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Les Vents Français: Moderniste cover
MILHAUD / JOLIVET / MAGNARD / HERSANT / etc
Les Vents Français: Moderniste
Les Vents Français
"Overall, a stylistically thought-provoking collection into which can be read as much about the governing...
$27.00
Ombra mai fu: Francesco Cavalli Opera Arias cover
FRANCESCO CAVALLI
Ombra mai fu: Francesco Cavalli Opera Arias
Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) / Ensemble Artaserse, with Emöke Baráth (soprano)
The French countertenor leads Artaserse in a kaleidoscopic survey of the many and varied operas by the...
$33.00

New From Signum

Supersize Polyphany cover
ALESSANDRO STRIGGIO / THOMAS TALLIS / etc
Supersize Polyphany
Armonico Consort, Christopher Monks (musical director), Choir of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge $32.00
The Hymns Album, Vol. 2 cover
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Hymns Album, Vol. 2
Huddersfield Choral Society $32.00
Perpetual Twilight cover
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Perpetual Twilight
The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin, Desmond Earley $32.00
Roxanna Panufnik: Love Abide cover
ROXANNA PANUFNIK
Roxanna Panufnik: Love Abide
Colla Voce Singers, London Mozart Players, Lee Ward $32.00
» Browse a selection of Signum choral titles

L'arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar

Himmelsmusik [Deluxe package] cover
THEILE / J. C. BACH / BUTNER / SCHUTZ / BERTOLI / etc
Himmelsmusik [Deluxe package]
Celine Scheen (soprano) Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) / L'arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar (theorbo & direction) $33.00
Mediterraneo cover
TRADITIONAL
Mediterraneo
Christina Pluhar / L'arpeggiata, featuring Misia $25.00
Music for a While: Improvisations on Purcell cover
PURCELL
Music for a While: Improvisations on Purcell
Philippe Jaroussky, Raquel Andueza, Vincenzo Capezzuto, Dominique Visse, Trovesi, Muthspiel / L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar $25.00
Handel Goes Wild cover
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel Goes Wild
Christina Pluhar / L'arpeggiata, featuring Valer Sabadus (counter-tenor) & Nuria Rial (soprano) $30.00
» L'arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar - top sellers

The 50 Best Of Series

50 Best Adagios [3 CD special price] cover
50 BEST ADAGIOS
50 Best Adagios [3 CD special price]
Various Artists including Mikhail Pletnev (piano), Paul Tortelier (cello), Sabine Meyer (clarinet) & David Daniels (counter-tenor) $25.00
50 Best Opera Classics [3 CDs special price] cover
50 BEST OPERA
50 Best Opera Classics [3 CDs special price]
Beverly Sills, Renata Scotto, Montserrat Caballe, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Maria Callas, etc $25.00
50 Best Relaxing Piano (3 Disc) cover
50 BEST RELAXING PIANO
50 Best Relaxing Piano (3 Disc)
Various artists incls Piotr Anderszewski, Leif Ove Andsnes, Daniel Barenboim, Bertrand Chamayou, Aldo Ciccolini, Samson François, Hélène Grimaud, etc $25.00
50 Best Rostropovich (3 Disc) cover
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
50 Best Rostropovich (3 Disc)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) [with Leonard Bernstein, David Oistrakh, Seiji Ozawa, George Szell & others] $25.00
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New Releases from Harmonia Mundi

Vivaldi: Sonatas for violoncello & basso cover
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Sonatas for violoncello & basso
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), with Michael Behringer, Lee Santana, Christoph Dangel $35.00
Haydn: Concerti Per Esterhazy cover
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Concerti Per Esterhazy
Amandine Beyer (violin), Marco Ceccato (cello), Gli Incogniti $35.00
Debussy: Les Trois Sonates, The Late Debussy cover
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Les Trois Sonates, The Late Debussy
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Javier Perianes (piano), etc $35.00
Miserere mei Deus - Funeral Motets & Deplorations cover
JOSQUIN DES PREZ
Miserere mei Deus - Funeral Motets & Deplorations
Cappella Amsterdam & Daniel Reuss $35.00

