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XENAKIS
Pleiades for six percussionists (1979) Les Percussions de Strasbourg [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] A stunning recording of Xenakis' great masterpiece for the 6 percussionists of "Les Percussions de Strasbourg" - features an instrument designed and built by the composer/mathematician/architect called the "sixxen", a gamelan-like instrument that... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony no.5 (plus Gossec: Symphonie) Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Sep/2020 ] "It is hard to recall a more relentlessly driven performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony than this newcomer." BBC Music |
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony no.3 'Eroica', Mehul : Overture from 'Les Amazones' Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 23/Apr/2021 ] "Superbly played by the musicians of Les Siècles and compellingly conducted by François-Xavier Roth, this is an exceptional, dramatic and probing recording of the 'Eroica'. I urge you to hear it." MusicWeb recommended |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: La Mer / Première Suite D'orchestre Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique / Les Francs-juges Overture, Op. 3 Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "Roth seems to have an emotional hotline to Berlioz, alive to every twist and turn of the composer's fevered passions." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Orchestral |
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MAURICE RAVEL
Ma mère l'Oye, Le Tombeau de Couperin & Shéhérazade Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Apr/2018 ] When Ravel orchestrated his works, the scoring emerged with total spontaneity, as if by magic, for he had already worked out his orchestral colours with immense care at the piano. The fascination of the Orient or the fantastic, poetic homages, the... |
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: "Ballets Russes" Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2021 ] Paris, early twentieth century: in the space of three ballets, a previously unknown Russian composer revolutionised the music of his time. With The Firebird and Petrushka, respectively fairytale and folktale, and of course The Rite of Spring, a... |
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GERSHWIN
Gershwin By Grofe: Original orchestrations & arrangements Lincoln Mayorga (piano) Al Gallodoro (clarinet) / Harmonie Ensemble / Steven Richman [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "Richman's spot-on sense of pacing, balance and emphasis guarantee that every Grofé-conjured utterance receives discerning and shapely animation. The ensemble and solo playing likely would bowl over both the composer and Whiteman." Gramophone |
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Linden/Moroney/Claire/See
Couperin:concerts Royaux [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 17/Jul/2000 ] |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: La Resurrezione, HWV47 (complete oratorio recorded in 1989) Lisa Saffer, Judith Nelson, Patricia Spence, Jeffrey Thomas, Michael George Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD Box Set - released 16/Jan/1997 ] Recorded at the Berkeley Festival, University of California at Berkeley, June 15 & 17, 1989 |
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CHOPIN / RICHARD STRAUSS
Sonatas for cello and piano Lluas Claret (cello) Alain Planes (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 4/Apr/2005 ] "Both Claret and Planès are virtuoso performers and I find their interpretations both convincing and engaging." (Fanfare) |
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Lo Jo
Ce Soir La [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] |
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PIETRO LOCATELLI
Locatelli: Concerti grossi op.1 Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 26/Aug/2016 ] "The one cause for regret is that these forces do not seem to have recorded the remaining concertos in this set. But this still a worthwhile means to explore the work of a composer and violinist whose fame, in his day, stretched around Europe more... |
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HANDEL
Trio Sonatas Op.2. London Baroque / C. Medlam [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 16/Jun/2003 ] Aside from the technical and descriptive considerations, it is in letting oneself be carried away by the nobility and the elegance of the style, the refreshing rhythmic vitality and the sensuous charms of some of the slow movements, that one most... |
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C. P. E. BACH
Trio Sonatas London Baroque, Charles Medlam [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 10/May/2012 ] This title was released for the first time in 1994. |
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L'orfeo Barockorchester
Telemann: Orpheus [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 28/Feb/2011 ] |
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TRADITIONAL
Flamenco Los Malaguenos: El Malagueño (guitar), Marino Cano (guitar), Nena Cano (voice), Conchita Cano (voice) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 6/Nov/2000 ] A difficult, dazzling art, of a painfully restrained violence. It is not, however, an elitist art: born of the people, Flamenco chooses certain exceptional voices, like Nena and Chonchita Cano. With them, the guitars of El Malagueño and Marino Cano... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Devil's Dream Luca Pianca (guitarra barocca) / Vittorio Ghielmi (viol) / Graciela Gibelli (soprano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] |
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CORELLI / MASCITTI / LECLAIR
Les Défis de Monsieur Forqueray- Corelli, Mascitti, Leclair Lucile Boulanger (viola da gamba),Pierre Gallon (harpsichord), Romain Falik (theorbo), Claire Gautrot (bass viol) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] In her debut recording for harmonia mundi, Lucile Boulanger explores the facets of Antoine Forqueray's career as a virtuoso instrumentalist: adept in a wide range of Italian repertoire and skilled at transcribing works originally intended for the... |
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JOHNSON / LAWES / COPRARIO / BLOW / PURCELL / JACKSON / etc
Perpetual Night Lucile Richardot, Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Apr/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 TOP THREE - Solo Vocal |