PHILIP GLASS
Concert of the Sixth Sun (recorded Aug 2013) Philip Glass, Daniel Medina de la Rosa, Roberto Carillo Cocio [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 5/Sep/2013 ] |
GABRIEL FAURE
Fauré: Requiem, version 1893 / Messe des Pêcheurs de Villerville Agnes Mellon (soprano) Peter Kooy (baritone) / La Chapelle Royale, Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Louis, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 21/Jul/2023 ] In 1988, Philippe Herreweghe and his musicians recorded a pioneering disc of Fauré's Requiem in its 1893 version. The French composer's masterpiece received an ideal interpretation, displaying restrained emotion alongside clarity and precision. As... |
A. VIVALDI / J. S. BACH
Vivaldi / Bach: Magnificat & Concerti Pierre Hantaï (clavecin solo) / Le Concert des Nations / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD + DVD / 2 Hybrid SACD/DVD - released 15/Feb/2015 ] "with performers of this calibre…the performances were always going to be impressive. All fans of Savall will want the set." (Early Music Review) |
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade Op 35 (rec 1954) / Le Coq d'Or [The Golden Cockerel] Suite Pierre Nerini (violin) / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] While Ansermet's stereo Suisse Romande recording of Scheherazade is well-known and has been frequently reissued, his early (1954) Paris Conservatoire Orchestra recording of this piece is a relative rarity and here receives its first CD outing on... |
PLACIDO DOMINGO
Pasion Espanola (Coplas) Placido Domingo (tenor) / Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid / Migeul Roa [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 7/May/2008 ] One of Plácido Domingo's most personal albums to date as he performs coplas, the traditional popular songs of Hispanic origin with which he grew up. |
PIETRO MASCAGNI / RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana / Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (Zeffirelli productions recorded in 1984 & 1985) Placido Domingo / Teresa Stratas / Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan / Georges Pretre. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 14/Jun/2005 ] "The casts are strong but Pag gets my vote overall. This is largely because of the central heroine in each. Stratas looks and sounds perfect as Nedda, beautiful but vulnerable, just like the 'little birds' she sings of." MusicWeb |
Quator De La Chapelle Royale/
Hakim: Set Me As A Seal On You [ Signum / CD - released 25/Apr/2011 ] |
ADRIANO BANCHIERI
Il Zabaione Musicale (Musical Entertainments) Radio Svizzera Italiana Choir; Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca; Diego Fasolis, conductor [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 6/Jan/2004 ] "The style of interpretation might fairly be described as all out" - Fanfare |
Raffaele La Ragione (mandolin), Il Pomo d'Oro, Francesco Corti
Mandolin on Stage [ Arcana / CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] Two years after the great acclaim aroused by Beethoven and his Contemporaries, his first recording for Arcana ('Young Raffaele La Ragione is to the mandolin today what Gustav Leonhardt once was to the harpsichord' - Le Monde), Raffaele La Ragione... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Serenata Napoletana: Music for mandolin and piano Raffaele La Ragione (mandolin) & Giacomo Ferrari (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] This release invites to you an evening in Naples, one of the most beautiful and romantic cities in the world, and listen to an enchanting collection of Neapolitan songs, played by the mandolin, the instrument most closely related to that city of... |
HANDEL
Italian Cantatas Volume 3 - Cantatas for Cardinal Ottoboni Raffaella Milanesi (soprano) & Salvo Vitale (bass) / La Risonanza / Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord & direction) [ Glossa Handel Italian Cantatas / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "This disc is further testament to the marvellous subtlety and richness of Handel's Roman music and contains Handel-singing, playing and direction of the absolute highest order." Gramophone Magazine, June 2008 |
ERWIN SCHULHOFF
Schulhoff: Flammen Raymond Very (Don Jun), Iris Vermillion (La Morte), Arnold Schoenberg Chor, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bertrand De Billy [ Capriccio / 2 CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] In the 1920s and 30s, Czechoslovakia was flourishing culturally and boasted a multi-faceted musical scene. In considering the works of composers such as Pavel Haas, Gideon Klein, Hans Krása, Viktor Ullmann and Erwin Schulhoff, we can see how they... |
BERLIOZ
Symphonie Fantastique / Les Nuits d'été, Op. 7 / La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24 (excerpts) plus rehearsal sequence Regine Crespin (soprano) / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet [ Decca ABC Eloquence / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Penguin Guide Rosette Winner (for Les Nuits d'été) |
HANDEL
Alessandro, HWV21 (Complete Opera recorded in 1985) Rene Jacobs, Sophie Boulin, Isabelle Poulenard & Stephen Varcoe / La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken [ Sony Opera House / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2011 ] Includes a three-language synopsis (English/French/German), full cast list and detailed track list. |
MATTHIAS WECKMANN
Complete Works Ricercar Consort, La Fenice [ Ricercar / 5 CD Box Set - released 22/Apr/2016 ] Matthias Weckmann is doubtless the most fascinating Hamburg composer of the mid-17th century. A disciple of Schütz, nurtured on Italian music and, in particular, that of Claudio Monteverdi, he shone in all genres, achieving an impressive blending of... |
Ricercar Consort/La Pastorella
Telemann: Les Plaisirs De La T [ Ricercar / 7 CD - released 24/Nov/2008 ] |
J. S. BACH
Mass in B minor Roberta Invernizzi, Lynne Dawson (sops) Gloria Banditelli (mezzo) Christoph Prégardien (ten) Klaus Mertens (bass) / Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2012 ] This famous recording, licensed from the Swiss label Arts, is based on the Historically Informed Performance Practice, and presents the best voices in this field: Roberta Invernizzi, Lynn Dawson, Gloria Banditelli and Christoph Prégardien. |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Opera Arias Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) / La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "Invernizzi, perhaps the most exciting Italian Baroque soprano today, chooses three of the most flamboyant ['storm' arias] and dazzles with her coruscating yet perfectly controlled coloratura" Gramophone Award Nomination 2012 |
HANDEL
Handel: Italian Cantatas Volume 1 - Cantatas for Cardinal Pamphili, Rome (1706-1707) Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) / La Risonanza / Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord & direction) [ Glossa Handel Italian Cantatas / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "Invernizzi has a fresh, bright soprano that supplies constant delight" Sunday Times Classical CD of the Week |
HANDEL
Duetti e Terzetti italiani Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Silvia Frigato (soprano), Krystian Adam (tenor), Thomas E. Bauer (baritone) / La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni [ Glossa / CD - released 25/Nov/2015 ] "Beaming a searchlight into the darkest and furthest corners of Handel's youthful Italian-period creations, these sage performances are essential fare." (Gramophone Editor's Choice Feb 2016) |