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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... |
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... |
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... |
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) |
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 |
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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,... |
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... |
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) |
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 |
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 |
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 |
W. A. MOZART
Chamber Sonatas London Baroque, Charles Medlam [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] " Nothing sounds uncharacteristic - bustle, and a sure architectonic ear are in evidence across these works written between 1772 and 1780.They are jewelled little works each in a single movement." (MusicWeb) |
RODRIGO
Concierto de Aranjuez / Fantasia para un gentilhombre / Musica para un jardin / etc Marco Socias (guitar) / Orquesta Ciudad de Granada / Josep Pons [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "Socias and Pons hit you on the head with ethnic flavouring, the music sings tartly, then sweetly, but always with a Spanish accent." - The Times (22 Oct 2002) |
BRUCKNER
Symphony No 4 'Romantic' Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Jan/2014 ] Three versions exist of the Fourth Symphony in the composer's own hand: but it was his own final version that Bruckner regarded as valid - the revision of 1878 with the 1880 finale. This is the score recorded live, here, by Philippe Herreweghe. |
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
Concerto pour Bandoneon / Tres Movimientos Tanguisticos Portenos / Tangos Pablo Mainetti (bandoneon) / Orchestra de Cambra Teatre Lliure, Josep Pons [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Jul/2014 ] "performance of great panache … attractive proposition." (International Record Review) |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Trios 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 & 37 Patrick Cohen (fortepiano) Erich Hobarth (violin) Christophe Coin (violoncello) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 12/Jun/2015 ] "Cohen, Höbarth and Coin maintain the high standards...astutely balancing vigour and subtlety, elegance and passion." (BBC Music) |
JOSEF HAYDN
Flute Trios Nos. 28-30 Patrick Cohen (pianoforte Anton Walter, Wien c.1790), Konrad Hünteler (flute) & Christophe Coin (cello C.A. Testore, 1758) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Jan/2014 ] "The 1994 recording has not aged; it still sounds good as new. There are two kinds of Haydn lover in the world: those who have this album already, and those who need to grab it soon" (MusicWeb Feb 2014) |
G F HANDEL
Water Music (complete) Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] "This is a very attractive account of the three suites which comprise Handel's Water Music. The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra are a San Francisco-based ensemble whose members play period instruments or copies of them. Nicholas McGegan has been their... |
BACH / BIBER / BRAHMS / FAURE / KRENEK / MAHLER / MONTEVERDI
"Choral Works" (10 CD boxset) Philippe Herreweghe / RIAS Kammerchor / Andrew Manze / Kent Nagano / and more [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 10 CD Box Set - released 25/Oct/2011 ] An amazing 10-CD bargain boxes from Harmonia Mundi of classic recordings from their catalogue. We know from experience that these will sell out quickly: incredible price, limited edition, while stocks last. |
BEETHOVEN
Christus am a-lberge, Op.85 Placido Domingo (tenor), Luba Orgonasova (soprano), Andreas Schmidt (bass), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Kent Nagano [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Jan/2014 ] "Besides being an astounding technician, Nakamatsu shows impeccable taste; he puts a high gloss on anything he plays." - CHICAGO TRIBUNE |
