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Raphaël Imbert, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Pierre-François Blanchard & Sonny Troupe
Invisible Stream [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Jun/2022 ] Invisible Stream: the "unseen currents" are those that connect people and musical works by transcending styles or customary aesthetic and cultural boundaries. A feast of poetic expression organized by four key representatives of both the classical... |
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REINHARD KEISER
Keiser: Croesus René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - released 30/Aug/2019 ] Keiser is one of the most astonishing early German composers to have been brought to light in recent years. The composer of a good sixty operas, all of them for the Hamburg Opera, during his lifetime he was regarded as 'the greatest and most... |
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail / Die Zauberflöte René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi / 5 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2023 ] The alpha and omega of Mozart! With Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782), probably his first absolute masterpiece, and Die Zauberflöte (1791 - the year of his death), René Jacobs penetrates to the heart of Mozartian singspiel. Featuring singers, a... |
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J. S. BACH / MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER / ARCANGELO CORELLI / etc
A Baroque Christmas (Limited Edition) Akademie fur Alte Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs / Ensemble 415,Chiara Banchini / Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé [ Harmonia Mundi / 4 CD Box Set - released 4/Oct/2019 ] Ranging from unaffected simplicity to elaborate polyphony, the composers of the 17th and 18th centuries left us some of the most sublime pages of sacred music intended to tell the story of the Nativity. The extraordinary musical legacy produced as a... |
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DAQUIN / ZIPOLI / BACH / BALBASTRE
Noëls à l'orgue: Organ Music for Christmas René Saorgin (organs of Tende and Chambéry) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Nov/2014 ] Jingle Bells! With René Saorgin at the historic organs of Tende and Chambéry, discover the delightful noëls of Balbastre and a whole collection of pastoral pieces for organ - not to mention the chimes of Chambéry. |
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HANDEL
Rene Jacobs: Singer & Teacher Rene Jacobs / Maria Cristina Kiehr / Susanne Ryden [ Harmonia Mundi / DVD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] One of a series edited by François Manceaux & Olivier Bernager in partnership with Arte & France Musique, uncovering great musicians of our time. |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Secular Cantatas [BWV201, 205, 213] RIAS Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 16/Jun/2014 ] "immensely persuasive performances" (International Record Review) |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Choral Works (Lieder) Op. 41, 48, 59, 88, & 100 RIAS Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] "This is first-class singing, captured in equally first-rate sound (from Berlin's Jesus-Christus-Kirche)-and if you want to fall in love with Mendelssohn's choral writing, this is where it will happen. Highly recommended!" 10/10 Classics Today |
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WOLFGANG RIHM
Choral Works: Sieben Passions-Texte / Astralis / Fragmenta Passionis RIAS Kammerchor / Hans-Christoph Rademann [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "The RIAS Kammerchor's forces deftly apply the misty tonalities here" (The Independent) |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52 & 65 / Hungarian Dances RIAS Kammerchor, Justin Doyle, Angela Gassenhuber, Philip Mayers (piano four hands) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] In these love songs in waltz style for chorus or solo voices accompanied by piano four hands, Brahms freely indulged his taste for Viennese folk music. The RIAS Kammerchor Berlin instils a wonderful inner life in these musical landscapes, sometimes... |
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BRAHMS
Sacred Choral Music: Geistliche Chormusik RIAS Kammerchor / Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "The RIAS Chamber Choir produce a fine quality of homogenous tone and, under Marcus Creed, show themselves fully responsive to both words and music.The RIAS disc remains a strong recommendation, especially for its inclusion of the surviving Missa... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Nachtgesang RIAS Kammerchor, Martin Creed, with Birgit Remmert & Werner Gura [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] Whether it be cheerful, melancholy, amorous or piously contemplative, the night - a favorite source of romantic inspiration if ever there was one - is the unbroken thread running throughout this recording on which we will find monumental pieces like... |
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POULENC
Poulenc: Figure Humaine/Motets RIAS Kammerchor / Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] |
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J. S. BACH
St Matthew Passion, BWV244 Werner Güra, Johannes Weisser, Sunhae Im, Bernarda Fink, Christina Roterberg, Topi Lehtipuu / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2013 ] "the novelty lies in Jacobs' games with acoustics and space in his studio location in Berlin...this spatial separation keeps you listening intently and listening afresh. Jacobs's Passion is intimate, dramatic, conducted with audible love." (Times) |
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KRENEK
Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae RIAS-Kammerchor / Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] When Ernst Krenek wrote these Lamentations in 1941, his music had been banned by the Nazi regime as 'degenerate art' and he was an exile in the United States, where he earned his living as a teacher. Ingeniously combining the polyphonic tradition and... |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Sacred & Profane (with works by Elgar, Stanford & Vaughan Williams) RIAS-Kammerchor, Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Jan/2014 ] From Elgar's 'Partsongs' (1904) to one of Britten's very last works, 'Sacred and Profane' (1975), here are some of the most beautiful pieces in the English a capella repertoire, many of them rarely recorded. All the composers here show the... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier I Richard Egarr [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 29/Oct/2007 ] |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: English Suites BWV 806-811 Richard Egarr (fortepiano) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] "Egarr displays an extraordinary tonal range, from harp-like resonance to transparency. The best harpsichord recital of these Suites on disc." (BBC Music - Instrumental Choice - March 2013) |
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W.A. MOZART
Fantasias & Rondos Richard Egarr (fortepiano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Oct/2006 ] "Mr. Egarr [plays] with crisp abandon and ear-grabbing exuberance." - The New York Times (review of Mozart Violin Sonatas) |
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HANDEL
8 'Great' Suites for Keyboard, HWV 426-433 Richard Egarr (harpsichord) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] Printed in 1720, the 8 'Great' Suites were the first set of keyboard pieces that Handel chose to present to the London public. As performed here by Richard Egarr, this magnificent collection demonstrates Handel's unique 'orchestral' keyboard style... |