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GESUALDO
Quarto Libro di Madrigali (Fourth Book of Madrigals) La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] "This exquisitely modulated Italian ensemble is wonderfully discriminating, extracting the eloquence of the mercurial lines and unobstrusively seeking architectural sense behind the text... Book 4 is heady stuff, indeed" Winner Early Music, The... |
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LUCA MARENZIO
Sesto Libro de Madrigali [Sixth Book of Madrigals] La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa Cabinet / CD - released 13/Sep/2010 ] Recorded in Roletto (Chiesa della BV al Colletto), Italy, Feb 2001 |
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SIGISMONDO D'INDIA
Terzo Libro de Madrigali (3rd Book of Madrigals) La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina (direction) |
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GESUALDO
5th Book of Madrigals La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina (director) [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] La Venexiana continue their acclaimed series of recordings of the complete Madrigals of Gesualdo da Venosa with this stunning recording of Book 5. |
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MONTEVERDI
Scherzi Musicali (1632) La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina (director) [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "It is a strange album of "musical jokes" that ends with one of the most heart-rending outpourings of grief ever written for the theatre: the Lamento d'Arianna...Here, in a discreet "orchestration" by Cavina, it is the climax of a programme by the... |
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LUZZASCO LUZZASCHI
Luzzaschi: Concerto delle Dame Roberta Mameli, Emanuela Galli, Francesca Cassinari (sopranos) La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina (direction) [ Glossa / CD - released 24/Oct/2011 ] Claudio Cavina and La Venexiana now return to the end of the 16th century, following the 'Poppea' of Monteverdi with the 'Artemisia' by Cavalli. They put their distinctively Italian mark on what was, for a long time, 'secret' music: that composed... |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea Emanuela Galli, Roberta Mameli, Josè Maria Lo Monaco, Xenia Meijer, Ian Honeyman / La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina (direction) [ Glossa / 3 CD - released 29/Mar/2010 ] "Galli's sensuous Poppea and Roberta Mameli's psychotic Nero climax in an almost bluesily languid duet. Not everyone will like it, but for the dramatic verve of Cavina's direction and the vividness of the text this Nerone/Poppea has to be heard." |
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART / GIOVANNI PAISIELLO
Mozart: Requiem / Paisiello: Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon Le Concert de la Loge; Chœur de Chambre de Namur; Julien Chauvin; Sandrine Piau [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Mozart's Requiem was not performed in Paris until 1804, in a version slightly different from the composer's original score. The press reported a triumph. That same year also saw the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte - who had brought back a pronounced... |
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MONTEVERDI / GABRIELI / VIVALDI
Venezia Millenaria Le Concert des Nations - Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Panagiotis, Neochoritis, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox 2 SACD set with large book / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 22/Dec/2017 ] "Savall's forces place atmospheric Orthodox and other non-western music alongside pieces by composers from Beethoven to Dufay, performing it all with panache" Sunday Times |
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FRANCESC VALLS / HENRY DESMAREST
In Excelsis Deo: Barcelona 1702 - Versailles 1709 Le Concert des Nations & La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 CD - released 27/Nov/2017 ] In the context of the War of the Spanish Succession, the duty of any composer was to celebrate not only the greatness of a deity in religious pieces, but also the power of their sponsors. Jordi Savall invites us to relive the creation of two dazzling... |
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La Vent Du Nord
Tromper Le Temps [ Borealis / CD - released 8/Dec/2017 ] Their sixth Borealis release, "Tromper le temps" blazes new trails through traditional ground as the group pushes their own boundaries harmonically and dynamically. Like all great artists Le Vent du Nord aren't afraid to take chances and... |
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LIDHOLM
Orchestra Music 1944-1958 Lena Nordin (soprano) / Norrkaping Symphony Orchestra conducted by La Jia [ BIS / CD - released 1/Dec/2003 ] "Lidholm's early output brought into focus, culminating in the magisterial Ritornell..a sonic spectacular." (Gramophone) |
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INGVAR LIDHOLM
Lidholm: Orchestral Works (Incls Motus-colores) Lena Nordin (soprano) / Norrkaping Symphony Orchestra conducted by La Jia [ BIS / CD - released 3/May/2003 ] This is the second of three important releases featuring the complete orchestral music of the doyen of Swedish composers, Ingvar Lidholm who was born in 1921. |
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PERGOLESI / VIVALDI
Stabat Mater Les Solistes de la Maitrise des Hauts-de-Seine / Gael Darchen (director) / Claire Pichon / Alix Le Saux / Ensemble Instrumental des Hauts-de-Seine [ Calliope / CD - released 30/Mar/2008 ] These two settings of the Stabat Mater provide fascinating contrasts: Vivaldi's being composed for solo voice, Pergolesi's for two voices; the former still little known, the latter one of the few works for which Pergolesi remains famous to this day.... |
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Les Tuers De La Lune De Miel (The Honeymoon Killers)
Special Manubre [ Crammed Discs / CD ] |
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Lianne La Havas
Blood [ Warner Music / CD - released 31/Jul/2015 ] Lianne La Havas made a huge breakthrough with her Top 5 debut album IS YOUR LOVE BIG ENOUGH? Now the 25-year-old London-based singer-songwriter releases her eagerly anticipated new album BLOOD Sonically, BLOOD is a collection that shakes, shimmies... |
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Lianne La Havas
Blood (LP) [ Warner Music / LP - released 31/Jul/2015 ] Lianne La Havas made a huge breakthrough with her Top 5 debut album IS YOUR LOVE BIG ENOUGH? Now the 25-year-old London-based singer-songwriter releases her eagerly anticipated new album BLOOD Sonically, BLOOD is a collection that shakes, shimmies... |
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Lianne La Havas
Lianne La Havas (LP) [ Warner UK / LP - released 17/Jul/2020 ] Lianne's third album and her first in five years is an album of startling beauty and insight. Working on writing and exploring her own identity, La Havas spent a lot of time moving back and forth between the UK and the States. As a result, 'Lianne... |
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GODZINSKY / KLAMI / FOUGSTEDT / SZENTIRMAY / PARTANEN / KASKI
Evening Dusk Serenade - Newly Discovered Finnish Works for Violin and Orchestra Linda Hedlund (violin), Elisa Järvi (piano) / La Tempesta Orchestra, Jyri Nissilä [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] The repertoire of Finnish music for violin and orchestra is full of hidden gems, with a substantial amount of works remaining unperformed and unpublished. |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL / W. A. MOZART
Lisa Della Casa sings Handel & Mozart Lisa della Casa (soprano) with Roberta Peters (soprano), Wiener Philharmoniker, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Heinrich Hollreiser, Josef Krips, Ka [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 15/Dec/2015 ] Among the legendary opera singers of the post-war era was Lisa Della Casa, one of the few internationally known musical stars produced by the little country of Switzerland, and a member of the exceptional Mozart ensemble built up by the Vienna State... |