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CAMILLE SAINT-SEANS / FRANCIS POULENC / DARIUS MILHAUD
Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux / Poulenc: Les animaux modèles / Milhaud: La Création du Monde Aldo Ciccolini (piano) & Alexis Weissenberg (piano) / Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Georges Prêtre [ Erato Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 15/Sep/2017 ] Proverbially idiomatic, Georges Prêtre conducts four works that typify the special charm, wit and sensuousness so often found in French music from the belle époque to the mid-20th century: Saint-Saëns "grand zoological fantasy" Le Carnaval des... |
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Sedecia, re di Gerusalemme Gerard Lesne, Philippe Jaroussky, Virginie Pochon / Il Seminario musicale [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2016 ] "Full praise should go first to gerard Lesne, whose presence on this recording is the critical element in its undoubted success. This isn't just a question of his stylish singing, but of a vision of the dramatic articulation of the work as a... |
SILVESTROV / PIAZZOLLA / KANCHELI / SCHNITTKE / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS / etc
Gidon Kremer: The Warner Collection Complete Teldec, EMI Classics & Erato Recordings Gidon Kremer (violin), with Andrei Gavrilov (piano) Oleg Maisenberg (piano) Clemens Hagen (cello) Kremerata Baltica, etc [ Warner Classics / 21 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2021 ] Gidon Kremer avoids the well-trodden paths of the musical world as he explores it with style and sensitivity. Kremer combines a passion for freedom with a quest for authenticity, as is revealed in the recordings he made over a period of two decades. |
TRADITIONAL / VIVALDI / SOLLINA / TARTINI
Al-Bunduqiyya: The Lost Concerto Il Pomo d'Oro, Federico Glielmo, with Giovanni Sollima (cello) [ Erato Classics / CD - released 21/Feb/2025 ] "The most interesting offering is Vivaldi's Concerto for cello in E minor 'per Teresa', RV787. The team have nicknamed it the 'lost concerto', for it survives only in its viola part." Gramophone |
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann [The Tales of Hoffmann] (complete operettas recorded in 2013) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Natalie Dessay, Michael Spyres, Kathleen Kim, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Michèle Losier / Stéphane Denève (conductor) [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] "The production belongs to Laurent Naouri who finds something truly distinctive in each of his portraits...Dessay is remarkable as Antonia" (BBC Music) |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (Complete opera recorded in 2003) Gregory Kunde, Joyce DiDonato, Patrizia Ciofi, Laurent Naouri / Orchestre Nationale de France. John Nelson [ Erato / Warner Classics Home of Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 15/Sep/2018 ] 'A splendid achievement. Here indeed is the 'verve and vitality' Berlioz always believed he had found.' - Gramophone |
GERSHWIN / RAVEL
Piano Concertos Helen Grimaud (piano) / Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman [ Warner Classics The Erato Story / CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] "Those who do take the plunge will be rewarded by one of the most vivid and detailed concerto recordings I've ever heard. The balance between piano and orchestra is close to ideal, the soundstage spacious and realistic, the bass deep and well defined |
FAURE / GLAZUNOV / RACHMANINOFF
The Swan - Classic Works for Cello & Orchestra Han-Na Chang (cello), Philharmonia Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Erato / LP - released 19/May/2023 ] This recording takes a new look at some of the most enduring smaller-scale works in the cello's literature. Among those chosen and performed by Han-Na Chang, several are heard in their original forms. Elsewhere, however, new orchestral arrangements... |
RACHMANINOV / BRAHMS / BEETHOVEN / SCHUMANN / RAVEL / GERSHWIN
Helene Grimaud: The Romantic Piano Helene Grimaud (piano) with various orchestras & conductors [ Warner / Erato Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2018 ] "Grimaud has never quite fulfilled the blazing promise of her early career, but her fiery personality ensures there is not a dull moment in concertos by Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Schumann and Ravel." (BBC Music) |
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SCHUMANN / STRAUSS / BRAHMS / RACHMANINOV / BEETHOVEN / etc
