilliant trio-f...

Von der Vergänglichkeit1 D. Hahne: Danse macabre (2007)2 S. Scheidt: Fantasie über Io son ferito lasso (von Palestrina)3 G. Beeferman: Passages (2...

Haydn’s Op 9 quartets are commonly seen as his first ‘mature’ set, written during the period when he emerged as an indisputably great composer. Th...

Haydn’s remarkable Opus 20 quartets are rightfully regarded as landmarks in the history of the string quartet. Throughout the six contrasting quar...

Collegium Musicum 90 was founded by Simon Standage and the late Richard Hickox in 1990, and is today a well-established ensemble for the performan...