Search Results: harmonia mundi
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TRADITIONAL
Improvisions au Zarb: Classical Tradions of Iran Djamchid Chemirani [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 1/Feb/2015 ] To hear a great zarb player is to hear sounds of the great poetry of Iran - the cavalcades of the legendary conquerors, the whispers of the lovers Leyla and Majnoun, the fervor of the mystics. This budget-priced reissue, released for the first time... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Chamber Symphonies The Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/Apr/2015 ] The Dmitri Ensemble under Graham Ross performs Shostakovich's String Quartets Nos. 1, 8 and 10, re-worked as thrilling Chamber Symphonies for string orchestra by his pupil and advocate, Rudolf Barshai. Written in Dresden 1960 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Meeting - Two Worlds of Modal Music Dominique Vellard (tenor) Ken Zuckerman (lute & sarod) Swapan Chaudhuri (tabla) Keyvan Chemirani (zarb) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Feb/2004 ] The musical tradition of the European Middle Ages and of North India, in spite of their many differences, have common roots going back far into the past. This can be seen especially in the organization of compositions according to the melodic modes.... |
LUIGI ROSSI
Rossi: Oratorios - Un Peccator Pentito & O Cecità Dominique Visse (counter-tenor) / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/Aug/2016 ] "The chamber oratorios of Luigi Rossi fall naturally within the repertory of Les Arts Florissants. Rossi was himself in Paris during the 1640s at the behest of Cardinal Mazarin and his music was well known to French Italophiles. These are works of... |
J.S. BACH
Jesu, deine Passion: Cantatas BWV 22, 23, 127, 159 Dorothee Mields (sop) Matthew White (alto) Jan Kobow (tenor) Peter Kooy (bass) Collegium Vocale Orchestra / Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "What can you say except that Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent are the defining interpreters of Bach's vocal and choral works for our time?" Classics Today 10/10 |
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Dorothee Oberlinger
Various: French Baroque [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 31/Jan/2011 ] |
Drew Minter, countertenor, Paul O'Dette, lute
Elizabethan Songs [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 30/Jul/2005 ] "Included here are songs that expound on the pains and pleasures of love, as well as more spiritual issues, in exquisite Elizabethan language… firm, attractive sound […] colorful, vibrant accompaniments." - The New York Times |
THE PLAY OF DANIEL
The Play of Daniel: A Medieval Drama The Dufay Collective / William Lyons [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] "The singing and instrumental playing are first rate, as we expect from these forces...A must for early music fans!" (ClassicsToday 10/10) |
TRADITIONAL
Corsica: Chants Polyphoniques E Voce di u Cumune [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] Marcel Peres has chosen Corsican singers capable of drawing on the island's musical heritage as rich, living material open to all kinds of experiments, not as a rigid museum-bound object. The resulting sound is all the more captivsting. |
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Egarr
Bach: Goldberg Variations [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/2006 ] |
SHOSTAKOVICH / PROKOFIEV / RAVEL
Piano works Elena Rozanova (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 9/Dec/2001 ] Selection of popular 20th Century piano works |
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. |
J. S. BACH
Cantatas & Arias Elizabeth Watts (soprano) / The English Concert / Hayy Bickett [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] "Watts's smouldering vocal apporach to the text is deeply involving rather than merely lovely...Bicket's pacing allows the orchestral accompaniment to be both lively and detailed." Gramophone Magazine, Editor's Choice May 2011 |
C. P. E. BACH
Bach, (C.P.E.): Magnificat in D, Wq. 215 (H772) / etc Elizabeth Watts, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Lothar Odinius & Markus Eiche / RIAS Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Hans-Christoph Rademann [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Apr/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2014 - Baroque Vocal |
ANTONIO SALIERI
Salieri: La scuola de' gelosi (complete opera) Emiliano d'Aguanno, Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, Federico Sacchi, Roberta Mameli / L`arte del mondo, Werner Ehrhardt [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD Box Set - released 17/May/2017 ] In its day La scuola de' gelosi (1778) was one of the best-known comic operas by Antonio Salieri (1750-1825), remaining a box-office hit for decades. All the more astonishing is the fact that it could sink into obscurity. Even Goethe was excited by... |
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Emmanuelle Bertrand
Various: The Cello Speaks [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Mar/2011 ] |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Complete Suites for solo cello Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] To record Bach's Six Suites was Emmanuelle Bertrand's most cherished dream; it has now become reality thanks to her encounter with an exceptional instrument. Built by Carlo Tononi in Venice, this cello with its deep and generous sound, set up in... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Le Violoncelle Au 20E siècle Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] |
MAX REGER
Sonata No.2, Romanze (with Richard Strauss - Sonata for cello) Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) / Pascal Amoyal (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] Fate reserved quite extraordinary treatment for these two sonatas for cello and piano, two first attempts at the genre that turned out to be masterstrokes - and were both disowned much later by their respective composers. |
CHOPIN
1846: Dernière Année à Nohant Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) Pascal Amoyel (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] "Their performance manages to fashion a perfectly lucid path through the musical thickets of the sonata's first movement, which can sometimes seem too overloaded with invention...It's a lovely anthology, beautifully thought out and always executed wi |
