The new independent CD label Forces of Virtue Records documents great music of the past while promoting the greatest early music performers of the present. Although the label takes its name from its sibling ensemble, Forces of Virtue Records produces other high-caliber soloists through premium digital recordings. Below are our current offerings.

NEW! 
J. S. Bach - Goldberg Variations
(FOV 8376)
David Schrader, harpsichord

DDD - Time: 75:00 minutes. Full length CD with fold-out booklet.
Program notes by David Schrader.

Hear a low fidelity 96kbps mpeg sample from this recording: Variation 19.

"David Schrader's compelling performance of the Goldbergs deftly illustrates the incredible variety of Bach's late music, a music of joy, profundity, and, not least, exalted amusement." - Rob Haskins, Critic, American Record Guide

DDD - Time: 10:30 minutes. CD in pocket format.
Release date: October 2003

The inaugural production of Forces of Virtue Records. It is currently distributed in limited release around the Chicago area and through various early music Web sites around the world.

Hear a low fidelity 56kbps mpeg of this recording in our "sounds" section.
View the original manuscripts and editions of the exhibit recording.
View or download the online texts and translations (PDF file).

DDD - Time: 71:34 minutes. CD-R, slim case format.
Release date: May 2005

Forces of Virtue Record's first electronic music release. This album fuses contemporary ambient, techno, and lounge genres with traditional jazz, classical, and baroque musical forms to produce surprisingly colorful, emotional, and evocative compositions.
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Book II
Alexander Bonus
(FVR 9222)

DDD - Time: 52:06 minutes. CD-R, slim case format.
Release date: September 2005

A continuing exploration into the sonic realm of electronic music using baroque compositional techniques and improvisation. Hymns, chants, and counterpoint intermingle with dance beats and sound effects, all produced with the aid of the most contemporary of musical instruments--the computer.

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