New Eloquence Titles for June

Bach: Goldberg Variations cover
J. S. BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations
George Malcolm (harpsichord) $18.00
Scriabin: Piano Works [5 CD set] cover
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Piano Works [5 CD set]
Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano) $45.00
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Capriccio espagnol cover
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Capriccio espagnol
London Symphony Orchestra, Igor Markevitch, with Erich Gruenberg, solo violin (Scheherazade) $18.00
Wagner: Orchestral Music [incls 'Siegfried Idyll'] cover
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Orchestral Music [incls 'Siegfried Idyll']
The MET Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker (Siegfried Idyll), James Levine $25.00

Gramophone Picks August 2019

Salieri: Tarare cover
ANTONIO SALIERI
Salieri: Tarare
Cyrille Dubois, Jean-Sebastian Bou, Karine Deshayes / Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset $45.00
Landini: L'Occhio del Cor cover
FRANCISCO LANDINI
Landini: L'Occhio del Cor
The Heart's Eye / La Reverdie, Christophe Deslignes $35.00
Howells: Cello Concerto / An English Mass cover
HERBERT HOWELLS
Howells: Cello Concerto / An English Mass
Guy Johnston (cello), Stephen Cleobury (organ) Britten Sinfonia, King's College Choir Cambridge, King's Voices, Christopher Seaman $35.00
Janácek: The diary of one who disappeared & other works cover
LEOS JANACEK
Janácek: The diary of one who disappeared & other works
Nicky Spence (tenor), Julius Drake (piano) $30.00

Boxed Sets For Every Collection

Field: Piano Concertos, Nocturnes, Sonatas cover
JOHN FIELD
Field: Piano Concertos, Nocturnes, Sonatas
Benjamin Frith (piano), Northern Sinfonia, David Haslam $50.00
Matthias Goerne Schubert Edition cover
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Matthias Goerne Schubert Edition
Matthias Goerne (baritone), Andreas Haefliger (piano) Christoph Eschenbach (piano) & Elsabeth Leonskaja (soprano) $70.00
The Complete Bruckner Symphonies cover
BRUCKNER
The Complete Bruckner Symphonies
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Georg Tintner, conductor $83.00
Claude Debussy: The Complete Works cover
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Claude Debussy: The Complete Works
Quatuor Ebene, Martha Argerich, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Samson François, Renaud Capuçon, Natalie Dessay, André Cluytens, François-Xavier Roth, etc $145.00

Recent Boxed Sets

Leonard Bernstein Remastered cover
BARTOK / MAHLER / BEETHOVEN / GERSHWIN / IVES / STRAVINSKY / BERNSTEIN / etc
Leonard Bernstein Remastered
Isaac Stern (violin) Philippe Entremont (piano) Andre Watts (piano) / Various orchestras, Leonard Bernstein $225.00
Jacqueline du Pre: The Great Recordings cover
ELGAR / DVORAK / MONN / HAYDN / BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / etc
Jacqueline du Pre: The Great Recordings
Jacqueline du Pré (cello), with Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Daniel Barenboim (piano) and many others $120.00
John Williams Conductor cover
WILLIAMS / MORRICONE / BONFA / PREVIN / BERNSTEIN / LEGRAND / etc
John Williams Conductor
Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell (violins) Yo Yo Ma (cello) / Pittsburg Symphjony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, John Williams $166.00
Christa Ludwig: The Complete Recitals on Warner Classics cover
SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / MAHLER / GLUCK / REGER / etc
Christa Ludwig: The Complete Recitals on Warner Classics
Christa Ludwig (mezzo) with Walter Berry (bass-baritone) Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Geoffrey Parsons, Gerald Moore, Leonard Bernstein (pianos) $63.00