More By Artist: Raphael
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Elina Garanca - When Night Falls ... Elina Garanca (Mezzo), Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria, with Raphaël Feuillâtre (guitar), Raimonds Pauls (piano), Albrecht Mayer (oboe) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] This intimate album, says Elīna Garanča, is meant for "that time of day when you withdraw to your own private life". The celebrated mezzo has selected songs to help her listeners "tune out the world for two or three minutes and immerse themselves in... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart 'The Weber Sisters' Sabine Devieilhe (soprano) / Pygmalion, Raphael Pichon [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 10/Nov/2015 ] "Sabine Devieilhe, a lyric coloratura who combines a pure, sweet timbre and dazzling virtuosity." Gramophone Magazine Award WINNER 2016 - Recital |
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." |
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. |
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... |
JACQUES OFFENBACH / FRIEDRICH GULDA
Offenbach / Gulda: Cello Concertos Edgar Moreau (cello) / Les Forces Majeures, Raphaël Merlin [ Erato Classics / CD - released 15/Feb/2019 ] "Moreau is a commanding presence, singing tone that illuminates Offenbach's debt to bel canto. His virtuosity can be thrilling…The Menuett [of the Gulda] is done especially beautifully, with plenty of rhythmic point." Gramophone |
ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Orchestral Works, Volume 1 (Violin Concerto / Cello Concerto / Morning Song) Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) Raphael Wallfisch (cello) Margaret Fingerhut (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Bryden Thomson [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Nov/2003 ] 'The Cello Concerto is rhapsodic in feeling and Raphael Wallfisch plays it with marvellous sensitivity and finesse, given splendid support by the LPO under Bryden Thomson.' The Penguin Complete Guide |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / MAX BRUCH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Concerto for Violin & Cello / Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) Raphael Wallfisch (cello) / London Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Jan/1989 ] Recorded in St Jude's Church, Central Square, London, July 1988 |
LEO DELIBES
Delibes: Lakme (complete opera recorded in 2022) BLU-RAY Opera Comique, Paris / Sabine Devieilhe, Grederic Antouni, Stephane Degout, Ambroisine Bre / Pygmalion, Raphael Pichon [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 20/Oct/2023 ] "Laurent Pelly transforms Delibes's opera into an exploration of colonialism and cultural appropriation...Raphaël Pichon, conducting Pygmalion on original instruments, relishes Delibes's lush orchestration." BBC Music Blu-ray of the Month Jan 2024 |
ANTONIN DVORAK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak: String Quintet No. 3 / String Sextet The Raphael Ensemble [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Feb/1989 ] "Warmly effusive playing, captured in exquisite sound" (American Record Guide) |
