Les Arts Florissants/Christie
Charpentier: Deux Oratorios [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Jun/2012 ] |
Les Arts Florissants/Christie
Handel:concerti Grossi Op.6 [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Feb/2003 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Passions Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Sep/2019 ] Alternating between transcendentally inspired secular music and sacred music embodied in theatrical fashion, Geoffroy Jourdain invites us to explore the multiple expressions of human passions: this new adventure of Les Cris de Paris, built around... |
JEAN GILLES
Grand et petits motets Les Festes d'Orphee / Guy Laurent [ K617 Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 30/Jul/2009 ] Jean Francois Lombard, Jean François Novelli,Vincent Deliau, Laure Bonnaure & René Linnenbank |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The Art of Fugue Les inAttendus [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Jul/2021 ] After a first CD devoted to early English music, Les inAttendus tackle Bach's magnum opus: The Art of Fugue. And it is as poets of sound that they do so. Through the very particular colors and the "unexpected" combination of accordion, bass viol and... |
PIERRE ROBERT
Grands Motets Les Pages & les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles & Musica Florea, Olivier Schneebeli [ K617 Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "The performances themselves are stylish, accomplished and heartfelt, enough to make an auspicious introduction to an unjustly neglected composer." Gramophone Magazine, March 2010 |
XENAKIS
Pleiades for six percussionists (1979) Les Percussions de Strasbourg [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] A stunning recording of Xenakis' great masterpiece for the 6 percussionists of "Les Percussions de Strasbourg" - features an instrument designed and built by the composer/mathematician/architect called the "sixxen", a gamelan-like instrument that... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony no.3 'Eroica', Mehul : Overture from 'Les Amazones' Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 23/Apr/2021 ] "Superbly played by the musicians of Les Siècles and compellingly conducted by François-Xavier Roth, this is an exceptional, dramatic and probing recording of the 'Eroica'. I urge you to hear it." MusicWeb recommended |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Jeux / Nocturnes / Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 30/Nov/2018 ] ""Both works are essentially about desire, and their sensuality is heightened here not only by their juxtaposition but by the dark warmth of Les Siècles' period-instrument sound and the restrained intensity of Roth's interpretations" Gramophone |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: La Mer / Première Suite D'orchestre Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: La Mer, Première Suite d'Orchestre Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Dec/2022 ] La Mer is one of Debussy's most universally admired orchestral works. By contrast, his Première Suite pour orchestre was lost for more than a century, and came as a complete discovery in 2013 when Les Siècles made the world premiere recording, played... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique / Les Francs-juges Overture, Op. 3 Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "Roth seems to have an emotional hotline to Berlioz, alive to every twist and turn of the composer's fevered passions." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Orchestral |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ma mère l'Oye, Le Tombeau de Couperin & Shéhérazade Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Apr/2018 ] When Ravel orchestrated his works, the scoring emerged with total spontaneity, as if by magic, for he had already worked out his orchestral colours with immense care at the piano. The fascination of the Orient or the fantastic, poetic homages, the... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: "Ballets Russes" Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2021 ] Paris, early twentieth century: in the space of three ballets, a previously unknown Russian composer revolutionised the music of his time. With The Firebird and Petrushka, respectively fairytale and folktale, and of course The Rite of Spring, a... |
GERSHWIN
Gershwin By Grofe: Original orchestrations & arrangements Lincoln Mayorga (piano) Al Gallodoro (clarinet) / Harmonie Ensemble / Steven Richman [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "Richman's spot-on sense of pacing, balance and emphasis guarantee that every Grofé-conjured utterance receives discerning and shapely animation. The ensemble and solo playing likely would bowl over both the composer and Whiteman." Gramophone |
Linden/Moroney/Claire/See
Couperin:concerts Royaux [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 17/Jul/2000 ] |
CHOPIN / RICHARD STRAUSS
Sonatas for cello and piano Lluas Claret (cello) Alain Planes (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 4/Apr/2005 ] "Both Claret and Planès are virtuoso performers and I find their interpretations both convincing and engaging." (Fanfare) |
Lo Jo
Ce Soir La [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] |
PIETRO LOCATELLI
Locatelli: Concerti grossi op.1 Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 26/Aug/2016 ] "The one cause for regret is that these forces do not seem to have recorded the remaining concertos in this set. But this still a worthwhile means to explore the work of a composer and violinist whose fame, in his day, stretched around Europe more... |
CORELLI
Sonate da Chiesa Op.1 & 3 London Baroque [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2001 ] the most famous Italian composer of the late 17th century |