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Britten: Violin Concerto & Chamber Works cover
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Violin Concerto & Chamber Works
Isabelle Faust, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks , Jakub Hrůša
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - due 12/Apr/2024 ]
After Berg, Schoenberg, Bartók and Stravinsky, Isabelle Faust now tackles Britten with Jakub Hrůša and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, revealing a little-known facet of the British composer. This concerto, highly personal in its language,...
Bach: A Life in Music (Vol. 1). Early Cantatas. Arnstadt & Mühlhausen (1703-1708) cover
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J. S. BACH
Bach: A Life in Music (Vol. 1). Early Cantatas. Arnstadt & Mühlhausen (1703-1708)
Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew, Feat. Benjamin Alard
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - due 5/Apr/2024 ]
In this new series, Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants invite us to follow the creative itinerary of J. S. Bach through the times and cities in which he lived. The first instalment introduces us to a young master who remained faithful to the north...
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.4 & 8 (with Mehul: Symphony No. 1 & Cherubini: Lodoiska Overture) cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.4 & 8 (with Mehul: Symphony No. 1 & Cherubini: Lodoiska Overture)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
[ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ]
The least famous of Beethoven's symphonies? Yet these two works are genuine tours de force: the composer takes the listener on a journey whose destination never seems to be known in advance, one brimming over with structural innovations subtly...
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos cover
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Isabelle Faust, Antoine Tamestit
[ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 17/Sep/2021 ]
Johann Sebastian Bach and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin go back a long way together! This recording, made with the welcome participation of Isabelle Faust and Antoine Tamestit, follows the complete violin concertos (2019), which left a lasting...
Handel: Coronation anthems cover
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GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Coronation anthems
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS-Kammerchor Berlin, Justin Doyle
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ]
In 1727, having just become a naturalised British subject, Handel was commissioned to write a set of anthems for the coronation of George II. Since he could hardly have expected ever to see a more majestic occasion, the composer took full advantage...
Schubert / Chopin / Liszt / Stravinsky: Four Pianos - Four Pieces cover
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SCHUBERT / CHOPIN / LISZT / STRAVINSKY
Schubert / Chopin / Liszt / Stravinsky: Four Pianos - Four Pieces
Alexander Melnikov (pianos)
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 9/Apr/2018 ]
"Melnikov gives thrilling performances of four cornerstones of the repertoire." Sunday Times
Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards cover
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards
Alexander Melnikov
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 16/Jun/2023 ]
BBC Music Magazine July 2023 - Instrumental Choice
Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas nos. 1, 3 & 5 - Visions fugitives cover
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas nos. 1, 3 & 5 - Visions fugitives
Alexander Melnikov (piano)
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/May/2022 ]
In this third and final volume of his complete recording of the Prokofiev sonatas, Alexander Melnikov explores two highly contrasted facets of the young prodigy. The dazzling Sonatas nos. 1 and 3 sweep aside the codes of the period, unlike the more...
Hindemith: Sonatas cover
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PAUL HINDEMITH
Hindemith: Sonatas
Alexander Melnikov (piano) with Isabelle Faust (violin) Jeroen Berwaerts (trumpet) Teunis van der Zwart (althorn), etc
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Dec/2014 ]
'The patron saint of neglected instruments, Hindemith composed more than 30 sonatas for very diverse resources … The Hindemith anniversary of 2013 opened the gates to a welcome flood of excellent recordings, and this new release stands high among the
Brahms: Piano Concerto no.1 - Tragic Overture (with Cherubini: Éliza) cover
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto no.1 - Tragic Overture (with Cherubini: Éliza)
Alexander Melnikov (piano), Sinfonieorchester Basel, Ivor Bolton
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ]
With his First Concerto, the young Brahms set his own course in the wake of Beethoven and Schumann and at the same time poured forth his personal emotions in this work of impressive dimensions. The Russian soloist has chosen an instrument...
Bach: Concerto Italiens [Italian Concertos] (and other concertos for solo piano) cover
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Concerto Italiens [Italian Concertos] (and other concertos for solo piano)
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/Nov/2022 ]
Alexandre Tharaud has already successfully explored the harpsichord suites of Rameau on a Steinway; here, when he revisits the transpositions of the great Johann Sebastian Bach on the piano, it is enough to make us quite giddy with pleasure!
Handel: Messiah (Complete oratorio) cover
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Beethoven: Cello Sonatas, Op. 102 - Bagatelles, Opp. 119 & 126 cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Cello Sonatas, Op. 102 - Bagatelles, Opp. 119 & 126
Andreas Staier (fortepiano), Roel Dieltiens (cello)
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ]
"Devotees of Beethoven on period instruments will need no further encouragement. But sceptics, too, could do a lot worse than start here" Gramophone
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations (with variations by Czerny, Hummel, Kalkbrenner, Kerzkowsky, etc) cover
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations (with variations by Czerny, Hummel, Kalkbrenner, Kerzkowsky, etc)
Andreas Staier (pianoforte after Conrad Graf)
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ]
"This isn't just an indisputably great performance on fortepiano; it's a great performance full stop. Given Staier's virtuosity and insight, what price Hammerklavier next?" BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013: Instrumental Finalist
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Agrippina Opera Arias cover
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GRAUN / HANDEL / PERTI / PORPORA / ORLANDINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Agrippina Opera Arias
Ann Hallenberg (mezzo) / Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi
[ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ]
"there's an equally dazzling vengeance aria by Orlandini, in which Riccardo Minasi's orchestra, Il Pomo d'Oro, really lets fly. Hallenberg is as convincing in these as she is in the more reflective numbers...very classily done" (The Guardian)
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GYORGY KURTAG
Kurtág: Kafka-Fragmente
Anna Prohaska (soprano), Isabelle Faust (violin)
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Aug/2022 ]
The Kafka-Fragmente, settings of excerpts from the diary, letters and a posthumous text by the author of The Trial, take the form of an intimate confession with no real narrative thread. Kurtág chose a soprano voice and a solo violin to express this...
Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale cover
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale
Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, Pablo Heras-Casado
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Dec/2017 ]
"You'll find everything from grand ensembles to intimate solo confessionals, and this recording is best suited to the latter...individual musicians and singers of the Balthasar Neumann are wonderful, and they shine in their nimble duos and trios."
Dvorak: Lieder (Songs) cover
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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
A Fancy: Fantasy on English Airs & Tunes cover
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PURCELL / GIBBONS / LOCKE / HART / DRAGHI / etc
A Fancy: Fantasy on English Airs & Tunes
Bertrand Cuiller (conductor, organ) & Rachel Redmond (soprano) / Le Caravansérail
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Oct/2017 ]
In their first recording for harmonia mundi, Bertrand Cuiller and the musicians of Le Caravansérail immerse us in the dreamlike world of the London theatre of the 17th century. Incidental music, airs, dances and inventive melodies combining the...
A Medieval Christmas - Hodie Christus Natus Est cover
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ANONYMOUS
A Medieval Christmas - Hodie Christus Natus Est
Boston Camerata, Anne Azema
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 14/Sep/2021 ]
Drawing on a wide variety of sources, mingling liturgical Latin with French, English, Italian and Iberian vernaculars, these magnificent songs, hymns and processionals show the multitude of ways in which the birth of Christ was celebrated in medieval...