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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 |
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VIVALDI
Sonate a tre 'La Follia' / Sonate a due violini Veronique Mejean, Kathi Gohl & Jesper Christensen / Ensemble 415 / Chiara Banchini (conductor) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] Born in Lugano (Switzerland), Chiara Banchini is one of the most renowned "baroque" violinists on the international musical scene. |
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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... |
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NINO ROTA
Rota: La Strada & Il Gattopardo [The Leopard] (film scores) Concerto Soiree, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Joseph Pons, with Benedetto Lupo (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] This CD offers total immersion in the filmic and musical universe of Nino Rota, one of the greatest composers in the history of the cinema. "La strada" and "The Leopard" (with its unforgettable ball scene) are probably Rota's most famous scores,... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets Op 33 Nos 1 - 6 Cuarteto Casals [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2014 ] "Astonishingly insightful playing, musically captivating and technically blemishless. Each and every phrase rings so completely true that one can't imagine the music being played any other way." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas & Piano Trios Daniel Sepec (violin) & Andreas Staier (fortepiano) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 30/Jun/2014 ] "Underpinned by the musicianship of Andreas Staier, these recordings are real classics. Sepec is using Beethoven's own violin." (BBC Music) |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Dir Kunst der Fuge Davitt Moroney (harpsichord) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 30/Aug/2017 ] Davitt Moroney plays a harpsichord by John Phillips, 1980, after Ruckers, 1646, Blanchet, 1756 and Taskin,1780. |
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Deller Consort & Choir/King's
Purcell: King Arthur [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 30/May/2011 ] |
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PURCELL
King Arthur (complete) Deller Consort / The King's Musick, Alfred Deller - director [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 20/May/2011 ] It was with Henry Purcell, the greatest of 17th century English composers that the semi-opera, that specifically English genre, reached its apogee. |
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SCHUBERT
An den Mond / Lieder Dietrich Henschel (baritone) Helmut Deutsch (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Jul/2014 ] "Schubert's recurring themes of death, night and wandering shape a thoughtful, expressive and beautiful recital by this baritone and accompanist." (BBC Music) |
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ANDRE CAMPRA
Messe de Requiem Elisabeth Baudry, Monique Zanetti, Josep Benet, John Elwes & Steven Varcoe / La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] This French Baroque icon from the early days of harmonia mundi [around 1986? Ed] has been 'download only' for some years and we are delighted that Herreweghe's benchmark Campra 'Requiem' is now reissued at mid price, on hm gold, due to popular demand. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Le Violoncelle Au 20E siècle Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] |
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ELGAR
Nursery Suite, Serenade, Dream Children & other works English Chamber Orchestra / Paul Goodwin (with William Bennett, flute) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "Paul Goodwin conducts with flair; alert to what's written on the page, sensitive to what's not." - CLASSIC CD |
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BIBER
Missa Christi Resurgentis The English Concert, Andrew Manze [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] The interpretation of Andrew Manze and The English Concert 'succeeds in exalting the luxuriance of this voluptuous style' (Diapason). |
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ARCANGELO CORELLI
Corelli: Concerti grossi op.6. Ensemble 415 / Chiara Banchini / Jesper Christensen [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] 'With Ensemble 415's splendid performances radiating relaxed spontaneity in every bar (...) one has only to close one's eyes to feel oneself transported to a warm summer evening in Rome.' Gramophone |
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MACHAUT
Messe de Notre-Dame Ensemble Organum / Marcel Paras-director [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] As a 'craftsman of the old and the new forge', Guillaume de Machaut contributed to the tradition of his famous predecessors such as Adam de la Halle and Jehan Lescurel in laying the foundations for an aesthetic with an illustrious future, the Ars... |
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POULENC
La Voix Humaine / La Dame de Monte-Carlo Felicity Lott (soprano) / Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Armin Jordan [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "Lott uses [her voice] exquisitely. You want to hear Felicity Lott's anguish, textual inflections and lacerating pain in 'La Vox humaine." San Francisco Examiner |
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PETRUCCI
Harmonice Musices Odhecaton Fretwork [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine - ClassicsToday 10 (sound)/ 10 (performance) |
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MANUEL de FALLA
El Amor Brujo / El Retablo de maese Pedro [Master Peter's Puppet Show] Ginesa Ortega (sngr) Joan Martin (treb) Joan Cabero (ten) Ifiaki Fresiin (bar) / Orquestra de Cambra Teatre Lliure, Josep Pons [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2011 ] "Ginesa Ortega is most effective as the passionate gitana Candelas, a lady of such strong personality that one suspects that even a sturdy gipsy lover might be flattened by its force...This is an attractive disc." (Gramophone) |
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ORTHODOX CHANT
Orthodox Chant: Orthodox Music of the 17th & 18th Centuries Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Apr/2008 ] "The choir...sing with exceptional blend and purity of tone" (The Absolute Sound) |