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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Ascanio - Ballet: Andromaque / Overtures / etc Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Jun Märkl [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] "This disc is a mandatory acquisition for anyone who cares about either the composer or good French theater music." 9/9 ClassicsToday |
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KALEVI AHO / CARL NIELSEN
Aho/Nielsen: Clarinet Concertos Martin Frost (clarinet) / Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vanska [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] "Martin Fröst and Osmo Vänskä again prove a most persuasive partnership in this latest collaboration. There is something utterly idiomatic about Fröst's approach to the Nielsen, while he announces the Aho as a major concerto for the new century. At... |
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PHILIP GLASS
Spuren der verirrten [The Lost] (complete opera recorded in 2013) Landestheater Linz Upper Austrian State Theatre / Martin Achrainer, Bram de Beul, Keren Robertson / Dennis Russell Davies (cond) [ Orange Mountain Music DVD / DVD - released 15/Sep/2014 ] Spuren der Verirrten, translated here as The Lost, but in German Traces of the Lost, is a German-language opera by Philip Glass on a text adapted from a play by the experimental Austrian writer Peter Handke. Recorded here is the work's premiere... |
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PHILIP GLASS
Kepler (complete opera recorded in 2009) Landestheater Linz Upper Austrian State Theatre / Martin Achrainer, Cassandra McConnell, Keren Robertson / Dennis Russell Davies (cond) [ Orange Mountain Music DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] A portrait opera on the life of German mathmatician, astronomer, and astrologer, and a key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. |
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SAINT-SAENS / DEBUSSY / RAVEL / FAURE / BOULANGER / FARRENC / etc
Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals / Piano Concerto No. 2 (with other works by French composers) Lang Lang (piano), with Gina Alice (piano), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 26/Apr/2024 ] This is a carnival of French works for all generations by world-renowned pianist Lang Lang who offers music lovers of all ages the pleasure of discovery. Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Gewandhaus Orchestra and conductor Andris Nelson,... |
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MARTIN Y SOLER
Soler: L'arbore di Diana (complete opera) Laura Aikin / Michael Maniaci / Ainhoa Gramendia / Steve Davislim / Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona / Harry Bicket [ Dynamic DVD / DVD - released 24/Feb/2011 ] "Laura Aikin is a slow-burn Diana: reserved and beautifully haughty in tone in the first act; silky and warm as the waves of love begin to lap over her in the second...there's terrific unanimity between voices and orchestra throughout. Indeed, the... |
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ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Viola Sonata / Concert Piece / Legend / Trio in 1 movement Laurence Jackson (Violin) / Martin Outram (Viola) / Julian Rolton (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] "There is no question that the Viola Sonata ranks as the most significant composition among those collected here, and it is worth the price of the disc on its own" (MusicWeb Jan 2007) |
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CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN
Esquisses Op. 63 Laurent Martin (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Aug/2006 ] "...The range of moods and styles covered - from 'antique' to forward-looking, from serene to darkly disturbed - is startlingly wide. For this reason, and at Naxos's asking price, the disc is worth consideration..." ***Performance**Sound. - Max... |
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SPOHR / FAURE / PIERNE / SAINT-SAENS
Fantasies & Impromptus Lavinia Meijer (harp) [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2012 ] Meijer here demonstrates the brilliance that has bagged her top prizes at harp competitions around the world. Her tone is luscious and richly expressive - she captures every particle of nuance in the music |
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Le Poème Harmonique (early music ensemble), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano), Vincent Dumestre
Mon amant de Saint-Jean [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Fascinated by the interplay of echoes from one past to another, Vincent Dumestre and Stephanie d'Oustrac found an affinity in the project Mon Amant de Saint-Jean, their very first collaboration, and aimed to make it a unique musical adventure: a... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Serenades Nos. 1 & 2 Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Jaime Martín [ Ondine / CD - released 17/Mar/2017 ] "I like the Gävle strings' trenchant leap into the development section, and they maintain a fine control of those oscillating figures …Jaime Martín is not seeking hidden depths in the Adagio, which flows in unaffected fashion" Gramophone |
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SERGEY RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2, Op. 27 / Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 Leonard Slatkin, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra [ Vox Audiophile Edition / CD - released 17/Feb/2023 ] Sergey Rachmaninov's orchestral works were composed between 1887 (when he was not yet 14) and 1940 (the beginning of his final years). While composing the Second Symphony he was plagued by self-doubt, but in the end, not only did he complete the... |
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MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Vêpres pour Saint Louis Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles; Olivier Schneebeli [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Following the Alpha label's successful Red, Yellow, Blue and Pink collections (a total of fifty-six reissues), which brought the pearls from the Baroque catalogue back into the spotlight, there are now fourteen new titles offering a chance to... |
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HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Songs & Dances Tim Mead (countertenor) / Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien [ Alpha / CD - released 12/Oct/2018 ] "Reactions to this absorbing and revelatory disc will, I suspect, depend on how one responds to the "Frenchified" Purcell of François Lazarevitch's Saint-Julien musicians. I heartily approve of their imaginative, improvisatory approach, which brings |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: La Notte, La Tempesta Di Mare, Le Quattro Stagioni, Il Gardellino Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Francois Lazarevitch [ Alpha / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] In the course of his recordings for Alpha, François Lazarevitch has explored the music of the Baroque and of oral and popular traditions. After Scottish and Irish music, airs de cour and Baroque suites and sonatas, he stops off in Vivaldi's Italy.... |
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PEACOCK / O'CAROLAN
The High Road to Kilkenny: Gaelic Songs and Dances from the 17th & 18th Centuries Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Francois Lazarevitch, Robert Getchell [ Alpha / CD - released 25/Mar/2016 ] After the success of For ever Fortune, early music from Scotland, François Lazarevitch continues his exploration of the 'Celtic' repertories with a new programme devoted to early Irish music. This repertory of old airs from the seventeenth and... |
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LE BERGER POETE
Le Berger Poète: Suites Et Sonates Pour Flute Et Musette Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch [ Alpha / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] From the Alpha Collection III of reissues restoring to the limelight some of the gems of early music repertory in their catalogue of labels. The discs in this series allow listeners to renew acquaintance with treasures of the Renaissance and Baroque,... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A l'ombre d'un ormeau Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien / François Lazarevitch [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Aug/2018 ] |
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MARIN MARAIS
Voix humaines. Marais: Pièces inédites pour flûte Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch, Lucile Boulanger, Éric Bellocq [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Mar/2025 ] While Marin Marais is best known for his works for viola da gamba, he also composed for the flute; Michael Lynn's recent rediscovery of manuscripts containing pieces for flute and basso continuo as well as duets caught the attention of François... |
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ARNOLD BAX / STANLEY BATE
Bax / Bate: Cello Concertos Lionel Handy (cello) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Aug/2016 ] "if the solo part's tenchical demands in the very opening stages hint at stretching even Lionel Handy's huge expertise, his delivery of the rest of the work is state-of-the-art" (BBC Music) |