Vocal CDs

On Sept.15, 2011, internationally acclaimed tenor Andrea Bocelli gave a once in a lifetime, free concert as a gift to New York City on Central Park's Great Lawn. The spectacular event was captured for CD/DVD, making for the ultimate Bocelli collection, appealing to both loyal fans and new admirers a...

On Sept.15, 2011, internationally acclaimed tenor Andrea Bocelli gave a once in a lifetime, free concert as a gift to New York City on Central Park's Great Lawn. The spectacular event was captured for CD/DVD, making for the ultimate Bocelli collection, appealing to both loyal fans and new admirers a...

Victoria’s Lamentations Of Jeremiah is The Tallis Scholars’ 50th recording for its own Gimell label. The world renowned Tallis Scholars celebrate their 30th anniversary with some of Victoria’s most intense, mystical & moving music, ranking alongside the Requiem as one...

Marking the centenary of Kathleen Ferrier's birth, Diane Perelsztejn's specially-extended feature-length film traces the remarkable life - and tragically brief career - of one of the greatest singers of all time. Drawing on recently-discovered material, and supported by a companion CD featuring unre...

Already certified platinum in their native Italy Il Volo showcases the astonishing vocal talent of Piero Barone (17 years old), Ignazio Boschetto (16 years old), and Gianluca Ginoble (16 years old. 'Il Volo's 12 tracks include both classic and new compositions. This special Christmas Edition of '...

Wicked Game is the sixth studio album by the operatic pop group, Il Divo. Carlos describes the recording of the new album as "unbelievable - you can really hear the evolution. And that connection between us, the way that the combination produces magic, it's stronger than ever." Urs said he believ...

Rhino Records is pleased to announce their latest signing, ‘The Soldiers’ – real-life Soldiers Sergeant Major Gary Chilton, Sergeant Richie Maddocks and Lance Corporal Ryan Idzi. Part of the album’s proceeds are planned to go directly to charities including Help For Heroes...

The multi-faceted German coloratura soprano, who has been described as "the Meryl Streep of classical music" shows her vocal and dramatic range with this collection of arias from the 19th and 20th centuries. "Diana Damrau is the most thrilling high soprano of our day" — ...

A Portrait of Renata Tebaldi is a special limited edition 2-CD set with a 68-page hardback book. The book contains full details of Renata Tebaldi's entire Decca discography while the CDs feature Renata Tebaldi in many of her most celebrated roles and chart her recording career from 1949 to 1968. ...

"the vigour and extreme originality of the score is realized...the best reason for acquiring this set is for Pavarotti's delightfully airy and confident Duke of Mantua. Surpassing even his own breezy account for Bonynge, the tireless tenor adds little touches of character and nuances of tone to brin...

Hamburg, 1674: to his contemporaries, the death of Matthias Weckmann seemed to herald the end of a glorious period. In his post as organist of the Jacobikirche since 1655, the composer had breathed new life into the city’s musical scene with his Collegium Musicum. Among his finest sacred works...

As the sensual centrepiece of an album of 20th century French vocal masterpieces, Renée Fleming makes her first-ever recording of Ravel's ravishing Shéhérazade. Complementing Shéhérazade is Olivier Messiaen's collection of love songs to his young wife, the Poèmes pour Mi - a tour de force of volu...

'Daydream' is the sensational new album from the record-breaking multi-platinum-selling mezzo soprano, Katherine Jenkins. The compelling Welsh singer returns to her musical roots on her eighth studio album which is her most personal to date. Incorporating songs that have inspired her, from folk and ...

It's not widely known that Bach’s great mass wasn’t originally conceived as a single entity. Indeed, when he presented the Elector of Saxony Friedrich August II with a score of his ‘Missa’ in B minor in 1733, it consisted of only Kyrie and Gloria, the first two parts of the m...

To create what became his most popular oratorio, Handel chose Biblical excerpts telling the story of Christ's birth, death and resurrection. In this 2006 live performance Sir Colin Davis returned to the work he had first recorded in 1966. The stirring new account is sure to set the standard for year...

The second in Harmonia Mundi’s Winterreise triptych is again presented by a tenor, the lyric-voiced Werner Gura, but using a Rönisch fortepiano of 1872, played by Christoph Berner. Winterreise, composed in 1827, is the embodiment of Romanticism in music, the ultimate expression of ‘...

 One of the leading baritones and dramatic interpreters of his generation, Gerald Finley is an artist who sets alight the stage and delights the ear in whatever the role he portrays. On this (his first arias disc, and first for Opera in English) he explores a broad range of repertory: old fa...

 Praised for her exquisite recordings for Hyperion and hailed as one of the most original interpreters of the music of J.S. Bach since Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt has surpassed her usual high standards in this astonishing set of The Well-Tempered Clavier. Critical response to th...