Helene Grimaud: The Warner Recordings [6 CD set] Helene Grimaud (piano) / Various orchestras & conductors [ Erato / Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 10/Nov/2014 ] With a flawless technique, a delicate touch and playing of poetic expressivity, the French pianist Hélène Grimaud has quickly become one of the most important musicians of her generation. Virtuosic gifts aside, her deep commitment to human rights and... |
DARIUS MILHAUD
Darius Milhaud: Une Vie Heureuse - anniversary edition Various artists incls Dawn Upshaw, Jane Bathori, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jeanne Loriod (onde Martenot) Yvonne Loriod (piano) Quatuor Bernède, etc [ Warner Classics Erato / 10 CD Box Set - released 16/Nov/2014 ] Distinctively French, yet cosmopolitan in his personal and artistic horizons, Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) was adventurous, prominent, and prolific. A pupil of Dukas and d'Indy, he became a member of Les Six and a distinguished teacher in the USA and... |
PENDERECKI / DUFAY / PART / DE MONTE / SCHUTZ / BACH / etc
Magnificat Hilliard Ensemble, Ambrosian Singers, Rheinische Kantorei, Choir of King's College, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, etc [ Erato Warner Classics / 7 CD Box Set - released 22/Aug/2017 ] Song of Mary: The Evangelist Saint Luke describes how the pregnant Mother of God intones a prayer of thanks which in Latin begins with the words "Magnificat anima mea Dominum", and in the King James version "My soul doth magnify the Lord". This... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Renaissance Music from England, Italy, Spain & Mexico The Hilliard Ensemble [ Warner Erato / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2016 ] The Hilliard Ensemble is one of the world's finest vocal chamber groups, and is probably unrivalled for its formidable reputation in the fields of both early and new music. |
OCKEGHEM / DESPREZ / LASSUS
The Hilliard Sound: Renaissance Masterpieces The Hilliard Ensemble [ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] A pure and perfect sound - without any vibrato, but full of warmth. No one who has ever heard the Hilliard Ensemble will forget the impression. The farewell of this award-winning world-class vocal chamber group will be sad news to many classical... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Pieces Op 116-119 Helene Grimaud (piano) [ Erato / CD - released 1/Jun/2004 ] "The very opening Capriccio of Op.116 really is presto energico, and Grimaud makes the most of the tricky, syncopated accents. The recording is good" MusicWeb (March 2004) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets Nos. 1-16 (complete, inc. Grosse Fuge) Hungarian Quartet [ Erato / 7 CD - released 26/Mar/2017 ] "[in the finale of the Fifth Qtet] and elsewhere the playing, which is often admirably precise, has great humanity and emotional force. The Beethoven performances are animated, expressive and, in terms of part-playing, beautifully balanced." Gramopho |
TOMASO ALBINONI
Tomaso Albinoni: The Collector's Edition I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone / Ensemble Strumentale Albalonga, Annibale Cetrangolo, with Pierre Pierlot & Pietro Bongonovo (oboes) [ Warner Classics / Erato / 16 CD Box Set - released 29/Jan/2021 ] The 'Adagio' (re)composed by Remo Giazotto had been enjoying huge popularity for ten years when Claudio Scimone and his chamber orchestra joined the Erato family and began to investigate the authentic Albinoni catalogue. |
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
Gluck: Ezio (complete opera) Sonia Prina, Ann Hallenberg, Max Emanuel Cencic / Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis [ Erato Classics / 2 CD - released 5/Sep/2011 ] Alan Curtis, described by the New York Times' as "one of the great scholar-musicians of recent times", conducts a brilliant cast including Sonia Prina, Ann Hallenberg, Max-Emanuel Cencic and Topi Lehtipuu in the original, 1750 version of Gluck's... |
W. A. MOZART
Magic Mozart Insula Orchestra, Laurence Equilbey, Florian Sempey (baritone), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor), Jodie Devos (soprano), Sandrine Piau (soprano) [ Erato / CD - released 18/Sep/2020 ] "there is some classy singing on offer, finely supported by Equilbey's lively period band." Gramophone |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Perlman Sound Itzhak Perlman [ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD - released 28/Aug/2015 ] 31 August 2015 sees the seventieth birthday of Itzhak Perlman, the supreme violinist of his time, adored by audiences around the world. The most obvious manifestation of that genius is the famous Perlman Sound - lustrous, warm and generous. |
