The Fucking Champs
III (LP) [ Drag City / 2 LP - released 7/Jul/2023 ] At the end of the century, The Fucking Champs spread Total Music™ across the planet, touring relentlessly and producing albums full of undeniable note choices, sounds and songs. For III's 25th anniversary, the band remastered the original master... |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: La Vie Parisienne (Complete Operetta recorded in 2021) Théâtre des Champs-Élysées / Jodie Devos, Rodolphe Briand, Marc MauIllon, Sandrine Buendia / Romain Dumas (cond) [ Naxos DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] "Director Christian Lacroix's dazzling sets and costumes perfectly complement Offenbach's beguiling music (played by Les Musiciens du Louvre under the baton of conductor Romain Dumas), and it's charmingly sung by a superlative cast." FlipSide |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: La Vie Parisienne (Complete Operetta recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY héâtre des Champs-Élysées / Jodie Devos, Rodolphe Briand, Marc MauIllon, Sandrine Buendia / Romain Dumas (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray - released 10/Feb/2023 ] With its tale of romantic intrigues, disguises and comic celebrations of the mad gaiety of life in the French capital, La Vie parisienne became popular in the nation's theatres, , but not after a hasty re-working of its final acts. |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Christus am Ölberge Sebastian Kohlhepp, Eleanor Lyons, Thomas Bauer / Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre Des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe [ Phi / CD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] Beethoven composed the oratorio Christus am Ölberge (Christ on the Mount of Olives) in just 'a fortnight, amid all sorts of tumult and other unpleasant and alarming events in my life'. It marked the first time since the two 'imperial cantatas' of... |
State Champs
Kings Of The New Age [ Pure Noise Records / CD - released 27/May/2022 ] |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia [The Barber of Seville] (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Theatre Des Champs-Elys / Florian Sempey, Catherine Trottmann, Michele Angelini, Péter Kálmán [ Naxos Unitel Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 7/Jul/2020 ] "The period orchestra is technically impressive and admirable in its range of colour. Jérémie Rhorer is a spirited conductor, conveying the score's sophistication in lithe, witty fashion." Opera |
The Champs / Johnny and the Hurricanes / Duane Eddy / "Bill Haley & His Comets / Sandy Nelson
Instrumental Gold - Five Classic Instrumental Albums Plus (Go Champs Go! / Johnny And The Hurricanes / $1,000,000 Dollars Worth Of Twang / Strictly In [ Avid / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2020 ] AVID Rock N Roll continues with its Five Classic Albums series with a re-mastered 2CD release from The Champs, Johnny and the Hurricanes, Duane Eddy, Bill Haley & His Comets and Sandy Nelson plus five Bonus tracks, complete with original artwork,... |
AMBROISE THOMAS
Thomas: Hamlet (complete opera) Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Laurent Alvaro, Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo / Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Louis Langrée [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 Winner - Video Performance |
MOZART
Mozart: Requiem La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-ÉlyséesPhilippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] Tired by his many voyages around Europe ever since he had been rejected in Vienna, Mozart could not find the strength to honour his promise to compose a Requiem in record time for the person who had commissioned it. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Mass in A flat D.678 (with Mendelssohn - Psalm 42) Anna Korondi (soprano) Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano) Andreas Karasiak (tenor) / RIAS-Kammerchor / Orchestre des Champs elysaes / Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] The Mass in A flat is one of the most lyrical that Schubert composed. It is also one of the most ambitious (Schubert noted at the top of his manuscript 'missa solemnis'), in terms of its instrumental forces, as well as the number and arrangement of... |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610) Dorothee Mields, Peter Kooij, Barbora Kabátková, etc / Collegium Vocale Gent & Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe [ PHI / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] Gramophone award finalist 2019 - Choral |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Théâtre des Champs-Elysées / Rosemary Joshua, Luca Pisaroni, Pietro Spagnoli / René Jacobs (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2018 ] Recorded at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in June 2004, le Nozze de Figaro was unanimously acclaimed by public and critics alike as a Mozart opera landmark. Director Jean-Louis Martinoty brings an elegantly intelligent narrative sense to an... |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No 5 Orchestre des Champs-Elysees, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] Rarely did the première of a Bruckner symphony arouse such enthusiasm; even if, in this case, the first performance took place nearly 20 years after its composition, the work captivated listeners with its ineffable mystery, one thinks of late... |
BEETHOVEN / J.S. BACH / GESUALDO / BERLIOZ / MAHLER / DVORAK / STRAVINSKY
A Conversation With Camille De Rijck (CD & Book) Philippe Herreweghe, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées Royal Flemish Philharmonic Collegium Vocale Gent [ PHI / 5 CD/Book - released 23/Jun/2017 ] In a series of interviews with Camille De Rijck, Philippe Herreweghe sums up his musical trajectory by offering the reader his reflections, intermingling musical and personal considerations. A selection of archive illustrations to delight the eyes... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphony No 4 / Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 / Schicksalslied, Op. 54 Ann Hallenberg (mezzo) / Collegium Vocale Gent & Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe [ PHI / CD - released 10/May/2017 ] "the disc is worth snapping up for the two accompanying vocal works: the Alto Rhapsody, with the superb, pure-toned Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg, and the Schicksalslied." The Observer, 4th June 2017 **** |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No 7 Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2017 ] "A superb performance that glows from within. A highly successful and persuasive experiment." - The Independent |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Die Schopfung [The Creation] Christina Landshamer (sop), Maximilian Schmitt (ten) Rudolf Rosen (bar) / Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe [ PHI / 2 CD - released 16/Oct/2015 ] "[the music] bursts from the speakers with the same combination of vigour, technical accomplishment and, above all, unforced pleasure in Haydn's cornucopian invention that should make even the most dedicated Creation admirer listen with fresh ears." |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Mass in C minor / Masonic Funeral Music in C minor Christiane Oelze, Jennifer Larmore, Scott Weir, Peter Kooy / La Chapelle Royale, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 12/Jun/2015 ] "The most gentle rendition of this work that I've ever heard…" (Fanfare) |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites (Complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Théâtre des Champs-Elysées / Patricia Petibon, Sophie Koch, Véronique Gens, Sandrine Piau / Jérémie Rhorer (cond) [ Warner Erato Classics Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Feb/2015 ] "[Plowright's] performance has a dramatic veracity that is disturbing in the extreme...Long sceptical about the piece, I was completely won over - the highest complement I can pay it." The Guardian |
POULENC
Dialogues des Carmélites (Complete opera recorded in 2013) Théâtre des Champs-Elysées / Patricia Petibon, Sophie Koch, Véronique Gens, Sandrine Piau / Jérémie Rhorer (cond) [ Warner Erato Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 15/Dec/2014 ] "Patricia Petibon gives the performance of a lifetime as Blanche...[Plowright's] performance has a dramatic veracity that is disturbing in the extreme...Long sceptical about the piece, I was completely won over - the highest complement I can pay it." |