BEETHOVEN
String Quartets Op 18 Nos 1-6 Tokyo String quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 21/Oct/2007 ] "The Tokyo Quartet here produce a sumptuous, beautifully blended sonority and perform with outstanding music insight, unanimity and polish." The Strad, February 2008 |
BEETHOVEN
String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, Op. 74 'Harp' Tokyo String quartet [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jan/2009 ] The Tokyo String Quartet continues its complete Beethoven cycle with this third volume. Both the graceful Op. 74, nicknamed 'Harp' for its use of pizzicato, and Op.95, with its quest for the essential, testify to the new maturity achieved by the... |
BRAHMS
Quintets Op 34 & Op 115 Tokyo String quartet with Jon Manasse (clarinet) [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Sep/2012 ] |
Toufic Farroukh
Drab : Zeen [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/Nov/2002 ] Lebanese sax player/percussionist melds Paris jazz with belly-dance rhythms |
Tragicomedia
Instrumental Music from 17th-Century Italy (Arrigoni, Bassano, Matteis, etc) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Aug/2001 ] Ensemble TRAGICOMEDIA makes its harmonia mundi début |
SCHUBERT / HUMMEL
Schubert: Die Forelle (Trout Quintet) / Hummel: Quintet Trio Wanderer [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] "The Wanderers and their friends play both works with irresistible freshness and brio, making one listen afresh to the glories of Schubert - and regret the neglect of Hummel." Three stars (Excellent) The Sunday Times |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Piano Trios, Op. 65 & 90 Trio Wanderer [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] "The sound of Trio Wanderer exploring a favourite work they've lived with throughout their 30 year history; you can hear the joy and passion with which they approach Dvorak's heart on sleeve romances, songlike melodic lines and folk inspired rhythms" |
TCHAIKOVSKY / ARENSKY
Tchaikovsky / Arensky: Piano trios Trio Wanderer [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] "The pianist, Vincent Coq, is both brilliant and sensitive, taking great trouble over balance with the strings while dazzling the ear with his lightly scintillating virtuosity in the more sparkling variation movements." (Gramophone) |
JOSEF HAYDN
Piano Trios Nos 39, 43-45 Trio Wanderer [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "Music whose profundity is still not fully acknowledged, but surely irresistible when performed with such flair and imagination." Gramophone Magazine, December 2002 Critics' Choice |
MENDELSSOHN
Piano trios Nos No 1 & 2 Trio Wanderer [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Jan/2008 ] "Harmonia Mundi's sumptuous engineering balances Vincent Coq's brilliant keyboard playing perfectly against his two partners. This isn't as easy as it sounds; Mendelssohn expects the pianist to execute tons of notes at high speed in the outer... |
RAVEL / CHAUSSON
Piano Trios Trio Wanderer [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] "Cool but not cold, nostalgic but not sentimental - performing Ravel's Piano Trio can be a bit like treading on egg shells, yet the Trio Wanderer make it all sound effortless. Wonderful Chausson too." BBC Music Magazine, April 2007 ***** |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios & Triple Concerto Trio Wanderer, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, James Conlon [ Harmonia Mundi / 5 CD - released 30/Sep/2022 ] This set assembles for the first time the Beethoven legacy of the Trio Wanderer: the group's superb interpretation of the Triple Concerto is now presented alongside its masterly recording of the composer's complete original works for piano trio, a... |
BEETHOVEN
Triple Concerto Trio Wanderer, Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker, James Conlon, [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Jun/2012 ] A concerto for four? The Triple Concerto may well be one of Beethoven's most enigmatic works: some commentators have seen it as no more than a vast rhapsody intented to show off the virtuosity of three hand-picked soloists. But when a piano trio that... |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Piano Quartets Nos No 1 & 2 Trio Wanderer, with Antoine Tamestit, viola [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] "The playing is magnificent, not just for its superb ensemble qualities, including ideal balances between the piano and strings, but also for what it tells us about the music." (10/10 ClassicsToday March 2010) |
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du Temps [Quartet for the end of time] / Theme et variations Trio Wanderer with Pascal Moragues (clarinet) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 30/Aug/2017 ] MARBECKS STAFF PICK - BEST RECORDINGS 2008 |
CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1 Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano) Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, James Conlon [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Apr/2010 ] When Nobuyuki Tsujii rose from the piano, having completed his performance at the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, audience members leapt to their feet and jurors were moved to tears by his passionate interpretation of Chopin's... |
EDWARD GRIEG / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Grieg / Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Vadym Kholodenko (piano) / The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] 2013 Cliburn Gold Medalist Vadym Kholodenko is the featured piano soloist in this recording of the Grieg Concerto in A minor and the Saint-Saëns Concerto No. 2 with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra under the baton of Miguel Harth-Bedoya. |
MASSAINO / ROBERT WHITE / MARBRIANUS de ORTO / ROLAND de LASSUS
Lamentations Of The Renaissance Huelgas-Ensemble / Paul van Nevel [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Apr/2008 ] The heartrending words of the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah have at all times inspired a multitude of musical settings imprinted with a characteristic mixture of pain and hope. It would be wrong to imagine that these famous biblical poems... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
100 Piano Masterpieces Frank Braley, Paul Lewis, Alexander Melnikov, Olga Kern, Javier Perianes, Alain Planes, Beatrice Rana, Joyce Yang, etc [ Harmonia Mundi / 6 CD Box Set - released 30/Aug/2019 ] "It's an appealing package of six discs, each with a brightly-coloured sleeve. Equally colourful is the music selection, which features a veritable royal family of keyboard stars." BBC Music |
ARRIAGA
String Quartets Nos 1 - 3 Cuarteto Casals [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] Recorded at studio Anacrusi S.L. "L'Auditorium", Jafre (Girona), 1-3 May 2003 |