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MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Jeux de Miroirs Javier Perianes (piano) / Orchestre de Paris, Josep Pons [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 29/Nov/2019 ] "I loved this disc. The music is wonderful; within this programme we experience Ravel as poet, sophisticate, wit and, always, as the master craftsman." MusicWeb Recommended Feb 2020 |
ENRIQUE GRANADOS
Granados: Goyescas - El Pelele Javier Perianes (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Jan/2024 ] "Perianes lets several of the numbers start with a slow burn, and he gives plenty of space in which the ornamentation can flower." BBC Music Instrumental Release of the Month Jan 24 |
DEBUSSY / CHOPIN
...les sons et les parfums : - Debussy meets Chopin Javier Perianes (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD/DVD - released 28/Oct/2013 ] "As Javier Perianes illustrates, Debussy's piano pieces follow and yet reinvent the contours and colours of the great Polish composer's musical landscape...Perianes plays with a poet's touch throughout and makes us listen anew." (Observer) |
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 **** |
BLASCO de NEBRA
Piano Sonatas Javier Perianes (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "[A] beautiful disc...performances are excellent, communicating a real sense of revelation, of bringing a distinctive composer's voice to a 21st-century audience for the first time" The Guardian, 5th February 2010 **** |
FALLA
Nights in the Gardens of Spain / Complete Solo Piano Music Javier Perianes (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Josep Pons [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Sep/2011 ] "Perianes brings colour and flair to Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain, matched by the rhythmic piquancy of the orchestra...A highly attractive disc." The Telegraph, 2nd September 2011 **** |
EDWARD GRIEG
Grieg: Piano Concerto / Lyric Pieces Javier Perianes (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/Apr/2015 ] "it is an interpretation into which soloist and orchestra seem, gratifyingly, to have grown together... the romantic expansiveness that marks their interpretation overall is tempered by playing from both pianist and orchestra that is as crisp and hig |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Sonatas Nos. 13 & 21 Javier Perianes (Steinway piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Apr/2017 ] "With Perianes, the touch is always warm and the edges are never harsh: the hymn-like opening is whispered and tender, the exploratory passages are wide-eyed and the song-like melodies really sing...It's generous playing." The Guardian |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Cello Concerto (with Tchaikovsky - Rococo Variations) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Sep/2013 ] "Queyras is a fine cellist, fluent technically and gifted with a flexibility of tone that can range from a warm richness to a resiny tang and to sweetness in the upper registers into which both Dvorak and Elgar take him." International Record Review |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Complete Cello Suites Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2008 ] "Here's another excellent performance of this pinnacle of the cellist's repertoire to add to over 50 currently available. Queryas is master of his instrument. Intonation is well-nigh impeccable...this is most warmly recommended for revealing new... |
VARIOUS / TRADITIONAL
Sunday Morning Sessions Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] In the 2nd and 3rd century B.C., the civilisation of Thrace was one of an adventurous and inquisitive people, open to exchange with other cultures, and as such, is rather a beautiful metaphor for the ensemble that has gathered around Jean-Guihen... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Cello Concertos / Four Seasons / Venice - The Golden Age Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Midori Seiler (violin) Xenia Loffler (baroque oboe) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit [ 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 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin's Vivaldi recordings. |
BEETHOVEN
Complete Works for Cello & Piano Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Alexander Melnikov (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 15/Oct/2014 ] "not to be missed...The playing here combines breadth and urgency with, for example, a touching tenderness in the simplicity of the slow introduction to the C major Sonata Op 102 No 1...It all adds up to a valuable set for admirers both of Queyras an |
DEBUSSY / POULENC
Cello Sonatas Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] "Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and pianist Alexandre Tharaud bring finesse and imagination to these two complementary French works." The Top 10 Classical Recordings of 2008 (Telegraph UK) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Complices Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Jan/2020 ] "this is a genuine, single, sublime work of art, and to achieve this from such a multi-angled selection takes unusual artistry." Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2020 |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Cello Concertos Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Christian Beuse (bassoon) Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 3/Nov/2011 ] Alongside the famous Quattro Stagioni, La Notte, and so on, Vivaldi wrote no fewer than 27 concertos for the cello - an instrument which at the time was generally limited to playing basso continuo. With the genuine virtuosi he had available to him at... |
ALBAN BERG
Lyric Suite (with Schoenberg - Transfugured Night) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) / Ensemble Resonanz [ Harnmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Jan/2014 ] The First World War, that crucible of every kind of artistic change, intervened between Berg's Lyric Suite (1925) and Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (1899). On either side of that traumatic divide, each of the works refers to adulterous love. The poem... |
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Raphaël Imbert (saxophone), Pierre-François Blanchard (piano), Sonny Troupé (drums)
Invisible Stream [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Aug/2022 ] Invisible Stream: the "unseen currents" are those that connect people and musical works by transcending styles or customary aesthetic and cultural boundaries. A feast of poetic expression organized by four key representatives of both the classical... |
C.P.E. BACH
C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concerto & Symphony H.648 Jean-Guihen Queyras, Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Apr/2018 ] Why should music 'before Mozart' now be the sole preserve of period-instrument orchestras? For some years now, Ensemble Resonanz has challenged this idea, without ever neglecting the notion of the sheer pleasure to be derived from the concertos and... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Suites for cello solo, Nos. 1-3 Jean-Guihen Queyras (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 11/Feb/2013 ] This recording marked the start of the collaboration of a very young Jean-Guihen Queyras with harmonia mundi, the French cellist demonstrated his supremely high artistic standards. An unqualified success! |
