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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
100 Piano Masterpieces Frank Braley, Paul Lewis, Alexander Melnikov, Olga Kern, Javier Perianes, Alain Planes, Beatrice Rana, Joyce Yang, etc [ Harmonia Mundi / 6 CD Box Set - released 30/Aug/2019 ] "It's an appealing package of six discs, each with a brightly-coloured sleeve. Equally colourful is the music selection, which features a veritable royal family of keyboard stars." BBC Music |
Anonymous 4
1000: A Mass for the End of Time-Medieval Chant and Polyphony for the Ascension [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 16/Sep/2000 ] The ANONYMOUS 4 mark the millennium! |
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Kasman/Reichert
10Th Van Cliburn Competitio [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] |
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Jon Nakamatsu
10Th Van Cliburn Competition [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] |
HILDEGARD VON BINGEN
11,000 Virgins (Chants for the Feast of St. Ursula) Anonymous 4 [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / SACD - released 20/Nov/2003 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM |
HANDEL
12 Solo Sonatas Op 1 Academy of Anciet Music / Richard Egarr [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] Handel wrote the solo sonatas of Opus 1 for the professional musicians of his London opera orchestra.They demand considerable skill and stamina both from the soloist and the continuo. Prominent bass parts give the sonatas a contrapuntal strength and... |
SCHUBERT
13 Piano Sonatas Alain PlanAs (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / 8 CD - released 11/Nov/2006 ] "Alain Planès performs with magical dexterity, creates strong dynamic contrasts, and conjures an impression of textural variety." (Gramophone) |
CHOPIN
1846: Dernière Année à Nohant Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) Pascal Amoyel (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] "Their performance manages to fashion a perfectly lucid path through the musical thickets of the sonata's first movement, which can sometimes seem too overloaded with invention...It's a lovely anthology, beautifully thought out and always executed wi |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
20th Century English Songs Bejun Mehta (countertenor) / Julius Drake (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 3/Oct/2011 ] "Bejun Mehta certainly can't be faulted on his eclecticism in his whistle-stop tour of English song...Mehta's singing is so heart-stoppingly beautiful and musically perceptive that you wish he had recorded whole cycles rather than just representative... |
SCHUBERT
4 Impromptus, D935 / Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major, D894 Andreas Staier (fortepiano Christopher Clarke) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "If you love this music, you'll want this interpretation. Staier is unquestionably one of the most probing and thoughtful musicians around today." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine Sept 2009 |
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 |
BELA BARTOK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: 44 Violin Duos Angela & Jennifer Chun (violins) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] "The Chuns' caring, committed, and stylistically perceptive Bartók playing deserves serious consideration." (9 / 9 ClassicsToday) |
J.S. BACH
6 Cello Suites Jaap Ter Linden (baroque cello) [ Harmonia Mundi 1 + 1 / 2 CD - released 30/Apr/2006 ] Bach's 6 cello suites performed on a period instrument. A performance that "lets Bach off the leash, never afraid to give the phrases time to blossom" |
J.S. BACH
6 Suites BWV 1007-1012 (transcribed from the cello suites) Marion Verbruggen (recorder / flute) [ Harmonia Mundi 1 + 1 / 2 CD - released 16/Aug/2006 ] "[Her] recorder virtuosity simply exhausts the available superlatives in a critic's vocabulary." - Chicago Tribune |
HANDEL
8 'Great' Suites for Keyboard, HWV 426-433 Richard Egarr (harpsichord) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] Printed in 1720, the 8 'Great' Suites were the first set of keyboard pieces that Handel chose to present to the London public. As performed here by Richard Egarr, this magnificent collection demonstrates Handel's unique 'orchestral' keyboard style... |
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
A. Scarlatti: Opera Overtures and Concertos Concerto de' Cavalieri, Marcello Di Lisa [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Apr/2017 ] "…dispatched with swashbuckling swagger…" (Gramophone) |
TARIK O'REGAN
Acallam na Senorach (Tales of the Elders) Stewart French (guitar) / National Chamber Choir of Ireland, Paul Hillier [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 12/Dec/2011 ] "Led by Paul Hillier, the National Chamber Choir of Ireland negotiates dissonance and harmony with drama and nobility, never endangering the piece through pomposity - a delicate balance aided by the sparseness of the guitar." (The Independent) |
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Aaro Sukura & Local Dimension
Acoustic Ghanaian Highlife [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] |
CHARPENTIER
Acteon (complete opera) Les Arts Florissants / William Christie, dir. [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 4/May/2005 ] Actéon appears on the surface as a perfect demonstration of the classic artifices of the tragédie en musique as created by Lully. But here everything has been taken to an extreme point of miniaturisation - the plot, the number of performers, the... |
J.S. BACH
Actus Tragicus: Cantatas BWV4, 12, 106, 196 Cantus Colln Ensemble / Konrad Junghanel [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / SACD - released 28/Nov/2003 ] "This performance is a gem and the recording stupendous" (Cosmik Debris |
