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add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks DUFAY O Gemma Lux - Complete Isorhythmic Motets Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2011 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (Pre 1700) - A sumptuous farewell to the musical Middle Ages.
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks LASSUS / PALESTRINA / ASHEWELL La Quinta Essentia Huelgas Ensemble / Paul Van Nevel (conductor) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Jan/2014 ] "Huelgas Ensemble here produce a really amazing range of sounds, full and rich and yet wonderfully translucent. There can be few better ways to introduce oneself to the music of Thomas Ashewell. Paul van Nevel and his singers mine his expressive...
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks J.S. BACH Trauerode BWV 198 / Jesu, der du meine Seele BWV 78 Ingrid SchmithAsen, Howard Crook, Peter Kooy, Charles Brett / La Chapelle Royale / Philippe Herreweghe (dir) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] Whatever the occasions for which they were written (a tribute to a dead queen, or a chorale cantata), the two works on this recording have one subject in common: death and the soul's salvation. Performed in 1727 in memory of the sorely mourned...
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks MOMPOU Mompou: Música callada Javier Perianes (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Jun/2012 ] "Mompou's Musica callada...requires a special evocative power and contemplative intimacy, and pianist Javier Perianes is marvellously engaging and beautifully recorded." BBC Music Magazine, October 2012 ****
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks LEONARD BERNSTEIN Bernstein: Mass Jerry Hadley (tenor) / Rundfunkchor Berlin, Pacific Mozart Ensemble, Staats-und Domchor Berlin, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Kent Nagano [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 SACD - released 10/Jun/2012 ] "Nagano got everyone going, heads nodding, feet tapping, smiling all around me, and at least half the audience was on their feet at the end." - ClassicsToday.com (on the concert)
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks HUGO WOLF Wolf: Prometheus / Orchestral Songs Juliane Banse (soprano) & Dietrich Henschel (baritone) / Rundfunkchor Berlin & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Jul/2014 ] "Wolf's own orchestrations, in these splendid performances, are startling. They transform his songs into quasi-Wagnerian music dramas." (Five Stars BBC Music)
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GIOVANNI GIROLAMO KAPSBERGER Lute Works Paul O'Dette (lute) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "This is superb music, melodious, […] wonderfully apt for the instrument. O'Dette, for my money the world's finest lutenist, does the music full justice, and the sound is first-rate. You'll want this one." - FANFARE
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks FRESCOBALDI / GRATIANI / ROSSI / BERNABEIaâ€š Canta La Maddalena Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) / Concerto Soave, Concerto Soave [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] "Kiehr's supple and expressive voice in music that needs this kind of committed advocacy. Kiehr has chosen works which skilfully blend dramatic scena with contemplative radiance, and with her significantly sensitive accompanists," (Gramophone)
add to cart $31.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks MONTEVERDI Vespro della Beata Vergine [Vespers] La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] In autumn of 1610 Monteverdi dedicated a luxuriant collection of religious music to Pope Paul V, of which the Vespers of the Blessed Virgin is by far the most prodigious work. A spectacular synthesis of Franco-Flemish polyphony and Italian innovations.
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks SCHUTZ Musikalische Exequien La Chapelle Royale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] Commissioned for the funeral of a prince, this German 'burial music' deals with subjects that lie at the heart of Schütz's output: the misery of earthly life and the promise of the hereafter. In a mood of searing intensity, the music arranges texts...
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks CHARPENTIER Le Malade Imaginaire Les Arts Florissants /William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] For the first time in 317 years, Les Arts Florissants brought together in 1990 the complete score of 'Le Malade imaginaire' as it was originally conceived by Charpentier to accompany Molière's final comedy. And now, for the first time on CD, you can...
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GESUALDO Madrigals Les Arts Florissants / William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] Love, desire and death - these are the three themes that pervade the musical poetry of Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, which has become a byword for tortured emotion. These madrigals are the clearest depiction in his output of the torments of...
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks HENRY PURCELL Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Complete Opera) Lynne Dawson (soprano) Gerald Finley (baritone) / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Rene Jacobs (director) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] "Lynne Dawson is powerfully expressive as teh doomed heroine, with strong support from rosemary Joshua as Belinda and Gerald Finley as Aeneas" (Five Stars BBC Music June 2006)
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks ALBERTO GINASTERA Estancia / Variaciones concertantes / Harp Concerto Magdalena Barrera (harp) / Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Josep Pons [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 12/Jun/2015 ] "What makes this spectacularly engineered Harmonia Mundi disc especially attractive is the inclusion of the Variaciones concertantes, arguably the masterpiece of Ginastera's nationalist period. Pons chooses some extreme speeds, often pushing his firs
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks PAOLO da FIRENZE Narcisso Speculando [madrigals] Mala Punica, Pedro Memelsdorff [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Jan/2014 ] There is a fair amount of documentation on the ecclesiastical and diplomatic career of Don Paolo di Marco, abbot and tenorista of Florence in the early 15th century. Less well known are his allegorical madrigals which are perhaps the most innovative,...
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks ANONYMOUS Carmina Burana - The Passion Play Marcel Pérès (narrator) / Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] Originating in the monastery of Benediktbeuren, the manuscript of the 'Carmina Burana' contained very little religious music. 'The Great Mystery of the Passion' is one of these rare pieces: a far cry from the ribaldry of most of the others to which...
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks ALLESSANDRO SCARLATTI Bella madre dei fiori-Cantatas Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) / Concerto Soave, Jean-Marc Aymes, director [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "Three chamber cantatas, including the finest Correa nel seno amato, its opening an outpouring of rare intensity and sustained despair. Tweaking tone controls softened a tungsten edge to Kiehr voice." (BBC Music)
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks JACOB VAN EYCK Van Eyck: Der Fluyten Lusthof Marion Verbruggen (recorder) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] "Marion Verbruggen could have given van Eyck a run for his money, technically speaking, for she plays with the sureness, firm pitch and facility of a good keyboardist." - Gramophone
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks JEAN GILLES Requiem & Diligam te, Domine Mellon, Gens, Crook, Hervé Lamy, Kooy / La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 30/Jun/2014 ] Herreweghe's 1990 performance was the first modern reading of Gilles' celebrated Requiem from manuscript
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks ANTONIN DVORAK Dvorak: String Quintets Op.81 & 97 / Quartets Op.34 & 96 'American' Melos Quartett with Garard Caussa (viola) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] " every one of the works is a chamber music masterpiece of the highest rank. And every performance is likewise chamber music playing of the highest order. The Melos is charmingly evocative in the "American" quartet, stoutly south German in the piano