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DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE / HEINRICH SCHUTZ / LUDERT DIJKMAN
Buxtehude, Schütz & Dijkman: Septem Verba / Membra Jesu Nostri Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] "Vocal forces of just 10 singers supported by the same number of instrumentalists bring a level of intimacy that is entirely appropriate to this programme of 17th-century music reflecting on the Passion." Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Choral |
Ensemble Correspondances Sebastien
Le Ballet Royal De La Nuit [ Harmonia Mundi / 4 CD/DVD - released 16/Oct/2018 ] Following an initial reconstruction on disc in 2015, the Ballet Royal de la Nuit enjoyed a triumphal modern premiere at the Théâtre de Caen in November 2017. That staged version, presented in this outstanding box set, at last includes the entire... |
W. A. MOZART / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Mozart & Beethoven Quintets Ensemble Dialoghi [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] "It is a real delight to hear this coupling so thoughtfully and lovingly played on period instruments and recorded in deluxe sound." MusicWeb |
JOHANN JANITSCH / CHRISTIAN KRAUSE / JOHANN GRAUN
Forgotten Chamber Works with Oboe from the Court of Prussia Ensemble Notturna, Christopher Palamera (oboe) [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Aug/2018 ] Guided by oboist Christopher Palameta, the five artists of Notturna have come together to explore forgotten chamber works from the court of Frederick the Great. |
CARLO GESUALDO
Sabbato Sancto (with Gorli - Requiem) Ensemble Vocal Européen, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 10/Aug/2013 ] |
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Concerto for orchestra (with Brahms/Schoenberg - Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor) Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra / Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Conductor) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/May/2016 ] "This new entry to the catalogue shines out with its precision, vigour and clarity of sound....A seriously interesting and worthwhile disc." (The Guardian) |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, (J.S.): Alio Modo (keyboard works transcribed for viols) Fretwork [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Dec/2005 ] "Fretwork play with a gorgeous simplicity of expression and deep musicality." - The Independent, UK |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Platée Genia KAhmeier, Toby Spence, Dietrich Henschel, Sophie KarthANuser, Markus Werba / Les Arts Florissants / William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] "Christie's conducting is masterly, totally in command of the idiom, faultless in dramatic timing and pacing, encouraging of vivid and colourful characterisation from his singers, and easily ticking off the score's comic tricks." Gramophone |
ANTIONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Il Mondo al rovescio - Concerti con molti istromenti Gli incogniti, Amandine Beyer [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] Vivaldi's concerti con molti istromenti are true precursors of the symphony in their amplitude and audacity. In these pieces, the 'Red-haired Priest', a creator of boundless imagination, amused himself by devising literally unheard-of combinations of... |
RICHARD WAGNER
The Wagner Project Matthias Goerne (baritone) / The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 17/Nov/2017 ] Thanks to the combined talents of Matthias Goerne and Daniel Harding at the head of the excellent Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the music of Richard Wagner glows here with a special radiance. In the finest scenes for baritone or... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No.3 Sara Mingardo (contralto) / Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 8/Feb/2019 ] "Roth and the Cologne orchestra have a knack of making the most familiar Mahler sound new, with vivid extremes of colour and dynamics. Hearing the prodigious Third makes me marvel afresh at it" Sunday Times |
MANCINI / GERSHWIN
Music For Peter Gunn / Gershwin By Grofé Harmonie Ensemble New York, Steven Richman [ Harmonia Mundi with complete catalogue / 2 CD - released 8/Jan/2016 ] "a fascinating and hugely enjoyable disc." (BBC Music) |
TCHAIKOVSKY / ELLINGTON / STRAYHORN
The Nutcracker Suites Harmonie Ensemble New York, Steven Richman [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Oct/2013 ] Reviving the art of "swinging the classics", Steven Richman and the Harmonie Ensemble/New York present two different versions of the beloved Nutcracker Suite side by side on the same album for the first time: the Tchaikovsky original of 1892,... |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schoenberg: Die Jakobsleiter Friede auf Erden Dietrich Henschel, Jonas Kaufmann, Stephan Ragamer, Michael Volle / Rundfunkchor Berlin / Deutsches SO / Kent Nagano [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 21/Mar/2004 ] "Kent Nagano's superb reading, full of humanity, is a clear first choice, going off into deepest space in the stunning closing passage - truly, music from another world." The Independent - |
COSTANZO FESTA
La Spagna: 32 Variations sur 'La Spagna' Huelgas-Ensemble / Paul Van Nevel (conductor) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Feb/2015 ] "a remarkable testament to the man's [Festa's] intellectual and imaginative powers." Early Music Review, February 2015 |
JANACEK / LUTOSLAWSKI / SZYMANOWSKI
Violin Works Isabelle Faust (violin) & Ewa Kupiec (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 10/Aug/2013 ] "An exquisitely shaded performance of the Janacek Sonata sets up heady takes on Szymanowski's Mythes and the fizzing virtuosity of Lutoslawski's Partita." (BBC Music) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto / Symphony no.5 "Reformation" Isabelle Faust (violin), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] "[Faust] takes the radical decision to perform the work as scholars now think mid-19th-century violinists would have done" The Times |
SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto in D minor / Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor, Op. 110 Isabelle Faust (violin) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado, with Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Alexander Melnikov (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi CD + DVD / 2 CD/DVD - released 10/Apr/2015 ] In the autumn of 1851 Schumann composed, in rapid succession, the two violin sonatas and, in the space of just seven days from 2 to 9 October, the Piano Trio no.3, Op.110. As always during his work, Schumann was oblivious to everything around him,... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Violin Concerto & Trio Op. 65 Isabelle Faust (violin) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexander Melnikov (piano), Prague Philharmonia, Jiri Belohlavek [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Almost twenty years ago, Isabelle Faust and Jiří Bělohlávek established a new milestone in the discography of Dvořák's Violin Concerto. The coupling, the tumultuous Trio in F minor, inaugurated the violinist's long and fruitful collaboration with... |
BEETHOVEN / ALBAN BERG
Beethoven / Berg: Violin Concertos Isabelle Faust (violin) / Orchestra Mozart / Claudio Abbado [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "The Beethoven and Berg Violin Concertos aren't commonly paired on disc. However, in this case it seems like an inspired piece of programme planning. Outstanding performances of both concertos, then; I'll want to return to them often." (Gramophone... |
