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LUIGI BOCCHERINI / MARIO CASTELNUOVO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Boccherini/Castelnuovo Tedesco - Guitar Quintets Kazuhito Yamashita (guitar) / Tokyo String Quartet [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 31/Mar/1991 ] Recommended Recording - ClassicalNet "Ravishing playing by a born Boccherinian" (Classical-Music.com) *** Penguin Guide recording |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Lamentazioni per la Settimana Santa Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) & Jean-Marc Aymes (organ & conductor) / Concerto Soave [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] The sacred music on this disc -- settings of texts for Holy Week, from the early seventeenth century and influenced by the new monodic style -- has long been less familiar than the fiery secular music of the era. One may admire this recording by... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Sonatas Hob.WVI :6, 20 & 48 Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] A few years after a complete recording of Mozart's solo piano works that has gradually come to be regarded as a benchmark, Kristian Bezuidenhout has taken all the time he needed to tackle Haydn, the other towering figure of the Viennese Classical... |
W. A. MOZART
Keyboard Music Vol 5 & 6 Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2014 ] "Bezuidenhout plays Mozart on the fortepiano like no-one else. Here he performs an assortment of solo works with all the sensitivity, expressivity, flair and stylistic integrity that has marked him out as a supreme master of the early keyboard...and... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 / 2 Overtures Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Aug/2020 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 Winner - Assorted Programme |
BUXTEHUDE
Membra Jesu Nostri La Chapelle Rhenane / La Maitrise de Garcons de Colmar / Benoit Haller [ K617 Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] "One long oration in music" is how the musicologist Gilles Cantagrel describes this cycle, unique in Buxtehude's output. These meditations on the 'Seven Words of Christ on the cross' possess a truly mystic dimension.This performance by Benoît Haller... |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: Psaume [Psalms]s La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe, with Peter Kooy (baritone), Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano), Hervé Lamy (tenor) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/May/1988 ] "Elegant and fluent singing" - Gramophone |
BROSSARD / CARISSIMI / CHARPENTIER
Sacrifices La Nuova Musica, David Bates [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Sep/2014 ] "To these affecting narratives (separated by instrumental interludes by De Brossard), La Nuova Musicabring superbly straight tone, unerring tuning and plangent phrasing." The Observer, 20th July 2014 **** |
FRANCESCO GEMINIANI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Geminiani: Concerti Grossi La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Feb/1990 ] Originally recorded in September 1984 |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Stabat Mater & Other Works Le Caravansérail, Bertrand Cuiller [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 29/Apr/2022 ] A model of daring harmonic and contrapuntal treatment, Domenico Scarlatti's extraordinary Stabat Mater is one of the very few surviving examples of his music for the church. To place this unique masterpiece in context, Bertrand Cuiller and members of... |
JOHANN ADOLF HASSE
Hasse at Home - Cantatas and Sonatas Le Musiche Nove, Veronika Kralova (soprano), Elisa Cozzini (flute), Viola Mattioni (cello), Federica Bianchi (harpsichord) [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Since Romain Rolland formulated his appreciative judgement of Johann Adolf Hasse, and his desire to rescue him from neglect, the fundamentally important role played by the composer in eighteenth century musical life has been confirmed in ever more... |
CARLO GESUALDO
Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsaria, Feria Quinta Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] With their bold harmonies, their counterpoint of unequalled refinement and their raw emotion, the Tenebrae Responsories are the sacred counterpart to Gesualdo's last two books of madrigals, published the same year (1611). Paul Agnew and Les Arts... |
SEBASTIEN de BROSSARD / PIERRE BOUTEILLER
Les Maîtres du Motet Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Sep/2018 ] "[In the Bouteiller] the group's blend finds its groove and the singers swell to fill the greater expressive and dramatic space of the work" Gramophone Dec 2018 |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Great Venetian Mass Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew, Sophie Karthäuser, Lucile Richardot [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] A puzzling paradox: although Vivaldi devoted over 30 years to composing for the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, no complete musical setting of any liturgy by him has come down to us. By intercalating existing examples of his sacred music (such as the... |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] The concerto grosso, invented in Italy by Stradella and Corelli, spread rapidly all over Europe. But Handel's creative innovations surpass the Italian model and are outstanding for their richness of style and expressive power. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony no.5 (plus Gossec: Symphonie) Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Sep/2020 ] "It is hard to recall a more relentlessly driven performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony than this newcomer." BBC Music |
GYORGY LIGETI
Ligeti: Bagatelles. Kammerkonzert & Pieces for wind quintet Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] "...beautifully and expressively played, this release will prove very satisfying." Fanfare |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Harold en Italie / Nuits d'été Stéphane Degou (baritone) Tabea Zimmermann (viola) / Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] "Les Siècles use woodwind and brass instruments from the middle decades of the 19th century, which, combined with the gut strings, create busy, buoyant textures over which Tabea Zimmermann's solo viola can soar with ease" Sunday Times |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: L'Heure espagnole, Boléro Isabelle Druet, Julien Behr, Loïc Félix / Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 16/Jun/2023 ] "As in previous releases, the orchestral playing is exquisite, the strings silky, woodwinds perfumed, the trumpets (1930s Selmers) sweetly tangy, the trombones suggestively louche." Gramophone Editor's Choice Aug 2023 |
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MODEST MUSSORGSKY / MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: La Valse / Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel): Les Tableaux d'une exposition [Pictures at an Exhibition] Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Toscanini regarded this orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition as a genuine treatise on instrumentation, on a par with that of Berlioz: scored for the same instrumental forces as La Valse, Ravel's version quickly established itself ahead of all... |
