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Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) was the reputed father of the instrumental concerto, yet he also composed sacred vocal music. Discovered in 2001, when the Berlin Sing-Akademie's archive was returned from...

Diane et Endymion is a tragédie lyrique in three acts about the mythological love story of the goddess Diana for the shepherd Endymion. The libretto written by the almost unknown Jean-François Espic c...

A refreshingly intimate setting of the Preces and Responses in easy SATB: a welcome addition to the Evensong repertoire. Emma writes "I approached the text as prayer, considering not only the words th...

Uneasy Vespers for choir, soloists and orchestra. Part I of this work was completed and performed in 1991 as part of a commission for Liverpool Philharmonic's 150th anniversary celebrations. Newly com...

Based on a couple of folk tunes which appear in their proper form once each, ... rest a moment here is freely written with good 'scrubbing' strings contrasted with beautiful quiet moments.

Diogenio Bigaglia (1678-1745) left only one chamber cantata scored for bass voice and continuo, but this work, Sudaste, alfin sudaste, is a masterpiece. Its poetic text takes the form of an imagined m...

The Exeter Book is a collection of many different writings and is generally acknowledged to be one of the great works of the English Benedictine revival of the tenth century. Among the other texts in...

Joseph Haydn's La Canterina ('The Singing Girl') was one of the composer's earliest stage works, written in 1766 soon after Prince Nikolaus Esterházy had promoted him to first Kapellmeister. The libre...

Klavierauszug von Sarah Jenner

Klavierauszug von Sarah Jenner

This atmospheric, sensitive piece for solo SATB (or small vocal ensemble) with optional string quartet was written by Timothy Raymond for the 2017 Lower Machen Festival. The contemporary harmonic lang...

The eighteenth century saw a great increase in secular music for solo voice and continuo set to texts in Venetian, then a recognized literary language rather than a mere Italian dialect. Most of these...

These previously unnoticed chamber duets for various pairs of voices and basso continuo are among the most original compositions from the pen of Diogenio Bigaglia (1678-1745), the Venetian monk who wa...

These previously unnoticed chamber duets for various pairs of voices and basso continuo are among the most original compositions from the pen of Diogenio Bigaglia (1678-1745), the Venetian monk who wa...

Henry Holcombe (1690-1756), born in Chester as the son of a silk weaver, became between 1720 and his death one of the leading English composers in small-scale forms, mainly vocal but also instrumental...

Cast in two parts, this cycle of seven songs represents a kind of musical portrait of an American poet – much admired by Robert Frost – whose reputation as a master of verse, and of the sonnet in part...

Henry Holcombe (1690–1756), born in Chester as the son of a silk weaver, became between 1720 and his death one of the leading English composers in small-scale forms, mainly vocal but also instrumental...

This evocative new album of modern, catchy piano miniatures in a mixture of styles — jazz, latin, classical — cannot fail to excite the imagination of all young beginner pianists. The pieces will be g...

Diving into musical genres from around the world, Barbara Snow has produced another colourful and eclectic collection of piano miniatures, with influences from blues, jump jive, ragtime, latin, disco,...

Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) was the reputed father of the instrumental concerto; what is not widely known is that he also composed sacred vocal music. Discovered in 2001, when the Berlin Sing-Akademi...

Seyfried uses the same key as the Requiem, its distinctive orchestral sonority and quotes two passages from Mozart's work prompted by clauses in the liturgical text. The 'Libera me' was widely used in...

The ten motets (Concerti sacri) for solo voice, violins and continuo making up his Op. 3 (1703) are among his most attractive compositions, standing on the borderline between seventeenth-century bel c...