MENDELSSOHN
Piano trios Nos No 1 & 2 Trio Wanderer [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Jan/2008 ] "Harmonia Mundi's sumptuous engineering balances Vincent Coq's brilliant keyboard playing perfectly against his two partners. This isn't as easy as it sounds; Mendelssohn expects the pianist to execute tons of notes at high speed in the outer... |
RAVEL / CHAUSSON
Piano Trios Trio Wanderer [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] "Cool but not cold, nostalgic but not sentimental - performing Ravel's Piano Trio can be a bit like treading on egg shells, yet the Trio Wanderer make it all sound effortless. Wonderful Chausson too." BBC Music Magazine, April 2007 ***** |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios & Triple Concerto Trio Wanderer, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, James Conlon [ Harmonia Mundi / 5 CD - released 30/Sep/2022 ] This set assembles for the first time the Beethoven legacy of the Trio Wanderer: the group's superb interpretation of the Triple Concerto is now presented alongside its masterly recording of the composer's complete original works for piano trio, a... |
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... |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Piano Quartets Nos No 1 & 2 Trio Wanderer, with Antoine Tamestit, viola [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] "The playing is magnificent, not just for its superb ensemble qualities, including ideal balances between the piano and strings, but also for what it tells us about the music." (10/10 ClassicsToday March 2010) |
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 |
CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1 Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano) Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, James Conlon [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Apr/2010 ] When Nobuyuki Tsujii rose from the piano, having completed his performance at the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, audience members leapt to their feet and jurors were moved to tears by his passionate interpretation of Chopin's... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Concertos nos. 1, 3 & 4 Vadym Kholodenko (piano) / Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Jan/2019 ] "He rewarded the audience with a highly varied, consistently interesting and technically amazing performance" (STAR TELEGRAM, concert review) |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 Vadym Kholodenko (piano) / Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 12/Feb/2016 ] "Kholodenko is great in showing the drive of this music, the power of it, and also the different colours … he has fingers of steel." CD Review |
EDWARD GRIEG / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Grieg / Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Vadym Kholodenko (piano) / The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] 2013 Cliburn Gold Medalist Vadym Kholodenko is the featured piano soloist in this recording of the Grieg Concerto in A minor and the Saint-Saëns Concerto No. 2 with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra under the baton of Miguel Harth-Bedoya. |
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... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
100 Piano Masterpieces Frank Braley, Paul Lewis, Alexander Melnikov, Olga Kern, Javier Perianes, Alain Planes, Beatrice Rana, Joyce Yang, etc [ Harmonia Mundi / 6 CD Box Set - released 30/Aug/2019 ] "It's an appealing package of six discs, each with a brightly-coloured sleeve. Equally colourful is the music selection, which features a veritable royal family of keyboard stars." BBC Music |
ARRIAGA
String Quartets Nos 1 - 3 Cuarteto Casals [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] Recorded at studio Anacrusi S.L. "L'Auditorium", Jafre (Girona), 1-3 May 2003 |
Various Artists
Bach,J.S.: Cembalokonzerte [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 9/Apr/2009 ] |
Various Artists
Bach,J.S.: Une Aventure Intera [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 26/Mar/2009 ] |
J. S. BACH
St Matthew Passion Ian Bostridge, Franz-Josef Selig, Sibylla Rubens, Andreas Scholl / Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/1999 ] |
HANDEL / PURCELL / GIBBONS / BLOW / LAWES
Baroque England - Masks, Anthems & Semi-Operas Various Artists [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 30/Nov/2005 ] With Century, the artists of harmonia mundi invite you on a thrilling voyage of discovery of music through the ages. This CD, accompanied by full explanatory notes, presents nearly 150 years of musical life in a (sometimes dis-) United Kingdom which... |
Various Artists
Beethoven/Diabelli: Guitare & [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Dec/2010 ] |
Various Artists
Bizet: Vincent In Arles:musica [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 24/Mar/2003 ] |
Various Artists
Byrd/Humfrey/Gibbons [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - released 30/Oct/2006 ] |