Search Results: harmonia mundi
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Shostakovich
suite for jazz orchestra no. 2 novosibirsk philharmonic orchestra / symphonic orchestra of Russia [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] |
MARIANNA MARTINES
Martines: Il Primo Amore Nuria Rial (Soprano) / La Floridiana, Nicoleta Paraschivescu [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/Mar/2012 ] "Nicoleta Paraschivescu and her little band of woodwind, horns and single strings are powerful advocates and Nuria Rial is splendidly passionate in the scena. Buy the disc: you won't regret it." Gramophone |
HANDEL / TELEMANN
Handel / Telelmann: Mother Nuria Rial (soprano), Dima Orsho (mezzo), Musica Alta Ripa [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Jul/2019 ] |
GIUSEPPE TORELLI / GIOVANNI COLONNA / GIACOMO PERTI / CARLO POLLAROLO
Cantatas & Concertos Nuria Rial (Soprano) / Kammerorchester Basel, Julia Schroder [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Oct/2023 ] Spanish Catalan soprano Nuria Rial is famous for her shining, cristal clear and beautiful voice and is one of the most fitting voices for baroque arias. She was described as "a silvery sounding voice, as clear as a bell." (Opernglas) |
RACHMANINOV
Corelli Variations / Transcriptions Olga Kern (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Jun/2004 ] " All the virtuosity and panache you could want." - The Dallas Morning News |
CHOPIN
Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 3 Olga Kern (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/May/2010 ] Frederic Chopin's Piano Sonatas No.2, 'Funeral March', and No.3 are the product of the composer's maturity and boundless invention. Here they receive incandescent performances by 2001 Cliburn Competition gold medalist Olga Kern. |
BRAHMS
Variations op.21, op.24, op.35 Olga Kern (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] “Her playing is brilliant, glassy, supremely aggressive and dazzlingly virtuosic in the Horowitz manner” – The Washington Post |
CHOPIN
Piano Concerto No 1 Op 11 / Bolero Op 19 / Fantaisie Op 49 / etc Olga Kern (piano) / Orchestre Philharmonique de Varsovie / Antoni Wit [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 11/Apr/2006 ] "Her Chopin playing was perfectly formed. ... The orchestral background was full of grit and tension and gripping forward energy ... the solo piano floated in the foreground, gorgeous but unswayed. Beauty met the beast." - Los Angeles Times (concert... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No.1 / Francesca da Rimini. Olga Kern, piano, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Christopher Seaman [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Oct/2003 ] "Kern's musicality radiates off the stage...and it is joyously alive, immediately communicative, fragrantly sensual" (Washington Post) = On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM |
THOMAS TALLIS
Many Are The Wonders: Volume 2 - Tallis Ora [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 30/Aug/2017 ] The opening years of the twenty first century can justifiably lay claim to being a new golden age for choral music. I wanted to embark on a series of recordings to reflect this and to showcase some of today's best contemporary composers, placing... |
Ora
Refuge From the Flames [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 21/Oct/2016 ] We begin and end this second ORA album with two contrasting settings of the Miserere mei (Psalm 50, Vulgate). Over the centuries this text has inspired reflections by many Christian writers, none more influential than those by Girolamo Savonarola,... |
ORA Singers, Suzi Digby
Sanctissima [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 4/Aug/2023 ] This recording takes us on a fantasy choral journey using the traditional services of Vespers and Benediction as its guide. It weaves hypnotic plainchant around renaissance gems and modern masterpieces. The music of the great Renaissance masters,... |
VICTORIA / CAMPKIN / COLL / TODD etc
Stella: Renaissance Gems and their Reflections, Vol. 3 ORA Singers, Suzi Digby [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Mar/2022 ] Spanish composers of the sixteenth century followed a long tradition of writing music in honour of the Virgin Mary. The composer Tomás Luis de Victoria, a priest and a scholar too, wrote multiple settings of devotion to Mary of which this collection... |
BYRD / PEACOCK / WILLIAMS / WEIR / TALLIS
The Mystery of Christmas Ora Singers, Suzi Digby (director) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] The story of Christ's birth has prompted generations of composers to expressions of joy and mystical reflection. Our selection of carols for this album unveils a whole treasure chest of offerings, some familiar, some less so, all giving voice to... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Upheld by Stillness ORA, Suzi Digby (artistic director and conductor) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 12/Feb/2016 ] ORA was born out of a belief that we are in a second golden age of choral music, matching that of the Renaissance..performances and recordings showcase classic masterpieces of Renaissance choral music alongside reflections from contemporary composers |
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Orchestra National De Lyon
Bartok: Miraculous Mandarin [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 8/Jul/2002 ] |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No 7 Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2017 ] "A superb performance that glows from within. A highly successful and persuasive experiment." - The Independent |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No 5 Orchestre des Champs-Elysees, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] Rarely did the première of a Bruckner symphony arouse such enthusiasm; even if, in this case, the first performance took place nearly 20 years after its composition, the work captivated listeners with its ineffable mystery, one thinks of late... |
BRUCKNER
Symphony No 7 Orchestre des Champs-Elysees / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / SACD - released 16/Apr/2005 ] "A superb performance that glows from within. A highly successful and persuasive experiment." - The Independent - On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM |
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. |
