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CHRISTINE / YVAIN / SIMONS / HAHN / MORETTI / MESSAGER
Croisette - Operettas des Annes Folles Amel Brahim-Djelloul, Patricia Petibon, Marion Tassou, Pauline Sabatier, Rémy Mathieu, Laurent Naouri, + / Orchestre National de Cannes, Benjamin Levy [ Erato / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] Taking its name from la Croisette, the beachside boulevard in glamorous Cannes on the Côte d'Azur, this album evokes the fun-loving 1920s. It takes a trip around opérettes, French musical comedies of the era, composed by Maurice Yvain, Henri... |
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FRANZ von BIBER
Cantatas Amsterdam Baroque Orcestra, Ton Koopman [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2015 ] By 1683 Buxtehude - who had a huge influence on the young Johann Sebastian Bach - had established an annual concert series which was held over five Sundays late in Trinity and Advent. These Abendmusik concerts, which were given following the... |
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HANDEL
Water Music Suites 1, 2 & 3 Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman [ Erato / The Erato Story / CD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] |
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FRANZ von BIBER
Missa Salisburgensis / Requiem for 15 Voices Amsterdam Baroque Orcestra, Ton Koopman [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2015 ] This set presents a lavish performance of Biber's Missa Salisburgensis, composed for fifty-three vocal and instrumental parts to celebrate Salzburg's 1100th anniversary as a centre of Christianity in 1682. It is coupled with the composer's A-Major... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (complete opera) Andreas Schmidt, Lella Cuberli, Joan Rodgers, John Tomlinson, Cecilia Bartoli / Berlin Philharmonic / Daniel Barenboim [ Erato / Warner The Home of Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2017 ] "Everything that Barenboim does provides some sort of illumination of the drama," said Gramophone of this Figaro; "It has something to say, something that arises from deep and serious musical perception." |
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DOMENICO SCARLATTI & OTHERS
Scarlatti: Sonatas / Variaciones del fandango español Andreas Staier (harpsichord) [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Scarlatti published just 30 of his 550 or so keyboard sonatas. They appeared in London in 1738/9 under the title Essercizi per gravicembalo ('Keyboard exercises'). In the preface he warned players: "Do not expect, whether you be amateur or... |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY/ MAURICE RAVEL / GABRIEL FAURE
Anne Queffelec [3 CD set] Anne Queffelec (piano) with Pierre Amoyal (violin) / Orchestre National de Monte-Carlo [ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2014 ] A collection of Anne Queffélec's Erato recordings of French repertoire which in which she expresses great musicality, allowing us to rediscover her fine recordings of Ravel's Miroirs, Debussy's Etudes and Fauré's Violin Sonatas (with Pierre Amoyal),... |
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C.P.E. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach (C.P.E.): Cello Concertos, Symphonies Anner Bylsma (cello) / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Gustav Leonhardt [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2000 ] [Cello Concertos Wq.170-2] 'It is difficult to imagine a better partnership to provide authentic versions of these three fine works.' Penguin Guide |
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GLAZUNOV / PROKOFIEV
Glazunov / Prokofiev: Violin Concertos (with Shchedrin - Stihira) Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) / National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C., Mstislav Rostropovich [ Erato Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 20/Apr/2015 ] Three highly contrasted works from 20th century Russia. Anne-Sophie Mutter is the soloist in Glazunov's richly lyrical violin concerto, first performed in 1905, and in Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 1, dating from the time of the Revolution and a... |
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GYORGY LIGETI
Ligeti: String Quartets 1 & 2 Artemis Quartet [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 3/Oct/2005 ] |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3 & 6 Artemis Quartet [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] These glorious recordings radiate the emotional directness of all his best music, while capturing the questing spirit and tingling sensitivity of the Artemis's recent tour performances. |
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SCHUBERT
String Quartets 'Rosamunde' & 'Death and the Maiden' Artemis Quartet [ Erato Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] "The Artemis enjoy growling, clashing, shivering, and the relentless energy of the last movements. Theirs is an impressive, vividly recorded approach." (BBC Music) |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: String Quartet Nos. 5, 7 & Piano Quintet Artemis Quartet, with Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 15/Mar/2019 ] "On their first Shostakovich disc, the playing is of the highest musical and technical quality. The quintet takes its place alongside celebrated accounts by Sviatoslav Richter and Vladimir Ashkenazy." Sunday Times |
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THOMAS ADES
Ades: The Exterminating Angel (complete opera recorded in 2017) Metropolitan Opera / Audrey Luna, Amanda Echalaz, Sally Matthews, Sophie Bevan, Alice Coote, Christine Rice, Iestyn Davies / Thomas Ades (cond) [ Erato DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 TOP THREE - Contemporary |
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DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Cantatas / Membra Jesu nostri Barbara Schlick, Monica Frimmer (sop) Michael Chance, Rene Jacobs (alto) Knabenchor Hannover / Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/2017 ] Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) was Danish-born, but made his career in Germany. He was celebrated as an organist (Johann Sebastian Bach was among his admirers) and as a composer, with many sacred vocal works in his output. |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: La Resurrezione, HWV47 Barbara Schlick, Nancy Argenta, Guillemette Laurens, Guy de Mey, Klaus Mertens / Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2017 ] La Resurrezione, composed in Rome in 1708, was Handel's first oratorio on a sacred theme. The soloists take the roles of an Angel, Mary Magdalene, Mary Cleophas, St John and Lucifer, who are portrayed in vivid operatic terms with the help of a... |
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JANACEK / STRAVINSKY / SCHUBERT / KREISLER
Spectrum Benjamin Beilman (violin) / Yekwon Sunwoo (piano) [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 4/Mar/2016 ] Violinist Benjamin Beilman makes his debut as an exclusive Warner Classics artists with Spectrum, an album uniting works by Schubert, Janáček, Stravinsky and Kreisler...Beilman explores a multitude of colours and expressive possibilities. |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 / Pieces for solo piano Bertrand Chamayou (piano) / Orchestre National de France, Emmanuel Krivine [ Erato / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2019 - Recording of the Year |
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MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Complete works for solo piano Bertrand Chamayou (piano) [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 28/Jan/2016 ] For his second release on Erato, Bertrand Chamayou is dedicating two CDs to the complete solo piano music of Ravel. "My style of playing and the way I imagine sound can be largely attributed to Ravel," says Chamayou. "Recording his music is not just... |