LEOPOLD MOZART
Complete Horn Concertos Herman Jeurissen, Michael Holtzel & Vincent Levesque (horns) / Concerto Rotterdam, Heinz Friesen [ MDG / CD - released 20/Aug/2009 ] Leopold Mozart composed a number of works for horn and chamber orchestra during the first half of the eighteenth century. Höltzel and his pupils have given MDG the opportunity to produce this trailblazing recording. |
DEBUSSY
Pelléas et Mélisande Jacques Imbrailo, Michaela Selinger, Vincent Le Texier, Doris Soffel, Wolfgang Schöne / Essener Philharmoniker, Stefan Soltesz & Nikolaus Lehnhoff [ Arthaus DVD / DVD - released 15/Jan/2014 ] Neither Lehnhoff nor conductor Stefan Soltesz subscribe to the oft-voiced view that the work itself is muted or restrained. There's a palpable erotic charge between Jacques Imbrailo's handsome Pelléas and Michaela Selinger's full-on Mélisande. |
James Vincent McMorrow
Post Tropical [ Dew Process / CD - released 13/Dec/2013 ] Post Tropical is Irishman James Vincent McMorrow's second album. On a pecan farm half a mile from the Mexican border, Post Tropical was born - a collection of sounds and ideas brought to life in rooms where the low frequencies of passing freight... |
JEAN-LUC FAFCHAMPS
Lignes - Chamber Music Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven (piano) Vincent Royer (viola) / Quatour Danel [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 1/Jan/2008 ] Jean-Luc Fafchamps (°1960), is the key member of the reputed ICTUS ensemble as well as it's pianist. He's also one of Belgium's foremost contemporary composers, invited to many international festivals (Brussels, Paris, Vilnius, Warsaw, Budapest…).... |
J.S. BACH
St. Matthew Passion Karl Erb (tenor) / Willem Ravelli (bass) / Jo Vincent (soprano) / Ilona Durigo (alto) / Willem Mengelberg [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / 3 CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "...Naxos provides an unexpectedly rich sound-frame, quite amazing given the year. There are times when Mengelberg's (truncated) Bach Passion sounds almost as Wagnerian as Furtwangler's Tristan, rapt one moment, explosively emotional the next, but... |
Kenneth Lo and Vincent Price
A Taste of China [ Shock / DVD - released 31/May/2013 ] Kenneth Lo demonstrates and demystifies Chinese cooking in this five-part series. |
LEHAR
Frasquita (complete operetta) Laura Scherwitzl / Rupert Bergmann / Vincent Schirrmacher / Romana Noack / Franz Lehar-Orchester / Vinzenz Praxmarer [ CPO Records / 2 CD - released 23/Aug/2011 ] Contemporary reviewers spoke of the refinement of the orchestration in this »most through-composed operetta of more recent times« and certified that Lehár, »among the operetta composers of our days, has no equals in the spinning out and linking of... |
MONTEVERDI / RUFFO / etc
Nova Metamorfosi: sacred music in Milan in the early seventeenth century Le Poeme harmonique / Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] This programme represents an important period of change in Milan, starting around 1607, when secular compositions were transformed into pieces with a truly mystical feeling. It comprises a Mass by the former madrigalist Vincenzo Ruffo and sacred... |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Il Combattimento (with works by Trabaci & Marazzoli) Le Poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Essential Baroque Masterpieces / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER / JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Charpentier & Lully: Te Deum Le Poème Harmonique, Capella Cracoviensis, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Feb/2014 ] |
MICHEL-RICHARD de LALANDE
De Lalande: Majesté Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble Aedes, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Aug/2018 ] "If you are already 'hooked' you will want to add this to your collection - and by no means just because it appears to be the only CD containing these works which is available. It's a significant gem." MusicWeb June 2018 |
Le Poème Harmonique (early music ensemble), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano), Vincent Dumestre
Mon amant de Saint-Jean [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Fascinated by the interplay of echoes from one past to another, Vincent Dumestre and Stephanie d'Oustrac found an affinity in the project Mon Amant de Saint-Jean, their very first collaboration, and aimed to make it a unique musical adventure: a... |
GREGORIO ALLEGRI / CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Anamorfosi Le Poème Harmonique / Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] "This is an album so nuanced you can almost taste it." Recording of the Month Awards Issue 2019 |
ANTOINE BOESSET
Boesset: Je Meurs Sans Mourir Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] From the Alpha Collection III of reissues restoring to the limelight some of the gems of early music repertory in their catalogue of labels. The discs in this series allow listeners to renew acquaintance with treasures of the Renaissance and Baroque,... |
LUIS DE BRICENO
El Fenix de Paris Le Poème Harmonique / Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha / CD - released 26/Sep/2011 ] On this album discover le Poème Harmonique in a repertoire bearing the marked touch of popular Spanish music, accompanied by the delightful song of Isabelle Druet and Claire Lefilliâtre. |
BULL / GIBBONS / JOHNSON / MORLEY / HOLBORNE / ANONYMOUS
Love is Strange - works for lute consort Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Essential Baroque Masterpieces / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] Stylish performances of familiar (Greensleeves, Sellengers Rounde and Dowland's Lachrymæ) and unfamiliar music by Anthony Holborne (?-1602) and contemporaries. |
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Lully: Le bourgeois gentilhomme Le Poème Harmonique; Vincent Dumestre [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] In 1670, Molière and Lully presented to the King Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, a sumptuous Comédie-Ballet performed by Molière's Troupe, with musicians conducted by Lully, ballets by Pierre Beauchamp, scenery by Carlo Vigarani and Turkish costumes by the... |
SEBASTIAN DURON
Durón: Coronis Le Poème Harmonique; Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 11/Feb/2022 ] This recording provides an opportunity to discover a forgotten Baroque operatic treasure, a zarzuela, the key dramatic and musical genre of the Spanish Golden Age. Sumptuous choruses, poignant arias and folksongs blend in a rich and spectacular... |
SCLAVIS / PIFARELY / COURTOIS
Asian Field Variations Louis Sclavis (clarinet), Dominique Pifarely (violin), Vincent Courtois (violoncello) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] Asian Fields Variation marks the first time that clarinettist Louis Sclavis, violinist Dominique Pifarély and cellist Vincent Courtois have recorded as a trio. Sclavis summoned the project into existence, but this is a democratic group of creative... |
Mark Vincent
Best So Far [ Sony CD / CD - released 24/Oct/2014 ] At the age of 15 Mark Vincent was the 2009 winner of Australia's Got Talent. Since then he has gone on to release five hugely successful albums. Each of his releases has achieved a #1 spot on the classical chart as well as topping the ARIA album... |