SIMONE de BONEFONT
Simone de Bonefont: Missa pro Mortuis Huelgas-Ensemble (early music ensemble) / Ensemble Huelgas, Paul Van Nevel [ Cypres / CD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 WINNER - Early Music |
LUDWIG DASER
Daser: Polyphonic Masses Huelgas-Ensemble (early music ensemble) Paul Van Nevel [ Deutche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] "this larger ensemble creates a rich, wellbalanced sound which at times I found attractively wistful...I'm already looking forward to the next volume." Gramophone Award WINNER 2023 - Early Music |
ANONYMOUS / GERARDE / DESPREZ / LASSUS / etc
Le Chant de Virgile Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] "Sung with such exquisite fluency, the Huelgas Ensemble under Van Nevel conveys the excitement of an epoch that yielded some of the most beautiful combinations of poetry and music." - The Observer (13 Jan 2002) |
JEAN RICHAFORT
Richafort: Requiem Mass Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul van Nevel [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] We possess many works by Jean Richafort, but very little biographical information on the composer. In the 16th century he was the object of veneration and admiration. The great Ronsard himself spoke of him in the most enthusiastic terms, and most of... |
CIPRIANO de RORE
Missa Praeter rerum serium Huelgas-Ensemble / Paul Van Nevel [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 25/Jul/2014 ] Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (Feb 2003) |
ERKKI-SVEN TUUR
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra / Aditus / Exodus Isabelle Van Keulen (violin) / CBSO / Paavo Jarvi [ ECM / CD - released 1/Jan/2003 ] "The recording captures the full range of Tüür's orchestral colours, and the booklet includes an illuminating interview with the composer as well as helpful descriptive notes." David Fanning, Gramophone |
MENDELSSOHN
The complete Symphonies & Concertos Isabelle van Keulen (violin) Ronald Brautigam (piano) / Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Lev Markiz [ BIS / 11 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2012 ] BIS presents a boxed set of Felix Mendelssohn's complete symphonies, string symphonies and concertos. |
MENDELSSOHN
Complete Concertos [4 hours on 1 SACD] Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Ronald Brautigam, Roland Pöntinen & Love Derwinger (piano) / Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Lev Markiz [ BIS / SACD - released 1/Jan/2008 ] Ultra Extended Playing Time. These products can only be played on a machine with SACD capability. They cannot be played on a conventional CD player. These concertos span Mendelssohn's complete oeuvre, from 1822 to 1844. |
PETTERSSON
Violin Concerto No. 2 (revised version) Isabelle van Keulen (violin) / Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard [ CPO / CD - released 23/Feb/2007 ] Classics Today described Isabelle van Keulen as an artist possessing “considerable talent, experience, and professionalism.” |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 (with Rihm: Time Chant) Jaap van Zweden (violin) / Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jan/2014 ] "Van Sweden's virtuosity as a violinist…is here shown to be of the highest class, in an account of the great Shostakovich Concerto that holds its own with the finest." Musical Opinion |
Jacques Van Oortmerssen
Organ Of Sint Lambertus [ Bis / CD ] |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor / En Saga / Tapiola / Finlandia / Four Legends / etc (rec 1953 & 1958) Jan Damen (violin) / Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Eduard van Beinum [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2008 ] Eduard van Beinum was quite a Sibelius pioneer and collected here are his complete Sibelius recordings for Decca and Philips. The set also marks the first appearance on CD of his Violin Concerto in a 1952 performance by Jan Damen. |
HARTMANN
Symphonies 1 and 6 / Miserae Jard Van Nes (mezzo soprano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Leon Botstein [ Telarc / CD - released 10/Aug/2009 ] "Like all great music, the power of Hartmann's can be sensed long after its historical and biographical premises have receded from memory." |
JOSEF HAYDN
Die Schopfung (The Creation) Jeannette van Dijck, Peter Schreier, Theo Adam / Gurzenich Orchestra & Choir of Cologne / GAnter Wand [ Testament / 2 CD - released 30/Dec/2007 ] "Wand's Creation was highly thought of in its time, and again the reasons are obvious enough. Back in 1963 this must have seemed a performance of exceptional clarity, with Wand showing a fine feeling for the music and driving it forwards with energy,... |
QUANTZ / GALUPPI / VIVALDI / ALBINONI / GIORDANI / etc
18-th Century Flute Concertos Jed Wentz, Marion Moonen (traverso) / Musica ad Rhenum (with Lex Vos, Paul van der Linden, oboes) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Jun/2006 ] The six Italian concerti recorded here were all written within 60 years. They show remarkable variety. Of these the Galuppi and the Ferrandini are the most extreme with sometimes weird harmonies. |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Canatas / Magnificat BWV243 Jennifer Smith, Anthony Rolf-Johnson, Jose van Dam / Ensemble vocal de Lausanne, Michel Corboz / Scottish Philharmonic Singers, Raymond Leppard [ Erato Collection / CD - released 14/Nov/1995 ] Original recordings from 1979 & 1984 |
SIMEON TEN HOLT
Solo Piano Music Volumes Jeroen Van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 4/Mar/2013 ] "positive and life-enhancing. This is thanks to Simeon ten Holt's musical vision, but is also due in no small part to Jeroen van Veen's remarkable and sensitive interpretations. This whole experience can all be yours for just little more than the pri |
Philip Glass
Mad Rush LP Jeroen van Veen [ Brilliant Classics / 2 LP - released 1/Jul/2015 ] This double-LP issue presents a generous selection of the piano works by Philip Glass, probably the most iconic figure of Minimal Music. Despite its title, this album is anything but a 'mad rush'; indeed, any listener looking to relax and better... |
JEROEN VAN VEEN
Van Veen: 24 Minimal Preludes Jeroen van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Jul/2016 ] In these 24 preludes, spread over two books of equal length, Jeroen van Veen has been inspired by the key‐order of Chopin, the piano‐techniques of Franz Liszt and Sergei Rachmaninoff, the polyrhythmic textural layering of Philip Glass, the sound of... |
SIMEON TEN HOLT
Ten Holt: Canto Ostinato XL Jeroen Van Veen (piano) and friends [ Brilliant Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2014 ] Anyone having experienced the power of Canto Ostinato by Simeon ten Holt will come under the spell of the hallucinatory effect of this iconic work, the most famous Dutch work for piano of the 20th century, one of the "classics" of minimal music. |