BIRDS in Baroque Music

The first album of soprano Dorothee Mields and the South African recorder player Stefan Temmingh titled Inspired by Song was equally and highly praised by audiences and critics alike and convinced with "considerable artistic value". Bird voices in the Baroque music are the focal point of the new common CD. With works by Couperin, Fedeli, Rameau, Keiser, and famous Concerto "Il Gardel Lino" (The Goldfinch), Mields together with Temmingh, the gentleman's band, and musicians of the La Folia magnificent Baroque Orchestra produce stunning musical bird songs of a nightingale, goldfinch, cuckoo, chickens, pigeons and various other birds.

Release date: 6th Nov 2015

TRUMPET Recital

Hungarian trumpeter Tamás Pálfalvis debut CD presents an intriguing blend of the old and new with creative transcriptions of Baroque and Classical era concertos, along with rarely recorded modern pieces by Mauricio Kagel , György Ligeti and more. Pálfalvis impressive handling of his trumpet and his daring choices for his debut release make this a promising debut and his gift one to watch and listen for.
Release date: 1st Oct 2015

HANDEL Operatic works

The emphasis for this album is very much on youth and prodigious talent: at 25, Julia Lezhneva is ideally suited to the soprano arias of the young Handel, who arrived in Italy from Germany as a 21 year old at the beginning of the 18th century.

She has the perfect partners in Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini whose recordings of music from the Italian baroque are celebrated for their “fizzing virtuosity” and “exquisite cushion of sound” (The Independent). For some tracks the orchestra is led by Dmitry Sinkovsky, the extraordinary Russian violinist and one of today’s most versatile Baroque musicians.

Release date: 6th Nov 2015

The music encompasses the best of Handel’s operatic and religious works from his years in Florence and Rome: the operas Rodrigo and Agrippina and the oratorios Il Trionfo and La Resurrezione as well as the complete Salve Regina and soprano solo from Dixit Dominus. Best known is the radiant “Lascia la spina” from Il Trionfo and its later incarnation as “Lascia ch'io pianga” from the opera Rinald.o

The recording was made in the famously musical and historic Italian city of Cremona in the beautiful auditorium of the Museo del Violino.