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GIOVANNI VALENTINI
Musiche Concertate 1619 (madrigals of the third book) La Capella Ducale / Musica Fiata / Roland Wilson [ CPO Records / CD - released 23/Aug/2011 ] Delight in experiment in no way lacking the power for synthesis stamps each and every composition of his Musiche concertate. The modern historiography of music long overlooked |
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La Capella Ducale/Musica Fiata
Buxtehude: Abendmusik [ Cpo / CD - released 27/Aug/2007 ] |
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La Capella Ducale/Musica Fiata
Forster:oratorio [ Cpo / CD ] |
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La Capella Ducale/Musica Fiata
Scheidt:great Sacred Concertos [ Cpo / CD - released 2/Apr/2007 ] |
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La Capella Ducale/Musica Fiata
Schelle: Sacred Concertos/Cant [ Cpo / CD - released 2/Sep/2002 ] |
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TRADITIONAL
La Capella Reial de Catalunya: 25 Years La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 4 Hybrid SACD - released 8/Apr/2013 ] To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Capella Reial de Catalunya, the choir he founded in 1988, Jordi Savall has gathered 4 rexamples of their work, rich in Catalan heritage, luxuriously presented in a box and all published originally on the Astré |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Villancicos y Danzas Criollas: Iberian, African and New World music from the 15th and 16th centuries. La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] "the supreme exponent of French viol playing." Gramophone |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Markus Passion [St Mark's Passion] BWV 247 (1744) La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Cor Infantil Amics de la Unió Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 CD/Book - released 29/Mar/2019 ] "The choir of 25 (including children on the upper parts) and Le Concert des Nations produce a vivid performance in which emotional directness is paramount." Gramophone |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo Marc Mauillon (Orfeo), Luciana Mancini (Euridice), La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / 2 CD - released 26/May/2023 ] Jordi Savall is painting Monteverdi in the colours of the Mediterranean. The Catalan maestro has entrusted the title role of this foundational work of Western music to a remarkable baritone: the magnificent Marc Mauillon embodies Orfeo, his resonant... |
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HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ von BIBER
Missa Bruxellensis La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / CD - released 16/Jul/2001 ] "The performance here, superlatively recorded in the the echoeing, but never blurring, acoustics of Salzburg Cathedral, re-creates the work's premiere, and is truly inspired. This marvellous disc cannot be too highly recommended." - Rosette. Penguin... |
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MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Marc-Antoine Charpentier at the Royal Chapel in Versailles [2 SACDs plus DVD & large book] La Capella Reial de Catalunya & Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall, with Monterrat Figueras [ Alia Vox SACD / 3 Hybrid SACD/DVD - released 1/Sep/2014 ] "If you don't have any of the repertoire on your shelves this is an attractive way to acquire it…all the music is top drawer Charpentier with his rich harmony and lively counter-point." (Early Music Review). |
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CARLOS V
Mille Regretz: La Cancion del Emperador La Capella Reyal de Catalunya; Hesperion XXI; Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Apr/2003 ] "this is as imaginative and beautiful as anything Savall has ever done" (Amazon)- On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM |
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ALFONS V EL MAGNANIM
El Cancionero de Montecassino - Musica Religiosa & Profana La Cappella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI & OTHERS
Monteverdi: Vespro Di Natale / Christmas Vespers La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, La Cetra Vocalensemble Basel, Andrea Marcon [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 18/Nov/2022 ] On 29 December 1616 Claudio Monteverdi wrote to the poet Alessandro Striggio - who was also the secretary to the Duke of Mantua - to apologize for his late reply, which he attributed to "the hard work that had to be done on the Mass for Christmas... |
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
J. S. Bach: Mass in B Minor La Cetra Basel; Miriam Feuersinger; Andrea Marcon; Hana Blažíková; Carlos Mena; Jakob Pilgram; Tobias Berndt [ Arcana / 2 CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] 25 years of La Cetra Basel! To celebrate this anniversary, La Cetra and Arcana are releasing the "greatest musical masterpiece of all time", as the work was called in the 19th century: Bach's Mass in B minor. |
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VENTURINI
Concerti Da Camera La Cetra / David Plantier (viola and direction) [ Zig Zag Territories / CD - released 9/Apr/2007 ] “A style borrowing from the Italian and the French but with its distinctive voice. Brussels-born, Francesco Venturini was extremely popular in the 1700s but remains little-known today. This excellent set, of his Concerti da camera, deserves to help... |
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JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Les Indes Galantes La Chapelle Harmonique, Valentin Tournet [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / 2 CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] With the creation of his masterpiece Les Indes galantes in 1735, Rameau renewed the genre of opera-ballet with the presentation of separate independent tableaux, to include a series of crazy love stories involving exotic peoples, treated in various... |
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HEINRICH SCHUTZ
Psalmen Davids La Chapelle Rhenane / Benoit Haller [ K617 / CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] The 'Psalms of David', the opus 2 of Heinrich Schütz, constitute genuine symphonies for voices and instruments combined. This offshoot of the polychoral tradition of Giovanni Gabrieli, which Schütz frequented in Venice is interpreted by La Chapelle... |
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MENDELSSOHN
Sacred Choral Works La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe - conductor [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/May/2003 ] "Elegant and fluent singing" - Gramophone |
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LULLY
Grands Motets La Chapelle Royale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Mar/2007 ] The large motet 'à la française' is a quite distinctive affair that has nothing in common with the more traditional notion that a composer like Bach, for instance, had of the genre. If a comparison must be made, we will find that the French motet is... |