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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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MONTEVERDI
Vespro della Beata Vergine [Vespers] La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] In autumn of 1610 Monteverdi dedicated a luxuriant collection of religious music to Pope Paul V, of which the Vespers of the Blessed Virgin is by far the most prodigious work. A spectacular synthesis of Franco-Flemish polyphony and Italian innovations. |
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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... |
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SCHUTZ
Musikalische Exequien La Chapelle Royale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] Commissioned for the funeral of a prince, this German 'burial music' deals with subjects that lie at the heart of Schütz's output: the misery of earthly life and the promise of the hereafter. In a mood of searing intensity, the music arranges texts... |
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JOSQUIN DESPREZ
Stabat mater & Motets La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] Josquin: the first name that comes to mind when one discusses the masters of Renaissance. In this now classic recording, Philippe Herreweghe offers an exceptionally rich portrait of his music, midway between the liturgical (Stabat Mater) and the... |
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La Danse du Chien
Black Painted Bones [ Iris Music / CD - released 31/Aug/2009 ] |
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La Fenice
Un Camino De Santiago - 17Th C [ Ricercar / CD - released 16/May/2011 ] |
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VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (complete opera recorded in 2015) La Fenice / Jessica Pratt, Sonia Ganassi, Rubén Amoretti, Shalva Mukeria / Shalva Mukeria (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 13/May/2022 ] "I can tell you that from the first to the fourth performance, which was on Sunday, enthusiasm reached, or perhaps surpassed, the levels of Il Pirata and La Straniera in Milan" Bellini in a letter to a friend |
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VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY La Fenice / Jessica Pratt, Sonia Ganassi, Rubén Amoretti, Shalva Mukeria / Shalva Mukeria (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 13/May/2022 ] "I can tell you that from the first to the fourth performance, which was on Sunday, enthusiasm reached, or perhaps surpassed, the levels of Il Pirata and La Straniera in Milan" Bellini in a letter to a friend |
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PUCCINI
La Rondine (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY La Fenice Opera / Fiorenza Cedolins / Fernando Portari / Sandra Pastrana / Carlo Rizzi, conductor [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2009 ] BLU-RAY - The score of the operetta-like threeact "lyrical comedy", which tells the story of the love between Magda and Ruggero, must be one of Puccini's most subtle creations. |
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Il Turco in Italia (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY La Fenice Opera / Simone Alaimo, Myrto Papatanasiu, Bruno De Simone / Jonathan Webb, conductor [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Mar/2010 ] Il Turco in Italia is one of Rossini's wittiest but most neglected works. It is full of ingenious and freshly composed invention. It is Rossini's first collaboration with Felice Romani - Bellini's librettist - on this opera and Romani understood... |
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La Fenice/Chambre De Namur
In Festo Sanctissimae Trinitas [ Ricercar / CD - released 4/Feb/2008 ] |
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La Fenice/Ricercar Consort
Hayne/Hodemont/Du Mont [ Ricercar / 2 CD - released 1/May/2011 ] |
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La Fenice/Tubery
The Heritage Of Montiverdi [ Ricercar / CD ] |
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La Fenice/Tubery
Lassus & Palestrina: Motetti [ Ricercar / CD - released 1/May/2011 ] |
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La Fenice/Tubery
Marini/Castello [ Ricercar / 2 CD - released 31/Mar/2008 ] |