JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Dardanus (complete opera [1739] recorded in 2015) DVD + Blu-ray Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux / Reinoud Van Mechelen, Gaëlle Arquez, Karina Gauvin, Florian Sempey, Nahuel Di Pierro / Raphaël Pichon (cond) [ Harmonia Mundi DVD + Blu-ray / 2 DVD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] This video was recorded live at performances of the original version of 'Dardanus' (1739) given at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in April 2015, in a production by Michel Fau and choreography by Christopher Williams. Raphaël Pichon, the Ensemble... |
BRAHMS
Quintets Op.111 & 115 Garard Caussa (viola) Michel Portal (clarinet) / Melos Quartett [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Aug/2001 ] The supreme masterpiece among his chamber works featuring the clarinet, this sublime opus 115 is undoubtedly one of the composer's most popular works. |
CHARPENTIER
David & Jonathas (complete) Gérard Lesne, Monique Zanetti, Jean-François Gardeil, Dominique Visse, Véronique Gens / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2012 ] Released for the first time in 1988, 'David and Jonathan' is a timely reissue to coincide with Les Arts Florissants' concerts at the Edinburgh Festival, directed by William Christie. |
NICOLA MATTEIS & OTHERS
Il genio inglese: Nicola Matteis, A Neapolitan in London Ground Floor, Alice Julien-Laferrière (violin) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Chamber Choice - BBC Music Magazine, November 2020 |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 17/Nov/2017 ] Immortalized in Luchino Visconti's masterpiece "Death in Venice", Mahler's Symphony No. 5 (with its unforgettable Adagietto) today needs no introduction. Except to point out that the composer himself led its premiere some 113 years ago, conducting... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No.3 Sara Mingardo (contralto) / Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 8/Feb/2019 ] "Roth and the Cologne orchestra have a knack of making the most familiar Mahler sound new, with vivid extremes of colour and dynamics. Hearing the prodigious Third makes me marvel afresh at it" Sunday Times |
Gustav Leonhardt
Bach, J.S.: Matthaus-Passion [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - released 11/Apr/2011 ] |
HANDEL
Concerti Grossi Op. 3 Nos. 1-6, HWV312-317 The Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "The Academy of Ancient Music is in world-beating form once more with this magnificent Handel disc. Egarr and the musicians play with dynamism and warmth which suggests that Egarr's tenure with this band is going to be a rewarding one. Long may it... |
PACHELBEL
Un orage d'avril / April Storm Hans-Jörg Mammel (tenor) / Gli incogniti, Amandine Beyer [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Feb/2016 ] Though the two bars of bass of a certain celebrated 'Canon' have made Pachelbel probably the most widely performed composer in the streets of the whole world, this sparkling programme invites you to make new discoveries in his oeuvre. |
CABANILLES / CEREROLS / ESCALADA / GARCIA de ZESPEDES
Missa Mexicana-music of (with free catalogue) Harp Consort / Andrew Lawrence-King [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Apr/2006 ] BBC Music Magazine - Best CDs of 2002 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Luz y Norte The Harp Consort / Andrew Lawrence-King [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 4/Jan/1996 ] The Harp Consort, Andrew Lawrence-King |
Harp Consort, Lawrence-King
Gautier de Coincy-Miracles of Notre-Dame [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 16/Jul/2003 ] "A brilliant and well informed presentation of tricky 13th-century repertoire… A haunting instrumental CD from the time of the troubadours.. remarkably convincing and satisfying. It is easy to agree that this is musicianship on a very high level."... |
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 Heath Quartet [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Nov/2016 ] The Heath Quartet makes its harmonia mundi début with this contrasting programme of Tchaikovsky's String Quartets: his Quartet No. 1 (famed for its plaintive "Andante cantabile") and the tempestuous No. 3 (dedicated to the memory of Ferdinand... |
Heinavanker
Songs of Olden Times: Estonian Folk Hymns and Runic Songs [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] Here Heinavanker delves into Estonia's early sacred music and folklore through the prism of contemporary imagination in this evocative programme of ancient runic songs and folk hymns which range from joyful to reflective |
HANDEL
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne / Dixit Dominus Helene Guilmette (sop) Andreas Scholl (countertenor) Malcolm E.Bennet (ten) Andreas Wolf (bass) / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin / Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "The choral work is excellent, stylistically apropos, and executed with requisite flair and energy. With these two pieces such an interesting coupling...the clear and spacious sound is only an added incentive." ***** Five stars AudAud.com (Oct 2009) |
MONTEVERDI
Lamento d'Arianna Helga Maller-Molinari / Concerto Vocale / Rene Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Mar/2007 ] The Lamento d'Arianna was incontestably Monteverdi's most famous composition during his own lifetime, and he himself considered it to be the only one worthy of leaving to posterity. |
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No 3 / 12 Contretanze / etc Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Manze [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] Emerging from a dark depression, Beethoven chose art rather than death, thus embracing a notion of destiny and heroism which links him to heroes of the past - and of his present. The Eroica Symphony, dedicated initially to Napoleon, and ultimately... |
SCHOENBERG
Die Jakobsleiter Friede auf Erden Dietrich Henschel, Jonas Kaufmann, Stephan Ragamer, Michael Volle / Rundfunkchor Berlin / Deutsches SO / Kent Nagano [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / SACD - released 21/Mar/2004 ] "Kent Nagano's superb reading, full of humanity, is a clear first choice, going off into deepest space in the stunning closing passage - truly, music from another world." The Independent - |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART / SCHUMANN
Hermann Baumann: Horn Master & Teacher Hermann Baumann / Eva Maria Gorres / Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen [ Harmonia Mundi DVD / DVD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] One of a series edited by François Manceaux & Olivier Bernager in partnership with Arte & France Musique, uncovering great musicians of our time. |
Herreweghe/Collegium Vocale
Bach: Himmelfahrts-Oratorium [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] |