MENDELSSOHN
Sacred Choral Works La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe - conductor [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/May/2003 ] "Elegant and fluent singing" - Gramophone |
LULLY
Grands Motets La Chapelle Royale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Mar/2007 ] The large motet 'à la française' is a quite distinctive affair that has nothing in common with the more traditional notion that a composer like Bach, for instance, had of the genre. If a comparison must be made, we will find that the French motet is... |
SCHUTZ
Musikalische Exequien La Chapelle Royale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] Commissioned for the funeral of a prince, this German 'burial music' deals with subjects that lie at the heart of Schütz's output: the misery of earthly life and the promise of the hereafter. In a mood of searing intensity, the music arranges texts... |
JOSQUIN DESPREZ
Stabat mater & Motets La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] Josquin: the first name that comes to mind when one discusses the masters of Renaissance. In this now classic recording, Philippe Herreweghe offers an exceptionally rich portrait of his music, midway between the liturgical (Stabat Mater) and the... |
HANDEL / VIVALDI
Dixit Dominus & In furore iustissimae irae La Nuova Musica, David Bates, Lucy Crowe (soprano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 24/Apr/2013 ] David Bates directs La Nuova Musica in a pair of contrasting settings of Psalm 109. |
HANDEL / CORELLI / BABELL / GEMINIANI / SCHICKHARDT
London Circa 1720: Corelli's Legacy La Rêveuse [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] "La Rêveuse bring us a disc of splendid music-making...The theme of the disc makes for a lovely coherence between works... There is enough variety, both timbral and affectual, to keep one in sonic rapture" Gramophone Editor's Choice Nov 2020 |
MICHEL-RICHARD DELALANDE
Delalande: Symphonies Pour Les Soupers Du Roy [Symphonies for the King's Supper] La Simphonie du Marais, Hugo Reyne [ Camera Obscura / Harmonia Mundi / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/1990 ] Hugo Reyne, known until then as the 'recorder-player of Les Arts Florissants', presented the first-ever completed recording of the Symphonies pour les soupers du Roy with his ensemble La Simphonie du Marais, founded three years previously |
ALLESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Responsories For Holy Week - Holy Saturday La Stagione Armonica, Carlo Steno Rossi (organ), Sergio Balestracci [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Aug/2018 ] "The 16-strong La Stagione Armonica are not, it must be said, as smooth as many of the comparable mixed choirs in the field today, nor even as in tune, but the sound they make is appealing in its firm-throated expressiveness and in the way Balestracc |
Larmore/Schlick/Concerto Koln
Handel: Giulio Cesare [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD ] |
ANTON ZIMMERMANN
Zimmermann: Symphonies L'arte del mondo [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Aug/2018 ] Born in Breitenau (Sileaia), Anton Zimmermann lived in Bratislava in the early 1770s, where he became a key figure in the blossoming of cultural life. |
ANTONIO SALIERI
Salieri: La Fiera di Venezia (complete opera) L'arte del mondo, Werner Ehrhardt [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 11/Oct/2019 ] ."With a lot of wit and imagination, Antonio Salieri let's the comic sparks fly - thanks to Werner Erhardt and his excellent ensemble." (Fono Forum) |
KARL von ORDONEZ
Ordonez: Symphonies L'arte del mundo, Werner Ehrhardt [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Dec/2017 ] "Ordonez was clearly not among the first rank of musicians of his day…Nevertheless, he was among those who guided the development of the Viennese Classical style in its early days and there is much pleasure to be had in discovering his music" Gramophone |
Laurent Lefavre - bassoon; Gordan Nikoliltch - violin; Geneviave Strosser - viola; Jean-Marie Trotereau - cello
Devienne - Bassoon Quartets [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 22/Sep/2003 ] Laurent Lefèvre studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris with Maurice Allard and Gilbert Audin. |
HANDEL / BONONCINI / ARIOSTI
A Royal Trio: Arias & Scenes Lawrence Zazzo (counter-tenor) / La Nuova Musica, David Bates [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Oct/2014 ] "This is an accomplished recital from both singer and orchestra, the latter playing freshly under Bates's direction in a programme which contains some rarely heard music." International Record Review, November 2014 |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDE
Handel: Riccardo Primo, Re d'Inghilterra HWV23 (complete opera) Lawrence Zazzo, Nuria Rial, Geraldine McGreevy, Tim Mead, David Wilson-Johnson & Curtis Streetman / Chamber Orchestra of Basel, Paul Goodwin [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2010 ] |
de BOUSSET / de la GUERRE
Le Passage de la Mer Rouge Le Tendre Amour with Luanda Siqueira (soprano) [ K617 Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] Drama and freshness are combined in the new musical forms that were imported into late 17th century France from Italy after the death of Lully. |
JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Missa da Requiem / Miserere Lenneke Ruiten / Ruth Sandhoff / Colin Balzer / Thomas Bauer / RIAS Kammerchor / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin / Hans-Christoph Rademann [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Nov/2011 ] "The Miserere is conceived on a grand, imposing scale, with carefully plotted tonal architecture and, as Hans-Christoph Rademann's performance shows, an orchestral accompaniment of great imagination and variety." (The Guardian) |
MICHEL RICHARD DE LALANDE
De Lalande: Petits Motets Les Arts Florissants, dir. William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Jul/2018 ] These 'petites' compositions of sacred music for several soloists and a small instrumental ensemble are in a certain sense the pendants to the grands motets of Versailles: Lully's successor excelled in both forms. At the close of the 'Grand Siècle',... |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Music for the Queen Caroline Les Arts Florissants, dir. William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Jul/2018 ] The wife of George II of England, a woman of great beauty and a defender of both science and the arts, Caroline of Ansbach was also a patron and close friend of Handel. The works recorded here were composed for the major royal ceremonies which marked... |
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Lully: Petits Motets Les Arts Florissants, dir. William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Jul/2018 ] These little motets are not isolated curiosities in French religious music of the period: small motets and elevations, a term that indicates their place in the liturgy of the Mass, by Dumont, Robert, Danielis are other examples of the genre.... |