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JOHANN FRIEDRICH FASCH
Fasch - Concerti & Overtures Kammerorchester Basel [ Sony / Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/May/2009 ] "…enjoyable performances that convey a fine variety of charming sonorities and imaginative ideas. The Basle players perform with remarkable dexterity and finesse" Gramophone |
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GIOVANNI GIROLAMO KAPSBERGER
Lute Works Paul O'Dette (lute) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "This is superb music, melodious, […] wonderfully apt for the instrument. O'Dette, for my money the world's finest lutenist, does the music full justice, and the sound is first-rate. You'll want this one." - FANFARE |
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Kasman/Reichert
10Th Van Cliburn Competitio [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV232 [recorded live in 2016] Katherine Watson (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor) & André Morsch (baritone) / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2018 ] "At first the approach seems almost too light-toned and ethereal, but soon the intimacy of these modest forces takes an ineluctable grip. Textures are clear, tempi brisk - the Sanctus positively skips." The Observer |
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J. S. BACH
Goldberg Variations Kenneth Gilbert - harpsichord [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 14/Jul/2001 ] It was only to beguile the sleepless nights of a Russian court that Bach sent the harpsichordist J.G. Goldberg these "thirty variations for a two-manual harpsichord"… Published in 1742, they have remained the unsurpassed summit of the form. |
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PURCELL
Harpsichord Suites Kenneth Gilbert (harpsichord) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 25/Jul/2014 ] "Gilbert offers an urbane and stylish alternative to Richard Egarr's more theatrical set. Instrument and recording are beautifully married." BBC Music Magazine, October 2014 **** |
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J.S. BACH
Italian Concerto BWV 971 etc Kenneth Gilbert - harpsichord [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 2/Jul/2002 ] Exercise into a genuine musical game between nations… |
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Kern/Warsaw Po/Wit
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1 [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/Jun/2006 ] |
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HANDEL
Messiah / Saul (complete oratorios) Soloists / RIAS Kammerchor / Concerto Kohn / Clare College Choir / Freiburger Barockorchester / Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi Handel Edition / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "A wonderful achievement, bursting with youthful energy." The Independent (on Saul) - "a model of period-instrument style, with ravishing ornaments, intelligent accents and crystal-clear diction from the mixed-voice Choir" (Financial Times on Messiah) |
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FRESCOBALDI / GRATIANI / ROSSI / BERNABEIa‚
Canta La Maddalena Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) / Concerto Soave, Concerto Soave [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] "Kiehr's supple and expressive voice in music that needs this kind of committed advocacy. Kiehr has chosen works which skilfully blend dramatic scena with contemplative radiance, and with her significantly sensitive accompanists," (Gramophone) |
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Kiehr/Scholl/Conc.Vocale/Jacob
Monteverdi:vespro Della Be [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD ] |
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PURCELL / LOCKE / HAYDN / BLOW
T'is Too Late To Be Wise Kitgut Quartet, Amandine Beyer [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 17/Jan/2020 ] Liberty, enthusiasm and sharing: that might well be the motto of the Kitgut Quartet (named for the 'kitgut' or catgut strings it uses), which brings together four outstanding soloists, all of them members of the leading period-instrument European... |
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Konitz/Solal
European Episode [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2006 ] |
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ROSSINI
Stabat Mater Krassimira Stoyanova / Petra Lang / Bruce Fowler / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin / Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] "Marcus Creed favours period instruments and a chamber choir, and with sound that is lucid and spacious the results are highly appealing." Five Stars BBC Music Magazine |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Sonatas Hob.WVI :6, 20 & 48 Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] A few years after a complete recording of Mozart's solo piano works that has gradually come to be regarded as a benchmark, Kristian Bezuidenhout has taken all the time he needed to tackle Haydn, the other towering figure of the Viennese Classical... |
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W. A. MOZART
Keyboard Music Vol 3 Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] "Bezuidenhout offers a performance that brings out all [the Fantasia's] intensity and passion...his refreshingly imaginative performances are marred only by a liking for exaggerated pauses between musical paragraphs. This disc comes strongly... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Keyboard Music Vol 8 & 9 Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 20/Dec/2015 ] "These discs maintain the brilliant standards of previous issues. One of the South African Bezuidenhout's great qualities is the naturalness of his ornamentation. It springs from the music, as opposed to being added on because it's the thing to do." |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart - Piano Concertos 6, 9, 11-13, 18 & 25 Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) / Freiburger Barockorchester [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - released 28/Mar/2025 ] "I have no doubt that this cycle is set to become a benchmark. There is nothing fussy or mannered about Bezuidenhout's Mozart, and the tempos provide no surprises." International record Review |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos, K.413-15 [Nos 11 - 13] Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] In January 1783 Mozart advertised in the Vienna press "the publication of three new, recently completed piano concertos", which could even be played with quartet accompaniment - thus enabling him to reach a wider public. In similar vein, he told his... |
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MENDELSSOHN
Double Concerto for violin & piano / Piano Concerto in A minor Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz (violin & director) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "the double concerto of 1823 marks an advance on the earlier piano concerto (1822), the brilliant piano writing in both shows the fruitful influence of Weber and Hummel, and the playing of the soloists and the period-instrument Freiburg band is nice... |