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ANTONIO SALIERI
Salieri: La Fiera di Venezia (complete opera) L'arte del mondo, Werner Ehrhardt [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 11/Oct/2019 ] ."With a lot of wit and imagination, Antonio Salieri let's the comic sparks fly - thanks to Werner Erhardt and his excellent ensemble." (Fono Forum) |
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KARL von ORDONEZ
Ordonez: Symphonies L'arte del mundo, Werner Ehrhardt [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Dec/2017 ] "Ordonez was clearly not among the first rank of musicians of his day…Nevertheless, he was among those who guided the development of the Viennese Classical style in its early days and there is much pleasure to be had in discovering his music" Gramophone |
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Laurent Lefavre - bassoon; Gordan Nikoliltch - violin; Geneviave Strosser - viola; Jean-Marie Trotereau - cello
Devienne - Bassoon Quartets [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 22/Sep/2003 ] Laurent Lefèvre studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris with Maurice Allard and Gilbert Audin. |
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GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDE
Handel: Riccardo Primo, Re d'Inghilterra HWV23 (complete opera) Lawrence Zazzo, Nuria Rial, Geraldine McGreevy, Tim Mead, David Wilson-Johnson & Curtis Streetman / Chamber Orchestra of Basel, Paul Goodwin [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2010 ] |
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DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Stabat Mater & Other Works Le Caravansérail, Bertrand Cuiller [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 29/Apr/2022 ] A model of daring harmonic and contrapuntal treatment, Domenico Scarlatti's extraordinary Stabat Mater is one of the very few surviving examples of his music for the church. To place this unique masterpiece in context, Bertrand Cuiller and members of... |
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de BOUSSET / de la GUERRE
Le Passage de la Mer Rouge Le Tendre Amour with Luanda Siqueira (soprano) [ K617 Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] Drama and freshness are combined in the new musical forms that were imported into late 17th century France from Italy after the death of Lully. |
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JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Missa da Requiem / Miserere Lenneke Ruiten / Ruth Sandhoff / Colin Balzer / Thomas Bauer / RIAS Kammerchor / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin / Hans-Christoph Rademann [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Nov/2011 ] "The Miserere is conceived on a grand, imposing scale, with carefully plotted tonal architecture and, as Hans-Christoph Rademann's performance shows, an orchestral accompaniment of great imagination and variety." (The Guardian) |
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MICHEL RICHARD DE LALANDE
De Lalande: Petits Motets Les Arts Florissants, dir. William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Jul/2018 ] These 'petites' compositions of sacred music for several soloists and a small instrumental ensemble are in a certain sense the pendants to the grands motets of Versailles: Lully's successor excelled in both forms. At the close of the 'Grand Siècle',... |
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GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Music for the Queen Caroline Les Arts Florissants, dir. William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Jul/2018 ] The wife of George II of England, a woman of great beauty and a defender of both science and the arts, Caroline of Ansbach was also a patron and close friend of Handel. The works recorded here were composed for the major royal ceremonies which marked... |
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JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Lully: Petits Motets Les Arts Florissants, dir. William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Jul/2018 ] These little motets are not isolated curiosities in French religious music of the period: small motets and elevations, a term that indicates their place in the liturgy of the Mass, by Dumont, Robert, Danielis are other examples of the genre.... |
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CARLO GESUALDO
Gesualdo: Madrigali, Books 3 & 4 Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 5/Feb/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Early Music |
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CARLO GESUALDO
Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsaria, Feria Quinta Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] With their bold harmonies, their counterpoint of unequalled refinement and their raw emotion, the Tenebrae Responsories are the sacred counterpart to Gesualdo's last two books of madrigals, published the same year (1611). Paul Agnew and Les Arts... |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Madrigali Volume 3: Venezia Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew [ Harmonia Mundi Les Arts Florissants Editions / CD - released 15/Jun/2017 ] "The vivid atmosphere of Agnew's performance is palpable and, as so often in these discs, his text-driven subtlety wins over." Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Baroque Vocal |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (complete opera recorded in 2015) DVD + Blu-ray Theatre de Caen / Cyril Auvity, Hannah Morrison, Paul Agnew / Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew [ Harmonia Mundi DVD + Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] "Cyril Auvity's tremulous and emphatic singing of the title-role has unstinting dramatic commitment: the shadowy silhouettes of the obbligato instrumentalists in 'Possente spirto' appear as if the underworld is conjured to do Orfeo's bidding)." |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: A Life in Music (Vol. 1). Early Cantatas. Arnstadt & Mühlhausen (1703-1708) Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew, Feat. Benjamin Alard [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/Apr/2024 ] "These are beautiful, text-centred performances, and while I find several movements too fast for my taste, they are always engaging. There are some extraordinarily good solos throughout, and I keenly anticipate the next volume." Gramophone |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Great Venetian Mass Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew, Sophie Karthäuser, Lucile Richardot [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] A puzzling paradox: although Vivaldi devoted over 30 years to composing for the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, no complete musical setting of any liturgy by him has come down to us. By intercalating existing examples of his sacred music (such as the... |
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LAMBERT / COUPERIN / de la BARRE / CHARPENTIER / D'AMBRUYS
Bien Que L'amour...Airs sérieux et à boire Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi Les Arts Florissants / CD - released 1/May/2016 ] With this anthology of airs sérieux and airs à boire of the Grand Siècle, Les Arts Florissants launches a new series on harmonia mundi. We may listen to the tracks on this disc as contemporaries turned the pages of successful collections of songs... |
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MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: A Christmas oratorio (Un Oratorio de Noel) Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/Nov/2021 ] Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed some of the most important works of seventeenth-century French music on the subject of the Nativity and its tutelary figure, the Virgin Mary, from dramatic oratorios in Latin to secular cantatas in the vernacular.... |
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MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Médée Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD/Book - released 27/Sep/2019 ] Following the success of his biblical opera David et Jonathas, written for a Jesuit college, Louis-le-Grand, Charpentier produced Médée for the Royal Academy of Music, his one and only sublime example of the "tragédie lyrique" to reach the... |
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CHARPENTIER
Oratorios: Caecilia, virgo et martyr; Filius prodigus; Magnificat Les Arts Florissants / William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 16/Jun/2003 ] Superb examples of Charpentier's individual qualities: an acute sense of the word and an unprecedented dramatic effectiveness. |