Enjoy the full range of one of the oldest instruments from the western music tradition. Travel back to the renaissance on the wings of the beautiful acoustics in which these recordings where made and head back to modern times to see how nowadays music is inspired and fuelled by centuries of musical tradition and history.

Matthijs van der Moolen, Sackbut (Baroque Trombone)

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Miguel Ulla, Countertenor & Percussion
Carlos Cantero, Theorbo & Baroque Guitar

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Sabine Meyer is one of today’s most renowned instrumental soloists, and has made a major contribution to the international fame of the clarinet. Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto is ‘the finest work ever written for a wind instrument’, she says: ‘beside it, everything else takes a back seat’.

Of course, she has already recorded this masterpiece before. But she is now keener than ever to use the specific instrument for which it was written, the basset clarinet, and her encounter with the conductor Giovanni Antonini, whose background is in ‘historically informed performance’, convinced her to offer a new recording, made in 2022 with the Kammerorchester Basel. Together they have found new colors in this concerto, which she considers ‘so profound and so rich in expression and compositional ideas that one rediscovers it each time’.

Sabine Meyer, Clarinet
Kammerorchester Basel
Giovanni Antonini, Conductor

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I Giardini is a collective of inspired and committed artists united around a common sensibility, an unusually strong unity of purpose, and a shared joy in onstage performance. They were nominated for the 2021 Victoires de la musique Classique Award.

Gabriel Faure has always used his music to embellish existing poems, so here we have chosen to replace the texts with the voice of the cello, which is said to be so close to the human voice. – I Giardini.

Giving priority to the musical excellence, the Group’s two co-founders and artistic directors, cellist Pauline Buet and pianist David Violi have made a space for freedom and for the exploration of a unique romantic world, inspired by the past, from Fauré and Bonis to Chausson, Poulenc and Schumann, but also rooted in the present through their collaboration with leading international women composers, such as the American Caroline Shaw and Anglo-French Josephine Stephenson.

Pauline Buet, Cello 
David Violi, Piano 
I Giardini

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With Miguel Ulla we introduce also Soloists from “L’Accademico Formato” including for this recording baroque violin players Juan Utrera and Teresa Bartolomé. At the organ, Javier Jiménez. Following this short EP, we are going to present a first world recording of the “Cantate Spirituale” by Leonardo Leo, (1694-1744) in two volumes.

Miguel Ulla, Countertenor
Javier Jiménez, Organ 
L’Accademico Formato Soloists

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HR Recordings is proud to welcome John Bryden to our artist roster. As a start to his coming new recordings we present here a program of the beautiful 3 Intermezzos op.117 by Johannes Brahms.

This album has been made on a fully restored Bechstein Klavier from 1899 at the HR Recordings music room in Madrid. The next full album program by John will be dedicated to the music of Franz Schubert.

John Bryden, Klavier

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The DSD EP is the latest release of the Kennedy Center’s ongoing series of music by their Composer-in-Residence Carlos Simon. It is Exclusively Available in Stereo and 5 Channel Surround Sound DSD 256, DSD 128, DSD 64 and Stereo DSD 512 from NativeDSD. 

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Master pianist Nicolas van Poucke, called “a true poetic musician” by the Volkskrant, returns to the Small Hall with an eclectic program; Sweelinck, Mozart, and Debussy.

Van Poucke opens with Sweelinck’s melancholy Variations on Mein Junges Leben hat ein End and from Debussy you will hear the beautiful Reflets dans l’eau.

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Nicolas van Poucke, Piano

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On the specially priced DSD EP Campanella, guitarist Sean Shibe performs pieces by jazz musicians Chick Corea and Avishai Cohen, all arranged by his friend and fellow guitarist Forbes Henderson.

Corea’s Children’s Songs and Cohen’s Remembering share a gentle playfulness and introspective simplicity, enhanced by Shibe’s intimate performance on classical guitar. 

Campanella literally means “little bell” in Spanish, and the word refers to the way the bassline overlaps with the upper line throughout the arrangement of Avisha’s piece, creating a bell effect.

Sean Shibe, Guitar

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The ripple effects of the war in Ukraine are extending human suffering far beyond its borders, exacerbating a global crisis unseen in at least a generation. Morten Jessen began composing KYIV shortly after war began, inspired by the courage and strength of Kyiv’s defenders. While he was composing his piece, he corespondent with the Ukrainian priest Viktor Marynchak who held services in the darkness of the Kharkiv subway during Russias’ six-month siege of the city.

Ukrainian violinist Natalia Gordeyeva learned of Jessen’s composition and felt her own story reflected in the music and contacted the composer. Since then, the two have collaborated closely on a series of charity concerts for Ukraine, performing at venues such as the National Museum in Copenhagen, Elsinore Cathedral, Radio and Television in Denmark, and for the Danish Prime minister, Parliament and the Danish King Frederik X and Queen Mary.

The piece is also scheduled to be performed in Ukraine on a Tour in Ukraine in May, including concerts in Kyiv Philharmonic and Lviv Philharmonic Hall.

Morten Jessen is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, founder of the Nordic Church Ensemble and organist at Høsterkøb Church in North Zealand. Throughout his works he has explored the effect of sacred spaces on musical sound and many of his works strive to create a dreamy and timeless expression.

Born in Kyiv, violinist Natalia Gordeyeva performed her first solo recital at the age of 7. At the age of 10 she performed as a soloist with the Kyiv Camerata chamber orchestra. She would continue her meteoric rise becoming an in-demand soloist and chamber partner, and later, teacher of her own academy. Following the Invasion of Ukraine, she evacuated to Denmark and committed herself to promoting Ukrainian culture in Europe. She was quickly re-established as a brilliant musician and performed at the numerous Ukraine-supporting events and charity concerts.

Morten Jessen, Piano & Composer
Natalia Gordeyeva, Violin

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