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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.4 & 8 (with Mehul: Symphony No. 1 & Cherubini: Lodoiska Overture) Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] The least famous of Beethoven's symphonies? Yet these two works are genuine tours de force: the composer takes the listener on a journey whose destination never seems to be known in advance, one brimming over with structural innovations subtly... |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Coronation anthems Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS-Kammerchor Berlin, Justin Doyle [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] In 1727, having just become a naturalised British subject, Handel was commissioned to write a set of anthems for the coronation of George II. Since he could hardly have expected ever to see a more majestic occasion, the composer took full advantage... |
SCHUBERT / CHOPIN / LISZT / STRAVINSKY
Schubert / Chopin / Liszt / Stravinsky: Four Pianos - Four Pieces Alexander Melnikov (pianos) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 9/Apr/2018 ] "Melnikov gives thrilling performances of four cornerstones of the repertoire." Sunday Times |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards Alexander Melnikov (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 16/Jun/2023 ] BBC Music Magazine July 2023 - Instrumental Choice |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Piano Concerto Op 54 / Piano Trio No. 2 Op. 80 Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado, with Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Isabelle Faust (violin) [ Harmonia Mundi CD + DVD / 2 CD/DVD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] '[T]he use of an early 19th-century fortepiano, here a Streicher of 1847, brings textural clairty, enhanced by the exceptionally subtle and sensitive dialogue between the two superb string players.' (BBC Music) |
PAUL HINDEMITH
Hindemith: Sonatas Alexander Melnikov (piano) with Isabelle Faust (violin) Jeroen Berwaerts (trumpet) Teunis van der Zwart (althorn), etc [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Dec/2014 ] 'The patron saint of neglected instruments, Hindemith composed more than 30 sonatas for very diverse resources … The Hindemith anniversary of 2013 opened the gates to a welcome flood of excellent recordings, and this new release stands high among the |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Concerto Italiens [Italian Concertos] (and other concertos for solo piano) Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Alexandre Tharaud has already successfully explored the harpsichord suites of Rameau on a Steinway; here, when he revisits the transpositions of the great Johann Sebastian Bach on the piano, it is enough to make us quite giddy with pleasure! |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Cello Sonatas, Op. 102 - Bagatelles, Opp. 119 & 126 Andreas Staier (fortepiano), Roel Dieltiens (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] "Devotees of Beethoven on period instruments will need no further encouragement. But sceptics, too, could do a lot worse than start here" Gramophone |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations (with variations by Czerny, Hummel, Kalkbrenner, Kerzkowsky, etc) Andreas Staier (pianoforte after Conrad Graf) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "This isn't just an indisputably great performance on fortepiano; it's a great performance full stop. Given Staier's virtuosity and insight, what price Hammerklavier next?" BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013: Instrumental Finalist |
GRAUN / HANDEL / PERTI / PORPORA / ORLANDINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Agrippina Opera Arias Ann Hallenberg (mezzo) / Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] "there's an equally dazzling vengeance aria by Orlandini, in which Riccardo Minasi's orchestra, Il Pomo d'Oro, really lets fly. Hallenberg is as convincing in these as she is in the more reflective numbers...very classily done" (The Guardian) |
GYORGY KURTAG
Kurtág: Kafka-Fragmente Anna Prohaska (soprano), Isabelle Faust (violin) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Aug/2022 ] The Kafka-Fragmente, settings of excerpts from the diary, letters and a posthumous text by the author of The Trial, take the form of an intimate confession with no real narrative thread. Kurtág chose a soprano voice and a solo violin to express this... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Lieder (Songs) Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 12/Jun/2015 ] "Songs and performances are good company, each with an element of novelty" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine July 2004 |
PURCELL / GIBBONS / LOCKE / HART / DRAGHI / etc
A Fancy: Fantasy on English Airs & Tunes Bertrand Cuiller (conductor, organ) & Rachel Redmond (soprano) / Le Caravansérail [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Oct/2017 ] In their first recording for harmonia mundi, Bertrand Cuiller and the musicians of Le Caravansérail immerse us in the dreamlike world of the London theatre of the 17th century. Incidental music, airs, dances and inventive melodies combining the... |
ANONYMOUS
A Medieval Christmas - Hodie Christus Natus Est Boston Camerata, Anne Azema [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 14/Sep/2021 ] Drawing on a wide variety of sources, mingling liturgical Latin with French, English, Italian and Iberian vernaculars, these magnificent songs, hymns and processionals show the multitude of ways in which the birth of Christ was celebrated in medieval... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Variations For Piano, Vol. 2 Cadric Tiberghien (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 12/Jan/2024 ] "as a whole, Tiberghien's reframing of Beethoven is full of delights." Gramophone |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Graham Ross [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] It's Christmas! Graham Ross invites you to explore the highly individual conception of traditional carols offered by twentieth-century British composers, and notably the most eminent among them, Benjamin Britten. Arranged around his famous Ceremony... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Lieder Christiane Karg (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Gustav Mahler (piano roll) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] "Her voice is beautiful, more velvety than diamantine, and, with her supremely sensitive partner, she never has need to push it...This is lieder performance of wonderful freshness and intelligence; a delightful album, highly recommended." Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 (Arr. by Ries & Ebers) Compagnia di Punto [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 15/May/2020 ] "The musicians of the ensemble Compagnia di Punto have thrown themselves into the adventure of editing these arrangements of Beethoven's music in revised versions" HighResAudio |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
War & Peace - 1618:1918 Dorothee Mields (soprano) / Lautten Compagney, Wolfgang Katschne [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 5/Mar/2019 ] "Mields is impeccable throughout, the pristine purity of the early songs setting off the calculated exaggerations and distortions of the contemporary ones. This is a brilliant, unexpected disc" Gramophone Editor's Choice January 2019 |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross [Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze] Ensemble Resonanz, cond. Riccardo Minasi [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 22/Mar/2019 ] Following an acclaimed disc of cello concertos and symphonies by C. P. E. Bach, the musicians of the Ensemble Resonanz continue their exploration of eighteenth-century orchestral music. For several years now, under the direction of its inspired... |
