More By Artist: Cappella
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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 |
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... |
PHILIPPE D'ORLEANS
D'Orléans: Suite d'Armide ou Jérusalem délivrée Cappella Mediterranea; Leonardo García Alarcón; Choeur de Chambre de Namur; Marie Lys; Véronique Gens; Gwendoline Blondeel; Cyrille Dubois; Nicholas S [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / 2 CD Box Set - released 14/Mar/2025 ] The sorceress Armide, infatuated with the valiant knight Roland, but desperate for Roland to return her love, tries at all costs to lure him into her arms. At the same time, the courageous Herminie tries to protect Tancrede, Roland's companion, from... |
CAVALIERI
Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo Cappella Musicale di San Petronio di Bologna / Sergio Vartolo [ Naxos Early Music / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] The Rappresentatione offers the first example of a score published with a figured bass, a bass line with numbers and other symbols to indicate the chord to be used by the addition of notes above. The influence of Platonic and Aristotelian theories of... |
MEINRAD SCHUTTER / CHRISTIAN HENKING / LEOS JANACEK
Bap Nos - In Memoriam Meinrad Schutter Cappella Nova, Raphael Immoos, with Susanne Doll (organ) & Vera Schnider (harp) [ Guild / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] The Swiss composer Meinrad Schütter would be celebrating his 100th birthday in 2010. Reason enough and about time to finally introduce this highly original composer to an interested, international audience. |
CAVALLI / VIVALDI / CESTI / STRADELLA / SARTORIO / LEGRENZI / etc
Ian Bostridge - Tormento d'amore Ian Bostridge (tenor), Cappella Neapolitana, Antonio Florio [ Warner Classics / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] With the 10 arias on Tormento d'amore, Ian Bostridge demonstrates the important place that the tenor voice held in Italian opera from the mid-17th to the mid-18th century - often thought of as the era of the castrato. |
ALEXANDER GRECHANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Grechaninov: Liturgica Domestica Russian State Symphonic Cappella / Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Valeri Kuzmich Polyansky [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Mar/1995 ] Recorded: St Sophia Cathedral, Polotsk |
Otto Sauter, Thomas Hammes, Franz Wagnermeyer (trumpet) / Cappella Istropolitana / Mannheim Chamber Orchestra
Four Classic Albums (New Directions In Music / The Sons Of Sauter Finegan / Adventures In Time / Memoires Of Goodman & Miller) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/May/2017 ] Eddie Sauter met Bill Finegan in 1939 when both men were making a living as arrangers for the likes of Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Red Norvo and Woody Herman who were in fact most of the classic Swing Era leaders of the... |
ARENA / BONONCINI / GIACOMELLI / HASSE / VINCI / etc
Rival Queens Simone Kermes (soprano) & Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano) / Cappella Gabetta, Andres Gabetta [ Sony Classics / CD - released 15/Sep/2014 ] The Album explores the artistic legacies of the two legendary singers (Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni) and the heights of inspiration to which their rivalry moved the leading composers of their era. A thrilling recording, in which Simone... |
STRADELLA / MONTEVERDI / MARIN / DIAZ / STROZZI / DOWLAND / etc
Sonya Yoncheva - Rebirth Sonya Yoncheva (soprano) / Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón [ Sony Classics / CD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] With Rebirth Sonya Yoncheva introduces her listeners to the contemporary message and the timeless quality of Baroque music. |
ANTONIN DVORAK
The Best of Dvorak Balázs Szokolay (piano), Maria Kliegel (cello), BBC Philharmonic, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Cappella Istropolitana [ Naxos / CD ] Artists: Balázs Szokolay (piano), Maria Kliegel (cello) BBC Philharmonic, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Cappella Istropolitana, Moyzes Quartet, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Zdenek Kosler, Michael Halász, Jaroslav Krcek |
HASSE / HANDEL
A Tribute to Faustina Bordoni Vivica Genaux (mezzo) / Cappella Gabetta, Andrés Gabetta [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 22/Jul/2013 ] Mezzo-soprano Faustina Bordoni was considered to be one of the greatest singers of the first half of the C18th, entrancing audiences in Italy and throughout Europe and commanding huge fees. All of the great Baroque composers wrote for her, including... |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Abu Hassan / Symphony No. 1 in C Wolfgang Völz, Jörg Dürmüller, Johanna Stojkovic / Cappella Coloniensis, Bruno Weil [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Feb/2003 ] "The Cappella Coloniensis is an exceptional period instrument band with crisp attack and ensemble playing. Weil consistently whips up the exhilaration and keeps the musical arguments fresh and logical." MusicWeb |
