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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine La Tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Oct/2019 ] "I suspect old Claudio is smiling in the great beyond. Ambitious? For sure. Captivating and unforgettable? Definitely. Hear it." MusicWeb Recommended July 2020 |
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La Tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion
Schutz & Schein: Larmes De Résurrection [ Alpha / CD - released 29/Jan/2018 ] In 1623, when the Thirty Years War was raging, Europe was torn apart by the confrontation between Protestant and Catholic peoples. Schütz and Schein, close friends with a deep-rooted Lutheran faith, were thoroughly in accordance with the spirit of... |
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KAPSBERGER / LANDI / CAVALIERI / LA TARANTELLA
La tarantella e un po'di follie L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar [ Alpha Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 14/Oct/2022 ] L'Arpeggiata and Christina Pluhar have blazed new trails in the rediscovery and interpretation of Baroque music, Italian in particular. The five recordings they made for Alpha are among the biggest-ever successes in this repertory. La Tarantella,... |
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DEBUSSY / FAURE / POULENC
En sourdine Frédéric Loiseau, Laurent Naouri (baritone) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] We are familiar with the flamboyant baritone Laurent Naouri, a distinguished exponent of the four villains in Les Contes d'Hoffmann from Paris to The Metropolitan Opera New York and an unforgettable Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande. But here it is a... |
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Don Giovanni Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, Jérémie Rhorer [ Alpha / 3 CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] Here is the third and last instalment in the 'Live at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées' series of Mozart operas conducted by Jérémie Rhorer. After Die Entführung aus dem Serail and La clemenza di Tito comes Don Giovanni, recorded in 2016. On the... |
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART / GIOVANNI PAISIELLO
Mozart: Requiem / Paisiello: Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon Le Concert de la Loge; Chœur de Chambre de Namur; Julien Chauvin; Sandrine Piau [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Mozart's Requiem was not performed in Paris until 1804, in a version slightly different from the composer's original score. The press reported a triumph. That same year also saw the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte - who had brought back a pronounced... |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Messe Solennelle Le Concert Spirituel / Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] Composed in 1824 by Hector Berlioz at the age of twenty-one and premiered at the church of Saint-Roch in Paris in 1825, the Messe solennelle has come down to us following an eventful history. After Berlioz declared that he had destroyed the score,... |
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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 |
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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... |
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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... |
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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,... |
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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... |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Il Combattimento (with works by Trabaci & Marazzoli) Le Poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Essential Baroque Masterpieces / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] |
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MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER / JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Charpentier & Lully: Te Deum Le Poème Harmonique, Capella Cracoviensis, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Feb/2014 ] |
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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. |
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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 |
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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... |
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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 |
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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,... |
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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. |