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SIMONE de BONEFONT
Simone de Bonefont: Missa pro Mortuis Huelgas-Ensemble (early music ensemble) / Ensemble Huelgas, Paul Van Nevel [ Cypres / CD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 WINNER - Early Music |
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ANONYMOUS / GERARDE / DESPREZ / LASSUS / etc
Le Chant de Virgile Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] "Sung with such exquisite fluency, the Huelgas Ensemble under Van Nevel conveys the excitement of an epoch that yielded some of the most beautiful combinations of poetry and music." - The Observer (13 Jan 2002) |
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JEAN RICHAFORT
Richafort: Requiem Mass Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul van Nevel [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] We possess many works by Jean Richafort, but very little biographical information on the composer. In the 16th century he was the object of veneration and admiration. The great Ronsard himself spoke of him in the most enthusiastic terms, and most of... |
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CIPRIANO de RORE
Missa Praeter rerum serium Huelgas-Ensemble / Paul Van Nevel [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 25/Jul/2014 ] Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (Feb 2003) |
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PROKOFIEV / HAYDN / BIZET
First Symphonies Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff [ Warner Classics Maestro / CD - released 24/Nov/2008 ] |
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HENRY COTTER NIXON
Henry Cotter Nixon: Complete Orchestral Music, Vol. 2 Ian Hobson (piano) / Kodaly Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Mann, with Ferenc Nagy (euphonium) [ Toccata / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] "Collectors who invested in the previous volume of Nixon's orchestral music will be glad to have the chance to continue their exploration through this valuable release" MusicWeb |
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FASCH
Overtures Il Fondamento / Paul Dombrecht [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 20/Aug/2009 ] |
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JAKE HEGGIE
Passing By: Songs by Jake Heggie Isabel Bayrakdarian / Zheng Gao / Susan Graham / Joyce diDonato / Frederica von Stade / Paul Groves / Keith Phares / etc. [ Avie Records / CD - released 12/Oct/2010 ] "...the composer's own fluent piano-playing, an expert string group and a good if sometimes over-glossy recording provide support for some world-class singers...who are clearly revelling in the opportunities that Heggie has offered them here." BBC... |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Symphonies Nos.1-4 & Overtures Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Kletzki [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 19/Feb/2021 ] (Kletzki's) readings of these iconic works are key to understanding the path they have travelled towards the recognition they enjoy today. |
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SCHUTZ
Weinachtshistorie & Auferstehunghistorie Jakob Bloch Jespersen, Johan Linderoth, Adam Riis & Else Torp / Ars Nova Copenhagen, Concerto Copenhagen & Sirius Viols, Paul Hillier [ Dacapo / CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "Schütz recordings of such ardent beauty are much too rare, so this is not to be missed." Gramophone Awards 2010 Finalist - Baroque Vocal |
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PAUL SCHOENFIELD
Refractions / 6 British Folk Songs / Peccadilloes James Tocco (piano) / Yehuda Hanami (cello) / Alexander Fiterstein (clarient) / Paul Schoenfield (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Paul Schoenfield's music attracts listeners with its combination of exuberance and seriousness, familiarity and originality, lightness and depth, often with sly twists. Six British Folk Songs was written in 1985 as a tribute to the cellist Jacqueline... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Best Cello 100: Includes Bach's cello suites, The Swan & Kol Nidrei (Six CD set at a special price) Janos Starker / Mstislav Rostropovich / Pierre Fournier / Gautier Capucon / Paul Tortelier / Truls Mork / Jacqueline du Pre / Pablo Casals (cellos) [ EMI / 6 CD Box Set - released 27/Jul/2009 ] This 6 CD set contains a fine collection of 100 favourite cello classics, performed by some of the world's leading artists. |
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Jean-Luc Godard / Soundtrack (featuring Dino Saluzzi / David Darling / Patti Smith / Jean Schwartz / Werner Pirchner / Paul Hindemith / etc)
Nouvelle Vague [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] This is the complete soundtrack - music, dialogue, sounds - of Jean-Luc Godard's Nouvelle Vague, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990. |
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REBEL / FRANCOEUR
Zelindor, roi des Sylphes / Suite from 'Le Trophee' Jean-Paul Fouchecourt, Heidi Grant Murphy, William Sharp / The Opera Lafayette Orchestra / Ryan Brown [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] "The evening's strength, however, was the crisp, resilient playing of the period orchestra, bringing the lilting dance music to colorful life." The New York Times |
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RAMEAU
Operatic Arias for Haute-contre Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor) / Opera Lafayette / Ryan Brown [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Oct/2007 ] "Musically this is a string of pearls of wonderful scenes with dances and arias, joyful, dramatic, elegiac, beautiful. For a taster of Fouchécourt's accomplishment try the little arietta from Platée - Quittez nymphes, quittez (tr. 2), where his... |
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QUANTZ / GALUPPI / VIVALDI / ALBINONI / GIORDANI / etc
18-th Century Flute Concertos Jed Wentz, Marion Moonen (traverso) / Musica ad Rhenum (with Lex Vos, Paul van der Linden, oboes) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Jun/2006 ] The six Italian concerti recorded here were all written within 60 years. They show remarkable variety. Of these the Galuppi and the Ferrandini are the most extreme with sometimes weird harmonies. |
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MIKLOS ROZSA
Orchestral Works Vol 2 (Incls 'Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song') Jennifer Pike (violin) Paul Watkins (cello) / BBC Concert Orchestra / Rumon Gamba [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "These are four first-rate works by a still neglected composer, marvellously played and recorded." (Editor's ChoiceGramophone Sept 2011) |
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HENRY COWELL / LOU HARRISON / EDGAR VARESE
American Mavericks Jeremy Denk (piano) Paul Jacobs (organ) / San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] "Michael Tilson Thomas's time at the helm of the San Francisco Symphony has been marked by a courageous dedication to modernist American outsiders, and American Mavericks bears out the orchestra's experience with such outré material." (The Independent) |
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ROUSSEL
Complete Chamber Music Jet Reling (piano) Jean-Jacques Kantorow (violin) Herre-Jan Stegenga (cello) Paul Verhey (flute) Henk Guittart (viola) Irene Maessen (soprano) etc [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Jan/2007 ] "This attractively packaged set is a convenient assemblage of Roussel’s work in the field of chamber music, a sequence of works characterised by the acute, even astringent, intelligence that has gone into their writing and the distinctive beauty of... |