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W. A. MOZART
Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384 (Complete opera) Mari Eriksmoen, Robin Johannsen, Maximilian Schmitt, Julian Prégardien / RIAS-Kammerchor / Freiburger Barockorchester, Rene Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 25/Oct/2015 ] The 1782 premiere in Vienna of 'Die Entführung aus dem Serail' was an unprecedented success. This dazzling triumph was enhanced by a libretto celebrating and counter to contemporary prejudices concerning the Ottoman Empire. Mozart gave an important... |
FRANCESCO CAVALLI
La Calisto (Complete Opera) Maria Bayo, Marcello Lippi, Simon Keenlyside / Concerto Vocale, Rena Jacobs - director [ Harmonia Mundi Heritage / 3 CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] "Maria Bayo (soprano) in the title role is splendid, and Gilles Ragon (tenor) as the old, tetchy Linfea makes the most of this comic figure." (BBC Music Magazine) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Lamentations for Holy Week (Works by Carissimi, Frescobaldi, Marcorelli, Palestrina plus Toccatas by Rossi & Kapsberger) Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) / Concerto Soave / Jean-Marc Aymes [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Jun/2007 ] "Kiehr has an angelic voice and she is superbly accompanied by the small period ensemble Concerto Soave…An inspirational disc." Classical CD of the Week, Sunday Times, 20 May 2007 |
SIGISMONDO D'INDIA
Madrigali e Canzonette Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) / Concerto Soave, Jean-Marc Aymes [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] "With the Concerto Soave under Jean-Marc Aymes, the Argentinian-born soprano Maria Cristina Kiehr proves herself a true mistress of the genre." Anthony Holden, The Observer, 2 March 2003 |
MONTEVERDI
Pianto della Madonna Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) / Concerto Soave, Jean-Marc Aymes [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] Concerto Soave, Jean-Marc Aymes |
ALLESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Bella madre dei fiori-Cantatas Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) / Concerto Soave, Jean-Marc Aymes, director [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "Three chamber cantatas, including the finest Correa nel seno amato, its opening an outpouring of rare intensity and sustained despair. Tweaking tone controls softened a tungsten edge to Kiehr voice." (BBC Music) |
SCHOENBERG
Pierrot lunaire op.21 Marianne Pousseur (voice) / Ensemble Musique Oblique / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] Philippe Herreweghe was born in Ghent and studied the piano at the Conservatory there before going on to study medicine and psychiatry. While still at medical school he founded the Collegium Vocale of Ghent and attracted the attention of Nikolaus... |
GRIEG / SCHUMANN
Cello Works Marie Hallynck (cello) Cadric Tiberghien (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/May/2002 ] Marie plays an instrument built in 1717. |
DEBUSSY / OFFENBACH / HERVE / POULENC / COSMA
"Une jeunesse française" : mélodies & airs d'opérette Marie Perbost (soprano) & Josephine Ambroselli (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 22/Feb/2019 ] "The debut recording from this young French soprano is full of colourful, often humorous songs. Despite occasional stumbles from slight over-enunciation, this is a fun, theatrical listen" BBC Music |
EMILIO de CAVALIERI
Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo Marie-Claude Chappuis, Johannes Weisser, Gyula Orendt, Mark Milhofer / Staatsopernchor, Concerto vocale, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2015 ] "Typically Jacobs make the orchestral realisation of the score sumptuous within its turn-of-the-17th-century constraints; no one could mistake this for anything but a grandly ceremonial piece." (Guardian) |
LAMBERT / BATAILLE / LULLY / BALLARD / MOULINIE / etc
Sous l'Empire d'Amour: French Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Lute Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo), Luca Pianca (lute) [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Aug/2017 ] Featuring exquisite and rarely performed 17th-century French songs for mezzo-soprano and lute. The first half of the seventeenth century marked the heyday of the air de cour at the French court. This was a monophonic lute-accompanied song that was... |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (complete ballet) Marion Ralincourt (flute) / Les Siècles & Ensemble Aedes, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Apr/2017 ] "Lean gut strings achieve feathery lightness... With fine choral contributions from the Ensemble Aedes, this new recording is highly recommended." Gramophone Award WINNER 2018 - Orchestral |
JACOB VAN EYCK
Van Eyck: Der Fluyten Lusthof Marion Verbruggen (recorder) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] "Marion Verbruggen could have given van Eyck a run for his money, technically speaking, for she plays with the sureness, firm pitch and facility of a good keyboardist." - Gramophone |
TCHAIKOVSKY / DVORAK / BORODIN / SMETANA / SZMANOWSKI / etc
Slavic Heroes Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone) / Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] "The basis for this recital is refreshing...Kwiecien really enters the spirit of [The Haunted Manor aria], his focused voice blazing forth in what was the composer's barely concealed encouragement of his countrymen after their unsuccessful uprising... |
HANDEL
L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (Recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Mark Morris Dance Group [ Bel Air Classiques / Harmonia Mundi Distibution Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 29/Nov/2015 ] "the set-piece dances are often architecturally symmetrical and always strikingly beautiful…anyone fond of Handel's masterpiece should see this" (Gramophone) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Serenade for tenor, horn & strings / Nocturne (with Finzi - Dies Natalis) Mark Padmore (tenor) / Britten Sinfonia, Jacqueline Shave, with Stephen Bull, horn [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2012 ] "..it's a wonderfully muscular performance, beautifully judged and shaded, set off by suitably rapturous string playing." The Guardian, 3rd May 2012 *** |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
On Wenlock Edge / Ten Blake Songs Mark Padmore (tenor) / Britten Sinfonia (members), Jacqueline Shave [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Nov/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Dichterliebe op.48, Liederkreis op.24 Mark Padmore (tenor) Kristian Bezuidenhout (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Nov/2010 ] "Padmore's sweetness of tone is capable of growth and intensification, and he is sensible to the subtleties of modulation. Kristian Bezuidenhout...feels and thinks with the singer, makes his points without exaggeration and misses nothing" Gramophone... |
SCHUBERT
Die Schone Mullerin Mark Padmore (tenor) Paul Lewis (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "Besides being the most lyrically beautiful modern rendition of this oft-recorded cycle, the recording is a model of clear, natural presentation of voice and piano in a very complementary acoustic." (10/10 ClassicsToday) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Before Life & after Sonnets of J. Donne op.35 / Winter Words op.52 / etc Mark Padmore (tenor) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "The evocative performance by Padmore and Vignoles captures that sense of longing particularly well." Gramophone Magazine: Editor's Choice - September 2009 |
