FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Les Anges musiciens Sophie Karthäuser (soprano), Eugene Asti (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Apr/2014 ] Belgian soprano Sophie Karthäuser studied with Noelle Barker at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She is now in great demand in the foremost international venues. |
HUGO WOLF
Wolf: Kennst du das Land [lieder by Goethe, Eichendorff, Mörike] Sophie Karthäuser (soprano) & Eugene Asti (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] "Karthäuser here proves herself a natural in Lieder...With her fresh, limpid soprano and sharp feeling for character and nuance, she gives unfailing delight in the these settings...[Asti] is a model partner, commentator and animator." (Gramophone) |
Spencer Myer
Debussy/Kohs/Copland/Busoni [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Nov/2007 ] |
Staier/Freiburger Barock
Haydn: Keyboard Concs 4/6/11 [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Jan/2005 ] |
SCHUMANN
Carnaval / Papillons Stefan Vladar (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] To plunge into the intoxicating triple-time rhythms of Robert Schumann's waltzes and polonaises from Opus 2 to Opus 26 is to cross the ballroom of his first creative decade, the years he devoted to the piano, the instrument that was an extension of... |
CHOPIN
Preludes Op.28 / Ballades Stefan Vladar (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Feb/2004 ] Stefan Vladar (born 1965) won the Beethoven Competition in Vienna in 1985, where he was also the youngest participant. He has recorded previously for Sony, and is also active as a conductor with the Grosses Orchester Graz. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 21 & 24 Stefan Vladar (piano) / Camerata Salzburg [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] From the dazzling Concert Rondo via the pathos of the C minor Concerto, No.24, to the sheer joy of the famous Concerto No.21 'Elvira Madigan', Stefan Vladar invites us to rediscover two of Mozart's most popular concertos in this well-regarded recordi |
Stephen Beus
Griffes/Scriabin [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Nov/2007 ] |
TARIK O'REGAN
Acallam na Senorach (Tales of the Elders) Stewart French (guitar) / National Chamber Choir of Ireland, Paul Hillier [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 12/Dec/2011 ] "Led by Paul Hillier, the National Chamber Choir of Ireland negotiates dissonance and harmony with drama and nobility, never endangering the piece through pomposity - a delicate balance aided by the sparseness of the guitar." (The Independent) |
DOWLAND / BYRD / DERING / PHILIPS / etc
Elizabethan Composers in Exile: In a Strange Land Stile Antico [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 11/Jan/2019 ] "Stile Antico, the 12-strong ensemble whose name signals tonal purity, precision and musical intelligence. The theme is spiritual and political disjuncture" The Observer |
WILLIAM BYRD / THOMAS TALLIS / ORLANDO GIBBONS / ROBERT WHITE / etc
Heavenly Harmonies / Sing with the Voice of Melody / The Phoenix Rising Stile Antico [ Harmonia Mundi Key Artist & Ensemble Sets / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2015 ] For the first time in 3 CD sets, discover these major recording projects matured over many years by the key artists and ensembles of harmonia mundi. Happy 10th anniversary Stile Antico. |
TALLIS / BYRD / SHEPPARD / WHITE
Music for Compline Stile Antico [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/Jan/2015 ] "Outstanding consort singing" - Early Music Review |
WILLIAM BYRD / ORLANDO GIBBONS / THOMAS MORLEY / etc
The Phoenix Rising Stile Antico [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
TOMPKINS / BYRD / GOMBERT / TALLIS / McCABE / etc
Sing with the Voice of Melody Stile Antico [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] "The singing is beautifully tidy and expressive, and the CD is a useful way to decid which of their CDs you would like to explore further." (Early Music Review) |
LOBO / GUERRERO / MORALES / VICTORIA
A Spanish Nativity Stile Antico [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] The Spanish 'Golden Age' witnessed an astonishing musical flowering, worthy of Spain's new-found preeminence on the world stage. Focusing on works for Christmas and Epiphany, Stile Antico explores this glittering musical treasury, drawing together an... |
ROBERT WHITE / ROBERT PARSONS / ORLANDO GIBBONS / BENJAMIN BRITTEN / etc
Music and Musicians at Westminster Abbey Stile Antico / Marcus Creed And Rias Kammerchor / Choir of Clare College, Cambridge / Mark Padmore / Fretwork / etc [ Harmonia Mundi Resonances / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] Famous places and monuments all have a musical history whose richness and variety we do not always realise. For centuries their beauties have nourished the imagination of composers and performers who, in return, have often dedicated to them some of... |
TOMKINS / CAMPION / BYRD / TALLIS / DOWLAND / etc
Tune thy Musicke to Thy Hart: Tudor & Jacobean music for private devotion Stile Antico, with Fretwork [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "Stile Antico's sleek tuning and supple attention to words, and the studio recording, intimate but not claustrophobic, do bring a carefully plotted span (over 120 years) of sacred styles into our listening rooms with rare success." Editor's Choice... |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle Krassimira Stoyanova, Birgit Remmert, Steve Davislim, Hanno MAller-Brachmann / RIAS-Kammerchor, Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD/Book - released 10/Aug/2018 ] "The soloists are as compelling-bright, fresh voices appealing in timbre and aware of the implications of the texts they're singing. Minor reservations aside, Rossinians won't want to miss this one." (ClassicsToday.com) |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU / CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD von GLUCK
Rameau / Gluck: Enfers Stéphane Degout (baritone) Emmanuelle de Negri (soprano) Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor) / Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Harmonia Mundi / CD/Book - released 23/Feb/2018 ] "Forget the 'end of time' conceit and marvel at the music, so winningly performed by Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon." Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2018 |
SCHUBERT / LOEWE / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS / LISZT / WOLF
Lieder & Balladen Stéphane Degout (baritone), Simon Lepper (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] The mystery of the ballad comes from the way it is told.' (Goethe). Epic to the point of hallucination, this genre calls for skill in narrative, word-painting, evocation. And it is as a peerless storyteller that Stéphane Degout tackles this repertory... |