CALDARA / PORPORA / HANDEL / ALBINONI
Cecilia & Sol: Dolce Duello Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Sol Gabetta (cello) / Cappella Gabetta, Andres Gabetta [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 20/Dec/2017 ] "Gabetta's light touch is the ideal foil for Bartoli's expressive agility, whether the two of them are sparring in separate displays of virtuosity, weaving melancholy webs around each other, or hurtling along in parallel." Guardian |
GYORGY LIGETI
The Ligeti Project (5 CDs special price) Siegfried Palm (cello) Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) Pierre Laurent Aimard (piano) / Cappella Amsterdam / Amadinda Percussion / Reinbert de Leeuw [ Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 15/Jan/2016 ] "If Ligeti's music has a trademark, it is unpredictability…He remains one of the severest critics of contemporary music, as well as one of its greatest composers" The Guardian |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Il Progetto Vivaldi 2 Sol Gabetta (cello) / Cappella Gabetta, Andres Gabetta [ Sony Classics / CD - released 20/Mar/2013 ] "it is the fertility of imagination undergirding every one of Gabetta's performances which marks this colelction out as being something exceptional...Highly recommended." (International Record Review) |
AMANTE FRANZONI
Franzoni: Vespro per la festa di Santa Barbara Accademia Degli Invaghiti, Concerto Palatino, Cappella Santa Barbara, Francesco Moi (conductor) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2016 ] The scene is Mantua in Lombardy, Italy. The Duke of Mantua - himself a composer and eager to become a patron of the arts ¬- establishes a Basilica in the city. Freed from the auspices of Rome and with its own bespoke liturgy, the Basilica became the... |
DOMENICO CIMAROSA
Cimarosa: Requiem Adriana Kucerova / Terezia Kruzliakova / Ludovit Ludha / Gustav Belacek / Lucnica Chorus / Cappella Istropolitana / Kirk Trevor [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] Domenico Cimarosa's abilities as an operatic composer are evident in his large-scale Requiem in which the soloists and chorus range from the mournful supplication of the opening movements, through vivid evocations of the 'day of wrath'. |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (complete opera) Alessandro Carmignani / Marinella Pennicchi / Rosita Frisani / Cappella Musicale di San Petronio di Bologna / Sergio Vartolo [ Naxos Early Music / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] "Carmignani has an expressive tenor voice...Pennicchi is lovely as Euridice. The singers are excellent and integrated into a carefully prepared ensemble...You will not do much better at triple the price" - Fanfare |
HANDEL
Siroe, Re di Persia (Opera in Three Acts) Ann Hallenberg (alto) Johanna Stojkovic (sop) Sunhae Im (sop) Gunter Schmid (countertenor) / Cappella Coloniensis / Andreas Spering (director) [ Harmonia Mundi Heritage / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] CLASSICAL CD OF THE WEEK, The Sunday Times RECORD OF THE WEEK, The Guardian CD OF THE WEEK, The Daily Telegraph |
PETER PHILIPS
Philips : Motets & Madrigals Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon [ Ambronay Editions / CD - released 16/Oct/2008 ] Celebrated throughout Europe as the foremost English composer of his time, Peter Philips (1561-1628) drew upon many different musical traditions to create a hugely expressive body of work which is still largely unknown apart from the Hyperion... |
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Cappella Academica Frankfurt
Graun/Graun: Concerti [ Cpo / CD - released 28/Mar/2011 ] |
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Cappella Academica Frankfurt/S
Various: The Virtuoso Recorder [ Cpo / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] |
WOLFGANG RIHM / GIACHES DE WERT
In Umbra Mortis Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss [ Pentatone / CD - released 21/May/2021 ] Cappella Amsterdam and its Artistic Director Daniel Reuss make their PENTATONE debut with In Umbra Mortis. The album brings together Wolfgang Rihm's contemporary Sieben Passions-Stücke and Passion-related motets by the Flemish 16th-century... |
LEOŠ JANÁČEK
Leos Janacek: Choral Works Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Janáček's choral works draw on an extremely rich repertory of folksongs and folk tales. The composer seized on idioms from Bohemian and Moravian traditions, with their characteristic folk dances and rustic nursery rhymes, and on the recently... |
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... |
