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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...
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols cover
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Graham Ross
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ]
It's Christmas! Graham Ross invites you to explore the highly individual conception of traditional carols offered by twentieth-century British composers, and notably the most eminent among them, Benjamin Britten. Arranged around his famous Ceremony...
Mahler: Lieder cover
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Lieder
Christiane Karg (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Gustav Mahler (piano roll)
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ]
"Her voice is beautiful, more velvety than diamantine, and, with her supremely sensitive partner, she never has need to push it...This is lieder performance of wonderful freshness and intelligence; a delightful album, highly recommended." Gramophone
War & Peace - 1618:1918 cover
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
War & Peace - 1618:1918
Dorothee Mields (soprano) / Lautten Compagney, Wolfgang Katschne
[ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 5/Mar/2019 ]
"Mields is impeccable throughout, the pristine purity of the early songs setting off the calculated exaggerations and distortions of the contemporary ones. This is a brilliant, unexpected disc" Gramophone Editor's Choice January 2019
Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross [Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze] cover
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross [Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze]
Ensemble Resonanz, cond. Riccardo Minasi
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 22/Mar/2019 ]
Following an acclaimed disc of cello concertos and symphonies by C. P. E. Bach, the musicians of the Ensemble Resonanz continue their exploration of eighteenth-century orchestral music. For several years now, under the direction of its inspired...
Carols from the Old and New Worlds Vol.3 cover
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TRADITIONAL
Carols from the Old and New Worlds Vol.3
Chamber Choir Ireland, Paul Hillier
[ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 23/Oct/2014 ]
On the third volume in harmonia mundi's series Carols from the Old and New Worlds, Paul Hillier and Chamber Choir Ireland celebrate the festive season with a wide-ranging mixture of new and traditional carols. Framed by the seven 'O' antiphons for...
Mahler: Symphony no.1 - Titan cover
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony no.1 - Titan
François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/May/2019 ]
"The recording sticks a feather in the cap of Les Siècles, among the most adaptable and engaging of today's historically informed ensembles formed in the image of their director" Gramophone
Schubert: Symphonies nos. 5 & 7 'Unfinished' cover
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Symphonies nos. 5 & 7 'Unfinished'
Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Jun/2023 ]
"The Freiburger Barockorchester is an excellent period instrument ensemble. The sound is transparent and lean, winds and strings equally balanced, timpani played with hard sticks." ClassicReview
Rameau: Platée cover
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JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Platée
Genia KAhmeier, Toby Spence, Dietrich Henschel, Sophie KarthANuser, Markus Werba / Les Arts Florissants / William Christie
[ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 29/Oct/2021 ]
A marsh nymph thinks she is so irresistible that Jupiter himself will take an interest in her . . . Brimming with exceptional dramatic and musical verve, this strangely under-recorded 'ballet bouffon' offers us Rameau's art in a nutshell: glittering...
Cantatas for Esterhazys cover
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JOSEF HAYDN
Cantatas for Esterhazys
Sunhae Im, Johanna Stojkovic (sopranos) Max Ciolek (tenor) / VokalEnsemble KAln / Cappella Coloniensis / Andreas Spering
[ Harmonia Mundi Haydn Edition / CD - released 1/Feb/2009 ]
MARBECKS STAFF PICK: REISSUE CD OF THE YEAR 2009 - "The music is so enjoyable, the performances so good, and the sound so exemplary that it can be warmly recommended to anyone interested in vocal music from the mid-18th Century." - American Record...
Bach, (J.S.): Violin Concertos / Sinfonias / Overture / Sonatas cover
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach, (J.S.): Violin Concertos / Sinfonias / Overture / Sonatas
Isabelle Faust (violin) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
[ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 15/Mar/2019 ]
"Faust's tone is both lean and exquisitely sweet, combined with consistent stylistic elegance which reaches the heights of eloquence in the slow movement of the E major Concerto." BBC Music Concerto Choice June 2019
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto & Chamber Works cover
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto & Chamber Works
Isabelle Faust (violin) / Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 3/Mar/2023 ]
"Three-dimensional - with a startling inner clarity and rhythmic keenness that brings it off the page in ways you couldn't imagined.Honestly, it's like having one's ears freshly syringed" Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2023
Schubert: Sonate D.574 / Rondo op.70 / Fantasie D.934 cover
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Sonate D.574 / Rondo op.70 / Fantasie D.934
Isabelle Faust (violin) / Alexander Melnikov (piano)
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]
"violinist Isabelle Faust and pianist Alexander Melnikov play each variation on 'Sei mir gegrusst' as if they're discovering it for the first time. Their sense of wonder can be heard right from the start of the Fantasy…delectable." CD Review, BBC Radio
Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale (English version) cover
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale (English version)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Dominique Horwitz (narrator) with ensemble / Alexander Melnikov (piano)
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ]
"Faust and her colleagues do indeed evoke the mise en scène of performers pulling up in a dusty square late one afternoon and performing from the back of an old truck" Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Chamber
Dvorak: Violin Concerto & Trio Op. 65 cover
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Violin Concerto & Trio Op. 65
Isabelle Faust (violin) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexander Melnikov (piano), Prague Philharmonia, Jiri Belohlavek
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ]
Almost twenty years ago, Isabelle Faust and Jiří Bělohlávek established a new milestone in the discography of Dvořák's Violin Concerto. The coupling, the tumultuous Trio in F minor, inaugurated the violinist's long and fruitful collaboration with...
Chopin, Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonatas cover
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CHOPIN / RACHMANINOFF
Chopin, Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonatas
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano)
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ]
"Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov somehow manage to contain the overgrowth and shape the profusion of ideas into a cultivated and warmly lit musical garden." Gramophone
Vivaldi: Sonatas for violoncello & basso cover
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Sonatas for violoncello & basso
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), with Michael Behringer, Lee Santana, Christoph Dangel
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Sep/2018 ]
"If you wanted one takeaway headline for this recording then it would be its sense of intimacy and immediacy; a quality we can mostly put down to the easy, loving familiarity with which Queyras handles this repertoire." Gramophone
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ]
After the first two instalments, highly praised by the press - "one of the finest, most... thrilling performances of [the] Fourth Concerto," wrote Gramophone - Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado and the Freiburger Barockorchester close their...
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Piano Concerto no.2 & Symphony no.1, Ouverture "Melusine" cover
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Piano Concerto no.2 & Symphony no.1, Ouverture "Melusine"
Kristian Bezuidenhout, Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Apr/2019 ]
Mendelssohn's first symphonic work scored for full orchestra, the Symphony op. 11 in C minor paved the way for even greater examples of the genre he was soon to produce. The concert overture Die schöne Melusine and the sparkling Piano Concerto No. 2...
Charpentier: A Christmas oratorio (Un Oratorio de Noel) cover
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MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: A Christmas oratorio (Un Oratorio de Noel)
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/Nov/2021 ]
Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed some of the most important works of seventeenth-century French music on the subject of the Nativity and its tutelary figure, the Virgin Mary, from dramatic oratorios in Latin to secular cantatas in the vernacular....
Lully: Atys (Complete opera recorded in 1987) cover
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JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Lully: Atys (Complete opera recorded in 1987)
Guy de Mey, Guillemette Laurens, Agnes Mellon / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
[ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD/Book - released 27/Sep/2019 ]
"The stateliest of Lully's operas, Atys is given an exceptionally handsome performance here. When it first appeared in 1987 this was a landmark recording. It remains a performance to treasure." BBC Music Magazine, December 2009