Gaetan Jarry - Grands MotetsAlthough celebrated for opera and harpsichord in his fifties, Rameau had formerly been first and foremost a master of sacred music. These works, composed between 1712 and 1721 when he was in his thirties, are marvels of balance, fully bearing the seeds of the splendor that Rameau would later display on the Parisian opera scene. In the French tradition of Lully and Lalande, which places the sacred text at the heart of a sumptuous musical performance,

L'arpa festante and Rien Voskuilen have put together an exquisite selection with orchestral music from this repertoire for the present release: two concertos for oboes and trumpets and two Overtures for transverse flute in the French style

Highlights: "Hypnotize

Grammy award-winning Scruggs died in 2012 at the age of 88

David Leisner - Complete Solo Guitar Works

wing-turns and nose-dives which are fairly terrifying for the soloist' - and indeed both works here stretch the technique of any clarinetist to the limit

Petersburg as a court musician

The "Vespro della Beata Vergine" by Bonifazio Graziani opens a rich world of vocal music

who already successfully recorded similar repertoire for Brilliant Classics: Organ Alternatim Masses by Merulo

though records like "Whole Lotta Nothing

traditional singing with piano and vibrato guitar producing a sound akin to an Indigenous Norah Jones

Wishful Thinking

fiddling of an artist at the top of her game