VIVALDI / TELEMANN / CIMAROSA / HANDEL / CORELLI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Baroque At Bathtime Celin Romero (guitar) Heinz Holliger (oboe) Iona Brown (violin) Angel Romero (guitar) Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute, and various artists [ Philips Lifestyle / CD - released 13/Jan/2002 ] A relaxing serenade to wash your cares away! |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
So Romantique! Cyrille Dubois (tenor) / Orchestre National de Lille; Pierre Dumoussaud [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] "The album is a treasury of rarely heard (and previously unheard) music...Dubois handles them all with intelligence, finesse and flair, singing with perfect native French diction." Opera |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Concerto for Flute & Harp in C / Concerto for Clarinet in A (LP) Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) Lily Laskine (harp) Jacques Lancelot (clarinet) / Orchestre de chambre Jean-Francois Paillard, Jean-Francois Paillard [ Erato LP / LP - released 10/Dec/2021 ] This is the most successful recording in the Erato history: Mozart's Flute and Harp Concerto and Clarinet Concerto by the most wonderful cast of the 1960s, Jean-Pierre Rampal and Lily Laskine for the first one, and Jacques Lancelot for the second. |
MASSE / MEYERBEER / HALVEY / THOMAS / ADAM / etc
Jodie Devos - Bijoux Perdus Jodie Devos (soprano) / Brussels Philharmonic; Pierre Bleuse [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] "Devos is again wonderful. Her warm voice comes flying out of the grooves, and one can sit back and just revel in it. The orchestra is idiomatically led by Pierre Bleuse. Alpha provides a warm and balanced acoustic." Fanfare |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 / Schumann: Piano Concerto; Fantasie in C Op 17 Julius Katchen (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux & Janos Ferencsis. Israel Philharmonic. Istvan Kertesz [ Decca The Art of Julius Katchen / 2 CD - released 12/Mar/2004 ] "An exciting account of the solo piano part [of Brahms' Piano Concerto No.2], here combining tremendous drive with the kind of ruminating delicacy Brahms so often calls for." Penguin Guide To Compact Discs |
BERG / DEBUSSY / STRAVINSKY
Pierre Boulez Conducts Modern Classics (recorded in Koln, 2000) Pierre Boulez and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Christine Schäfer (soprano) [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 2/Aug/2006 ] A survey of the music of the century interpreted by one of the greatest representatives of the modern era |
GABRIEL FAURE
Fauré: Preludes And Impromptus Pierre-Alain Volondat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1997 ] "Volondat makes the most of the built-in contrasts in the Preludes" BBC Music |
ERIC TANGUY
Tanguy: In a dream - Chamber Music Quatuor Diotima (string quartet) Suzana Bartal (piano) Pierre Génisson (clarinet), Alexandra Conunova (violin) Edgar Moreau (cello) Lise Berthaud [ Erato Warner Classics / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] The album 'In a Dream' takes it's title from a piece for violin and piano, one of the eight chamber works on its programme. Composed between 1999 and 2019, they are performed here by various soloists and ensembles. |
RAVI SHANKAR
Ravi Shankar Edition Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin, Jean-Pierre Rampal / London Symphony & Philharmonic Orchestra, Andre Previn, Zubin Mehta [ Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 6/Mar/2020 ] Including performances from Zubin Mehta, Yehudi Menhuin, Andre Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra, these pioneering, visionary works come together to form an inspiring whole. |
GABRIEL FAURE
Best Of Faure Jean Martin (piano), Dong-Suk Kang (violin), Pascal Devoyon (piano), Lisa Beckley (soprano), Colm Carey (organ), Pierre-Alain Volondat (piano), Franco [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Aug/2013 ] All the best bits of Faure |