JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: THE FIRST CANTATA YEAR. 2 CDs / Vol. 3. BWV 105, 46, 179, 199. 3, 69. 1, 77, 25, 119. GAECHINGER CANTOREY // HANS-CHRISTOPH RADEMANN- This is the third in a series of ten... more

With his song cycle, Die schöne Müllerin op. 25, published in Vienna in August 1824, Franz Schubert created one of the first song cycles in music history. It is a real cycle, not just a loose... more

The first volume in this series of Erich J. Wolff's complete songs introduces a composer of astonishing gifts, whose Romanticism is as daring as his formal sophistication. Wolff's serene, lyrical and... more

The liberation of the people of Israel from slavery in Egypt, recounted in the Book of Exodus, has often been set to music. The works of Telemann and Rolle are based on the same subject, and even... more

In London in 1736, the Baroque genius Handel celebrated the power of music with his oratorio about Alexander the Great, one of the greatest successes of his life. Covent Garden was never so full as... more