Since you are interested in Ecole de Notre Dame: Mass for Christmas Day, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
SCHUBERT
Piano Sonata No 20 D959 / Four Impromptus Alain Planas (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Aug/2005 ] ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music Magazine (Dec 2001) |
CHABRIER
Piano Works Alain Planas (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 4/May/2005 ] "We have just heard something extraordinary: music that connects our time with that of Couperin and Rameau." (César Franck, after the first performance of the Dix Pièces Pittoresques at the Société Nationale de Musique) |
TURINA
Piano Works Albert Guinovart (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] Joaquín Turina (1882-1949) was one of the most important Spanish composers of the first half of the twentieth century. He raised Spanish music once more time to European levels. A professional pianist, he composed at the piano. We can listen here to... |
KURT WEILL
Berliner Requiem / Concerto pour violon et instruments a vent Alexandre Laiter / Peter Kooy / Elisabeth Glab / La Chapelle Royale, Ensemble Musique Oblique, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] 'Herreweghe and his group have extricated true beauty and elegance, in this Berliner Requiem. A resounding success.' - CD Classics |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Lecons de Tanabres pour le Mercredy Alfred Deller (countertenor) Philip Todd (tenor) Raphael Perulli (viola) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Aug/2001 ] Rare works by Couperin |
ANONYMOUS
Puerta de Veluntad Alia Mvsica / Miguel Senchez [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] Poems from Yehudá Haleví and Salomón aben Gabirol, two of the greatest Hispano-Jewish poets of the Middle Ages, as well as verses of the "Song of Songs" of King Solomon, a beautifully evocative testimony of the liturgy and mysticism in the... |
MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (with Stravinsky - Rite of Spring) Andrea¯ Vieru, Dan Grigore (pianos) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 23/Feb/2008 ] Drawing their strength from a certain vision of Old Russia, Mussorgsky's and Stravinsky's two most famous 'orchestral' works were both originally written for the piano. Andrei Vieru demonstrates the emotional heights to which the original version of... |
ANONYMOUS
Zarambeques Armoniosi Concerti / Juan Carlos Rivera [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Mar/2007 ] The Spain of the 17th and 18th centuries saw dance music reach its moment of greatest brilliance. Tunes of archaic and rustic origins co-existed harmoniously with more recently introduced styles such as the fandango or minuet and with those with... |
ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC
Musique de la Grece Antique [Ancient Greek Music] Atrium Musicae de Madrid / Gregorio Paniagua [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Jul/2008 ] Whereas proofs of the greatness of Ancient Greek architecture and literature still exist in abundance, no more than a few scraps of their music have miraculously survived. They have been gathered together here for the first time in a partly... |
TRADITIONAL
Al Andalus: Musique Arabo-Andalouse Atrium Musicae Madrid / Gregorio Paniagua [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] Atrium Musicae Madrid, Gregorio Paniagua |
KURT WEILL
The Seven Deadly Sins / Songs Brigitte Fassbaender (soprano) / Radio-Philharmonie Hannover des NDR [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 31/Mar/2008 ] "Fassbaender is one of the most intelligent vocalists around. She makes no attempt to do anything but sing the text with a maximum of interpretive nuance, and the result is a triumph. (…) A captivating performance." - CD Review |
BERLIOZ
La Mort d'Ophalie (Songs for chorus) Bruce Brewer (tenor) Jean-Philippe Courtis (baritone) Noel Lee (piano) / Choeur de chambre de l'Orchestre National de Lyon / Bernard Tatu [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 16/Jun/2003 ] Pure France - All the songs of Berlioz written for soloists, chorus and orchestra |
BIBER
Litaniae de Sancto Josepho (with Muffat-Missa In labore requies) Cantus Colln / Concerto Palatino / Konrad Junghanel [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] In order to re-create the acoustic conditions of those in the Cathedral of Salzburg, this recording was made in the Abbey of Melk, thereby offering an ideal symbiosis of place, of music and of performers. |
ROVETTA.
Vespro solenne: Venetian Solemn Vespers for the Birth of Louis XIV Cantus Colln / Konrad Junghanel (director) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 23/Feb/2008 ] In 1638, the French ambassador to Venice commissioned "the most solemn and refined music imaginable" to celebrate with pomp and circumstance the birth of an heir to the throne of France - who was none other than the future Sun King. |
RAMEAU
Les Grands Motets La Chapelle Royale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Aug/2001 ] Music from the age of Enlightenment |
RAMEAU
Les Indes Galantes (orchestral suites) Orchestre de la Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] The delightful orchestral music of Rameau |
DAQUIN / ZIPOLI / BACH / BALBASTRE
Noëls à l'orgue: Organ Music for Christmas René Saorgin (organs of Tende and Chambéry) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Nov/2014 ] Jingle Bells! With René Saorgin at the historic organs of Tende and Chambéry, discover the delightful noëls of Balbastre and a whole collection of pastoral pieces for organ - not to mention the chimes of Chambéry. |