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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 / 2 Overtures Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Aug/2020 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 Winner - Assorted Programme |
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos nos.9 & 18 Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano), Freiburger Barockorchester [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] "These are dazzling and at times unusually searching performances." BBC Music Magazine on previous issues |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony no.9 / Choral Fantasy Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] A fantasy that turned into a symphony? First and foremost, this double album enshrines the exemplary work of an ensemble whose designation 'Baroque Orchestra' by no means limits its excursions into later repertories: under the watchful eye of a... |
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano concertos nos. 2 & 5 "Emperor" Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado & Freiburger Barockorchester [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "This really is exciting playing, and Bezuidenhout's virtuosity is impressive." Five Stars BBC Music Concerto Choice April 2020 |
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Kurdistan
Cantos Sacros [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] |
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Kyle Eastwood
Time Pieces (180g LP) [ Harmonia Mundi LP / LP - released 14/Apr/2015 ] Double bassist, composer and producer Kyle Eastwood unveils a timeless treasure with his seventh album as leader on the sensational Time Pieces, capturing the mood and aura of the 50s and 60s jazz scene blending two standards from the era with rich... |
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MONTEVERDI
Vespro della Beata Vergine [Vespers] La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] In autumn of 1610 Monteverdi dedicated a luxuriant collection of religious music to Pope Paul V, of which the Vespers of the Blessed Virgin is by far the most prodigious work. A spectacular synthesis of Franco-Flemish polyphony and Italian innovations. |
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MENDELSSOHN
Sacred Choral Works La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe - conductor [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/May/2003 ] "Elegant and fluent singing" - Gramophone |
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LULLY
Grands Motets La Chapelle Royale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Mar/2007 ] The large motet 'à la française' is a quite distinctive affair that has nothing in common with the more traditional notion that a composer like Bach, for instance, had of the genre. If a comparison must be made, we will find that the French motet is... |
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SCHUTZ
Musikalische Exequien La Chapelle Royale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] Commissioned for the funeral of a prince, this German 'burial music' deals with subjects that lie at the heart of Schütz's output: the misery of earthly life and the promise of the hereafter. In a mood of searing intensity, the music arranges texts... |
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JOSQUIN DESPREZ
Stabat mater & Motets La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] Josquin: the first name that comes to mind when one discusses the masters of Renaissance. In this now classic recording, Philippe Herreweghe offers an exceptionally rich portrait of his music, midway between the liturgical (Stabat Mater) and the... |
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HANDEL / VIVALDI
Dixit Dominus & In furore iustissimae irae La Nuova Musica, David Bates, Lucy Crowe (soprano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 24/Apr/2013 ] David Bates directs La Nuova Musica in a pair of contrasting settings of Psalm 109. |
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FRANCESCO GEMINIANI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Geminiani: Concerti Grossi La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Feb/1990 ] Originally recorded in September 1984 |
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HANDEL / CORELLI / BABELL / GEMINIANI / SCHICKHARDT
London Circa 1720: Corelli's Legacy La Rêveuse [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] "La Rêveuse bring us a disc of splendid music-making...The theme of the disc makes for a lovely coherence between works... There is enough variety, both timbral and affectual, to keep one in sonic rapture" Gramophone Editor's Choice Nov 2020 |
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WEIDEMAN / SAMMARTINI / HANDEL / OSWALD / CASTRUCCI
London Circa 1740: (suite de London 1720, 20 years later…) La Rêveuse, Florence Bolton & Benjamin Perrot [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/Aug/2023 ] For this new instalment of their series devoted to British music of the eighteenth century, the musicians of La Rêveuse take us to London in the 1740s. The leading Italian and German virtuosos Handel invited to play in his orchestra brought a... |
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MARIN MARAIS
Marais: Tombeau pour Monsieur de Sainte Colombe La Rêveuse, Florence Bolton (viole de gambe), Benjamin Perrot (theorbo) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 30/Aug/2024 ] In this new album, Florence Bolton and Benjamin Perrot revisit the composer who gave their ensemble its delightful name, 'La Rêveuse'. |
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MICHEL-RICHARD DELALANDE
Delalande: Symphonies Pour Les Soupers Du Roy [Symphonies for the King's Supper] La Simphonie du Marais, Hugo Reyne [ Camera Obscura / Harmonia Mundi / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/1990 ] Hugo Reyne, known until then as the 'recorder-player of Les Arts Florissants', presented the first-ever completed recording of the Symphonies pour les soupers du Roy with his ensemble La Simphonie du Marais, founded three years previously |
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ALLESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Responsories For Holy Week - Holy Saturday La Stagione Armonica, Carlo Steno Rossi (organ), Sergio Balestracci [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Aug/2018 ] "The 16-strong La Stagione Armonica are not, it must be said, as smooth as many of the comparable mixed choirs in the field today, nor even as in tune, but the sound they make is appealing in its firm-throated expressiveness and in the way Balestracc |
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Larmore/Schlick/Concerto Koln
Handel: Giulio Cesare [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD ] |
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ANTON ZIMMERMANN
Zimmermann: Symphonies L'arte del mondo [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Aug/2018 ] Born in Breitenau (Sileaia), Anton Zimmermann lived in Bratislava in the early 1770s, where he became a key figure in the blossoming of cultural life. |