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SCHUTZ
Musikalische Exequien La Chapelle Royale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] Commissioned for the funeral of a prince, this German 'burial music' deals with subjects that lie at the heart of Schütz's output: the misery of earthly life and the promise of the hereafter. In a mood of searing intensity, the music arranges texts... |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Messe de Requiem Opus 48 / Messe des Pecheurs de Villerville Agnes Mellon, Peter Kooy, La Chapelle Royale, Ensemble Musique Oblique, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] 'Filled with refined sensibility, the performance expresses Fauré's personal concept of death 'as a happy deliverance, as aspiration towards the happiness of the hereafter.' - American Record Guide |
JANACEK
Piano Works Alain Planes (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] "There is poetry aplenty, but he is not afraid of the music's dark heart." (BBC Music) |
CHOPIN
Preludes Op 28 / Mazurkas, Op 41 / etc Alain Planes (piano, 1906 Steinway) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] Perhaps the most ambiguous and enigmatic of all Chopin's works |
SCRIABIN
Piano Sonatas 2, 3 & 9 Alexander Melnikov (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2014 ] "There is no better guide to Russia's most mysterious composer than this pianist...These Sonatas and exquisite trifles are played with poise and grace." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Music For A While Alfred Deller (counter tenor), Wieland Kuijken (bass viol), William Christie (harpsichord) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] During the 1970s Alfred Deller recorded for Harmonia Mundi some fifty recordings as soloist, with the Consort or with chorus and orchestra Director of the Académie de Musique Anglaise. |
KRIEGER / HAMMERSCHMID / HAGEN / ALBERT / GORNER
German Baroque Songs (Lieder Baroques Allemands) Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor) with Markus Märkl, Karl Ernst Schröder & Alix Verzier [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] "Scholl's voice is a marvel: secure in pitch, its sustaining power projects a feeling of ease that eludes many countertenors, who often sound merely like men who have mastered falsetto. If anything, Scholl has a slightly feminine cast, exemplified in... |
HAYDN
Piano Concertos Andreas Staier (pianoforte), Freiburger Barockorchester [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] "If you like your Haydn decorated, this sparkling disc could prove ideal. Now comes a splendid period-instrument recording that reinvests these wonderfully inventive pieces with a real sense of novelty" (Gramophone) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Am Stein-vis-a-vis Andreas Staier, Christine Schornsheim (Stein-vis-a-vis) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 30/Aug/2017 ] Nearly 80 years after the invention of the fortepiano, the harpsichord was by no means relegated to antique status. On the contrary, the two instruments cohabited throughout the 18th century, to the point where several makers strove to combine them... |
GIOVANNI ANTONIO PANDOLFI
Complete Violin Sonatas Andrew Manze (violin) Richard Egarr (keyboard) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "Strongly recommended." - Gramophone Magazine Early Music Award (1999) |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis Op 123 Rosa Mannion (sop) Birgit Remmert (alto) James Taylor (tenor) Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) / La Chapelle Royale / Champs-Elysees / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] 'Philippe Herreweghe has the measure of this stubborn masterpiece...No-one has ever got it quite right - until now.' - Classic CD |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Mass in A flat D.678 (with Mendelssohn - Psalm 42) Anna Korondi (soprano) Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano) Andreas Karasiak (tenor) / RIAS-Kammerchor / Orchestre des Champs elysaes / Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] The Mass in A flat is one of the most lyrical that Schubert composed. It is also one of the most ambitious (Schubert noted at the top of his manuscript 'missa solemnis'), in terms of its instrumental forces, as well as the number and arrangement of... |
KRIEGER / HAMMERSCHMID / DEDEKIND / ALBERT / ERLEBACH / KINDERMANN
German Baroque Lieder Annette Dasch (soprano) / Members of Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2011 ] "Annette Dasch is a young German soprano who is picking off the formative stage-posts of professional opportunity with a special interest in period performance. This surprisingly esoteric debut disc of 17th century German song draws on this penchant... |
ANONYMOUS
La Bele Marie (Songs of the Virgin from 13th Century France) Anonymous 4 [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 12/Jun/2015 ] "Anonymous 4 cast a spell difficult to resist."-The Times, London |
LANDINI
The Second Circle Anonymous 4 [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Jan/2014 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (pre 1700) - "Anonymous 4 sing with their trademark celestial tone, their voices blending and intertwining like choirs of seraphim." - EARLY MUSIC AMERICA |
BACH
Solo Cantatas Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano), Freiburger Barockorchester, dir. P. Müllejans [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] "Fink's velvet-timbred mezzo evokes to perfection the consoling sentiment of Bach's alto arias. Vergnügte Ruh has long been a favourite of star mezzos and countertenors, but Fink sings with an artless humility, with eloquent yet never overemphatic... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben Bernarda Fink (mezzo) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Mar/2008 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (July 2002) |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Lieder (Songs) Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 12/Jun/2015 ] "Songs and performances are good company, each with an element of novelty" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine July 2004 |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem op.45 [A German Requiem] Christiane Oelze / Gerald Finley / La Chapelle Royale / Collegium Vocale Gent / Orchestre des Champs-AlysACes / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] 'Herreweghe's innate sense of Brahms's musical lines is evident everywhere as he sculpts this works. Herreweghe's combined choirs respond magnificently to his direction.' - Stereophile |
BERLIOZ
Les Nuits D'ete, Op. 7 / Herminie - Scene lyrique (cantata) Brigitte Balleys & Mireille Delunsch / Orchestre des Champs Elysees / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] Brigitte Balleys & Mireille Delunsch |
