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J. S. BACH
Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV232 [recorded live in 2016] Katherine Watson (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor) & André Morsch (baritone) / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2018 ] "At first the approach seems almost too light-toned and ethereal, but soon the intimacy of these modest forces takes an ineluctable grip. Textures are clear, tempi brisk - the Sanctus positively skips." The Observer |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI / MARIO CASTELNUOVO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Boccherini/Castelnuovo Tedesco - Guitar Quintets Kazuhito Yamashita (guitar) / Tokyo String Quartet [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 31/Mar/1991 ] Recommended Recording - ClassicalNet "Ravishing playing by a born Boccherinian" (Classical-Music.com) *** Penguin Guide recording |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Lamentazioni per la Settimana Santa Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) & Jean-Marc Aymes (organ & conductor) / Concerto Soave [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] The sacred music on this disc -- settings of texts for Holy Week, from the early seventeenth century and influenced by the new monodic style -- has long been less familiar than the fiery secular music of the era. One may admire this recording by... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Sonatas Hob.WVI :6, 20 & 48 Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] A few years after a complete recording of Mozart's solo piano works that has gradually come to be regarded as a benchmark, Kristian Bezuidenhout has taken all the time he needed to tackle Haydn, the other towering figure of the Viennese Classical... |
W. A. MOZART
Keyboard Music Vol 5 & 6 Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2014 ] "Bezuidenhout plays Mozart on the fortepiano like no-one else. Here he performs an assortment of solo works with all the sensitivity, expressivity, flair and stylistic integrity that has marked him out as a supreme master of the early keyboard...and... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 / 2 Overtures Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Aug/2020 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 Winner - Assorted Programme |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony no.9 / Choral Fantasy Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] A fantasy that turned into a symphony? First and foremost, this double album enshrines the exemplary work of an ensemble whose designation 'Baroque Orchestra' by no means limits its excursions into later repertories: under the watchful eye of a... |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano concertos nos. 2 & 5 "Emperor" Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado & Freiburger Barockorchester [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "This really is exciting playing, and Bezuidenhout's virtuosity is impressive." Five Stars BBC Music Concerto Choice April 2020 |
BUXTEHUDE
Membra Jesu Nostri La Chapelle Rhenane / La Maitrise de Garcons de Colmar / Benoit Haller [ K617 Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] "One long oration in music" is how the musicologist Gilles Cantagrel describes this cycle, unique in Buxtehude's output. These meditations on the 'Seven Words of Christ on the cross' possess a truly mystic dimension.This performance by Benoît Haller... |
BROSSARD / CARISSIMI / CHARPENTIER
Sacrifices La Nuova Musica, David Bates [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Sep/2014 ] "To these affecting narratives (separated by instrumental interludes by De Brossard), La Nuova Musicabring superbly straight tone, unerring tuning and plangent phrasing." The Observer, 20th July 2014 **** |
FRANCESCO GEMINIANI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Geminiani: Concerti Grossi La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Feb/1990 ] Originally recorded in September 1984 |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Stabat Mater & Other Works Le Caravansérail, Bertrand Cuiller [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 29/Apr/2022 ] A model of daring harmonic and contrapuntal treatment, Domenico Scarlatti's extraordinary Stabat Mater is one of the very few surviving examples of his music for the church. To place this unique masterpiece in context, Bertrand Cuiller and members of... |
JOHANN ADOLF HASSE
Hasse at Home - Cantatas and Sonatas Le Musiche Nove, Veronika Kralova (soprano), Elisa Cozzini (flute), Viola Mattioni (cello), Federica Bianchi (harpsichord) [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Since Romain Rolland formulated his appreciative judgement of Johann Adolf Hasse, and his desire to rescue him from neglect, the fundamentally important role played by the composer in eighteenth century musical life has been confirmed in ever more... |
CARLO GESUALDO
Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsaria, Feria Quinta Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] With their bold harmonies, their counterpoint of unequalled refinement and their raw emotion, the Tenebrae Responsories are the sacred counterpart to Gesualdo's last two books of madrigals, published the same year (1611). Paul Agnew and Les Arts... |
SEBASTIEN de BROSSARD / PIERRE BOUTEILLER
Les Maîtres du Motet Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Sep/2018 ] "[In the Bouteiller] the group's blend finds its groove and the singers swell to fill the greater expressive and dramatic space of the work" Gramophone Dec 2018 |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Great Venetian Mass Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew, Sophie Karthäuser, Lucile Richardot [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] A puzzling paradox: although Vivaldi devoted over 30 years to composing for the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, no complete musical setting of any liturgy by him has come down to us. By intercalating existing examples of his sacred music (such as the... |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Médée Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD/Book - released 27/Sep/2019 ] Following the success of his biblical opera David et Jonathas, written for a Jesuit college, Louis-le-Grand, Charpentier produced Médée for the Royal Academy of Music, his one and only sublime example of the "tragédie lyrique" to reach the... |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Te Deum Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] In 1989, William Christie and Les Arts Florissants recorded some of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's finest sacred music for Harmonia Mundi: his celebrated Te Deum alongside two deeply moving works dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Shunning any kind of... |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] The concerto grosso, invented in Italy by Stradella and Corelli, spread rapidly all over Europe. But Handel's creative innovations surpass the Italian model and are outstanding for their richness of style and expressive power. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony no.5 (plus Gossec: Symphonie) Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Sep/2020 ] "It is hard to recall a more relentlessly driven performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony than this newcomer." BBC Music |
