DOWLAND / BYRD / DERING / PHILIPS / etc
Elizabethan Composers in Exile: In a Strange Land Stile Antico [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 11/Jan/2019 ] "Stile Antico, the 12-strong ensemble whose name signals tonal purity, precision and musical intelligence. The theme is spiritual and political disjuncture" The Observer |
WILLIAM BYRD / THOMAS TALLIS / ORLANDO GIBBONS / ROBERT WHITE / etc
Heavenly Harmonies / Sing with the Voice of Melody / The Phoenix Rising Stile Antico [ Harmonia Mundi Key Artist & Ensemble Sets / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2015 ] For the first time in 3 CD sets, discover these major recording projects matured over many years by the key artists and ensembles of harmonia mundi. Happy 10th anniversary Stile Antico. |
TALLIS / BYRD / SHEPPARD / WHITE
Music for Compline Stile Antico [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/Jan/2015 ] "Outstanding consort singing" - Early Music Review |
WILLIAM BYRD / ORLANDO GIBBONS / THOMAS MORLEY / etc
The Phoenix Rising Stile Antico [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
TOMPKINS / BYRD / GOMBERT / TALLIS / McCABE / etc
Sing with the Voice of Melody Stile Antico [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] "The singing is beautifully tidy and expressive, and the CD is a useful way to decid which of their CDs you would like to explore further." (Early Music Review) |
LOBO / GUERRERO / MORALES / VICTORIA
A Spanish Nativity Stile Antico [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] The Spanish 'Golden Age' witnessed an astonishing musical flowering, worthy of Spain's new-found preeminence on the world stage. Focusing on works for Christmas and Epiphany, Stile Antico explores this glittering musical treasury, drawing together an... |
ROBERT WHITE / ROBERT PARSONS / ORLANDO GIBBONS / BENJAMIN BRITTEN / etc
Music and Musicians at Westminster Abbey Stile Antico / Marcus Creed And Rias Kammerchor / Choir of Clare College, Cambridge / Mark Padmore / Fretwork / etc [ Harmonia Mundi Resonances / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] Famous places and monuments all have a musical history whose richness and variety we do not always realise. For centuries their beauties have nourished the imagination of composers and performers who, in return, have often dedicated to them some of... |
TOMKINS / CAMPION / BYRD / TALLIS / DOWLAND / etc
Tune thy Musicke to Thy Hart: Tudor & Jacobean music for private devotion Stile Antico, with Fretwork [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "Stile Antico's sleek tuning and supple attention to words, and the studio recording, intimate but not claustrophobic, do bring a carefully plotted span (over 120 years) of sacred styles into our listening rooms with rare success." Editor's Choice... |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle Krassimira Stoyanova, Birgit Remmert, Steve Davislim, Hanno MAller-Brachmann / RIAS-Kammerchor, Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD/Book - released 10/Aug/2018 ] "The soloists are as compelling-bright, fresh voices appealing in timbre and aware of the implications of the texts they're singing. Minor reservations aside, Rossinians won't want to miss this one." (ClassicsToday.com) |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU / CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD von GLUCK
Rameau / Gluck: Enfers Stéphane Degout (baritone) Emmanuelle de Negri (soprano) Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor) / Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Harmonia Mundi / CD/Book - released 23/Feb/2018 ] "Forget the 'end of time' conceit and marvel at the music, so winningly performed by Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon." Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2018 |
SCHUBERT / LOEWE / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS / LISZT / WOLF
Lieder & Balladen Stéphane Degout (baritone), Simon Lepper (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] The mystery of the ballad comes from the way it is told.' (Goethe). Epic to the point of hallucination, this genre calls for skill in narrative, word-painting, evocation. And it is as a peerless storyteller that Stéphane Degout tackles this repertory... |
BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Une Soiree Chez Berlioz Stéphanie d'Oustrac (soprano), Thibaut Roussel (guitare de Berlioz), Tanguy de Williencourt (piano Pleyel) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 22/Nov/2019 ] We may find it hard to imagine that the composer of such epics as Les Troyens started out as a guitarist... and that his first compositional experience was to transcribe songs, inherited from the Ancien Regime, for voice and guitar. The particular... |
ANONYMOUS
Traditional Maronite Chants Sister Marie Keyrouz [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 23/Feb/2008 ] This CD, largely devoted to traditional Maronite chant, also presents chants from the Syrian Catholic and Syrian Orthodox traditions. Most of the pieces recorded here date back to the early centuries of Christianity, and have an obvious kinship with... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ / JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique / Rameau: Suite de Hippolyte et Aricie Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] Harding's Berlioz is resilient, pliant, conducted with a temporal freedom that always seems ambitious but ends up feeling electrifyingly right. Turn from Harding to his current peers and it's like going from IMAX cinema to living-room black-and-white |
MANUEL de FALLA / GARCIA LORCA
Falla / Lorca: Encuentro Estrella Morente (flamenco singer) & Javier Perianes (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] The vast heritage of Spanish traditional music lies at the heart of Manuel de Falla and Federico García Lorca's works. Both men relied heavily on the great flamenco artists of their day: the 'Canciones españolas antiguas' (Old Spanish songs) were... |
PIAZZOLLA / FALLA / MONTSALVATGE / etc
Cantilena Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Javier Perianes (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 8/May/2020 ] This album invites you to travel from Spain to South America in the company of the greatest composers the countries of the region have produced: next to Spanish folk songs reshaped by Falla, compositions by Casals, Granados, Montsalvatge, and the... |
YSAYE
Six Sonatas for Solo Violin Op. 27 Tai Murray (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "the perfection of [her] intonation, especially in the many virtuoso passages of fast-moving, random intervals of no predicable pattern, has tipped so far over into another league of accuracy that it adds an extra dimension of enjoyment to an already... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Der Fliegende Hollander [The Flying Dutchman] (complete opera recorded in 2016) DVD + BLU-RAY Teatro Real Madrid / Samuel Youn, Ingela Brimberg, Kwangchul Youn, Nikolai Schukoff / Àlex Ollé (cond) [ Harmonia Mundi DVD + Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 1/Mar/2018 ] "it's an impressive and engaging show." Gramophone |
TORRI / SARRO / HANDEL / VINCI / HASSE / etc
Pace e Guerra: Arias for Bernacchi Terry Wey (countertenor) / Bach Consort Wien, Ruben Dubrovsky, with Vivica Genaux (mezzo) [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Aug/2017 ] Terry Wey was the leading soprano soloist of the Vienna Boys' Choir. He has worked under some of the leading conductors in the world today & has been invited to perform at some of the most important venues in the world such as Musikverein Wien,... |
ORLANDO GIBBONS / RICHARD DERING / MICHAEL EAST / THOMAS RAVENSCROFT / etc
The Cries of London Theatre of Voices / Fretwork [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / SACD - released 16/Aug/2006 ] "This is a treasure trove for the historically minded, with full texts, explanatory notes and a fascinating booklet note by David Pinto" (International Record Review Aug 2006) |