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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Winterreise Mark Padmore (tenor), Kristian Bezuidenhout (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 12/Jan/2018 ] " I confess I enjoyed this disc more than I suspected I would, and a big part of that is Bezuidenhout's way with his instrument. If you want to hear the cycle sound more chilly and isolated than usual then this might be a recording for you" MusicWeb |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Winterreise Mark Padmore (tenor) Paul Lewis (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Mar/2022 ] Composed in 1827 and first performed privately for members of Schubert's circle, Winterreise initially received a mixed reception. Now acknowledged as the greatest song-cycle ever penned, the work (here played in the original keys) receives a... |
SCHUBERT
Schwanengesang Mark Padmore (tenor) / Paul Lewis (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Sep/2011 ] "Padmore's silvery, keen-edged tenor, grace of phrase and sensitivity to mood and verbal nuance are ideal [in Liebesbotschaft]; and how affectionately Lewis's left hand sings in gentle colloquy with the voice" Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011 |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge Matthias Goerne (baritone) Chistoph Eschenbach (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/May/2016 ] "this is supremely seductive Lieder singing, with a natural intelligence and ease with the words, matched by playing from Christoph Eschenbach that coaxes and caresses the piano with loving delicacy." Gramophone Award WINNER 2017 - Solo Vocal |
SCHUBERT
Matthias Goerne Schubert Edition 8: Wanderers Nachtlied Matthias Goerne (baritone) Helmut Deutsch, Eric Schneider (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] "With his velvety, 'covered' timbre, and innate seriousness of manner, Goerne has never been a natural bringer of jollity...Yet if we accept that lightness and charm are not within Goerne's orbit, his singing is always scrupulous...At his finest, her |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Matthias Goerne Schubert Edition 4: Heliopolis Matthias Goerne (baritone) Ingo Metzmacher (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Dec/2009 ] "This is a simply unmissable recital, and for two prime reasons - the grave beauty of its programme and the corresponding beauty of the singer's voice." Gramophone Awards 2010 Finalist - Solo Vocal |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Liederkreis op.24 / Kernerlieder Matthias Goerne & Leif-Ove Andsnes [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Apr/2019 ] "Both works here suit these artists' musical sensibility and Goerne's scrupulous articulation of the texts." Sunday Times |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL & FRIENDS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mr Handel's Dinner: Music for the Handel opera intermissions Maurice Steger (recorder) and Ensemble La Cetra [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Apr/2019 ] "Steger is brilliant when the music is lively. Into his fleetness he mixes zest, charm and impish humour, making you wonder how such artfulness, at such speed and with such nutty dexterity, is humanly possible." BBC Music |
FRANCIS POULENC
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Poulenc: Stabat Mater / Salve Regina / Litanies a la vierge Michèle Lagrange (soprano), Choeur & Orchestre national de Lyon, Serge Baudo [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] "Baudo leads French forces in a highly idiomatic performance" ClassicalNet |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Stabat Mater / Salve Regina / Litanies a la vierge Michèle Lagrange (soprano), Choeur & Orchestre national de Lyon, Serge Baudo [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] Poulenc's Stabat Mater, which he described as a 'requiem without despair', was written in 1950 following the death of Christian Bérard, a leading figure of 1940s Paris who designed the sets for Cocteau's films and plays. |
HEINRICH SCHUTZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schutz: Symphoniae Sacrae III Musica Fiata / Kammerchor Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/1989 ] Recorded At - Evangelische Kirche, Gönningen, 1989 |
JOHN BLOW
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Blow: Venus & Adonis Nancy Argenta (sop), Lynne Dawson (sop), Stephen Varcoe (bass) / London Baroque, Charles Medlam [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 29/Sep/1992 ] First performed before the court at Oxford in 1681, Venus and Adonis was presented as a "masque for the entertainment of the King" (Charles II). Like Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, it is in fact a true opera. |
HENRY PURCELL / GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Purcell: Dioclesian / Handel: Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 6, "Il duello amoroso" HWV 82 Nancy Argenta (soprano) Michael Chance (counter-tenor) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/1994 ] Recorded: January 1993, Maria Minor, Utrecht |
RACHMANINOV
Etudes-Tableaux Op.33 & 39 Nicholas Angelich (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 25/Jul/2014 ] "Angelich is particularly impressive is and very much alive to the varied moods of these works. He never overstates and avoids heaviness. These sessions were excellently recorded back in 1994; shame that are not given the studio location." (MusicWeb |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 14, 17 & 23 Nikolai Lugansky (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 11/Feb/2022 ] For this second volume of Beethoven sonatas, Nikolaï Lugansky goes back in time and selects three milestones in the composer's stylistic evolution: the 'Moonlight', the 'Tempest' and the 'Appassionata'. The Master of Bonn gradually broke with the... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux, opp. 33 & 39 - 3 Pieces Nikolai Lugansky (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] "This is a great overall interpretation of one (or two, if you prefer) of the monuments of the piano repertoire, where Lugansky, like the composer, knows perfectly how to achieve each and every effect." Five Stars BBC Music Instrumental Choice April |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Famous Opera Scenes Nikolai Lugansky (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 23/Aug/2024 ] "Lugansky deploys his technical magic - in particular, his sense of colour, his phrasing and his ability to illuminate key details within the most cluttered textures - less to wow the audience than to capture the depth and ambiguity of the dramatic m |
GIUSEPPE TORELLI / GIOVANNI COLONNA / GIACOMO PERTI / CARLO POLLAROLO
Cantatas & Concertos Nuria Rial (Soprano) / Kammerorchester Basel, Julia Schroder [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Oct/2023 ] Spanish Catalan soprano Nuria Rial is famous for her shining, cristal clear and beautiful voice and is one of the most fitting voices for baroque arias. She was described as "a silvery sounding voice, as clear as a bell." (Opernglas) |
BRUMEL / WHITE / VICTORIA / DOVE etc
DESIRES - A song of song Collection Ora Singers, Suzi Digby [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 8/Mar/2019 ] The wealth of compositions using the sensuous and highly charged texts of the Song of Songs is incredibly vast and rich. In the course of compiling this recording I re-discovered music that I have known for years, was introduced to pieces I didn't... |
BYRD / TALLIS / GERARDE / FERRABOSCO / WILDER
Spem in alium - Vidi aquam ORA Singers, Suzi Digby [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD/DVD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] A musical banquet from the Golden Age. This programme brings together a true choral landmark from the sixteenth century, with its present-day reflection, a commission by Sir James MacMillan. |
