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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... |
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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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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 ] |
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BOLOGNA / CASERTA / LANINI / PADOVA / PERUGIA / etc
Metamorfosi Trecento La Fonte Musica, Michele Pasotti [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] Myth, Sallust tells us, is the relation of 'things that never happened, but always are'. Ever since the fourteenth century, music has drunk deep from the source of myths. When composers were not dealing with sacred history, with the great morality... |
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J. S. BACH
Hebenstreit's Bach La Gioia Armonica; Margit Übellacker; Jürgen Banholzer [ Ramée / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] Johann Sebastian Bach was certainly familiar with the Pantaleon - a large hammered dulcimer with a wide range and full chromatic scale. Bach's contemporary Pantaleon Hebenstreit had developed the instrument. |
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La Grande Chapelle
Delizie di Posillipo, Música para el virrey de Nápoles [ Lauda / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] On 1 March 1620, the festa a ballo Delizie di Posillipo was performed at the Royal Palace of Naples to celebrate the recovery of King Philip III. Promoted by the Viceroy Pedro Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna, the spectacle featured splendid stage designs by... |
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CARLOS PATINO
Patiño: Música sacra para la corte La Grande Chapelle; Albert Recasens [ Lauda / CD - released 28/May/2021 ] For over thirty years Carlos Patiño served Philip IV as Choirmaster in the Spanish Royal Chapel. The Spanish monarch was not the only one who held him in great esteem, for João IV of Portugal admired him as well and put together a collection of his... |
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TOMAS LUIS DE VICTORIA
Victoria: Officium defunctorum La Grande Chapelle, Albert Recasens, Schola Antiqua, Juan Carlos Asensio [ Lauda / 2 CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] The Officium defunctorum by Tomás Luis de Victoria, published in 1605, is one of the masterworks of the musical Renaissance, which still moves us with its austerity and expressive power. |