[ Harmonia Mundi / 30 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Saturday 13 October 2007
50 WORKS / 30 CDs / OVER 36 HOURS OF MUSIC
Described by the New York Times as "one of Europe's finest independent record companies", harmonia mundi's origins date back half a century when, in 1958, a French journalist with connections to the book trade, Bernard Coutaz, decided to found his own publishing house for music. A year later the label had released its first recording, Chants From The Slavonic Liturgy.
CD 1-2 The Historic Organ Recordings
François Couperin:
Messe à l'usage des paroisses • Michel Chapuis
Spanish music:
Concert à l'orgue de Covarrubias • Francis Chapelet
Georg Muffat:
Apparatus musico-organisticus • René Saorgin
CD 3-4 Alfred Deller 1968-1979
Henry Purcell:
King Arthur, semi-opera • Deller Consort
Anonymous:
The folksong recital • Alfred Deller & Mark Deller
CD 5-6 Late Antiquity & Middle Ages
Chant Byzantin:
Prayer of Mary-Magdalene • Sœur Marie Keyrouz
Old Roman Chant:
Missa sancti Marcelli • ensemble organum, Marcel Pérès
Troubadours:
La Comtessa de Dia • Clemencic Consort, René Clemencic Hildegard von Bingen:
Lauds & vespers for the feast of st.ursula • Anonymous 4 Guillaume Dufay:
The Complete isorythmics motets • Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel
CD 7-10 J.S. Bach, the Passion
JS Bach:
Matthäus-passion Bwv 244 (1984 recording) • Philippe Herreweghe
Musikalisches Opfer / A musical offering • Davitt moroney
Die kunst der fuge /The Art of fugue • Fretwork
CD 11-13 The 'Atys' Years
Jean-Baptiste Lully:
Atys, musical tragedy • Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Marin Marais:
La Gamme, en forme de petit opéra • London Baroque, Charles Medlam
CD 14-15 The Masters of the Baroque
Claudio Monteverdi:
Pianto della Madonna • Maria Cristina Kiehr, Concerto Soave
Heinrich Ignaz Biber:
Rosenkranz-sonaten, 5 Freudenreichen Mysterien • Andrew
Manze, Richard Egarr
Antonio Vivaldi:
Stabat Mater • Andreas Scholl, ensemble 415
Georg Philipp Telemann:
Trauer-kantate "Du aber, Daniel, gehe hin" • Cantus
Cölln, Konrad Junghänel
Jean-Henry D'Anglebert: Harpsichord works • Kenneth Gilbert
CD 16-20 50 Years of Rediscoveries
Lord Herbert of Cherbury:
Lute Book • Paul O'Dette
Adriano Banchieri:
Barca di venetia per Padova • Ensemble Clément Janequin, D'Visse
Armand-Louis Couperin:
Harpsichords Symphonies • William Christie, David fuller
Johann Schobert:
Fortepiano Quartet • Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini
Georg philipp Telemann:
"La Bizarre", ouvertüre G-major • Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Reinhard Keiser:
Croesus, dramma per musica • René Jacobs
CD 21 Classicism Revisited !
Joseph Haydn:
Piano Trio n°39 hob.xv:25 • Cohen, Höbarth, Coin
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
6 Deutsche Tänze am stein-vis-à-vis • Andreas Staier, Christine Schornsheim
Joseph Haydn:
Cello concerto in si-major hob.viib:1 • Jean-Guihen Queyras
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Symphony n°38 "Prague" in D-major k.504 • Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
CD 22-23 The Heart of Romanticism
Gioacchino Rossini:
Petite messe Solennelle • RiAs kammerchor, Marcus Creed
Gioacchino Rossini: Sonate a quattro • Ensemble Explorations, Roel Dieltiens
Robert Schumann:
Frauenliebe und-leben op.42 • Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles
Johannes Brahms:
Clarinet and piano sonata in f-minor op.120 n°1 • Michel Portal, Georges Pludermacher
Hugo Wolf:
Goethe-Lieder with orchestra • Banse, Henschel, Dso Berlin, Nagano
CD 24-25 A New Look at Masterpieces
Jean-Philippe Rameau:
Suite en sol • Alexandre Tharaud, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony n°3 "eroica". piano transcr. by Liszt • Georges Pludermacher
Hector Berlioz:
Nuits d'été, Six mélodies op.7 • Brigitte Baileys, Philippe Herreweghe
Manuel De Falla:
El Amor Brujo / Love the magician 1915 version • Ginesa Ortega, Joseph Pons
CD 26-27 New Generation
Franz Schubert:
Fantaisie C-major D. 934 • Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov
Franz Schubert: Sonate. D.960 B-flat major • Paul Lewis
Frederic Chopin:
Intégrale des / Complete Ballades • Cédric Tiberghien
Franz Liszt:
La Lugubre Gondole • Emmanuelle Bertrand, Pascal Amoyel
Dimitri Shostakovitch: String Quartet No.8 op.110 • Jerusalem Quartet
CD 28-29 From Yesterday to Tomorrow
Ernest Chausson: Piano quartet op.30 • Les Musiciens
Aaron Copland:
Trio vitebsk • Trio wanderer
Leo Janácek:
On an overgrown path, cahiers i & ii • Alain Planès, piano
Leo Janácek:
String Quartet No.2 "Lettres intimes" • Melos Quartett
Béla Bartók:
Contrasts for violon, clarinet and piano • Ensemble Walter Boeykens
Arvo Pärt:
Berliner Messe • Theatre of voices, dir. Paul Hillier
CD 30
CD-ROM containing the original sung texts and their translations into English, French and German.
Includes a 100-pages booklet with the track listing for each CD and background information on the music (in english, french and German).