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CHERUBINI / PLANTADE
Cherubini & Plantade: Requiems pour Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha / CD - released 17/Aug/2017 ] "Niquet brings fresh artistry and specifically French authority honed over decades with Le Concert Spirituel to both works. For me, this is a prize-winning disc" Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Choral |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Gloria & Magnificat Le Concert Spirituel; Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] Hervé Niquet and his Concert Spirituel offer a programme to the glory of Antonio Vivaldi: his Gloria and Magnificat, genuine masterpieces of sacred vocal music, demonstrate the same variety of styles, tempo and atmospheres that characterise his... |
HANDEL
Handel: Messiah 1754 Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha / 2 CD/Book - released 27/Oct/2017 ] Why yet another Messiah? 'I went through the different scores that exist and decided on the very interesting 1754 version, which features five soloists. You must remember that, when Handel arrived somewhere to perform his oratorio, he had soloists of... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI / GIOVANNI BATTISTA REALI
Specchio Veneziano Le Consort; Victor Julien-Laferrière [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] Specchio veneziano or the Venetian mirror - this programme compares and contrasts two composers from the city of the Doges: on the one hand the celebrated Vivaldi, on the other a virtual unknown, Giovanni Battista Reali, who was born there in 1681,... |
MONTEVERDI / RUFFO / etc
Nova Metamorfosi: sacred music in Milan in the early seventeenth century Le Poeme harmonique / Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] This programme represents an important period of change in Milan, starting around 1607, when secular compositions were transformed into pieces with a truly mystical feeling. It comprises a Mass by the former madrigalist Vincenzo Ruffo and sacred... |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Il Combattimento (with works by Trabaci & Marazzoli) Le Poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Essential Baroque Masterpieces / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER / JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Charpentier & Lully: Te Deum Le Poème Harmonique, Capella Cracoviensis, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Feb/2014 ] |
GABRIEL FAURE
Works for Violin and Piano Daishin Kashimoto (violin), Eric Le Sage (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 31/Mar/2014 ] This final installment in this complete recording of Gabriel Fauré's chamber music features his compositions for violin and piano. |
MICHEL-RICHARD de LALANDE
De Lalande: Majesté Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble Aedes, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Aug/2018 ] "If you are already 'hooked' you will want to add this to your collection - and by no means just because it appears to be the only CD containing these works which is available. It's a significant gem." MusicWeb June 2018 |
Le Poème Harmonique (early music ensemble), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano), Vincent Dumestre
Mon amant de Saint-Jean [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Fascinated by the interplay of echoes from one past to another, Vincent Dumestre and Stephanie d'Oustrac found an affinity in the project Mon Amant de Saint-Jean, their very first collaboration, and aimed to make it a unique musical adventure: a... |
GREGORIO ALLEGRI / CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Anamorfosi Le Poème Harmonique / Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] "This is an album so nuanced you can almost taste it." Recording of the Month Awards Issue 2019 |
ANTOINE BOESSET
Boesset: Je Meurs Sans Mourir Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] From the Alpha Collection III of reissues restoring to the limelight some of the gems of early music repertory in their catalogue of labels. The discs in this series allow listeners to renew acquaintance with treasures of the Renaissance and Baroque,... |
LUIS DE BRICENO
El Fenix de Paris Le Poème Harmonique / Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha / CD - released 26/Sep/2011 ] On this album discover le Poème Harmonique in a repertoire bearing the marked touch of popular Spanish music, accompanied by the delightful song of Isabelle Druet and Claire Lefilliâtre. |
BULL / GIBBONS / JOHNSON / MORLEY / HOLBORNE / ANONYMOUS
Love is Strange - works for lute consort Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Essential Baroque Masterpieces / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] Stylish performances of familiar (Greensleeves, Sellengers Rounde and Dowland's Lachrymæ) and unfamiliar music by Anthony Holborne (?-1602) and contemporaries. |
SEBASTIAN DURON
Durón: Coronis Le Poème Harmonique; Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 11/Feb/2022 ] This recording provides an opportunity to discover a forgotten Baroque operatic treasure, a zarzuela, the key dramatic and musical genre of the Spanish Golden Age. Sumptuous choruses, poignant arias and folksongs blend in a rich and spectacular... |
ALBAN BERG / ANTON WEBERN / ERWIN SCHULHOFF
Out of Vienna Leonkoro Quartet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] The Leonkoro Quartet, founded in 2019 and winner of multiple prestigious awards in 2022 - nine prizes at the Wigmore Hall International Competition, including first prize, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, Jürgen Ponto Foundation Music Prize, first... |
J.S BACH
Sonatas, Chorales and Trios Les Basses Reunies [ ALPHA / CD - released 20/Nov/2009 ] Bruno Cocset's new record highlights this permanence of spirituality in Bach's music, as he places side by side the three sonatas for viola da gamba and arrangements of chorales for solo organ solo. On his quest for the most appropriate sonorities to... |
BARRIERE
Barrière: Sonates Pour Le Violoncelle Avec La Basse Continue Les Basses, Réunies Bruno Cocset [ Alpha / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] From the Alpha Collection III of reissues restoring to the limelight some of the gems of early music repertory in their catalogue of labels. The discs in this series allow listeners to renew acquaintance with treasures of the Renaissance and Baroque,... |
BOCCHERINI
Sonates & concertos pour violoncelle Les Basses RACunies / Bruno Cocset [ Alpha / CD - released 2/Mar/2006 ] "The results are fresh and energising. And Cocset's players seek to liberate Boccherini's crazier side!" Editor’s Choice – Gramophone Magazine (March 2006) |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Vêpres pour Saint Louis Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles; Olivier Schneebeli [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Following the Alpha label's successful Red, Yellow, Blue and Pink collections (a total of fifty-six reissues), which brought the pearls from the Baroque catalogue back into the spotlight, there are now fourteen new titles offering a chance to... |
