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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Secular Choral Songs RIAS-Kammerchor / Marcus Creed (director) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "These are wonderful performances--well-blended, secure in intonation, full of light and shade." - American Record Guide |
J. S. BACH
English Suites BWV 806-811 Richard Egarr (fortepiano) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] "Egarr displays an extraordinary tonal range, from harp-like resonance to transparency. The best harpsichord recital of these Suites on disc." (BBC Music - Instrumental Choice - March 2013) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The French Suites Richard Egarr (harpsicord) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2016 ] "a zest and expressive range that's a constant delight, Bach, reinvigorated and in rude health … the sound is very well captured, you're immersed in Bach and Egarr." (CDReview) |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: La Descente D'orphee Aux Enfers Robert Getchell, Caroline Weynants, Caroline Dangin-Bardot, Violaine Le Chenadec / Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] "Throughout, the writing is rich, unusual yet immediate. Orpheus's journey through the underworld in search of Eurydice is memorably expressive" The Observer |
ANTONIO CALDARA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Caldara - In dolce amore Robin Johannsen (soprano) / Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro De Marchi [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/May/2014 ] "Academia Montis Regalis and Alessandro De Marchi accompany with robust directness or lighter delicacy as required, and Johannsen's versatile singing helps to reveal an enriching glimpse of Caldara's virtues." Gramophone |
GIUSEPPE TARTINI
Tartini: Cello Concertos Roel Dieltiens (cello) / Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Move: The Trumpet as Movie Star Romain Leleu (trumpet) / Romain Leleu Sextet, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, uttgarter Philharmoniker, Marcus Bosch (cond) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] Move - the name of this album - is also the title of a concerto written by Baptiste Trotignon and here receiving its recording premiere; the work pays tribute to major composers of film music, whose iconic scores form the backdrop in this "audiofilm"... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Motets RIAS-Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] BBC Radio 3: Building a Library Highly Recommended - June 2005 |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: The Young Lady and the Hooligan Op 124c (ballet) Russian Symphony Orchestra, Mark Gorenstein [ Harmonia Mundi Saison Russe / CD - released 10/Feb/1994 ] Shostakovich composed many ballet scores, which kept the income flowing in and also kept him in the good books of the increasingly brutal dictatorship of Josef Stalin as many of these ballets were little more than Soviet propaganda exercises. The... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 Sabine Devieilhe (soprano) / Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] "I absolutely adored this performance...What registers immediately in Roth's reading - and the deliciously honest playing of his band Les Siècles - is an open-faced, playful nature.." Gramophone Recording of the Month Sept 2022 |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Il ottavo libro de madrigali, 1638 'Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi' Salomé Haller, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Bernarda Fink, Marisa Martins, Christophe Laporte,Kobie Van Rensburg / Concerto Vocale, René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi HMHeritage / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] Monteverdi was 71 when he published his Eighth Book of madrigals. This collection, a monumental work of remarkable beauty, is a synthesis of all Monteverdi's experience in the realm of secular music. It is the culmination of a genre, the Italian... |
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... |
CASPAR KITTEL
Arias & Cantatas Schola Cantorum Basiliensis / Rene Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] Caspar Kittel (1603-1639) was a German musician who trained in Italy and returned to work at the Dresden Court, deputizing for his colleague Heinrich Schütz when the latter spent a period in Denmark. |
J.C. BACH / BUXTEHUDE / ROVETTA / SCGUTZ/ ERIEBACH
German Baroque Cantatas Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor) / Concerto di Viole / Basel Consort [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] Editor's choice Gramophone - The Times (London) Classical CDs of the Year 1998 - "Expressively versatile though Scholl unquestionably can be, it is perhaps in the sphere of elegy and plaint that his art can be heard to strongest advantage...this is... |
ANONYMOUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Visions from the Book Sequentia [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Jan/1996 ] Originally recorded in 1994. Complete textx and translations included. |
MOZART
Mozart: Requiem La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-ÉlyséesPhilippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] Tired by his many voyages around Europe ever since he had been rejected in Vienna, Mozart could not find the strength to honour his promise to compose a Requiem in record time for the person who had commissioned it. |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Die Schopfung [The Creation sung in German] Simone Kermes, Dorothee Mields, Steve Daviislim / Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble / Thomas Hengelbrock [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 30/May/2008 ] "Thomas Hengelbrock directs a clear and unfussy reading. He has an excellent grasp of each of the different elements of the score, which he communicates extremely well to his forces and thence to the listener." MusicWeb |
PERGOLESI / PORPORA / HASSE / LEO / VINCI
Lava: Opera arias from 18th Century Naples Simone Kermes (soprano) / Le Musiche Nove, Claudio Osele [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] "Simone Kermes's… is…a fearless risk-taker of uncommon artistic range and technical prowess... all 12 of the disc's items are delightful." Five Stars BBC Music |
PORPORA / CALDARA / CATEL / NASOLINI / ROSSINI
Semiramide - La Signora Regale: Arias & Scenes from Porpora to Rossini Anna Bonitatibus (mezzo-soprano) / Accademia degli Astrusi, Federico Ferri [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2014 ] "There is much coloratura and here, as elsewhere, Anna Bonitatibus is spot-on...This set, sumptuously illustrated, is an absolute must-have." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Recital) |
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
Septem verba a Christo (in cruce moriente prolata) Sophie Karthäuser, Christophe Dumaux, Julien Behr, Konstantin Wolff / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Rene Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Feb/2013 ] "this hybrid cycle of seven early-18th-century cantatas based on the Seven Last Words is deeply impressive...The mood ranges wide, from fiery, coloratura-laden anger to a touching lyricism." Sunday Times |
