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ANDRE CAMPRA
Tancrède (complete opera) Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles & Orchestre Les Temps Présents, Olivier Schneebeli [ Alpha / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Sep/2015 ] A Baroque West Side Story, Tancrède tells of the absolute but impossible love between two young people brought together by their passion but separated by their origins. We are in the time of the Crusades: Tancredi is the champion of the Frankish... |
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LOUIS & FRANCOIS FRANCOEUR / JEAN-JACQUES-BAPTISTE ANET / JEAN DUROCHER / FRANCOIS REBEL
Les frères Francœur Justin Taylor (harpsichord), Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] "Plaudits to violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte and his Le Consort colleague, harpsichordist Justin Taylor, and Alpha Classics for this truly commanding documentation of 18th-century French music." Five Stars BBC Music - Chamber Choice Dec 2022 |
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Various Composers
Vox Feminae Les Kapsber'girls [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Mar/2025 ] After their explorations of Italian repertoire in Che fai tù? (MU-037) and French in Vous avez dit brunettes? |
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HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Songs & Dances Tim Mead (countertenor) / Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien [ Alpha / CD - released 12/Oct/2018 ] "Reactions to this absorbing and revelatory disc will, I suspect, depend on how one responds to the "Frenchified" Purcell of François Lazarevitch's Saint-Julien musicians. I heartily approve of their imaginative, improvisatory approach, which brings |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: La Notte, La Tempesta Di Mare, Le Quattro Stagioni, Il Gardellino Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Francois Lazarevitch [ Alpha / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] In the course of his recordings for Alpha, François Lazarevitch has explored the music of the Baroque and of oral and popular traditions. After Scottish and Irish music, airs de cour and Baroque suites and sonatas, he stops off in Vivaldi's Italy.... |
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PEACOCK / O'CAROLAN
The High Road to Kilkenny: Gaelic Songs and Dances from the 17th & 18th Centuries Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Francois Lazarevitch, Robert Getchell [ Alpha / CD - released 25/Mar/2016 ] After the success of For ever Fortune, early music from Scotland, François Lazarevitch continues his exploration of the 'Celtic' repertories with a new programme devoted to early Irish music. This repertory of old airs from the seventeenth and... |
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LE BERGER POETE
Le Berger Poète: Suites Et Sonates Pour Flute Et Musette Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch [ 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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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A l'ombre d'un ormeau Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien / François Lazarevitch [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Aug/2018 ] |
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MARIN MARAIS
Voix humaines. Marais: Pièces inédites pour flûte Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch, Lucile Boulanger, Éric Bellocq [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Mar/2025 ] While Marin Marais is best known for his works for viola da gamba, he also composed for the flute; Michael Lynn's recent rediscovery of manuscripts containing pieces for flute and basso continuo as well as duets caught the attention of François... |
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Les Pages & Les Chantres
Forme: The Vow Of Louis Xiii [ Alpha / CD - released 4/Sep/2006 ] |
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CLAUDE LE JEUNE
Lejeune: Motets pour le culte catholique et psaumes protestants Les Pages & Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles; Olivier Schneebeli [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] Claude Lejeune, who moved in Protestant circles but was also in the service of the royal court, composed both Huguenot polyphonic psalms in French and Catholic liturgical pieces in Latin. The genres are juxtaposed in this recording by Olivier... |
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HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Tyrannic Love Les Surprises [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] Until the late 1680s, Henry Purcell composed almost exclusively for the royal court. But when the monarchy decided to reduce its expenditure on music in 1690, he joined the United Company, a London theatre company, and devoted himself to composing... |
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JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Les Indes Galantes BLU-RAY Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (conductor) & Olivier Simonnet (director) [ Alpha BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2016 ] Particularly rich both on the musical level and in atmosphere, scrutinizing love 'in far-off lands' (Turkey, Peru, Persia and America), it responds to the infatuation with exoticism that tinged all the arts of the century. |
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JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (conductor) & Olivier Simonnet (director) [ Alpha DVD / DVD - released 18/Sep/2015 ] Particularly rich both on the musical level and in atmosphere, scrutinizing love 'in far-off lands' (Turkey, Peru, Persia and America), it responds to the infatuation with exoticism that tinged all the arts of the century. |
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JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (conductor) & Olivier Simonnet (director) [ Alpha DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2016 ] "The performers have enormous fun with Boismortier's opera." (BBC Music Opera Choice April 2016) |
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BIBER
Mysterien Sonaten: The Rosary Sonatas Les Veilleurs de Nuit / Alice Pierot (direction & violin), [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] Les Veilleurs de Nuit: Alice Piérot (direction & violin), Pascal Monteilhet (théorbe), Marianne Muller (viola de gamba), Elisabeth Geiger (claviorganum) |
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BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas No.1, 10 & 5 'Spring' Lorenzo Gatto, Julien Libeer [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Aug/2018 ] Building on the success of their first disc of Beethoven violin sonatas (Alpha 240), which won a Diapason d'Or of the year (the magazine hailed 'the birth of a great duo') and 'Choc' de Classica, Lorenzo Gatto and Julien Libeer continue their... |
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BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos.3, 6, 7 & 8 Lorenzo Gattp / Julien Libeer [ Alpha / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] Building on the success of the first two instalments of their cycle devoted to Beethoven's sonatas for piano and violin (Alpha 240, Diapason d'Or of the year, and Alpha 407), Lorenzo Gatto and Julien Libeer conclude this complete series by recording... |
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ROSSI / MAZZOCCHI / CARISSIMI
Il Tormento E’Lestasi Los Musicos de Su Alteza [ Alpha / CD - released 10/Jun/2012 ] "The instrumental playing, in both the sacred works and Marini's famous Passacaglia is very assured" (International Record Review) |
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JOSEPH RUIZ SAMANIEGRO
La vida es sueno... Los Musicos se Su Alteza / Luis Antonio Gonzales [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] We know very little about Ruiz Samaniego, Kapellmeister in Saragossa during the second half of the 18th-century. However, he left an abundant music production, including some villancicos. These polyphonic vocal works of theatrical origin have been... |