PURCELL
The complete Fantazias [fantasias] Fretwork [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Mar/2009 ] Gramophone Award WINNER 2009 - Baroque Instrumental - "Fretwork have grown in confidence and flair… In this new recording they bring a stronger sense of the linear progression of the music, helped by slightly quicker tempi. They are less... |
J. S. BACH
Goldberg Variations (arranged for viols) / The Art of Fugue / Alio modo Fretwork [ Harmonia Mundi Key Artist & Ensemble Sets / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2015 ] For the first time in 3 CD sets, discover these major recording projects matured over many years by ensembles and musicians of harmonia mundi including Fretwork's Bach recordings. |
Fretwork
Harmonice Musices Odhecaton [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2002 ] Gramophone Award Nomination 2002 - Early music / Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine March 2002 |
PETRUCCI
Harmonice Musices Odhecaton Fretwork [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine - ClassicsToday 10 (sound)/ 10 (performance) |
TOMKINS
Above the Starrs: Verse Anthems & Consort Music Fretwork, Emma Kirkby-soprano, Catherine King-alto, Charles Daniels-tenor, Donald Greig-baritone, Richard Wistreich-bass, Jo [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 22/Sep/2003 ] " Fretwork's considerable experience in this kind of repertoire shows in these faultlessly assured performances. A clear and attractive recorded sound completes a most accomplished release." - Gramophone |
TAVENER
The Hidden Face Fretwork, Michael Chance [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 9/Nov/2001 ] "Fretwork is a natural for this ecstatic baroque sounding music. The title piece, scored for viols, oboe and countertenor, is exotically beautiful and the other two Tavener pieces 'Nipson' and 'Apokatastasis' are more of the same." - San Francisco... |
BYRD
The Second Service & Consort Anthems Fretwork / The Choir of Magdalen College / Bill Ives [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Oct/2007 ] "One element of Byrd's greatness as a composer is his quality across a wide range of music, well illustrated in the variety of forms and vocal and instrumental forces...these are performances of real feeling." (MusicWeb) |
WILLIAM BYRD
Consort Songs Fretwork with Emma Kirkby (soprano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Apr/2005 ] "This is a varied well-chosen programme, beautifully sung and played. Kirkby and Fretwork complement each other both in style and timbre." (MusicWeb July 2006) |
G Paniagua
La Folia De La Spagna [ Harmonia Mundi / LP ] |
Genensky/Cunningham/Hellauer
On Yoolis Night [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Elias [Elijah], Op. 70 Genia Kuhmeier, Ann Hallenberg, Lothar Odinius, Michael Nagy / Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Balthasar-Neumann-Chor-und-Solisten, Thomas Hengelbrock [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 10/May/2017 ] "...all stodge and sanctimony are swept away. There is heft when it matters...But what's more compelling is the nimbleness, the swift-moving parts." The Guardian |
DVORAK
Zigeunerlieder (songs & duets) Genia Kuhmeier (soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo) / Christoph Berner (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/May/2012 ] "Kühmeier gives a big, passionate performance of the Op 55 Gypsy Songs, while Fink tackles the austere Biblical Songs, written while DvoĆák was homesick in the US. They suit her dark tone admirably" (Guardian) |
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) |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Concertos for 2 violins Giuliano Carmignola (violin) & Amandine Beyer (violin) / Gli incogniti [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 22/Oct/2016 ] "the two protagonists toss figures, rhythms and phrases across the net with ever-increasing excitement and intensity." The Guardian |
J. S. BACH
Bach: BWV...Or Not? Gli Incogniti, Amandine Beyer [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Oct/2017 ] A programme of works attributed to - or transcribed by - Johann Sebastian Bach, whose common denominator is musical excellence. Amandine Beyer and Gli Incogniti pay fervent tribute to a period when copyright was unknown, but whose spirit testifies to... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Concerti Per Esterhazy Amandine Beyer (violin), Marco Ceccato (cello), Gli Incogniti [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Oct/2018 ] "Amandine Beyer is an eloquent soloist with her group, Gli Incogniti. Closely recorded, she is assertive and stylish. Marco Ceccato is a big, bold soloist in the famous C major Cello Concerto." Classical Music |
BROUGHTON / DAVIS / DESPLAT / GIACCHINO / NEWMAN / WILLIAMS
Montage: Great film composers & the piano Gloria Cheng (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] There is a misconception in the classical-music world that composers who spend most of their time writing film music long ago sacrificed whatever individual voices they may once have had. This album conveniently and unequivocally demonstrates... |
MESSIAEN / SAARIAHO
The Edge of Light Gloria Cheng (piano), Members of the Calder Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 17/Mar/2013 ] "Listen to Messaien's glassy chords and Saariaho's cool rhapsodies and you can almost hear him...Debussy is the daddy. Exquisitely shaped playing and bold musicianship in a compelling, haunting disc." (The Independent) |
RICHARD WAGNER
The Wagner Project Matthias Goerne (baritone) / The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 17/Nov/2017 ] Thanks to the combined talents of Matthias Goerne and Daniel Harding at the head of the excellent Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the music of Richard Wagner glows here with a special radiance. In the finest scenes for baritone or... |
STRAVINSKY / SZYMANOWSKI
Violin and piano works Graf Mourja - violin ; Natalia Gous - piano [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/Mar/2003 ] Born in 1973 in Vilak (Ukraine) into a family of Hungarian musicians, Graf Mourja began studying the violin at the age of three with his father as teacher. |