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PURCELL
Odes for the Feast Day of Saint Cecilia (Incl Hail! bright Cecilia) / Te Deum / Funeral for Queen Mary Susan Hamilton (soprano) Siri Thornhill (soprano) Robin Blaze (countertenor) Mark Padmore (tenor) / Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2014 ] "These are beautiful performances...invigoratingly sculpted by Herreweghe...Indeed, the new disc deserves the blessing of Cecilia herself." - Classical Insites |
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MONASTIC CHART
Monastic Chant Theatre Of Voices, Paul Hillier [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] The Age of Cathedrals, Hoquetus |
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SCHUBERT / HUMMEL
Schubert: Die Forelle (Trout Quintet) / Hummel: Quintet Trio Wanderer [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] "The Wanderers and their friends play both works with irresistible freshness and brio, making one listen afresh to the glories of Schubert - and regret the neglect of Hummel." Three stars (Excellent) The Sunday Times |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Piano Trios Nos 39, 43-45 Trio Wanderer [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "Music whose profundity is still not fully acknowledged, but surely irresistible when performed with such flair and imagination." Gramophone Magazine, December 2002 Critics' Choice |
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BEETHOVEN
Triple Concerto Trio Wanderer, Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker, James Conlon, [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Jun/2012 ] A concerto for four? The Triple Concerto may well be one of Beethoven's most enigmatic works: some commentators have seen it as no more than a vast rhapsody intented to show off the virtuosity of three hand-picked soloists. But when a piano trio that... |
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OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du Temps [Quartet for the end of time] / Theme et variations Trio Wanderer with Pascal Moragues (clarinet) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 30/Aug/2017 ] MARBECKS STAFF PICK - BEST RECORDINGS 2008 |
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MASSAINO / ROBERT WHITE / MARBRIANUS de ORTO / ROLAND de LASSUS
Lamentations Of The Renaissance Huelgas-Ensemble / Paul van Nevel [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Apr/2008 ] The heartrending words of the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah have at all times inspired a multitude of musical settings imprinted with a characteristic mixture of pain and hope. It would be wrong to imagine that these famous biblical poems... |
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MANUEL DE FALLA
Seven Spanish Popular Songs / Harpsichord Concerto / El gran teatro del mundo Victoria de los Angeles (sop) / Instrumental soloists, Josep Pons [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] Following in the footsteps of his teacher Felipe Pedrell, Manuel de Falla chose to set his music within the twin Spanish traditions of art and folk music. If the Siete canciones populares españolas mark the culmination of his work on folksong, the... |
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BERLIOZ
L'Enfance du Christ Veronique Gens, Paul Agnew / La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent / Orchestre des Champs-Elysaes / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 20/May/2011 ] "Herreweghe paces it perceptively...the sound is extraordinarily clean and fresh, and the balance deserves much praise for the technicians as well as the artists." (Gramophone) |
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BRAHMS / CLARA SCHUMANN / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schöne Wiege meiner Leiden [The Romance of the Song] Werner Gura (tenor) Christoph Berner (piano Ehrbar) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Jan/2014 ] "A technique second to none, able to vary his tone, sing a lovely pianissimo and/or a long-breathed phrase with perfect control. Then no musical or verbal subtlety seems to escape him." - Gramophone |