Pizzicato awards its top rating of 5/5 to Garden After Midnight. Discover Candor Piano Trio’s Da Vinci Classics debut through Granados, Różycki, Chapí and Philipp Scharwenka, with a video of Granados’s Duetto.
Silvia Mazzon and Francesca Vidal explore Rebecca Clarke’s music for viola and piano, from the dramatic sweep of the 1919 Sonata to Morpheus and six shorter pieces.
Il Pettirosso brings Corelli’s first six Op. 5 sonatas to the recorder in a world-premiere recording of an eighteenth-century transcription preserved in Parma.
A recording can suggest connections that extend beyond sound. In episode 67 of Allegro, con Brio!, Gabriele Formenti meets Maurizio Di Chio and Nicola Pignatiello to introduce Baroque Flowers, their Da Vinci Classics album bringing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music into dialogue with flower painting. Baroque FlowersMaurizio Di Chio · Nicola PignatielloDa Vinci Classics · C01216 […]
Carlo Fierens’s Napoléon Coste: Complete Guitar Works, Vol. 7 — Pièces de Concert II has received five stars in the October 2026 issue of Musica. Writing on page 88, Roberto Brusotti praises a performance that brings the expressive range of Coste’s concert music into focus: its harmonic richness, theatrical imagination and capacity for intimacy. Carlo […]
Francesco Maria Moncher has completed the recording of the second volume of Five Elements for Da Vinci Classics. Following Acqua, the pianist turns to Terra: a programme that brings together French, German and Scandinavian repertoire to explore the relationship between the piano and the natural world. At the piano during the recording sessions for Terra. […]
Antonio Vivaldi’s La costanza trionfante degl’amori e de gl’odii, recorded by Romina Basso, Ann Hallenberg, I Barocchisti and Diego Fasolis for Da Vinci, has been nominated in the Opera I category of the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik Long List 4/2026. Romina Basso · Ann HallenbergI Barocchisti · Diego FasolisÉlus Antiqua · CE1178 Published on 5 […]
In the Venice of the Seicento – a city suspended between political power, intellectual freedom, theatres and salons – Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677) stands out as one of the most compelling musical voices of her time. Composer, singer, probably violist and almost certainly the author of many of her own texts, she crafted a body of […]
Federico Moreno Torroba (1891–1982) remains one of the defining voices of the guitar repertoire, celebrated for the melodic strength and rhythmic refinement that make his music instantly recognisable. Far from being limited to musicological analysis, Torroba’s works demand an understanding grounded in performance practice—especially the tradition shaped by Andrés Segovia, who premiered many of these […]
Emilie Mayer (1812–1883) was one of the most prolific women composers of the nineteenth century and a central figure in German instrumental music. Trained first in Friedland and Stettin, where she studied with Carl Loewe, and later in Berlin with Adolph Bernhard Marx, she built an independent career that unfolded outside the protective shadow of […]
