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MAZZOCCHI / CARISSIMI / FRESCOBALDI / PALESTRINA
Vespro della beata Vergine [vespers for the Virgin] Cantus Colln / Concerto Palatino / Konrad Junghanel (cond) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Sep/2009 ] "The string playing is zestful, while Concerto Palatino's sackbutts and cornett add lustre. Sadly, the singing is often thin and unsupported, sounding more authentic to the early days of the early music movement than baroque devotional music." The... |
MATTHIAS WECKMANN
Wie Liegt die Stadt so Wuste Cantus Colln / Konrad Junghanel [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] Hamburg, 1674: to his contemporaries, the death of Matthias Weckmann seemed to herald the end of a glorious period. In his post as organist of the Jacobikirche since 1655, the composer had breathed new life into the city's musical scene with his... |
J.S. BACH
Acuts tragicus Cantus Colln / Konrad Junghanel (conductor) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Jan/2008 ] "Boasting a distinguished discography of 17-century German sacred music, Cantus Cölln takes a leap forward to Bach's initial forays into the cantata....Cantus Cölln is the undisputed master..." Gramophone |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Air Music - Tales of Flying Creatures and Heavenly Breezes Capella De La Torre, Katharina Bauml [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 31/Jan/2020 ] "This enjoyable album has a stylish snap, especially in the dance music that Capella de la Torre perform so well. And, as ever with this superb ensemble, the percussion subtly steals the show at every opportunity." Gramophone |
ANONYMOUS
Capella Sanctae Crucis: Zuguambe Capella Sanctae Crucis, Tiago Simas Freire (Conductor) [ Harmonia Mundi / Harmonia Nova Series #3 / CD - released 6/Oct/2017 ] This recording consists entirely of unpublished works preserved in the library of the University of Coimbra, which possesses one of the richest music archives in Europe. The programme demonstrates the exceptional musical vitality of the Iberian... |
TRADITIONAL
Canichanas & Moxos Capilla de Indias / Tiziana Palmiero [ K617 Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 30/Jul/2009 ] Previously attributed to Jesuits, the Canichana and Moxos Indians, of what is now Bolivia, sent their Spanish sovereigns a collection of musical compositions that here receive their world premiere recording. For its first recording, Capilla de Indias... |
LEOŠ JANÁČEK
Leos Janacek: Choral Works Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Janáček's choral works draw on an extremely rich repertory of folksongs and folk tales. The composer seized on idioms from Bohemian and Moravian traditions, with their characteristic folk dances and rustic nursery rhymes, and on the recently... |
ARVO PART
Pärt: Kanon pokajanen Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] "In striving to get to the essence of the words, Pärt has created 'a precious island in the inner seclusion of our soul', and Cappella Amsterdam under Daniel Reuss more than do justice to Kanon Pokajanen's distilled purity and sublime beauty" Gramoph |
GYORGY LIGETI
Ligeti: Lux Aeterna Cappella Amsterdam, Suzanne van Els (viola) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] MARBECKS STAFF PICK: CD OF THE YEAR 2009 - "In this performance [of Lux aeterna] by the astoundingly good Capella Amsterdam it sounds more meditative and less apocalyptic than it did [in Kubrick's 2001], but no less haunting." Daily Telegraph |
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Carlos Mena
Paisajes Del Recuerdo [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/Mar/2007 ] |
VICTORIA
Et Jesum: Motets for Solo Voice Carlos Mena (countertenor), Juan Carlos Rivera (lute, vihuela) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] "A fresh and surprising look at one of the Renaissance's most distinguished figures" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine July 2004 |
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Carnet De Viaje Musica
Africa-America [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] |
ERNST KRENEK
Sechs Motetten nach Worten von Franz Kafka Caroline Stein (soprano) Philip Mayers (piano) / RIAS-Kammerchor / Hans-Christoph Rademann [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] After a critically acclaimed first disc devoted to his Lamentations of Jeremiah RIAS Kammerchor now returns to one of its favourite composers. Krenek was born in Vienna as the son of a Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army. He studied there and... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Leipzig - Christmas Cantatas Carolyn Sampson, Dorothee Blotzky-Mields, Ingeborg Danz, Mark Padmore Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 7/Dec/2018 ] The Christmas cantatas have the use of a church chorale as their conceptual starting point in common. And their intimate performing forces. With Bach's output they present a kind of meditation on the meaning of the feast of Christmas. |
J.S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 2: Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir BWV 29 & 6 others Carolyn Sampson (sop) Charles Brett (alto) Mark Padmore (ten) Peter Kooy (b) / La Chapelle Royale / Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe (dir) [ Harmonia Mundi Herreweghe Bach Edition / 3 CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "The soloists are outstanding, with Carolyn Sampson and Mark Padmore in especially communicative form… Outstanding work; Herreweghe's occasional oratorios are beginning to achieve some kind of critical mass, a very fine series of Bach recordings... |
PABLO NERUDA
The Poet Sings Cary Ratcliff / Shawn Kirchner / Donald Grantham / Craig Hella Johnson [ Harmonia Mundi USA / CD - released 11/Sep/2015 ] Craig Hella Johnson leads Conspirare in this vibrant tribute to revered Chilean poet and statesman Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), whose life-affirming poetry is the inspiration for these captivating choral settings by Donald Grantham, Shawn Kirchner and... |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Variations Cadric Tiberghien (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/May/2003 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (June 2003) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 / Haydn Variations Op 56a Cedric Tiberghien (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 9/Jun/2017 ] "This notoriously difficult yet majestic concerto is the perfect vehicle to show off the considerable talents of dazzling French pianist Cedric Tiberghien." Gramophone |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Concertos pour piano -Melodies Cédric Tiberghien, Stéphane Degout, Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] Les Siècles continue their successful series of Ravel recordings on period instruments under François-Xavier Roth, with Cédric Tiberghien at the piano and baritone Stéphane Degout. |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Partitas 2, 3 and 4 Cedric Tiberghien (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] "His emotional involvement with the music is so high, it is a pleasure to recommend this disc." Nalen Anthoni The Gramophone |
