Simonetta Heger - Six Viennese Sonatas For Violin & Basso ContinuoGiovanni Battista Sammartini attained a leading role in Milan's music scene in the 18th century, his career extending from the height of the Baroque era to the Classical worlds of Mozart and Haydn by his death in 1775. Appearing here in world premiere recordings, these works appear to belong to Sammartini's early period, including a four movement example that recollects archaic church sonata form. Full of fascinating stylistic quirks, these sonatas

including shimmering layers of electroacoustic harp (Lara Somogyi)

Bloch's latest album for ARS PRODUKTION commemorates the 190th anniversary of Schubert's death

on a libretto by William Ashbrook from the play by Chekhov

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In 2023 the Bayerisches Staatsorchester is marking the five-hundredth anniversary of it's formation with a series of releases by a number of it's outstanding ensembles

dance-songs were censured and prohibited

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creating a soundscape that is thoroughly unfamiliar in the context of Bach

rounds off this CD

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