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MOMPOU
Mompou: Música callada Javier Perianes (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Jun/2012 ] "Mompou's Musica callada...requires a special evocative power and contemplative intimacy, and pianist Javier Perianes is marvellously engaging and beautifully recorded." BBC Music Magazine, October 2012 **** |
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BLASCO de NEBRA
Piano Sonatas Javier Perianes (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "[A] beautiful disc...performances are excellent, communicating a real sense of revelation, of bringing a distinctive composer's voice to a 21st-century audience for the first time" The Guardian, 5th February 2010 **** |
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FALLA
Nights in the Gardens of Spain / Complete Solo Piano Music Javier Perianes (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Josep Pons [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Sep/2011 ] "Perianes brings colour and flair to Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain, matched by the rhythmic piquancy of the orchestra...A highly attractive disc." The Telegraph, 2nd September 2011 **** |
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EDWARD GRIEG
Grieg: Piano Concerto / Lyric Pieces Javier Perianes (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/Apr/2015 ] "it is an interpretation into which soloist and orchestra seem, gratifyingly, to have grown together... the romantic expansiveness that marks their interpretation overall is tempered by playing from both pianist and orchestra that is as crisp and hig |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Sonatas Nos. 13 & 21 Javier Perianes (Steinway piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Apr/2017 ] "With Perianes, the touch is always warm and the edges are never harsh: the hymn-like opening is whispered and tender, the exploratory passages are wide-eyed and the song-like melodies really sing...It's generous playing." The Guardian |
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CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH / WILHELM FRIEDEMANN BACH
Liebe Amalia... Jean Brégnac (baroque flute), Chantal Santon Jeffery (soprano), Nicolas Bouils, Marie Rouquié, Jennifer Hardy, Yoann Moulin, Daria Fadeeva [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 12/Jul/2024 ] Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia - patron of the arts, collector, woman of letters and composer - was an extraordinary personality. |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Cello Concerto (with Tchaikovsky - Rococo Variations) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Sep/2013 ] "Queyras is a fine cellist, fluent technically and gifted with a flexibility of tone that can range from a warm richness to a resiny tang and to sweetness in the upper registers into which both Dvorak and Elgar take him." International Record Review |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Complete Cello Suites Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2008 ] "Here's another excellent performance of this pinnacle of the cellist's repertoire to add to over 50 currently available. Queryas is master of his instrument. Intonation is well-nigh impeccable...this is most warmly recommended for revealing new... |
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VARIOUS / TRADITIONAL
Sunday Morning Sessions Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] In the 2nd and 3rd century B.C., the civilisation of Thrace was one of an adventurous and inquisitive people, open to exchange with other cultures, and as such, is rather a beautiful metaphor for the ensemble that has gathered around Jean-Guihen... |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Cello Concertos / Four Seasons / Venice - The Golden Age Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Midori Seiler (violin) Xenia Loffler (baroque oboe) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit [ Harmonia Mundi Key Artist & Ensemble Sets / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2015 ] For the first time in 3 CD sets, discover these major recording projects matured over many years by ensembles and musicians of harmonia mundi including Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin's Vivaldi recordings. |
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BEETHOVEN
Complete Works for Cello & Piano Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Alexander Melnikov (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 15/Oct/2014 ] "not to be missed...The playing here combines breadth and urgency with, for example, a touching tenderness in the simplicity of the slow introduction to the C major Sonata Op 102 No 1...It all adds up to a valuable set for admirers both of Queyras an |
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DEBUSSY / POULENC
Cello Sonatas Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] "Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and pianist Alexandre Tharaud bring finesse and imagination to these two complementary French works." The Top 10 Classical Recordings of 2008 (Telegraph UK) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Complices Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Jan/2020 ] "this is a genuine, single, sublime work of art, and to achieve this from such a multi-angled selection takes unusual artistry." Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2020 |
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MARIN MARAIS
Marais: Folies d'Espagne, La Rêveuse & Other Works Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] Twenty years after his harmonia mundi recordings, reviving the tradition of performing the great French harpsichord composers (Rameau, Couperin) on the piano, Alexandre Tharaud now joins forces with his longstanding partner Jean- Guihen Queyras to... |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Cello Concertos Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Christian Beuse (bassoon) Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 3/Nov/2011 ] Alongside the famous Quattro Stagioni, La Notte, and so on, Vivaldi wrote no fewer than 27 concertos for the cello - an instrument which at the time was generally limited to playing basso continuo. With the genuine virtuosi he had available to him at... |
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ALBAN BERG
Lyric Suite (with Schoenberg - Transfugured Night) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) / Ensemble Resonanz [ Harnmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Jan/2014 ] The First World War, that crucible of every kind of artistic change, intervened between Berg's Lyric Suite (1925) and Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (1899). On either side of that traumatic divide, each of the works refers to adulterous love. The poem... |
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Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Raphaël Imbert (saxophone), Pierre-François Blanchard (piano), Sonny Troupé (drums)
Invisible Stream [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Aug/2022 ] Invisible Stream: the "unseen currents" are those that connect people and musical works by transcending styles or customary aesthetic and cultural boundaries. A feast of poetic expression organized by four key representatives of both the classical... |
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C.P.E. BACH
C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concerto & Symphony H.648 Jean-Guihen Queyras, Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Apr/2018 ] Why should music 'before Mozart' now be the sole preserve of period-instrument orchestras? For some years now, Ensemble Resonanz has challenged this idea, without ever neglecting the notion of the sheer pleasure to be derived from the concertos and... |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Joseph Haydn: Cello Concertos Jean-Guihen Queyras & Freiburger Barockorchester [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 21/Jul/2023 ] In 2004, Jean-Guihen Queyras and the Freiburger Barockorchester offered us a prodigious interpretation of Haydn's two cello concertos, coupled with a rare concerto by Georg Matthias Monn, a pioneer of the genre. A version now recognized as a landmark... |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Suites for cello solo, Nos. 1-3 Jean-Guihen Queyras (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 11/Feb/2013 ] This recording marked the start of the collaboration of a very young Jean-Guihen Queyras with harmonia mundi, the French cellist demonstrated his supremely high artistic standards. An unqualified success! |