Antonio Caldara

Alternating between transcendental secular music and theatrical sacred music, this latest recording from Geoffroy Jourdain invites listeners to explore the many expressions of human passion. Built around several settings of the Crucifixus (including Antonio Lotti's extraordinarily intense versions), Les Cris de Paris urge listeners to walk the Via Dolorosa to the very heart of Venetian Baroque music.

Gramophone Award-winning Adrian Chandler and his period-instrument ensemble La Serenissima present The Italian Job, a feast of instrumental color featuring oboes, bassoons, trumpets, trombone, timpani, strings and continuo, by some of the finest composers of the Italian baroque. The music on this release comes from four cities, each with a rich musical heritage: Venice, Bologna, Padua, and Rome.

"In these 15 arias, Ian Bostridge inhabits the strikingly diverse music personalities of three tenors who in the Baroque era challenged castrato supremacy, the sterling Englishman John Beard and two brilliant Italians, the athletic Francesco Borosini and the cultivated Anniable Po Fabri."--Container.