Founded in 1998, the German based Carpe Diem label has been producing outstanding recordings of many styles of chamber music.  This week we take a look at a sampling of recent releases from the label.

First up is an album of instrumental works entitled Why not Here, performed by Hille Perl and Friederike Heumann.  Then, a collection of works by Wolkenstein, one of the most influential German poets of the middle ages, performed by Ensemble Alta Musica, and titled, appropirately, Wolkenstein.

Next, the album entitled Musique Transalpine, the most recent release from Le Concert Brisé, contains some of the 151 works that Franz Rost, a seventeeth century priest, assembled and transcribed from the musical centers of Alpine lands Germany, Austria, and Italy.

Finally, a showcase of music for viola da gamba and lute, composed by Lee Santana between 1992 and 2000.  The Star and the Sea is performed by Lee Santana joined by Hille Perl.