Diamand Ensemble

Łódź Baroque Orchestra Altberg Ensemble is an early music ensemble founded in 2017 by cellist Jakub Kościukiewicz, who specializes in historically informed performance of baroque music.

"Jubilation vénitienne" is an invitation to celebrate joy with two outstanding composers: Antonio Caldara and Antonio Vivaldi. By establishing a dialogue between their two musical worlds, this program aims to recreate, in all it's diversity of colors, a concert in Baroque Venice where children's voices combine with the singing of the flautino, the oboe, the trumpet and the strings, in an explosion of joy and jubilation.

"Jubilation vénitienne" is an invitation to celebrate joy with two outstanding composers: Antonio Caldara and Antonio Vivaldi. By establishing a dialogue between their two musical worlds, this program aims to recreate, in all it's diversity of colors, a concert in Baroque Venice where children's voices combine with the singing of the flautino, the oboe, the trumpet and the strings, in an explosion of joy and jubilation.

Deux Te Deum en miroir : celui, très célèbre, de Marc-Antoine Charpentier ; et celui, totalement inédit, d’Henry Desmarest.

Australian early music group the Elysium Ensemble continue their series of recordings of duos on period instruments focussing on the art of elegant conversation in the Baroque with this album of canons and fantasias by Georg Philipp Telemann.

This comic opera by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, inspired by the famous novel by Cervantes, stages the welcome reserved for Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Pança by the Duke and Duchess, eager to afford their heads.

A Ravel of all colors by the Sesame Set! Ravel fascinates as much as he questions: absolute genius of music, idealist, he draws relentlessly from his roots, mixing like an alchemist his original accents with dreaminess and exoticism.

Ravel is as fascinating as mysterious: as an absolute music genius and an idealist, he draws his inspiration from his origins and mixes his original accents with the dreamy and the exotic like an alchemist. By exploring all of his compositions for instrumental chamber music, this album by Ensemble Sésame aims to reflect his endless orchestral colors, nuancing sometimes lively and rhythmic flavours and sometimes sweet and spicy.

The most comprehensive survey ever assembled on record of a major Russian composer working in the post-Soviet school of simplicity and transcendence. Vladimir Martynov (born 1946) is one of the leading composers of the Russian avant-garde, an experimentalist of serial, minimalist and electronic music. His ethno-musicological studies into the folk music of Russia, his philosophical and religious ideas and his great knowledge of Renaissance polyphony as well as Orthodox Chant all inspired his compositions. His principles are: commitment to traditional rules; modality as a constant feature of musical language; and repetitiveness as a means of immersion in states of prayer, mantra, and ritual in general. This set, compiled for his 75th birthday, presents sacred vocal works: performed by famous musicians from the composer’s close circle: pianist Alexei Lubimov, Tatiana Grindenko, the Sirin Choir, Op Posth Ensemble, Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble and others.

So why is this album called Pomegranate? Many reasons… it's powerful and symbolic - Persephone ate pomegranate seeds in Hades and that meant she had to stay in Hades and created the four seasons. It is argued that it was a pomegranate, not an apple, that tempted Eve, there are many references to pomegranates in the Old Testament and is important to Jewish cultural history. Pomegranate grows like a miracle out of dry dusty land, grows in most of the countries where we are taking our inspiration from and it is important and symbolic to nearly all those places. They are a fruit, their juice is sweet but tart and they are used in both savoury dishes and desserts and they have large appeal and they are full of antioxidants that have a great benefit for all of us (like we hope our music has too…!)