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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: String Quartets Op.41 (Nos 1 - 3) Eroica Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/Mar/2001 ] "The Eroica Quartet...brings a new perspective to these works." Classics Today |
BEETHOVEN
String Quartets Op.74, 95, 135 Eroica Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Feb/2009 ] "The players are excellent singly and together; though they play virtually without vibrato, their intonation is impeccable, the tone homogeneous, the balance exemplary." (Amazon.com) |
MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn - String Quartets vol. 3 The Eroica Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Jul/2005 ] Leading the revival of Romantic period-performance style, The Eroica Quartet presents the final installment of its highly acclaimed Mendelssohn cycle. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Baltic Voices Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] Paul Hillier was one of the pioneers in exploring the music of the Baltic Countries in the last years of the twentieth century, and has always paid particular attention to their repertory, both sacred and secular. Supported by the grace and fervour... |
BERGMAN / KREEK / SIBELIUS / TORMIS
Baltic Runes Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/May/2010 ] "The most striking piece is Erik Bergman's "Lapponia", in which the use of wordless phonemes is aptly elemental, with deep lowing beneath scattered snow showers of excited syllables, and a breeze of haunting sussurus which recalls Ligeti." The... |
KREEK / PART / RAUTAVAARA / SANDSTROM / TORMIS / VASKS
Baltic Voices Vol 1 Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir / Paul Hillier [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / SACD - released 1/Oct/2003 ] "pure and impassioned, astounding choral artists." (The Wall Street Journal) - On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM |
GORECKI / MAZULIS / SAARIAHO / AUGUSTINAS / GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN / etc
Baltic Voices Vol 3 Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir / Paul Hillier [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / SACD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] "Once again Paul Hillier and his Estonian choir provide a varied programme of new choral works by Baltic composers. Despite a wide gamut of styles, each composition has an immediacy that is not always found in contemporary music." Erik Levi - BBC... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Vespers & Complete All-Night Vigil Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Oct/2022 ] "...from the first notes of this performance by the superb Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir we appreciate the difference between Western and Slavic sound, as a super-deep and resonant bass voice intones the Deacon's gathering words: "Arise! Bless... |
MACHAUT / O'REGAN / DUFAY / BRYARS
Scattered Rhymes Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier (director), Orlando Consort [ Harmonia Mundi / SACD - released 23/Jun/2008 ] "This collection has actually been programmed with considerable care...with the acoustic of the recording venue effectively becoming an additional element in the performance." (Choral & Song Recording of the Month BBC Music June 2008) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Powers of Heaven: Orthodox Music of the 17th & 18th Centuries The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir / Paul Hillier [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / SACD - released 23/May/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - "The choir...sing with exceptional blend and purity of tone" (The Absolute Sound) |
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Europa Central
Shpil (O.Klezmer) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] |
Faiz Ali Faiz & Titi Robin
Jaadu Magic [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 31/Jan/2011 ] |
POULENC
La Voix Humaine / La Dame de Monte-Carlo Felicity Lott (soprano) / Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Armin Jordan [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "Lott uses [her voice] exquisitely. You want to hear Felicity Lott's anguish, textual inflections and lacerating pain in 'La Vox humaine." San Francisco Examiner |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Belshazzar (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Festival Aix-en-Provence / Kenneth Taylor, Rosemary Joshua, Bejun Mehta / Rene Jacobs (cond) [ Harmonia Mundi Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Sep/2011 ] "the dramatic essence of the story...comes over in a striking semi-expressionist fashion. There's a strong set of central performances." (BBC Music - Blu-Ray Choice August 2011) |
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Fink/Gens/Jacobs
Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - released 27/Aug/2007 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Provencal Organs Francis Chapelet / Michel Chapuis / Lucienne Antonini / Rena Saorgin [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Mar/2007 ] Between the beginning of the 15th century and the death of Henry IV (1610) the polyphonists of the Dukes of Burgundy took the works of the Franco-Flemish School as far afield as Italy and Spain. In the wake of the musicians followed the... |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonatas Nos 29 Hammerklavier' & 30 Francois-Frederic Guy (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 10/Jul/2016 ] François-Frédéric Guy has performed the complete cycle of 32 Sonatas in Washington, Paris, Monaco and recently at the Festival Berlioz in La Côte-Saint-André (August 2013). His eclectic and varied discography has been warmly welcomed by the critics... |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonatas Frank Braley [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Sonata Op 5 / Five Piano Pieces Op 3 / etc Frank Braley (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] The 3 Opus numbers on this recording are all the works of a very young Richard Strauss (17-18 years of age), and represent his only works for the piano, because he never returned to the instrument. It is surprising to learn how resolutely Strauss,... |
