Rüfüs Du Sol
Live From Joshua Tree (Limited Edition LP) [ Reprise / Warner / LP - released 7/Jul/2023 ] A live album and film shot and recorded in the sprawling desert plains of Joshua Tree, California. First released in March 2020, the release of the film was a turning point for the group, catapulting them to stardom as one of the most in-demand live... |
Rüfüs Du Sol
Live From Joshua Tree (LP) [ Reprise / Warner / LP - released 7/Jul/2023 ] A live album and film shot and recorded in the sprawling desert plains of Joshua Tree, California. First released in March 2020, the release of the film was a turning point for the group, catapulting them to stardom as one of the most in-demand live... |
Rüfüs Du Sol
Surrender (Limited Editiion LP) [ Reprise / 2 LP - released 2/Sep/2022 ] The sonic tapestry of every RÜFÜS DU SOL record is an exercise in world-building & fantasy; following up 2018's Grammy-nominated Solace is no different. Surrender represents a new chapter in the world the band has been shaping and nurturing since... |
Roberto Alagna (tenor) / Choeur & Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse / Michel Plasson
Roberto Alagna-Sacred Arias (Including 'Ave Maria' & 'Panis Angelicus') [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Jun/2006 ] Beutiful sacred songs by the almighty Alagna |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Achante et Céphise (complete) Sabine Devieilhe, Cyrille Dubois, David Witczak, Judith Van Wanroij /Les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Alexis Kossenko [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 5/Nov/2021 ] "...this is an invigorating and joyous revival of a musically rich opera." BBC Music Christmas 2021 Opera Choice |
NICOLAS CLERAMBAULT
Clerambault: Soprano Cantatas And Sonatas Sandrine Piau (Soprano) / Les Solistes Du Concert Spirituel [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jul/2008 ] "Piau..sings with passion and a lively sense of style...very well performed by Piau and Les Soloists du Concert Spirituel. Strongly recommended" - Gramophone Editor's Choice |
MICHEL RICHARD de LALANDE
Symphonies pour les soupers du Roy Sébastien Marq, Marie-Ange Petit, Gilles Rapin, Jérôme Hantaï La Simphonie du Marais, Hugo Reyne [ Harmonia Mundi Heritage / 4 CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] With this first-ever complete recording of the legendary Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roy in 1990, Hugo Reyne produced a set of discs as varied as it is comprehensive. Twenty-five years later - and 300 years after the death of Louis XIV! - it still... |
Smith - Delunsch - Falix, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
French Cantatas by Clerambault, Collin de Blamont & Stuck [ Archiv blue / CD - released 12/Oct/2002 ] the new dedicated reduced-price catalogue series for Archiv Produktion. |
MISSA
Les plus belles messes de l'histoire musicale: the finest masses in musical history Soloists / Choeur et Orchestre du Collegium Vocale Gent / La Chapelle Royale / RIAS-Kammerchor / Philippe Herrewege / Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - released 10/Sep/2008 ] From the contrapuntal summits of the Renaissance to the great solemn Masses of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, from Romantic renewal to contemporary disillusion: Harmonia mundi invite you to discover generous excerpts from the Masses that have made history! |
THOMAS TALLIS
The Complete Works (Volume 9) - Instrumental and Secular Music Stephen Taylor (alto) Lynda Sayce (lute) Andrew Benson-Wilson (org) Chapelle du Roi [ Signum / 2 CD - released 2/Dec/2003 ] "A collection of delights bring this important series to a splendid close" - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Dec 2004 |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / ERNEST BLOCH
Prokofiev/Bloch -: Violin Concertos (with Bartok - Portrait Op 5 No 1) Joseph Szigeti (violin) / Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Paris, Charles Munch / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 2/Jun/2003 ] Penguin Guide - Rosette Winner |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
La Favorite (Complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Theatre du Capitole de Toulouse / Kate Aldrich, Yijie Shi, Ludovic Tézier / Antonello Allemandi (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2015 ] One of the composer's most beguiling scores, La Favorite is Donizetti's La favorita in its original French form - a tale of love and war that represents a glorious mix of Italian bel canto and 19th century grand opera. Today's scholarly interest... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Don Carlos (Complete French version recorded in 1996) Theatre du Chatelet, Paris / Roberto Alagna, Thomas Hampson, Karita Mattila / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Warner Music Vision DVD / DVD - released 18/Jan/2001 ] G - Libretto by Joseph Mery and Camille du Locle after Schiller's dramatic poem Don Carlos. The original French version in five acts by Ursula Gunther, revised after the original version by Ursula Gunther and Luciano Pelazzoni. |
Theatre du Soleil
Le Dernier [Odysses] Caravanserail - Film Soundtrack [ Bel Air Classiques / CD - released 10/Apr/2013 ] Le Dernier Caravanserail (Odyssées) is a series of stories, scraps of destinies, bits of the lives of men and women - of those 'refugees', 'illegals' and 'migrants' who term themselves, with greater dignity, 'travellers'. This is a veritable ocean of... |
WAGNER
Rienzi (complete opera recorded in 2012) Theâtre du Capitole, Toulouse / Torsten Kerl, Marika Schönberg, Daniela Sindram / Pinchas Steinberg (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] Championing love and personal heroism in the face of ecclesiastical oppression and political chicanery, Wagner's third opera explores characteristic themes with terrific energy which culminates in the eponymous Roman tribune's famous prayer to the... |
WAGNER
Rienzi (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Theâtre du Capitole, Toulouse / Torsten Kerl, Marika Schönberg, Daniela Sindram / Pinchas Steinberg (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Oct/2013 ] "A simple set keeps the action flowing and the moments of high drama are not shirked...Steinberg's conducting provides...a controlled but vivid reading of this sprawling score...Kerl's tenor remains unflagging throughout, with reserves to make someth |
PHILIP GLASS
Glass: Einstein on the Beach (recorded in 2012-13) Theâtre du Châtelet / Helga Davis, Kate Moran, Antoine Silverman / The Philip Glass Ensemble, Michael Riesman [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Nov/2016 ] "The static tableaux are as much art installation as music theatre, and need to be seen rather than just heard" Financial Times |
HANDEL
Handel Edition Volume 9 - Concerti Grossi, Water Music, Fireworks Music, etc. Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski / English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner / Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Warners Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 19/Jan/2009 ] "There is both vitality and finesse and a genuine sense of style" (Penguin Guide Royal Fireworks) |
RAVEL / DEBUSSY / DUPARC
Sheherazade And Other Songs Victoria De Los Angeles (Soprano) / Orchestra De La Societe Des Concerts Du Conservatoire / Georges Pretre [ EMI Great Recordings of the Century / CD ] 'A very beautiful and very enjoyable recital of French orchestral songs, sensitively accompanied. The coupling has this justly adored singer, in excellent form, in further songs by Ravel and Debussy with Soriano as the sympathetic piano accompanist.'... |
VIVALDI / DONIZETTI / ROSSINI / HANDEL / HASSE
Arias [3 CD set] Vivica Genaux (mezzo soprano) / Europa Galante, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Les Violons du Roy [ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2015 ] "Mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux is superb. Her voice is perfectly suited to this type of repertoire, with the ability to tackle the stratospheric scales, arpeggios and trills, while remaining comfortable in the lower registers." (MusicWeb Feb 2010) |