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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. |
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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... |
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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... |
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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,... |
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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) |
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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... |
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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. |