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SCHUTZ
Italian Madrigals SWV 1 - 19 Cantus Colln / Konrad Junghanel (cond) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2011 ] "Cantus C011n has done Schutz proud yet again: let us hope that more will follow." (Gramophone) |
SWEELINCK
Sweelinck: Psaumes Francais & Canciones Sacrae Cappella Amsterdam / Daniel Reuss (conductor) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "The 18 fresh-sounding voices of the professional chamber choir Cappella Amsterdam produce a bright and transparent choral balance. Their intonation is flawless, the French pronunciation idiomatic and unaffected" Gramophone Magazine, February 2010 |
JAN PIETERSZOON SWEELINCK
Sweelinck: Psalms & Magnificat Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 30/Aug/2017 ] Composer, organist, organ builder and teacher of international renown, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was known in his own time as the 'Orpheus of Amsterdam'. Among his significant contributions to Franco-Flemish polyphony, one finds both psalms in French... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas For Soprano Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Freiburger Barockorchester, with Andreas Wolf (bass-baritone) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 21/Apr/2017 ] "Tempos are justly chosen and the appropriately resonant importance given to the basso continuo provides icing on this most delicious of cakes." BBC Music Magazine Recording of the Month, August 2017 ***** |
J. S BACH
Bach: Tonet Ihr Pauken Secular Cantatas BWV 214 & BWV 207 Carolyn Sampson, Peter Kooy / Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Jan/2008 ] "A release of considerable aplomb and exceptional vitality." (Gramophone) |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Concertos pour piano -Melodies Cédric Tiberghien, Stéphane Degout, Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] Les Siècles continue their successful series of Ravel recordings on period instruments under François-Xavier Roth, with Cédric Tiberghien at the piano and baritone Stéphane Degout. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mazurkas (selection) / Polonaise-fantaisie / Scherzo No. 1 / Nocturne Op. 48 No. 1 Cedric Tiberghien (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "Tiberghien seems to have the poise and poetry of Chopin in his blood. He makes the piano sing...This is an imaginative disc of shifting moods that are readily within Tiberghien's expressive orbit and which he interprets with sublime inspiration."... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLETCBALE: O lux beata Trinitas - Music for Trinity Choir of Clare College Cambridge / Graham Ross [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] "This really is exceptional singing - immaculately balanced and blended, with text always at its heart. Ross and his young singers have given us quite the gift in this series. I can't wait to hear what they do next." Gramophone |
ARVO PÄRT / PETERIS VASKS / JAMES McMILLAN
Pärt: Stabat Mater, Magnificat, Da Pacem Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Encompassing works by Arvo Pärt (Estonia), Pēteris Vasks (Latvia), and James MacMillan (a native of Scotland), this album charts the evolution of choral music in three regions of Northern Europe that saw the rise of a startling new language beginning... |
MENDELSSOHN
Symphonie Nr.2 "Lobgesang" Christiane Karg, Christina Landhamer, Michael Schade, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Pablo Heras-Casado [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2014 ] Symphony, cantata, or oratorio? The Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise), commissioned by the city of Leipzig from its Kapellmeister Mendelssohn to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the invention of printing in 1840, has elements of all three... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Lieder Christiane Karg (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Gustav Mahler (piano roll) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] "Her voice is beautiful, more velvety than diamantine, and, with her supremely sensitive partner, she never has need to push it...This is lieder performance of wonderful freshness and intelligence; a delightful album, highly recommended." Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 (Arr. by Ries & Ebers) Compagnia di Punto [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 15/May/2020 ] "The musicians of the ensemble Compagnia di Punto have thrown themselves into the adventure of editing these arrangements of Beethoven's music in revised versions" HighResAudio |
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
A. Scarlatti: Opera Overtures and Concertos Concerto de' Cavalieri, Marcello Di Lisa [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Apr/2017 ] "…dispatched with swashbuckling swagger…" (Gramophone) |
JOSEF HAYDN
The Seven Last Words of Christ Hob.XX:2 Cuarteto Casals [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2014 ] |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Overtures, Romances & Arias Daniel Behle (tenor) / L'Orfeo Barockorchester [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Sep/2017 ] "The German lyric tenor brings all his gifts as a lieder singer - cut-glass diction, eager storytelling persona - without dissuading me that Schubert was even less of a music dramatist than his idol, Beethoven." Sunday Times |
LEONARDO VINCI / LEONARDO LEO / RICCARDO BROSCHI / ANTONIO Maria BONONCINI
Rivals : Arias for Farinelli & Company David Hansen (countertenor) / Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Sep/2013 ] "Hansen dazzles throughout with his vocal fireworks...de Marchi draws some crack playing - here fiery, there serene - from the Academic Montis Regalis." Five Stars BBC Music November 2013 Opera Choice |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel - Opera Arias Vol. 1 Drew Minter (countertenor) / Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, McGegan [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/May/2001 ] "Endowed with a beautiful voice, a fine technique, and sensitive musicality, Minter demonstrates the full scope of Handel's writing in the Italian style, from the brilliantly dramatic to the lyrically tender." - Stereo Review |
BENOÎT MENUT
Menut: Les îles - Une traversée de la mer d'Iroise aux Caraïbes Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) Maya Villanueva (soprano) / Ensemble Syntonia [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] An ocean crossing from the Iroise Sea to the Caribbean Inspired as much by the poems of Dominique Lambert and Aimé Césaire as by Nito Dariel's sculptures, Benoît Menut's first album for this label unfolds like a paean to the ocean and to nature. |
VIVALDI
Cello Concertos Roel Dieltiens (cello) / Ensemble Explorations [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] "One-to-a-part transparency and articulation can't overcome the stifling reverberation of a Belgian church. Dieltiens, forward of the strings, plays indulgently, but with heartfelt passion." (BBC Music) |
CAMPRA / DESTOUCHES / MARAIS / HEINICHEN / HANDEL / etc
Portraits de la folie Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo) / Ensemble Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] "The enjoyment of a refined French enunciation is reason enough to buy this disc. D'Oustrac relishes her words, and squeezes gestures from them" BBC Music Five Stars. Choral & Song Choice Sept 2020 |
