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MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Te Deum Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] In 1989, William Christie and Les Arts Florissants recorded some of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's finest sacred music for Harmonia Mundi: his celebrated Te Deum alongside two deeply moving works dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Shunning any kind of... |
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GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: L'Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] A hybrid work between oratorio, ode and serenata, L'Allegro . . . is undoubtedly one of Handel's most mysterious works, but also his most inspired! With their accustomed poetry, William Christie and Les Arts Florissants offer us the chance to... |
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Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Handel - Concerti Grossi Op.6 (Excerpts) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 16/Jun/2003 ] The concerto grosso, invented in Italy by Stradella and Corelli, spread rapidly all over Europe. But Handel's creative innovations surpass the Italian model, and are outstanding for their richness of style and expressive power. |
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LES ARTS FLORISSANTS, dir. William Christie
Le Jardin De Monsieur Rameau [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Jul/2018 ] Like a journey to the heart of the Age of Enlightenment, this programme explores the various paths followed by French opera of the period while also taking in the cantata and the canon: around selected excerpts from the masterpieces of the great... |
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CHARPENTIER
Le Malade Imaginaire Les Arts Florissants /William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] For the first time in 317 years, Les Arts Florissants brought together in 1990 the complete score of 'Le Malade imaginaire' as it was originally conceived by Charpentier to accompany Molière's final comedy. And now, for the first time on CD, you can... |
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JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Lully: Atys (Complete opera recorded in 1987) Guy de Mey, Guillemette Laurens, Agnes Mellon / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD/Book - released 27/Sep/2019 ] "The stateliest of Lully's operas, Atys is given an exceptionally handsome performance here. When it first appeared in 1987 this was a landmark recording. It remains a performance to treasure." BBC Music Magazine, December 2009 |
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GESUALDO
Madrigals Les Arts Florissants / William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] Love, desire and death - these are the three themes that pervade the musical poetry of Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, which has become a byword for tortured emotion. These madrigals are the clearest depiction in his output of the torments of... |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea - Live in Salzburg Festpiele (Aug. 2018) Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 30/Aug/2019 ] Limited edition triple CD and Blu-Ray edition. "Some of the most wonderful music in the world" is how William Christie describes Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea, noting in particular the opera's overriding humanism and interest in questions of... |
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DELALANDE
Petits Motets Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] |
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Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Si vous vouliez un jour… [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Jan/2019 ] With this second volume of airs sérieux and airs à boire, William Christie continues his exploration of this vast repertory of song settings of lyric and pastoral poetry, here focussing on such masters of the genre as Boesset, Moulinié, Lambert and... |
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CHARPENTIER
Acteon (complete opera) Les Arts Florissants / William Christie, dir. [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 4/May/2005 ] Actéon appears on the surface as a perfect demonstration of the classic artifices of the tragédie en musique as created by Lully. But here everything has been taken to an extreme point of miniaturisation - the plot, the number of performers, the... |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Madrigali & altri canti [Ballo delle Ingrate, Selva Morale, Combattimento di Tancrede] Les Arts Florissants / William Christie, director [ Harmonia Mundi / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2017 ] "Monteverdi's reputation received a boost with the arrival in 1980 of the first of four refreshingly raw recordings by Les Arts Florissants under William Christie of madrigals, dramatic ballets and sacred music." BBC Music |
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MONTEVERDI
Selva morale Les Arts Florissants. William Christie, dir. [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 4/May/2005 ] "This is gorgeous music, flawlessly served, and this disc is an important part of any serious collector's library." - American Record Guide |
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Les Arts Florissants/Christie
Charpentier: Deux Oratorios [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Jun/2012 ] |
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Les Arts Florissants/Christie
Handel:concerti Grossi Op.6 [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Feb/2003 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Passions Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Sep/2019 ] Alternating between transcendentally inspired secular music and sacred music embodied in theatrical fashion, Geoffroy Jourdain invites us to explore the multiple expressions of human passions: this new adventure of Les Cris de Paris, built around... |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Jeux / Nocturnes / Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un faune Les Cris de Paris, Les Siecles, Francois-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Orchestral |
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JEAN GILLES
Grand et petits motets Les Festes d'Orphee / Guy Laurent [ K617 Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 30/Jul/2009 ] Jean Francois Lombard, Jean François Novelli,Vincent Deliau, Laure Bonnaure & René Linnenbank |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: The Art of Fugue Les inAttendus [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Jul/2021 ] After a first CD devoted to early English music, Les inAttendus tackle Bach's magnum opus: The Art of Fugue. And it is as poets of sound that they do so. Through the very particular colors and the "unexpected" combination of accordion, bass viol and... |
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PIERRE ROBERT
Grands Motets Les Pages & les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles & Musica Florea, Olivier Schneebeli [ K617 Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "The performances themselves are stylish, accomplished and heartfelt, enough to make an auspicious introduction to an unjustly neglected composer." Gramophone Magazine, March 2010 |