Search Results: harmonia mundi
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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,... |
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***** |
MARIN MARAIS
Marais: Folies d'Espagne, La Rêveuse & Other Works Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] Twenty years after his harmonia mundi recordings, reviving the tradition of performing the great French harpsichord composers (Rameau, Couperin) on the piano, Alexandre Tharaud now joins forces with his longstanding partner Jean- Guihen Queyras to... |
JOSEPH HAYDN / GEORG MATTHIAS MONN
Haydn/Monn: Cello Concertos Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 30/Jun/2014 ] "a sense of seemingly effortless bravura to [Queyras'] playing, as well as superb technical control and intelligence. an extremely attractive proposition." (International Record Review) |
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 |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE- Shostakovich: String Quartets No.1, 4 & 9 Jerusalem Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Apr/2005 ] The Jerusalem Quartet was founded in 1993, and began its training in Jerusalem, under the direction of the violinist Avi Abramovitch. |
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 |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: String Quintet Op 97 / String Sextet Op 48 Jerusalem Quartet, with Veronika Hagen (viola) & Gary Hoffman (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Jan/2018 ] "It's a comparable masterpiece [to the New World Symphony], played with depth of tone and feeling in the larghetto variations and tremendous dash in the outer sections of the allegro vivo and finale." Sunday Times |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 'Death and the Maiden' / String Quartet No. 12 'Quartettsatz' Jerusalem String Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] "The Jerusalem find all the drama. Another fine, compelling release from the Jerusalem Quartet." (Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine July 2008) |
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),... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets Op 18 Jerusalem String Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] The Jerusalem Quartet record exclusively for Harmonia Mundi and their discs have been awarded with numerous prizes. Their recording of Haydn's String Quartets won the chamber category of the 2010 BBC Music Magazine Awards and the Diapason d'Or Arte |
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 |
FRANK MARTIN
Golgotha (complete oratorio) Judith Gauthier (sop) Marianne Beate Kielland (alto) Adrian Thomson (ten) / Cappella Amsterdam / Estonian National Symphony Orchestra / Daniel Reuss [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] "Reuss maintains a tight grip on the unfolding drama...there is such an obvious intensity and love of this extraordinary piece that it never feels as though it is dragging...A revelatory recording." Gramophone Awards 2010 Finalist - Choral |
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 |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV232 [recorded live in 2016] Katherine Watson (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor) & André Morsch (baritone) / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2018 ] "At first the approach seems almost too light-toned and ethereal, but soon the intimacy of these modest forces takes an ineluctable grip. Textures are clear, tempi brisk - the Sanctus positively skips." The Observer |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI / MARIO CASTELNUOVO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Boccherini/Castelnuovo Tedesco - Guitar Quintets Kazuhito Yamashita (guitar) / Tokyo String Quartet [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 31/Mar/1991 ] Recommended Recording - ClassicalNet "Ravishing playing by a born Boccherinian" (Classical-Music.com) *** Penguin Guide recording |
