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Saint-Saën
Beau Soir Boris Pergamenschikow, Pavel Gililov [ ORFEO / CD - released 17/May/1995 ] |
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DEBUSSY / TURINA / MARTIN
Piano Trios The Borodin Trio [ CHANDOS / CD ] |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Music for Royal Fireworks and Water Music Boston Baroque conducted by Martin Pearlman [ Telarc SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - "Perhaps the most outstanding period-instrument ensemble in this country." - Stereo Review |
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CHERUBINI
Requiem in C Minor (with Beethoven-Elegiac Song) Boston Baroque / Martin Pearlman [ Telarc SACD / SACD - released 20/Feb/2007 ] "Telarc are to be congratulated for reviving this historically and musically important requiem, as well as for their very good recording. The Requiem was commissioned for the memorial service for King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette. It was... |
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W.A. MOZART
Requiem Mass (new completion by Robert Levin) Boston Baroque / Martin Pearlman [ Telarc Records / CD - released 1/Oct/2006 ] This innovative completion by Robert Levin of the Mozart's Requiem |
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HEINRICH BIBER
Biber: The Mystery Sonatas Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, Christina Day Martinson [ Linn / 2 CD - released 27/Apr/2018 ] Heinrich Biber's astonishingly powerful and deeply emotional Mystery Sonatas represent a triumph of Baroque invention. Boston Baroque's Christina Day Martinson delivers a technical tour de force, as she navigates the virtuosic challenges presented by... |
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Boston Baroque / Martin Pearlman (director)
Lost Music of Early America [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2006 ] Telarc presents the first and only available CD recording of American Moravian music-the first true early American classical music, beautifully performed by America's oldest continuing period instruments ensemble, Boston Baroque. |
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LUIGI CHERUBINI
Cherubini: Requiem in C Minor Boston Baroque / Martin Perlman [ Telarc Records / CD - released 9/Nov/2007 ] "I have heard astoundingly few recordings of Cherbini¹s greater-of-two requiems performed with such delicacy and conviction." - Audiophile Audition |
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JOSEF HAYDN
The Creation Amanda Forsythe, Keith Jameson, Kevin Deas / Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman [ Linn SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 9/Jul/2012 ] "Pearlman adopts near-ideal tempi for every number, and his choir and period band - medium forces for a work the composer conducted with up to 200 - are excellent." (Sunday Times) |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / JACQUES IBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: A Hi-Fi Spectacular Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch [ RCA Victor Living Stereo / CD - released 6/Dec/1993 ] "..the real value of this disc lies in the Debussy. This has to be one of the most sensitive of all La mers, fluent and fluid with a real francophile feel to the dancing rhythms - this is a real Frenchman's response to the sea" MusicWeb |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / SERGEI PROKOFIEV / BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals / Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra / Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf Britten-Pears Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor & narrator) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] "I still find good recordings of children's music like this new one on Naxos quite special...this may be the ideal recording in many ways. I thoroughly recommend this totally enjoyable recording." MusicWeb |
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GEORGE ENESCU
Enescu: Cello Sonata nos 1 & 2 Buruiana, Laura (cello) Tchiba, Martin (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] Chamber music was a prominent feature of Enescu's music from his earliest years. Though separated by almost four decades, the two Cello Sonatas were not published until 1935. The First is indebted in many respects to Brahms and to Enescu's French... |
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SAINT-SAENS / DEBUSSY / RAVEL / FAURE / SEVERAC / HAHN / etc
A Verlaine Songbook: settings of poems by Paul Verlaine Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 18/Nov/2016 ] "Sampson adores these songs, caressing the text with her beautiful, pure soprano, particularly those that dwell on the correlation between nature and the emotions. Her partnership with Middleton is inspired, his intelligence always evident." The Guar |
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Carthy Martin
January Man Live In Belfast 1978 [ CD - released 19/Jan/2011 ] |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Violin Sonatas Cecilia Zilliacus (violin), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano), Stephen Fitzpatrick (harp) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] "Wonderfully vivid, alive and completely committed - but most importantly beautiful - Saint-Saëns performances from violinist Cecilia Zilliacus and colleagues. " Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2023 |
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony / Concerto for Oboe and Strings in A minor Celia Nicklin (oboe) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner / Philharmonia Orchestra, Owain Arwet Hughes [ Decca The Full Works / CD - released 1/Jan/2018 ] "I enjoyed Marriner's fresh, sympathetic approach to the Vaughan Williams" (Gramophone on the Oboe concerto) The London Symphony was originally released on the ASV label. |
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CHAMINADE / SAINT-SAENS
The Piano G & Ts, Vol. 3 - Chaminade & Saint-Saëns Cécile Chaminade (piano), Camille Saint-Saëns (piano) [ APR / CD - released 8/Jan/2013 ] "The compilations, transfers production and notes are... a class act." (International Record Review) |
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Charlie Parker
Bird at Saint Nick's [ Rare Live Recordings / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Harp Concertos Charlotte Balzereit, Giselle Herbert, Jutta Zoff, Jana Bouskova, Roberta Alessandrini, etc (harps) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 4/Dec/2020 ] The harp is an ancient instrument, with origins in the antiquity of perhaps many civilisations, and the modern orchestral harp is the culmination of a long evolution in form and technology. |
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PURCELL / HAHN / SCHUMANN / FRANCK / SAINT-SAENS / etc
Le Rossignol et la Rose Chen Reiss (soprano) Charles Spencer (piano) [ Onyx / CD - released 20/Mar/2013 ] "It is a measure of her gifts that Chen Reiss takes all these composers in her stride. That vocal stride is impressive: sustained lyric tone that is only rarely forced...Charles Spencer is as ever the perfect partner" [BBC Music Magazine] |