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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Sonatas No.2 'Funeral' & No.3, Mazurkas Op.63 Javier Perianes [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] Beyond the celebrated 'Funeral March', Chopin's Second and Third Sonatas testify to their composer's astounding ease in musical structures on a much larger scale than waltzes, nocturnes - and mazurkas, such as the three that make up his op.63,... |
CHOPIN / RACHMANINOFF
Chopin, Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonatas Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] "Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov somehow manage to contain the overgrowth and shape the profusion of ideas into a cultivated and warmly lit musical garden." Gramophone |
KURTAG / KODALY / VERESS
Cello Sonatas Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2011 ] "Altogether an intelligently laid-out disc, with interesting repertoire and magnificent playing and recording." BBC Music Magazine - March 2002 Performance***** Sound***** |
JOSEF HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cello Concertos (with Monn - Concerto for cello, strings and harpsichord) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) / Freiburger Barockorchester / Petra Mallejans - director [ Harmonia Mundi Haydn Edition / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] "Queyras benefits from the much more alert playing of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra: and in their account of the D minor central episode, the piece suddenly springs to life. (This) can confidently be recommended as a period-instrument choice." (BBC) |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Don Quixote / Till Eulenspiegel Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) / Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 3/Sep/2021 ] After two memorable recordings devoted to Mahler's Third and Fifth symphonies, François-Xavier Roth continues his exploration of the major works premiered by the Gürzenich Orchestra. |
BELA BARTOK
Bartók: String Quartets Nos. 2, 4, 6 Jerusalem Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] "To judge from the first disc of its new recorded Bartók set, with the even-numbered quartets, the group's account will not displace the Takács but promises to be in its league." Washington Post |
KORNGOLD / SCHULHOFF / DESYATNIKOV
The Yiddish Cabaret Jerusalem Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] "Whatever one makes of the title, 'The Yiddish Cabaret' is an enjoyable if rather lopsided concept, with the main work opening the programme…Those investing will find standards of both playing and recording on a par with the ensemble's previous relea |
JANACEK / SMETANA
String Quartets Jerusalem String Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] One might see them as the father and the heir. On the one hand, Bedrich Smetana, whose oeuvre is regarded as having founded the Czech national school; on the other, Leoš Janácek, his spiritual son (with Dvorák acting as the link between the two),... |
ANDRE CAMPRA
Campra: Cantates françaises Jill Feldman (soprano), Dominique Visse (countertenor), Jean-François Gardeil (baritone), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Jul/2017 ] "Campra combines the delicate and languorous French idiom with the livelier Italian style. With the youthful voices of Feldman and Visse, these performances still sound delightfully fresh." BBC Music |
ANONYMOUS
The Elfin Knight: Ballads & Dances from Renaissance England Joel Frederiksen (coloratura basso profondo) / Ensemble Phoenix Munich [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] "the lion's share of the singing goes to Frederiksen, whose rich, clear bass seems capable of an almost infinite degree of tonal shading. His diction is impeccable, as is his taste" International Record Review |
J. S. BACH / BELA BARTOK
Bach & Bartok Suites Julien Libeer [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 24/Jan/2020 ] "Libeer's Bach takes full advantage of the modern concert grand's dynamic and timbral resources while keeping within stylistically acceptable parameters…" Gramophone |
Julien Libeer
Johann Sebastian Bach & Beyond: A Well-Tempered Conversation [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 28/Jan/2022 ] To mark the 300th anniversary of the publication of Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier, Julien Libeer had the idea of presenting it in an unusual light: here he initiates a dialogue in which Bach's major-key prelude-and-fugue pairs 'converse' with... |
COLONNA / TORELLI / ALBERTI / PERTI / ZAVATERI
Bologna 1666 Kammerorchester Basel, Julia Schroder (violin/direction), Ewa Miribung (violin) [ Sony / Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Jan/2017 ] "Here is proof that there are still plenty of invigorating Baroque concertos out there to be rediscovered and enjoyed" Gramophone |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Lamentazioni per la Settimana Santa Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) & Jean-Marc Aymes (organ & conductor) / Concerto Soave [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] The sacred music on this disc -- settings of texts for Holy Week, from the early seventeenth century and influenced by the new monodic style -- has long been less familiar than the fiery secular music of the era. One may admire this recording by... |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Piano Sonatas K.533 & K.570 / Fantasia in C minor / Variation on "nser Dummer Pöbel Meint" Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Nov/2010 ] "These interpretations - excellent to outstanding - are interpretations of today." Gramophone Recommends, August 2010 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] After the first two instalments, highly praised by the press - "one of the finest, most... thrilling performances of [the] Fourth Concerto," wrote Gramophone - Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado and the Freiburger Barockorchester close their... |
BUXTEHUDE
Membra Jesu Nostri La Chapelle Rhenane / La Maitrise de Garcons de Colmar / Benoit Haller [ K617 Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] "One long oration in music" is how the musicologist Gilles Cantagrel describes this cycle, unique in Buxtehude's output. These meditations on the 'Seven Words of Christ on the cross' possess a truly mystic dimension.This performance by Benoît Haller... |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: Psaume [Psalms]s La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe, with Peter Kooy (baritone), Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano), Hervé Lamy (tenor) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/May/1988 ] "Elegant and fluent singing" - Gramophone |
BROSSARD / CARISSIMI / CHARPENTIER
Sacrifices La Nuova Musica, David Bates [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Sep/2014 ] "To these affecting narratives (separated by instrumental interludes by De Brossard), La Nuova Musicabring superbly straight tone, unerring tuning and plangent phrasing." The Observer, 20th July 2014 **** |
GEORG FREDERIC HANDEL / GIOVANNI BONONCINI / ATTILIO ARIOSTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: A Royal Trio: Arias & Scenes Lawrence Zazzo (counter-tenor) / La Nuova Musica, David Bates [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Oct/2014 ] "This is an accomplished recital from both singer and orchestra, the latter playing freshly under Bates's direction in a programme which contains some rarely heard music." International Record Review, November 2014 |
