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Van Diemen's Band's latest release explores the tumultuous era of the Thirty Years' War.

The Bohemian lands were fertile ground for musical experimentation and instrumental virtuosity, attracting and inspiring composers such as Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Heinrich Franz Ignaz Von Biber, Johann Pachelbel and Johann Christoph Pezel. 

BOHEMIA highlights the humour, joy and hope musicians clearly brought to their practice in the mid to late 17th Century, despite the pain and suffering inflicted by the brutal Thirty Years’ War which had ravaged the region. Music was and still is, the universal tool to unite and to heal.

‘Van Diemen’s Band strikes gold’, Gramophone Magazine, UK

‘An essential recording to see this music in a new light’, Diapason Magazine, France

Recorded for the prestigious Swedish label, BIS, this recording of Handel's Op.3 concerti grossi casts new light on some of Handel's best-loved music. Conducted by renowned French director, Martin Gester, this recording was hailed by Limelight Magazine as being "as good as it gets".

The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is pure perfection: a vast yet intricate tapestry of heavenly beauty and human emotion.

This recording presents Bach’s two sacred cantatas for solo bass, performed by acclaimed Australian baritone David Greco: "Ich habe genug" (It is enough) BWV82, an outpouring of uttermost relief and joy, and "Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen" (Gladly will I bear the cross) BWV56, presenting the human journey as a sea voyage, tossed on raging waters before coming safe home to port in heaven.

Warmth, honesty, truth, compassion and transcendent beauty: this recording by the cream of Australia’s early music specialists will make you fall in love with Bach all over again.

Discover the sparkling musical treasures of old-time Naples, as Van Diemen’s Band presents its debut album – connecting the pristine wilderness and Antarctic gateway of present-day Tasmania with one of eighteenth-century Europe’s greatest sea ports.

Featuring Australian-born, Italy-based cellist Catherine Jones, this CD was acclaimed by Limelight Magazine as "an excellent recording of rarely-heard concerti, and a must for all fans of the Baroque".

This recording is no longer in print.

Read the reviews of our recordings from publications around the world.

"These often dazzling performances can surely take pride of place alongside the best international Baroque recordings from recent decades (4 & ½ stars)" (The Australian) 

"This recording is as good as it gets" (Limelight Magazine)