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JOHN BLOW
Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell Deller Consort / Alfred Deller [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 23/Feb/2008 ] The Ode on the Death of Purcell is a setting of a fine poem by John Dryden, a writer with whom Purcell had frequently collaborated. This is indeed one of the finest 'monuments' ever erected to the memory of a great artist. |
Ensemble Clament Janequin, Visse
Vecchi - L'Amfiparnaso [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 11/May/2003 ] "A recommended experience." (Harmonia) |
Ensemble Organum, Marcel Paras
Vespers for Easter Sunday [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Aug/2005 ] When in the middle of the 8th century, on the initiative of Pepin the Short, the heathen Franks took up relations with the Papacy in Rome, they were so impressed by the Roman liturgy - the most exalted expression of the type of civilization they... |
PALESTRINA
Palestrina - Missa Viri Galilaei Ensemble Organum, Paras, Ensemble Vocal Europaen, Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 2/Jul/2002 ] "The performances are simply splendid." (A.R.G.) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Provencal Organs Francis Chapelet / Michel Chapuis / Lucienne Antonini / Rena Saorgin [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Mar/2007 ] Between the beginning of the 15th century and the death of Henry IV (1610) the polyphonists of the Dukes of Burgundy took the works of the Franco-Flemish School as far afield as Italy and Spain. In the wake of the musicians followed the... |
CAMPRA
French Cantatas Jill Feldman (sop) Dominique Visse (counter-ten) Jean-Francois Gardeil (bar) / Les Arts Florissants. William Christie, dir [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] Une Europe galante… 'I have attempted as well as I could to mix the delicacy of French music with the vivacity of Italian music,' André Campra wrote in the Preface to his first book of cantatas. The clear-sightedness of the composer from... |
BRAHMS
Piano Sonata No 3 Op 5 / Fantasien Op 116 / etc Jon Nakamatsu (piano) [ harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] Jon Nakamatsu, Gold Medal Winner at the 1997 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, presents three of brahms's finest piano works. "Nakamatsu is clearly a major talent" CD Now |
CARLO GESUALDO
Sacre Cantiones liber secundus Vocal Consort Berlin, James Wood [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Feb/2013 ] As we commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Gesualdo in 2013, one of his last works still remains to be rediscovered: the second book of Sacrae Cantiones, motets for six and seven voices, of which the bassus and sextus parts have, alas,... |