MONTEVERDI / RUFFO / etc
Nova Metamorfosi: sacred music in Milan in the early seventeenth century Le Poeme harmonique / Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] This programme represents an important period of change in Milan, starting around 1607, when secular compositions were transformed into pieces with a truly mystical feeling. It comprises a Mass by the former madrigalist Vincenzo Ruffo and sacred... |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Il Combattimento (with works by Trabaci & Marazzoli) Le Poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Essential Baroque Masterpieces / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER / JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Charpentier & Lully: Te Deum Le Poème Harmonique, Capella Cracoviensis, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Feb/2014 ] |
GABRIEL FAURE
Works for Violin and Piano Daishin Kashimoto (violin), Eric Le Sage (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 31/Mar/2014 ] This final installment in this complete recording of Gabriel Fauré's chamber music features his compositions for violin and piano. |
MICHEL-RICHARD de LALANDE
De Lalande: Majesté Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble Aedes, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Aug/2018 ] "If you are already 'hooked' you will want to add this to your collection - and by no means just because it appears to be the only CD containing these works which is available. It's a significant gem." MusicWeb June 2018 |
Le Poème Harmonique (early music ensemble), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano), Vincent Dumestre
Mon amant de Saint-Jean [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Fascinated by the interplay of echoes from one past to another, Vincent Dumestre and Stephanie d'Oustrac found an affinity in the project Mon Amant de Saint-Jean, their very first collaboration, and aimed to make it a unique musical adventure: a... |
GREGORIO ALLEGRI / CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Anamorfosi Le Poème Harmonique / Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] "This is an album so nuanced you can almost taste it." Recording of the Month Awards Issue 2019 |
ANTOINE BOESSET
Boesset: Je Meurs Sans Mourir Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] From the Alpha Collection III of reissues restoring to the limelight some of the gems of early music repertory in their catalogue of labels. The discs in this series allow listeners to renew acquaintance with treasures of the Renaissance and Baroque,... |
LUIS DE BRICENO
El Fenix de Paris Le Poème Harmonique / Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha / CD - released 26/Sep/2011 ] On this album discover le Poème Harmonique in a repertoire bearing the marked touch of popular Spanish music, accompanied by the delightful song of Isabelle Druet and Claire Lefilliâtre. |
BULL / GIBBONS / JOHNSON / MORLEY / HOLBORNE / ANONYMOUS
Love is Strange - works for lute consort Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Essential Baroque Masterpieces / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] Stylish performances of familiar (Greensleeves, Sellengers Rounde and Dowland's Lachrymæ) and unfamiliar music by Anthony Holborne (?-1602) and contemporaries. |
SEBASTIAN DURON
Durón: Coronis Le Poème Harmonique; Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 11/Feb/2022 ] This recording provides an opportunity to discover a forgotten Baroque operatic treasure, a zarzuela, the key dramatic and musical genre of the Spanish Golden Age. Sumptuous choruses, poignant arias and folksongs blend in a rich and spectacular... |
J.S BACH
Sonatas, Chorales and Trios Les Basses Reunies [ ALPHA / CD - released 20/Nov/2009 ] Bruno Cocset's new record highlights this permanence of spirituality in Bach's music, as he places side by side the three sonatas for viola da gamba and arrangements of chorales for solo organ solo. On his quest for the most appropriate sonorities to... |
BARRIERE
Barrière: Sonates Pour Le Violoncelle Avec La Basse Continue Les Basses, Réunies Bruno Cocset [ Alpha / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] From the Alpha Collection III of reissues restoring to the limelight some of the gems of early music repertory in their catalogue of labels. The discs in this series allow listeners to renew acquaintance with treasures of the Renaissance and Baroque,... |
BOCCHERINI
Sonates & concertos pour violoncelle Les Basses RACunies / Bruno Cocset [ Alpha / CD - released 2/Mar/2006 ] "The results are fresh and energising. And Cocset's players seek to liberate Boccherini's crazier side!" Editor’s Choice – Gramophone Magazine (March 2006) |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Vêpres pour Saint Louis Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles; Olivier Schneebeli [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Following the Alpha label's successful Red, Yellow, Blue and Pink collections (a total of fifty-six reissues), which brought the pearls from the Baroque catalogue back into the spotlight, there are now fourteen new titles offering a chance to... |
ANDRE CAMPRA
Tancrède (complete opera) Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles & Orchestre Les Temps Présents, Olivier Schneebeli [ Alpha / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Sep/2015 ] A Baroque West Side Story, Tancrède tells of the absolute but impossible love between two young people brought together by their passion but separated by their origins. We are in the time of the Crusades: Tancredi is the champion of the Frankish... |
LOUIS & FRANCOIS FRANCOEUR / JEAN-JACQUES-BAPTISTE ANET / JEAN DUROCHER / FRANCOIS REBEL
Les frères Francœur Justin Taylor (harpsichord), Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] "Plaudits to violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte and his Le Consort colleague, harpsichordist Justin Taylor, and Alpha Classics for this truly commanding documentation of 18th-century French music." Five Stars BBC Music - Chamber Choice Dec 2022 |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Songs & Dances Tim Mead (countertenor) / Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien [ Alpha / CD - released 12/Oct/2018 ] "Reactions to this absorbing and revelatory disc will, I suspect, depend on how one responds to the "Frenchified" Purcell of François Lazarevitch's Saint-Julien musicians. I heartily approve of their imaginative, improvisatory approach, which brings |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: La Notte, La Tempesta Di Mare, Le Quattro Stagioni, Il Gardellino Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Francois Lazarevitch [ Alpha / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] In the course of his recordings for Alpha, François Lazarevitch has explored the music of the Baroque and of oral and popular traditions. After Scottish and Irish music, airs de cour and Baroque suites and sonatas, he stops off in Vivaldi's Italy.... |
PEACOCK / O'CAROLAN
The High Road to Kilkenny: Gaelic Songs and Dances from the 17th & 18th Centuries Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Francois Lazarevitch, Robert Getchell [ Alpha / CD - released 25/Mar/2016 ] After the success of For ever Fortune, early music from Scotland, François Lazarevitch continues his exploration of the 'Celtic' repertories with a new programme devoted to early Irish music. This repertory of old airs from the seventeenth and... |