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PALESTRINA / BYRD / STAINER / BRITTEN / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / etc
Carols by Candlelight The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, Bill Ives (with Martin Ford, organ) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Dec/2011 ] "This choir is always a pleasure to hear, and in repertoire such as this you won't find more musically assured or more tonally concordant interpreters." (10/10 ClassicsToday Nov 2009) |
NICHOLAS LUDFORD
Missa Benedicta Choir Of New College Oxford, Edward Higginbottom (direction) [ K617 Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/May/2008 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2008 - Early music - "New College, Oxford are in a class of their own." International Record Review |
TRADITIONAL
Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom Chorale Sofie, Dimitre Rouskov [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] Founded in 1958 Harmonia Mundi have built up a huge catalogue of recordings. Budget priced series Musique d'Abord now allows many of them to be enjoyed by all. |
SCHUMANN
Schumann - Der Rose Pilgerfahrt Christiane Oelze, sop. Birgit Remmert, alt. Werner Gara, ten. RIAS-Kammerchor, Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Aug/2005 ] Considered by W. Siegmund-Schultze as 'formally the most perfect of Schumann's choral compositions', The Pilgrimage of the Rose was composed in 1851, a few months after the composer had received a manuscript from the poet Moritz Horn with a subject... |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Castor & Pollux (complete opera) Colin Ainsworth, Florian Sempey, Emmanuelle de Negri, Clémentine Margaine / Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2015 ] 'Ensemble Pygmalion's choir, orchestra and reduced ensemble of two violins, three cellos and two harpsichords play and sing with uncommon variety of timbre and attack, and with a real sense of engagement with the drama.' (BBC Music) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626 Christine Schafer (sop) Bernarda Fink (mezzo) Kurt Streit (tenor) Gerald Finley (baritone) / Vienna Concentus Musicus / Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Jul/2004 ] "Subtle realism imbues Harnoncourt's deeply considered second recording" Editor's Choice Gramophone July 2004 |
SCHUMANN
Cello Concerto Op 129 / Piano Concerto Op 54 Christophe Coin (cello) Andreas Staier (piano) / Orchestre des Champs-Elysees, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Sep/2012 ] An opportunity to rediscover two masterpieces played on period instruments. |
HANDEL
Orlando (complete opera) Christophe Dumaux, Elena de la Merced, Jean-Michel Fumas / La grande Ecurie et la Chamvre du Roy / Jean-Claude Malgoire [ K617 Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - released 1/May/2010 ] In his setting of Orlando (drawn from Tasso's Orlando furioso) Handel offers us a score of remarkable dramatic power, diversity and originality. |
LOUIS COUPERIN
Couperin: Suites For Harpsichord Christophe Rousset [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] With these recordings which mark the launch of the Stradivari collection, discover the unique instruments lovingly preserved at the Philharmonie de Paris's Museum of Music: the finest examples of the art of instrument-making which, like the iconic... |
JOHANN JACOB FROBERGER
Suites & Toccatas Christophe Rousset (harpsichord) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 2/Jul/2002 ] Froberger was born in Germany but was influenced by the style of the Italian organists and French lutenists of his time as well. |
BARTOK
Romanian Folk Dances / Out of Doors / Piano Suite / etc Claude Helffer (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique D'abord / CD - released 10/Jan/2011 ] |
TRADITIONAL
Troubadours: Minnesanger & other Courtly Arts (Southern France, 11th & 12th centuries) Clemencic Consort / Rene Clemencic (dir) / Paul Hillier / Theatre of Voices / The Harp Consort / Andrew Lawrence King / Dufay Collective / etc [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] The programme of this CD, accompanied by full explanatory notes, features the poems and songs of the trouvères, troubadours and Minnesingers. These inventors of an (almost) exclusively secular poetic style were also the first musicians to emerge from... |
DUFAY / GERVAISE / MODERNE / MACHAUT / etc
Dances of the Renaissance Clemencic Consort, René Clemencic [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] Founded in 1958 Harmonia Mundi have built up a huge catalogue of recordings. Budget priced series Musique d'Abord now allows many of them to be enjoyed by all. |
ANONYMOUS
Carmina Burana Clemencic Consort / Rene Clemencic, dir. [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 23/Feb/2008 ] Besides songs criticising their epoch with violent emotion, we find in Carmina Burana graceful love songs, songs of Spring, some based on inner emotions, besides others which are definitely immoral. |
ANONYMOUS
Carmina Burana Clemencic Consort / Rena Clemencic, dir. [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (pre 1700) - "In view of the lewd..nature of..the collection, it is miraculous that the manuscript survived at all" (Philip Pickett) |
TRADITIONAL
Trouveres & Troubadours: Minnesanger & other courtly arias Clemencic Consort / Rene Clemencic (dir) / Paul Hillier / Theatre of Voices / The Harp Consort / Andrew Lawrence King / Dufay Collective / etc [ Harmonia Mundi Century / CD - released 20/Dec/2011 ] A thrilling voyage of discovery of music through the ages. Poems and songs of the Trouveres, troubadours and Minnesingers. |
ANONYMOUS
Len siecle de l'ars nova: A revolution in the late middle ages Clemencic Consort, Rene Clements / Ensemble Organum, Marcel Peres [ Harmonia Mundi Century / CD - released 20/Dec/2011 ] Works by Machaut, Landini, Da Firenze & Da Bologna |
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Clemencic/Kecskes
Recorder, Lute & Guitat [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 9/Oct/2000 ] |
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Clemens Consort
La Fete De L'ane [ Harmonia Mundi / LP ] |
J. S. BACH
English Suites & French Suites Céline Frisch (harpsichord) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 25/Jul/2014 ] Céline Frisch, who studied with Jesper Christiansen and Andreas Staier, and now appears regularly with Café Zimmermann, offers a wide-ranging panorama of Bach, the harpsichord composer, on a harpsichord by Anthony Sidey. This title was released for... |
