More By Artist: The La's
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ORLANDO DI LASSO
Lasso: Orlando, A Melancholic Portrait La Tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 15/Nov/2024 ] Orlando di Lasso (b. 1532 in Mons) was one of the most important and prolific composers in the whole of sixteenth-century Europe. Famed as a singer from boyhood, he escaped several kidnapping attempts ordered by princes who coveted his talent for... |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine La Tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Oct/2019 ] "I suspect old Claudio is smiling in the great beyond. Ambitious? For sure. Captivating and unforgettable? Definitely. Hear it." MusicWeb Recommended July 2020 |
La Tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion
Schutz & Schein: Larmes De Résurrection [ Alpha / CD - released 29/Jan/2018 ] In 1623, when the Thirty Years War was raging, Europe was torn apart by the confrontation between Protestant and Catholic peoples. Schütz and Schein, close friends with a deep-rooted Lutheran faith, were thoroughly in accordance with the spirit of... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Sculpting the Fabric La Vaghezza [ Ambronay Éditions / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] Inspiration, energy and freedom compose the alluring menu of La Vaghezza's very first opus. The five instrumentalists of the young Italian ensemble, recent winners of the EEEMERGING+ scheme, sculpt one by one these magnificent pieces of 17th century... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Violin Concertos Federico Guglielmo, Enrico Casazza (violin), Pier Luigi Fabretti (oboe), Roberto Loreggian (organ), L'Arte dell'Arco, La Magnifica Comunita [ Brilliant Classics / 13 CD - released 20/Feb/2026 ] Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was an Italian composer, violinist, and priest, widely regarded as one of the most influential figures of the Baroque era. Born in Venice, Vivaldi was nicknamed "Il Prete Rosso" (The Red Priest) because of his red hair and... |
The La's
BBC in Session [ Universal Music / CD - released 10/Oct/2006 ] Available as an import from Europe, 'BBC in Session' is a compilation of four BBC sessions by The La's, containing the band's session appearances on radio shows hosted by Janice Long, Liz Kershaw, Bob Harris and Nicky Campbell. |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART / GIOVANNI PAISIELLO
Mozart: Requiem / Paisiello: Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon Le Concert de la Loge; Chœur de Chambre de Namur; Julien Chauvin; Sandrine Piau [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Mozart's Requiem was not performed in Paris until 1804, in a version slightly different from the composer's original score. The press reported a triumph. That same year also saw the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte - who had brought back a pronounced... |
MONTEVERDI / GABRIELI / VIVALDI
Venezia Millenaria Le Concert des Nations - Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Panagiotis, Neochoritis, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox 2 SACD set with large book / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 22/Dec/2017 ] "Savall's forces place atmospheric Orthodox and other non-western music alongside pieces by composers from Beethoven to Dufay, performing it all with panache" Sunday Times |
FRANCESC VALLS / HENRY DESMAREST
In Excelsis Deo: Barcelona 1702 - Versailles 1709 Le Concert des Nations & La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 CD - released 27/Nov/2017 ] In the context of the War of the Spanish Succession, the duty of any composer was to celebrate not only the greatness of a deity in religious pieces, but also the power of their sponsors. Jordi Savall invites us to relive the creation of two dazzling... |
INGVAR LIDHOLM
Lidholm: Orchestral Works (Incls Motus-colores) Lena Nordin (soprano) / Norrkaping Symphony Orchestra conducted by La Jia [ BIS / CD - released 3/May/2003 ] This is the second of three important releases featuring the complete orchestral music of the doyen of Swedish composers, Ingvar Lidholm who was born in 1921. |
PERGOLESI / VIVALDI
Stabat Mater Les Solistes de la Maitrise des Hauts-de-Seine / Gael Darchen (director) / Claire Pichon / Alix Le Saux / Ensemble Instrumental des Hauts-de-Seine [ Calliope / CD - released 30/Mar/2008 ] These two settings of the Stabat Mater provide fascinating contrasts: Vivaldi's being composed for solo voice, Pergolesi's for two voices; the former still little known, the latter one of the few works for which Pergolesi remains famous to this day.... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Finnish Works for Violin and Orchestra Linda Hedlund, La Tempesta Orchestra, Józef Hárs [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jan/2026 ] This recording explores the emotional depth, colour and inventiveness of Finnish concertante works for violin and orchestra. The pieces range across the transitional landscape of the country's national music during the 20th century, where mysticism,... |
GODZINSKY / KLAMI / FOUGSTEDT / SZENTIRMAY / PARTANEN / KASKI
Evening Dusk Serenade - Newly Discovered Finnish Works for Violin and Orchestra Linda Hedlund (violin), Elisa Järvi (piano) / La Tempesta Orchestra, Jyri Nissilä [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] The repertoire of Finnish music for violin and orchestra is full of hidden gems, with a substantial amount of works remaining unperformed and unpublished. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Attila (complete opera) Liudmyla Monastyrska, Stefano La Colla, Stefan Sbonnik, George Petean, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo / Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Ivan Repusic [ Br-Klassik / 2 CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Following Giuseppe Verdi's "Luisa Miller", with which Ivan Repušić made his debut as principal conductor of the Münchner Rundfunkorchester in September 2017, the conductor's successful cycle of early masterpieces by the famous Italian opera composer... |
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L'orchestre De La Suisse
Shostakovich/Kodaly:symph No.5 [ Testament / CD - released 24/Feb/2003 ] |
PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 1, 5, 6 LOrchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet [ Decca ABC Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/May/2009 ] These 2CD sets represent all of Ansermet's Prokofiev recordings for Decca. Both, the Paris Conservatoire and the Suisse Romande versions of the 'Classical' Symphony are included. |
DIAZ / GOMES / RIOS / GUOLLHERME / ROMERO / CASTRO / etc
Los Ecos de Manzanares: Canzionero de la Sablonara, 17th Century Spanish Court Music; La Boz Galana, Sebastian Leon Louis Capeille (double harp), Guillherme Barroso (baroque guitar), Lore Agustí (soprano), Sebastián León (baritone) / La Boz Galana [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2020 ] The Cancionero de la Sablonara is a collection made up of 75 polyphonic songs composed for the Royal Court of Madrid during the first two decades of the 17th century. The manuscript is named after Claudio de la Sablonara, copyist and archivist of... |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres Lucy Crowe (soprano) & Elizabeth Watts (sopranos) / La Nuova Musica, David Bates [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Sep/2016 ] "Crowe here offers an intense and dramatic reading of the first Leçon … Elizabeth Watts takes centre stage in the second setting - her voice plummy and voluptuous " (BBC Music) |
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater (with Bach - Cantatas) Lucy Crowe (soprano) & Tim Mead (counter-tenor) / La Nuova Musica, David Bates [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Apr/2017 ] "A performance as sophisticated emotionally as it is musically." Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2017 |
UMBERTO GIORDANO
Giordano: Andrea Chenier (complete opera recorded in 1931) Luigi Marini / Lina Bruna-Rasa / Carlo Galeffi / Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala / Lorenzo Molajoli [ Naxos Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] This is one of the more groundbreaking series of complete opera recordings made at the La Scala Opera in the early 1930's |
