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MARIN MARAIS
Suite d'un Gout Etranger (Pieces de viole du IV Livre 1717) Jordi Savall (viol) / Pierre Hantai (harpsichord) / Andrew Lawrence-King (harp) / Pedro Estevan (percussion) [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 SACD - released 1/Nov/2006 ] BBC Music Magazine Award Finalist 2008 (Best Chamber Recording) 'Jordi Savall's pioneering musical and scholarly contributions culminate in this disc. His performance suggests a spiritual connection with Marin Marais. Savall animates the poetry of... |
DEBUSSY / MAHLER / MESSIAEN / RAVEL / STRAVINSKY
Boulez & The Cleveland Orchestra Juliane Banse (soprano) Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) / Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez [ Deutsche Grammophon Conductors & Orchestras / 8 CD Box Set - released 25/Jul/2017 ] The sound throughout is exceptionally vivid, and Boulez, the orchestra and his soloists provide exemplary performances at almost every turn: heartily recommended." Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2004 [on the Debussy/Ravel] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Confidence Julien Behr / Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon / Pierre Bleuse [ Alpha / CD - released 28/Sep/2018 ] The French tenor Julien Behr is one of today's rising vocal stars. Voted 'Révélation artiste lyrique de l'Adami' in 2009, the year he made his international debut at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, he has become famous for his Mozart roles... |
RAVEL
Bolero / Pavane pour une Infante defunte / Rapsodie espagnole / Daphnis et ChloAC: suite (with works by Debussy & Saint-Saens) Karlheinz Zoeller (flute) Pierre Cochereau (organ) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Herbert von Karajan [ DG Karajan Collection / 2 CD - released 4/Aug/2003 ] "This is the most entertaining modern recording of what is usually counted a forbidding work." (Gramophone on Symphony No 13) |
TCHAIKOVSKY / RACHMANINOV
Piano Trio in A minor, Op.50 / Trio alagiaque No.1 in G minor Kempf Trio (Freddy Kempf, piano; Pierre Bensaid, violin; Alexander Chaushian, cello) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Dec/2002 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - "The recording is very well balanced...the effect overall is convincingly realistic, and the acoustic seems equally suitable for both works." (Gramophone July 2003) |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2 (with Schnittke - Piano Trio) Kempf Trio (Freddy Kempf, piano; Pierre Bensaid, violin; Alexander Chaushian, cello) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "Anyone who doubts the spiritual desolation wrought by Soviet communism need only listen to this disc...The Shostakovich is impressively intense" The Telegraph, 12th February 2010 *** |
HUMMEL
Mathilde von Guise (complete opera recorded in 2008) Kristine Gailite, Philippe Do, Pierre Yves Pruvot / Solamente Naturali / Didier Talpain [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "At Brilliant's budget price, highly recommendable for anyone interested in what was happening to German opera in the period between Beethoven and Wagner." (MusicWeb Nov 2010) |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: The Piano Concertos / Valses nobles et sentimentales (orchestral version) Krystian Zimerman (piano) Cleveland Orchestra / London Symphony / Pierre Boulez [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Jul/2001 ] 1999 Gramophone Award Winner: Concerto - A Penguin Stereo Guide Rosette recording |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Hypnos La Tempête; Simon-Pierre Bestion [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] Hypnos, God of Sleep . . . Simon-Pierre Bestion's recordings are often inspired by his desire to recreate a ritual. His aim here was to recreate a Requiem service, 'the ceremony that accompanies the passage of a human being into the hereafter, while... |
La Tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion
Schutz & Schein: Larmes De Résurrection [ Alpha / CD - released 29/Jan/2018 ] In 1623, when the Thirty Years War was raging, Europe was torn apart by the confrontation between Protestant and Catholic peoples. Schütz and Schein, close friends with a deep-rooted Lutheran faith, were thoroughly in accordance with the spirit of... |
J.S. BACH
Stabat Mater / Salve Regina Le Concert Francais / Pierre Hantaa¯ [ Mirare / CD - released 20/Apr/2007 ] “Pierre Hantai, among the most impressive keyboard interpreters of Bach today, here assumes the additional role of directing Le Concert Francais, an ensemble he founded over 15 years ago…this performance is music making of a high order.” - Five... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Lily Laskine: The Complete Erato & HMV Recordings Lily Laskine (harp) with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Maurice Andre, Yehudi Menuhin, Marie-Claire Alain & others [ Erato / Warner Classics Icon / 14 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2014 ] The harpist Lily Laskine (1893-1988) was a popular and influential figure whose name was particularly closely identified with the Erato label, although she also recorded for EMI. |
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Russian Easter Festival Overture London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult / London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] In his most famous orchestral composition, Scheherazade, Rimsky-Korsakov, like Beethoven in his 'Pastoral' Symphony before him, was more interested in evoking feelings and impressions than in spoon-feeding listeners a pre-digested program. So the... |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Boléro / La Valse / Pavane pour une infante défunte / etc London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Nov/2015 ] Pierre Monteux as the ideal interpreter of Ravel, that great teaser and lover of mystification. Born less than a month apart in 1875, the two men were bound to come together in pre-war Paris, which was such fertile ground for artistic novelty. The... |
DEBUSSY
Images / Nocturnes I & II / Prelude A l'aprAs-midi d'un faune / etc London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux [ Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] "Some vintage performances but the competition from Munch is daunting" (MusicWeb April 2006) |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Pierre Monteux conducts Brahms [Incls Symphony No 2] London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] "...subtleties of nuance and timing, and modifications of pacing, reflect a lifetime's love and experience of the work, and a man who is still keen to explore its textural and structural possibilities." (Gramophone) |
London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux
Ravel - Orchestral Favourites (Incls Ma Mare l'Oye, Bolero, etc) [ Philips 50 / CD - released 5/May/2001 ] five of Ravel's most popular orchestral masterpieces |
BACH / BRAHMS / HAYDN / GLUCK / TCHAIKOVSKY / MOZART / STRAVINSKY / etc
Pierre Monteux: Decca & Philips Recordings 1956-1964 London Symphony Orchestra / Wiener Philharmoniker / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra / Pierre Monteux (cond) [ Decca Original Masters / 7 CD - released 19/Sep/2006 ] Pierre Monteux was born in Paris on 4 April 1875. He began his studies at the Paris Conservatoire at the age of nine and first conducted in Paris at the age of twelve. In 1911 Monteux was appointed principal conductor of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes... |
RAVEL
The Best of Ravel: Bolero; Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2; etc Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Zubin Mehta / London Symphony Orchestra / Pierre Monteux [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 21/Aug/2002 ] 'the visceral excitement Mehta produces is most compelling one marvels at the vivid Decca sound' Penguin Guide to CDs (2000 Yearbook) |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic' (with works by Stravinsky and Webern) Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, Pierre Boulez [ Accentus Music / 2 CD - released 25/Aug/2011 ] The first disc is gorgeously brilliantly programmed and gorgeously played" (BBC Music Magazine) |
