More By Artist: 5 Du-Tones
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JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Une symphonie imaginaire Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / CD - released 1/Jun/2006 ] "There was no puzzling, religious world-view to get in the way of a suite of Rameau's most delectable dances...just enjoy the parade of colours and rhythms, played with amazing vividness and sparkling virtuosity." Daily Telegraph |
RAMEAU
Une Symphonie Imaginaire Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv First Choice / CD - released 15/Dec/2012 ] Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski |
RAMEAU
Une symphonie imaginaire Les Musiciens du Louvre. Marc Minkowski [ DG Archiv SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 16/Oct/2005 ] Gramophone Magazine Award Finalist 2005 - Baroque Instrumental |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Alcina (complete opera) Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Magdalena Kožená, Erin Morley, Alois Mühlbacher, Anna Bonitatibus, Elizabeth DeShong, Valerio Contaldo, Alex [ Pentatone / 3 CD - released 2/Feb/2024 ] "..a tour de force performance in the title role from the mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená. She keeps the emotional import of the words she sings absolutely front and centre of her delivery." The Guardian |
Collegium 1704; Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles; Olivier Schneebeli; Václav Luks
Te Deum & Missa Salisburgensis - Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber; Jean-Baptiste Lully [ Château De Versailles Spectacle / DVD - released 12/Jul/2019 ] With his Te Deum (1677), Lully produced a singularly important work, which was to impose an "official" genre which lasted a century: a chef-d'oeuvre of musical architecture, the imposing forces require trumpets and timpani and was the religious work... |
PIERRE ROBERT
Grands Motets Les Pages & les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles & Musica Florea, Olivier Schneebeli [ K617 Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "The performances themselves are stylish, accomplished and heartfelt, enough to make an auspicious introduction to an unjustly neglected composer." Gramophone Magazine, March 2010 |
CLAUDE LE JEUNE
Lejeune: Motets pour le culte catholique et psaumes protestants Les Pages & Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles; Olivier Schneebeli [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] Claude Lejeune, who moved in Protestant circles but was also in the service of the royal court, composed both Huguenot polyphonic psalms in French and Catholic liturgical pieces in Latin. The genres are juxtaposed in this recording by Olivier... |
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JAKOB WALTHER
Hortulus Chelicus Les Plaisirs du Parnasse / David Plantier (violin and direction) [ Zig-Zag Territories / CD - released 10/Apr/2010 ] |
J. S. BACH
Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245 Lothar Odinius, Christian Immler, Ditte Andersen, David Hansen, Valerio Contaldo / Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Apr/2017 ] "Minkowski goes for minimalism, if not hardline one-voice-to-a-part "authenticity", sharing out the solos and choruses between eight singers. His Evangelist, Lothar Odinius, is outstanding, delivering the text with clarity and an emotional angst that |
BERLIOZ / GOUNOD / OFFENBACH / THOMAS / MASSENET / BIZET / VERDI
French Arias Magdalena Kozena (mezzo soprano) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Choeur des Musiciens Du Louvre / Marc Minkowski [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Sep/2003 ] "One of the most delightful talents around today shows off her French credentials" Recording of the Month - Gramophone Magazine (Awards 03) |
JOSEF HAYDN
Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 11 Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) / Les Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] Marc-André Hamelin has proved himself-in three lauded volumes of Haydn's piano sonatas-to be a formidable Haydn pianist, combining style, exuberance and dazzling technique with a palpable sense of joy in the music. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi Heroines Maria Callas (soprano) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, Nicola Rescigno [ EMI Classics / CD - released 5/Mar/2007 ] "Classic Callas recordings, which should be in every opera lover's collection" Penguin Guide |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar) (Complete opera) Marijana Mijanovic, Magdalena Kozena, Anne Sofie von Otter, Charlotte Hellekant, Bejun Mehta / Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski [ Archiv / 3 CD - released 30/Jun/2003 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1700-1760) - "Handel's dramatic masterpiece in a recording to challenge the very best" (Gramophone) |
TELEMANN
Miriways, TWV 21:24 (complete opera) Markus Volpert, Ida Aldrian, Ulrike Hofbauer, Julie Martin du Theil, Gabriele Hierdeis / L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg [ CPO / 2 CD - released 16/Jun/2014 ] "The score is a delight, revealing the composer at his most colourfully inventive...The performance pulsates with energy from start to finish...The cast, by and large, is strong...Prince Sophi is a soprano role sung with agility and tonal clarity by |
Ballet Exotic Du Robert
Caribbean Tropical Music Martinique [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] Relaxed and popular Caribbean sounds from Martinique with popular rhythms, like Biguine, Mazurka, Valse Crèole, Bolero, Soukouss, as well as traditional African-influenced drum pieces. |
POULENC
Poulenc (Incls Concerto for Organ & Les Biches) Maurice Durufle (organ) Gabriel Tacchino, Francis Poulenc (pianos) / Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire / Philharmonia Orchestra / Georges Pretre [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 6/Apr/2016 ] "No praise could be too high for the piano playing of Gabriel Tacchino. It has just the right precision and clean fingerwork, together with a ravishing melting quality that is yet never romantic in the wrong way." (Gramophone on the Piano concerto) |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Operettas Jessye Norman, John Aller, Mady Mesple, Gabriel Bacquier, Jose Carreras / Choeur & Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson [ Erato Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2019 ] Excerpts from four of Offenbach's most popular operettas in bubbling performances conducted by Michel Plasson. |
RAMEAU
Les Surprises De L'amour Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski [ Warner Classics The Erato Story / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] |
GLUCK
Gluck: Armide (complete opera) Mireille Delunsch, Charles Workman, Laurent Naouri, Ewa Podles / Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] "'Perhaps the best of all my works', said Gluck of his Armide. But this, the fifth of his seven 'reform operas', has never captured the public interest as have Orfeo, Alceste, the two Iphigénies and even Paride ed Elena. Its plot is thinnish,... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 / Violin Concerto / Suite No. 3 in G major / etc Mischa Elman (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Sir Adrian Boult [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] This new collection invaluably gathers up all the Tchaikovsky recordings Adrian Boult made for Decca between 1952 and 1956. |
