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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto / Symphony no.5 "Reformation" Isabelle Faust (violin), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] "[Faust] takes the radical decision to perform the work as scholars now think mid-19th-century violinists would have done" The Times |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: The Schumann Trilogy - Complete Concertos & Piano Trios [plus bonus Blu-ray] Isabelle Faust (violin) Guihen Queyras (cello) & Alexander Melnikov (piano) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado [ Harmonia Mundi / 4 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 14/Jun/2024 ] These albums left their mark on the Schumann discography: performing the works on period instruments, the artists suddenly revealed unexpected textures and sonorities. |
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano concertos nos. 2 & 5 "Emperor" Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado & Freiburger Barockorchester [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "This really is exciting playing, and Bezuidenhout's virtuosity is impressive." Five Stars BBC Music Concerto Choice April 2020 |
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SARASATE / STRAVINSKY / de FALLA / RODRIGO / MILHAUD / DEBUSSY / etc
Les Musiques De Picasso [Picasso and Music] Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado Ensemble Aedes & Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth Orchestre de Paris, BBC Symphony Orchestra, etc [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 17/Jul/2020 ] To coincide with the opening of the Picasso exhibition at the Paris Philharmonie's Museum of Music in April 2020, harmonia mundi invites you to discover a different facet of the artist: Picasso the music lover! As a creator who found a lifelong... |
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PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 'Winter Dreams' / The Tempest Orchestra Of St. Luke's, Pablo Heras-Casado [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] "...Heras-Casado has me wondering about a new wave of Tchaikovsky performance: shunning hysteria and crocodile tears, painting pictures, telling stories." Gramophone Recordingof the Month Feb 2017 |
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IGOR STRAVINSKY / PETER EOTVOS
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps / Eötvös: "Alhambra" Concerto Pablo Heras-Casado, Isabelle Faust, Orchestre de Paris [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] More than a century after the historic scandal of its premiere at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, The Rite of Spring has established itself as one of the 'musts' of the modern orchestral repertory. And if the source of the telluric forces generated... |
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Placido Domingo (tenor), Pablo Sainz Villegas (guitar)
Volver [ Sony Classical / CD - released 7/Sep/2017 ] Legendary tenor Plácido Domingo partners with the "global ambassador of Spanish guitar" (Billboard Magazine), Pablo Sáinz-Villegas. This is an authentic and intimate album: the voice of Plácido Domingo has never been captured in such an intimate... |
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BACH / SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / LISZT / MOZART / BEETHOVEN / etc
Wilhelm Kempff - The Decca Legacy Wilhelm Kempff (piano) with Pablo Casals, Paul Grümmer (cellos) Georg Kulenkampff (violin) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 13 CD Box Set - released 18/Apr/2022 ] The Decca legacy of WILHELM KEMPFF, one of the last century's greatest keyboard poets. |
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Juan Pablo Torres
Algo Nuevo (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 7/Jun/2024 ] "One of my favourite albums" - Luke Una Next up in the Mr Bongo Cuban Classics series is an outing by the mighty Juan Pablo Torres from 1978. Released on Cuba's state-owned Areito imprint, Algo Nuevo showcases trombonist, bandleader, arranger and... |
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Juan Pablo Torres Y Algo Nuevo
Super Son (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 7/Jun/2024 ] The next release in the Mr Bongo Cuban Classics series, is one of Juan Pablo Torres' most-known and loved albums, the iconic Super Son from 1977. A wonderful record of tripped-out rumbas, psych-Afro-Latin funk and quirky orchestrated tracks with a... |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76, Nos 4 - 6 Alina Ibragimova & Pablo Hernán Benedí (violins), Emilie Hörnlund, (viola), Claire Thirion, (cello) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] The Chiaroscuros complete Haydn's last full set of quartets. |
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RAVEL / GERSHWIN / TAILLEFERRE / BLICKENDERFER / SKORYK / FEDOROVA / MOUSTAKI
Liberté Anna Fedorova (piano) / Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Pablo González [ Channel Classics / CD - released 16/Jan/2026 ] Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova's new release, Liberté, is a cultural and musical dialogue between France and America. The influence of jazz plays a central role in this tribute to French and American composers. |
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ESTEBAN BENZECRY
Benzecry: Ciclo de canciones / Violin Concerto / Clarinet Concerto Ayako Tanaka (Soprano) Xavier Inchausti (Violin) Mariano Rey (Clarinet) / Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Pablo Boggiano [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] French-Argentinian composer Esteban Benzecry has built up a distinctive body of work, from symphonies to works for solo piano. He stands as a worthy successor to such masters as Ginastera, Villa-Lobos and Chávez, with music that is suffused with... |
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Te Deum, Mass no.3 in F minor Erika Baikoff (soprano), Christina Landshamer (soprano), WDR-Rundfunkchor, SWR Symphonieorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado [ SWRmusic / CD - released 13/Feb/2026 ] When Anton Bruckner premiered his Te Deum at the Vienna Musikverein in 1886, he later referred to it as the "pride of my life". This rare display of self-assurance is striking, given that Bruckner was otherwise known for his artistic self-doubt and... |
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JOHANNES MATTHESON
Mattheson: De Brauchbare Virtuoso Diana Baroni (transverse flute), Pablo Valetti (violin), Petr Skalka (cello), Dirk Börner (harpsichord) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 7/Apr/2003 ] |
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GOLDEN AGE OF THE GRAMOPHONE
The Golden Age of the Gramophone: 42 best-loved popular classical recordings 1907-1945 Enrico Caruso, Pablo Casals, Peter Dawson, Master Ernest Lough, Paul Robeson, Manchester Children's Choir, Glasgow Orpheus Choir, etc [ Nimbus Retrospective / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "What you're getting are two well filled discs, neatly annotated. The period covered is just shy of forty years, so we go from acoustic to electric and all in mono, and we cover singers, instrumentalists, choirs and conductors." (MusicWeb June 2010) |
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ENRIQUE GRANADOS
Orchestral Works Vol 1 [Incls 'Suite sobre cantos gallegos'] Cor Madrigal & Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Pablo González [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2016 ] Although he is best known as the composer of some of the greatest masterpieces of Spanish piano music, Enrique Granados also wrote a much less well-known sequence of orchestral music. The cinematic Marcha de los vencidos evokes the painful trudging... |
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ENRIQUE GRANADOS
Granados: Liliana / Suite Oriental / Elisenda Dani Espasa (piano) / Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Pablo González [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] "Pablo González and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra respond, as they have throughout this series, with warmth and an attractively natural sense of how to turn a phrase…the woodwinds are the real stars, though: supple oboes with just a hint of nasal |
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ENRIQUE GRANADOS
Granados: Orchestral Works Dani Espasa (piano) / Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Pablo González [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2017 ] "Pablo González and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra respond with warmth and an attractively natural sense of how to turn a phrase…the woodwinds are the real stars, though: supple oboes with just a hint of nasal buzz" Gramophone |
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SCHUBERT
Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] " the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra strike an ideal balance between sinuous energy and surging Romantic spirit." The Times, 30th August 2013 **** |