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We released 1,811 albums (7,767 tracks) in Classical Music Library from a wide variety of labels, including Bel Canto Society, Bridge, Cantolopera, Gimell, Haenssler Classic, Lyrichord, Mark Custom, Mode Records, New Albion, North/South, Wirripang, and more. 

New content includes artists and ensembles such as: The Tallis Scholars, Stables Ensemble, Beniamino Gigli, Auer String Quartet, Virginia Wind Symphony, Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic, The Wellesley Chamber Singers, Amadeus Guitar Duo, Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra of Leipzig, and more. 

Sample new albums include:

• "On the Wire: Australian Music for Flute Ensemble"
• "Beniamino Gigli: Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci"
• "Seven Improvisations: Music for Solo Percussion"
• "Moods: Piano Music by American Women Composers"
• "Choral Music of the Great Spanish Masters"
• "Grieg: Orchestral Works/Piano Concerto"
• "Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 9 & 15"

Christoph Willibald Ritter Von Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice," Acts 2 and 3

Christoph Willibald Ritter Von Gluck (1714-1787) was a Bohemian composer whose operas helped the genre come into its own. Through the 1760s, Gluck collaborated with a Tuscan poet, Ranieri Calzabigi, who wrote the libretto for "Orfeo et Euridice."

This album contains Acts Two and Three of the opera presented two weeks ago and is performed by Collegium Instrumentale Brugensis.

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Christoph Willibald Ritter Von Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice"

Christoph Willibald Ritter Von Gluck (1714-1787) was a Bohemian composer whose operas helped the genre come into its own. Through the 1760s, Gluck collaborated with a Tuscan poet, Ranieri Calzabigi, who wrote the libretto for "Orfeo et Euridice."

This recording is performed by Collegium Instrumentale Brugensis.

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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater"

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) was an Italian composer. His most famous and controversial work, the Stabat Mater was composed at Pozzuoli, shortly before his death in 1736.

This recording is performed by the Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine & Children's chorus of the Opéra national de Paris

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Antonio Vivaldi's "La Primavera (The Four Seasons: Spring)"

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was an Italian composer. He used the various instruments in the Spring concerto to paint a pastoral image. The solo violin depicts a sleeping shepherd, the orchestral violins represent a quickly-moving stream, and the viola alludes to a vigilant sheepdog.

This recording is performed by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Jean-Pierre Wallez, soloist.

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Sergey Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov's "Cello Sonata, Op. 19"

Sergey Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873-1943) was a Russian composer and pianist. As in many of his compositions, in the Cello Sonata, the piano accompaniment echoes the melodic line and plays as significant part as the cello.

This recording was performed by Daria Hovora & Aleth Lamasse.

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"Gypsy Davy" by Margaret MacArthur

"Gypsy Davy" by Margaret MacArthur from the album "Folksongs of Vermont" (FW05314)

Born in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, Margaret MacArthur spent her childhood moving around the western United States. Her first contact with folk music came in 1933, when her father began work at an Arizona timber company with displaced cowboys and folk singers who had collected songs throughout their travels. In 1948 MacArthur moved to Vermont, where she gathered the songs presented here from churches, friends, and broadsides found near her farm. When speaking of her death, Margaret MacArthur’s granddaughter Robin wrote, "On her deathbed she was sick with morphine, most of her memory gone, but she could still remember the lyrics to any ballad we asked her to sing. This music had etched itself into her soul; song and landscape and self had twined into a fabric that was lasting, resounding, and full of grace."

 

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Joseph Fernando Macari Sor's "Etude No. 13"

Joseph Fernando Macari Sor (1778-1839) was a Spanish composer. He lived in Paris during the Napoleonic Wars. He was very well-known for his ariettas and his book of guitar methods. His vocal compositions influenced his guitar compositions, which in turn, helped build his guitar repertoire. In this etude, his use of melody is similar to the use of melody in hisvocal pieces.

This recording is performed by Michel Dintrich, guitar.

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Free Download: Johann Sebastian Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, BWV 1047"

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a German composer and organist.

Bach wrote the Brandenburg Concertos over a period of several years and compiled them for the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721. The Concertos show Bach veering from the standard concerto grosso and featuring solo instruments instead. The Concerto No. 2 is likely Bach's last orchestral work.
This recording is performed by the Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra, Norbert Matern, oboe, Vassil Ivanov, viola, and Jean de Ridder, trumpet.

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Free Download: Claude Debussy's "La Mer, 3 symphonic sketches"

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) is a French composer. His music was greatly influenced by turn of the century French painting and sculpture. In fact, the orchestral triptych "La Mer" was called "Impressionistic" by members of the Institut de France.

This recording is performed by Orchestre Philharmonique des Pays de Loire, Marc Soustrot, conductor.

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