ARVO PART
Pärt: Kanon pokajanen Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] "In striving to get to the essence of the words, Pärt has created 'a precious island in the inner seclusion of our soul', and Cappella Amsterdam under Daniel Reuss more than do justice to Kanon Pokajanen's distilled purity and sublime beauty" Gramoph |
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... |
GYORGY LIGETI
Ligeti: Lux Aeterna Cappella Amsterdam, Suzanne van Els (viola) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] MARBECKS STAFF PICK: CD OF THE YEAR 2009 - "In this performance [of Lux aeterna] by the astoundingly good Capella Amsterdam it sounds more meditative and less apocalyptic than it did [in Kubrick's 2001], but no less haunting." Daily Telegraph |
J. S. BACH
Easter Oratorio BWV249 Cappella Amsterdam / Orchestra of the 18th Century / Frans Bruggen [ Glossa / CD - released 1/May/2012 ] Remaining faithful to their tradition of making live recordings during the course of their concert tours, Frans Brüggen and the Orchestra of the 18th Century now present Bach's Easter Oratorio from spring 2011. |
BIANCA MANA MEDA
Lacrime Amare: Bianca Maria Meda Motets Cappella Artemisia, Candace Smith [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Oct/2018 ] The revival on record of forgotten music by a Benedictine nun: a valuable discovery for fans of the early Baroque. Even in the extensive library of little-known composers whose music has found a niche on Brilliant Classics, the name of Bianca... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Le Coucher du Roi: Music for Louis XIV's Chamber Cappella di Ministrers / Carles Magraner [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - released 8/Jan/2021 ] Night is falling. In this twilight of the reign of Louis XIV and at the end of his Grand Coucher, the king is at last free from protocol. He then orders the musicians of the King's Chamber, to come to him; they are the most excellent in the kingdom.... |
MONTEVERDI / FRESCOBALDI / DELLA CIAIA / CARISSIMI
Love and Lament Cappella Figuralis [ Channel Classics SACD / SACD - released 19/Jan/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM "This is music as immediate, vital and moving as any you will hear." 5 Stars - Rod Biss, Sunday Star Times |
Cappella Figuralis. Conductor: Jos van Veldhoven
Love & Lament (Monteverdi-Della Ciaia-Carissimi) [ Channel Classics / CD - released 14/Jul/2002 ] The soloist ensemble Cappella Figuralis was founded in 1989 |
FERNANDEZ / VALESCO / CEREROLS / ARAUJO / ANONYMOUS
Carmina Latina Cappella Mediterranea / Choeur de Chambre de Namur; Ensemble Clematis/Leonardo Garcìa Alarcòn [ Ricercar / CD - released 20/May/2013 ] "This is a fine disc and well worth searching out. It will bring you much joy." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Sept 2013) |
Cappella Mediterranea/Alarcón
De Vez En Cuando La Vida (Lp) [ Alpha / 2 LP - released 20/Sep/2018 ] "'The memories of my childhood in Argentina always bring me back to the singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat, synonymous with shared family moments . . . Serrat's poetry and music around a barbecue in Argentina; "De vez en cuando la vida" made me cry... |
DRAGHI / ALARCON
Antonio Draghi & Leonardo García Alarcón: El Prometeo Cappella Mediterranea; Chœur de Chambre de Namur; Leonardo García Alarcón [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 13/Mar/2020 ] The original score of El Prometeo (Prometheus) is held in the Leopoldine Library in Vienna. It dates from 1669 and was written by Antonio Draghi, a composer who was also a singer, notably in the operas of Cavalli. For the first time in history, an... |
MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo Cappella Mediterranea; Chœur de Chambre de Namur; Leonardo García Alarcón [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Monteverdi's L'Orfeo is naturally an iconic work for Leonardo García Alarcón. The Argentinian conductor has performed and matured his interpretation of Monteverdi's masterpiece throughout his life. Together with his group of soloists, the Namur... |
SERRAT / VALLS DE RIBAYZ
De vez en cuando la vida Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Oct/2018 ] The memories of my childhood in Argentina always bring me back to the singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat, synonymous with shared family moments . . . Serrat's poetry and music around a barbecue in Argentina; "De vez en cuando la vida" made me cry... |
MONTEVERDI / PIAZZOLLA
Claudio Monteverdi - Astor Piazzólla Quito Gato (theorbo, Fender guitar), William Sabatier (bandoneon) & Mariana Flores, Diego Flores (voice) / Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alar [ Ambronay / CD - released 24/Sep/2012 ] "the Piazzolla pieces here are very effective and beautifully played." (Early Music Review) |