A must-have for choral-aficionados everywhere that sees perhaps the world finest a-cappella ensemble The King's Singers join forces with The Concordia Choir - one of the USA's best collegiate groups - to perform works by world-class choral composers Eric Whitacre, Bob Chilcott and Morten Lauridsen. ...

The Christmas Gift is a wonderful collection of 12 Christmas carols and songs such as O Holy Night, The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on An Open Fire), Silent Night, The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year and Silver Bells, with two very different songs, Merry Christmas Darling and Sing (the Christ...

While still in her mid-twenties, Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins emerged as Britain's all-time best-selling classical artist, although critics charged her success was more a result of physical beauty than musical talent. Born June 29, 1980, in Neath, West Glamorgan, Wales, Jenkins fell under t...

Melt with pleasure at the glorious voice of Teddy Tahu Rhodes and his brand new Best of Album. Born in New Zealand, Teddy Tahu Rhodes is now one of the most sought after bass baritones in the world. His performance as The Toreador in Bizet's "Carmen" at The Metropolitan Opera in New York hailed a...

The forthcoming season marks the 10th anniversary of Anna Netrebko’s debut with the Metropolitan Opera, New York. The new album celebrates this milestone by bringing together her greatest MET moments throughout the past 10 seasons - performances never before issued on record and most never commercia...

A 6 disc collection of 100 Best Hymns, from EMI Classics

One of music's inherent conflicts is that of control. A musician will throw their emotions and creativity into a piece of work, fine-tuning it over the process of several months or even years. And yet the moment the work is placed in the public domain, that control is irreversibly and eternally gone...

 Few choirs in the world today offer greater precision, musicianship and sheer beauty of sound than The Sixteen. This collection offers the great anthems of English Choral Music over the past 100 years, part of the Cathedral Music tradition which (alongside the Anglican Hymn) is widely consi...

At the beginning of the year Naïve announced the signing of an exclusive contract with the singer Anne Sofie von Otter. Diversity and discovery are the hallmark of this collaboration: the Swedish mezzosoprano has chosen to make her first recording for Naïve with the jazz pianist Brad Mehld...

For its fourth recording, Stile Antico spotlights the work of the great Tudor master John Sheppard. Once overshadowed by his illustrious contemporary Thomas Tallis, Sheppard is now recognized as a composer of extraordinary originality. The program displays his genius across the range of genres in wh...

Britain's most exciting soprano, Laura Wright, is back with her second solo studio album, ‘Glorious.’ In 2011, Laura became one of the biggest selling classical artists in the UK, out-selling some of the world's biggest classical names. Now aged 21, Laura has sold over 1 million albums to date. ...

This magnificent collection features the greatest stars of opera including Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Cecilia Bartoli, Andrea Bocelli and many more. A number of exciting new artists are showcased, including ElînaGaranèa, Joseph Calleja and Aleksandra Kurza...

Classical 2012 allows you to sample some of the finest new recordings of the year and introduce yourself to some of the most exciting new talents in the world of classical music today. Discover just why artists such as pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, guitarist Milos, and singers Aleksander Kurz...

"A breath of fresh air, this recital... This is the best debut disc for a long time" - Opera magazine

A poignant three hour musical journey throughout Sacred music from the Medieval Gregorian chants to XXth Century Barber's Agnus Dei.

After twenty-seven years of world-wide performance and recording, The Sixteen is recognized as one of the world's greatest vocal ensembles. Its special reputation for performing masterpieces of the Renaissance and a diversity of 20th century music is drawn from the passions of conductor and founder,...

After twenty-seven years of world-wide performance and recording, The Sixteen is recognized as one of the world's greatest vocal ensembles. Its special reputation for performing masterpieces of the Renaissance and a diversity of 20th century music is drawn from the passions of conductor and founder,...

Recorded at Auckland Town Hall, New Zealand on 5 and 12 July and 18 September 2011. Musica Sacra’s debut performance was a Christmas concert in December 1998 at St Michael’s, Remuera, and since then the choir’s annual Christmas concert, almost always on the last Saturday before Christmas, has bec...

While Kiri Te Kanawa was still preparing for that career-defining debut as the Countess, she made a first Mozart disc under Colin Davis: a collection of sacred music, including the Solemn Vespers, KV 339, with its serene setting of ‘Laudate Dominum’, and Exsultate, jubilate. The Countess became the ...

The Concert Spirituel was one of the first public concert series in existence, beginning in Paris in 1725, ending in 1790. It was founded to provide entertainment during Lent & on religious holidays when the other spectacles (Opera etc.) were closed, featuring a mixture of sacred choral works &a...