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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Violin Concerto & Chamber Works Isabelle Faust, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks , Jakub Hrůša [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 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,... |
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 - released 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... |
Timothy Ridout, James Baillieu, Frank Dupree
A Lionel Tertis Celebration [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 22/Mar/2024 ] Lionel Tertis (1876-1975), a great genius of the viola, is little known to today's public. Timothy Ridout pays tribute to this key figure in his instrument's history with a flamboyant programme featuring music by Tertis's friends, teachers and... |
ENRIQUE GRANADOS
Granados: Goyescas - El Pelele Javier Perianes (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Jan/2024 ] "Perianes lets several of the numbers start with a slow burn, and he gives plenty of space in which the ornamentation can flower." BBC Music Instrumental Release of the Month Jan 24 |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Piano Quartet & Piano Quintet Isabelle Faust, Anne Katharina Schreiber, Antoine Tamestit, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexander Melnikov [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] "By any standards this is chamber music playing of the highest class; the fact that it's performed on instruments of the period only makes it more satisfying." BBC Music Chamber Release of the Month Jan 2024 |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Ombra mai fu Andreas Scholl, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 29/Oct/2023 ] Handel at the height of his glory. In this recital, the young Andreas Scholl and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin invited listeners to rediscover some of Handel's finest arias, from Giulio Cesare to Serse by way of Rodelinda and Alcina, not... |
GIUSEPPE TORELLI / GIOVANNI COLONNA / GIACOMO PERTI / CARLO POLLAROLO
Cantatas & Concertos Nuria Rial (Soprano) / Kammerorchester Basel, Julia Schroder [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Oct/2023 ] Spanish Catalan soprano Nuria Rial is famous for her shining, cristal clear and beautiful voice and is one of the most fitting voices for baroque arias. She was described as "a silvery sounding voice, as clear as a bell." (Opernglas) |
LUDWIG DASER
Daser: Polyphonic Masses Huelgas-Ensemble (early music ensemble) Paul Van Nevel [ Deutche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] "this larger ensemble creates a rich, wellbalanced sound which at times I found attractively wistful...I'm already looking forward to the next volume." Gramophone Award WINNER 2023 - Early Music |
ERIC SATIE
Erik Satie (LP) Alexandre Tharaud (piano), with Eric Le Sage (piano), Juliette (voice), Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean Delescluse (tenor) [ Harmonia Mundi / LP - released 29/Sep/2023 ] "My aim in this disc has been to offer the richest possible panorama of Satie's piano music, spanning his whole lifetime. Immersed in the world of Satie, we were touched, and often deeply moved by the trust he shows in his interpreters." A. Tharaud. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin Samuel Hasselhorn (baritone), Ammiel Bushakevitz (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 29/Sep/2023 ] As if he had become one with Wilhelm Müller's hero, Schubert explores solitude, emotional turmoil, the lure of new horizons, disappointed or impossible love - and death too. In this first instalment of the Schubert series that Samuel Hasselhorn and... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Paris Symphonies & Violin Concerto No. 1 Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin) / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 15/Sep/2023 ] "Christie's enthusiasm for the symphonies is never in doubt, but he can be curiously down to earth at times." BBC Music |
PIETRO ANTONIO LOCATELLI
Locatelli: il virtuoso, il poeta (Violin Concertos & Concerti Grossi) Isabelle Faust (violin) / Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Locatelli was one of the most impressive violin virtuosos of the first half of the eighteenth century. Considered today as a sort of Baroque Paganini, he left picturesque, colourful, strikingly modern pieces for his instrument. A few years after a... |
ANONYMOUS
"Indiscretions" The Curious Bards [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] "The musicians' description of this music as 'new treasures waiting to be unearthed' is indeed warranted...all excellently played, generating the convivial intimacy of performance in a lost age." BBC Music |
WEIDEMAN / SAMMARTINI / HANDEL / OSWALD / CASTRUCCI
London Circa 1740: (suite de London 1720, 20 years later…) La Rêveuse, Florence Bolton & Benjamin Perrot [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/Aug/2023 ] For this new instalment of their series devoted to British music of the eighteenth century, the musicians of La Rêveuse take us to London in the 1740s. The leading Italian and German virtuosos Handel invited to play in his orchestra brought a... |
ORA Singers, Suzi Digby
Sanctissima [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 4/Aug/2023 ] This recording takes us on a fantasy choral journey using the traditional services of Vespers and Benediction as its guide. It weaves hypnotic plainchant around renaissance gems and modern masterpieces. The music of the great Renaissance masters,... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Joseph Haydn: Cello Concertos Jean-Guihen Queyras & Freiburger Barockorchester [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 21/Jul/2023 ] In 2004, Jean-Guihen Queyras and the Freiburger Barockorchester offered us a prodigious interpretation of Haydn's two cello concertos, coupled with a rare concerto by Georg Matthias Monn, a pioneer of the genre. A version now recognized as a landmark... |
GABRIEL FAURE
Fauré: Requiem, version 1893 / Messe des Pêcheurs de Villerville Agnes Mellon (soprano) Peter Kooy (baritone) / La Chapelle Royale, Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Louis, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 21/Jul/2023 ] In 1988, Philippe Herreweghe and his musicians recorded a pioneering disc of Fauré's Requiem in its 1893 version. The French composer's masterpiece received an ideal interpretation, displaying restrained emotion alongside clarity and precision. As... |
GYORGY LIGETI
Ligeti: Bagatelles. Kammerkonzert & Pieces for wind quintet Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] "...beautifully and expressively played, this release will prove very satisfying." Fanfare |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: L'Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] A hybrid work between oratorio, ode and serenata, L'Allegro . . . is undoubtedly one of Handel's most mysterious works, but also his most inspired! With their accustomed poetry, William Christie and Les Arts Florissants offer us the chance to... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards Alexander Melnikov [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 16/Jun/2023 ] BBC Music Magazine July 2023 - Instrumental Choice |
