The shop at glossamusic.com now comes with a new area, called BOUTIQUE, the dedicated zone for exclusive offers.
Special offers (which always have a time limit on them, typically between 4-6 weeks) gather together themed series of CDs, allowing the purchase of mini-collections drawn from Glossa’s range (or from Ediciones Singulares) at a particularly attractive price.
In January and February, we are now offering from Glossa’s recent and much-praised history two choice selections: The 7 titles of the series “Le Cantate Italiane di Handel” with Fabio Bonizzoni and La Risonanza, and the 3 double CDs dedicated to the French “Prix de Rome”, with music by Debussy, Saint-Saëns and Charpentier as performed by Hervé Niquet and the Brussels Philharmonic.
Both collections are now available at a 25% reduction on their customary prices.
SHIPPING IS NOW FREE FOR ALL ORDERS IF YOU CHOOSE REGULAR MAIL.
Having entranced audiences across Europe with their performances of the music which Georg Frideric Handel wrote during his time in Italy – mainly in Rome – between 1706-9, and having also delighted record buyers with the seven-volume series of “Le Cantate Italiane di Handel”, released on Glossa, Fabio Bonizzoni and his singers and musicians of La Risonanza have recently gone on to impress the jury of the 2011 Gramophone Classical Music Awards. On October 6, at a ceremony held in The Dorchester hotel in London, the British magazine bestowed upon the Italian musicians a prestigious Gramophone Award in the Baroque Vocal category, for the final volume in the Handel series, Apollo e Dafne. [read more...]
Hervé Niquet is far less interested in being known as a Baroque music specialist than for his passionate interest in all of French music, especially its vocal and lyrical compositions and nowadays he is as liable to be found directing a symphony orchestra as his own period instrument ensemble Le Concert Spirituel. It may come, for some, as a surprise to find Niquet teaming up with the Brussels Philharmonic to record Debussy, Saint-Saëns or Gustave Charpentier, but these releases mark the inauguration of a new adventure focusing on the music associated with the Prix de Rome competition which drew in scores of leading French composers all the way from 1803 through 1968. [read more...]