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HANDEL
Ombra Cara [with bonus DVD] Bejun Mehta (counter-tenor) Freiburger Barockorchester, Renee Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / CD/DVD - released 20/Nov/2010 ] "This is, inexplicably, his first recital CD. It's superb." (10/10 ClassicsToday Feb 2011) |
SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS / WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert / Schumann / Brahms / Wagner: Les Filles Du Rhin / Rhinemaidens Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Anneke Scott, Joseph Walters, Olivier Picon, Chris Larkin (horns) Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/Mar/2016 ] "The vocal ensemble Pygmalion, resident at the Opera de Bordeaux, are suitably seductive sirens - and even Bernarda Fink makes a cameo appearance in Schubert's D920 Grillparzer Ständchen, her serenading awash with fellow female songsters, and harp." |
SCHUTZ
Italian Madrigals SWV 1 - 19 Cantus Colln / Konrad Junghanel (cond) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2011 ] "Cantus C011n has done Schutz proud yet again: let us hope that more will follow." (Gramophone) |
SWEELINCK
Sweelinck: Psaumes Francais & Canciones Sacrae Cappella Amsterdam / Daniel Reuss (conductor) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "The 18 fresh-sounding voices of the professional chamber choir Cappella Amsterdam produce a bright and transparent choral balance. Their intonation is flawless, the French pronunciation idiomatic and unaffected" Gramophone Magazine, February 2010 |
JOSQUIN DES PREZ
Miserere mei Deus - Funeral Motets & Deplorations Cappella Amsterdam & Daniel Reuss [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Oct/2018 ] 'To lament, to mourn, to memorialise: such was the new fashion at the very end of the fifteenth century', writes Alice Tacaille. 'The poet, in mourning the musician, attains an expressive intimacy . . . a eulogy of art that places the lamenting poet... |
JAN PIETERSZOON SWEELINCK
Sweelinck: Psalms & Magnificat Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 30/Aug/2017 ] Composer, organist, organ builder and teacher of international renown, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was known in his own time as the 'Orpheus of Amsterdam'. Among his significant contributions to Franco-Flemish polyphony, one finds both psalms in French... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen? - Choral Works Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] The famous German Requiem must not be allowed to overshadow the wide variety of choral music Brahms wrote throughout his career. On this recording, Daniel Reuss and Cappella Amsterdam are our expert guides in a program that takes in sacred a cappella... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas For Soprano Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Freiburger Barockorchester, with Andreas Wolf (bass-baritone) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 21/Apr/2017 ] "Tempos are justly chosen and the appropriately resonant importance given to the basso continuo provides icing on this most delicious of cakes." BBC Music Magazine Recording of the Month, August 2017 ***** |
J. S BACH
Bach: Tonet Ihr Pauken Secular Cantatas BWV 214 & BWV 207 Carolyn Sampson, Peter Kooy / Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Jan/2008 ] "A release of considerable aplomb and exceptional vitality." (Gramophone) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mazurkas (selection) / Polonaise-fantaisie / Scherzo No. 1 / Nocturne Op. 48 No. 1 Cedric Tiberghien (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "Tiberghien seems to have the poise and poetry of Chopin in his blood. He makes the piano sing...This is an imaginative disc of shifting moods that are readily within Tiberghien's expressive orbit and which he interprets with sublime inspiration."... |
MENDELSSOHN
Symphonie Nr.2 "Lobgesang" Christiane Karg, Christina Landhamer, Michael Schade, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Pablo Heras-Casado [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2014 ] Symphony, cantata, or oratorio? The Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise), commissioned by the city of Leipzig from its Kapellmeister Mendelssohn to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the invention of printing in 1840, has elements of all three... |
LALANDE / CHIEN / COLIN / ANONYMOUS / etc
Les Funérailles Royales de Louis XIV BLU-RAY + DVD Céline Scheen, Lucile Richardot, Samuel Boden, Marc Mauillon, Christian Immler / Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Harmonia Mundi Blu-ray + DVD / 2 Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] The funeral of Louis XIV mirrored his reign: grandiose and filled with pathos. Raphaël Pichon has chosen the setting of the Chapelle Royale in Versailles, built 'for the use' of the Sun King, to present a musical reconstruction of the event, with... |
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Leipziger Weihnachtskantaten [Christmas Cantatas from Leipzig] / Magnificat in E flat Carolyn Sampson, Mark Padmore, Ingeborg Danz, Peter Kooy, etc / Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD Box Set - released 6/Jan/2008 ] The Christmas cantatas have in common the use of a church chorale as their conceptual starting point, and their intimate performing forces. In Bach's output they constitute a kind of meditation on the meaning of the feast of Christmas. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 (Arr. by Ries & Ebers) Compagnia di Punto [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 15/May/2020 ] "The musicians of the ensemble Compagnia di Punto have thrown themselves into the adventure of editing these arrangements of Beethoven's music in revised versions" HighResAudio |
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
A. Scarlatti: Opera Overtures and Concertos Concerto de' Cavalieri, Marcello Di Lisa [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Apr/2017 ] "…dispatched with swashbuckling swagger…" (Gramophone) |
JOSEF HAYDN
The Seven Last Words of Christ Hob.XX:2 Cuarteto Casals [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2014 ] |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Overtures, Romances & Arias Daniel Behle (tenor) / L'Orfeo Barockorchester [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Sep/2017 ] "The German lyric tenor brings all his gifts as a lieder singer - cut-glass diction, eager storytelling persona - without dissuading me that Schubert was even less of a music dramatist than his idol, Beethoven." Sunday Times |
LEONARDO VINCI / LEONARDO LEO / RICCARDO BROSCHI / ANTONIO Maria BONONCINI
Rivals : Arias for Farinelli & Company David Hansen (countertenor) / Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Sep/2013 ] "Hansen dazzles throughout with his vocal fireworks...de Marchi draws some crack playing - here fiery, there serene - from the Academic Montis Regalis." Five Stars BBC Music November 2013 Opera Choice |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Dir Kunst der Fuge Davitt Moroney (harpsichord) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 30/Aug/2017 ] Davitt Moroney plays a harpsichord by John Phillips, 1980, after Ruckers, 1646, Blanchet, 1756 and Taskin,1780. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas 8, 125. 138 Deborah York (sop) Ingeborg Danz (alto) Mark Padmore (ten) Peter Kooy (bass) / Collegium Vocale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] The theme of death and dying was one of the favourite themes of Bach and his contemporaries in their cantatas - that "musical theology" which was held in such high esteem in deeply Lutheran Northern Germany. Composed between 1723 and 1725, the three... |
