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SAINT-SAENS / LISZT / ARENSKY / HANDEL / DEBUSSY / PIERNE / etc
Women at the Piano-An anthology of Historic performances, Vol. 1 Various pianists including Aline Isabelle van Barentzen, Jeanne Behrend, Sari Biro, Una Mabel Bourne, Emma Boynet, Moura Lympany, etc [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Jun/2006 ] "Bravo to Naxos! This is an amazing tribute to the woman pianist; and for Marina and Victor Ledin, the producers and audio restoration engineers, this is pure triumph. The scope of repertoire included is amazing, yet it is the sheer excellence of the... |
JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Operas Victoria de los Angeles, Nicolai Gedda, Cheryl Studer, Beverly Sills, Renee Doria, Teresa Berganza, Jose van Dam, Sherrill Milnes, etc [ Erato / 16 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2018 ] "This is as good a performance as we are likely to get of this persuasive work. Victoria de los Angeles as Charlotte is adorable, both in character and in the sheer beauty of sound." (Gramophone on Werther) |
SAINT-SAENS / BLOCH / CHAUSSON / BRUCH / TCHAIKOVSKY / etc
Incantation Virgil Boutellis-Taft (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jac van Steen [ Aparté / CD - released 21/Feb/2020 ] Incantation holds many mysteries. The brilliant violinist Virgil Boutellis-Taft strips away the veil of its secret powers, the ones that lie inside his violin's fascinating chant. |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Orphée aux enfers Vox Luminis / A Nocte Temporis / Lionel Meunier / Reinoud Van Mechelen [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Jan/2020 ] The Orpheus myth was as important for the birth of opera in France as it had been in Italy. In 1684, Charpentier composed a work for three voices, Orphée descendant aux Enfers. With this piece, remarkable for its style and concision, he showed how... |
JEAN-BAPTISTE LEMOYNE
Lemoyne: Phedre (complete opera production from 1786) Judith van Wanroij, Julien Behr, Tassis Christoyannis, Melody Louledjian, Jérôme Boutillier / Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi [ Bru Zane / 2 CD/Book - released 24/Apr/2020 ] "Lemoyne demonstrates impressive integrity as a musical dramatist…The central performances all stand up to scrutiny. Judith van Wanroij's Phèdre hones in on the text, its meaning carefully embedded in the composer's setting" BBC Music Five Stars |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Médée Véronique Gens, Cyrille Dubois, Judith van Wanroij, Thomas Dolié, David Witczak Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / 3 CD - released 22/Mar/2024 ] Médée, a tragedy in a prologue and five acts on a libretto by Thomas Corneille, was Marc-Antoine Charpentier's first and last collaboration with the Académie Royale de Musique. The work was premiered on 4 December 1693, when Charpentier was exactly... |
CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: Le tribut de Zamora (complete opera) Judith van Wanroij, Jennifer Holloway, Edgaras Montvidas, Tassis Christoyannis / Münchner Rundfunkorchester [ Bru Zane Ediciones Singulares / 2 CD/Book - released 7/Sep/2018 ] After Polyeucte (1878), Gounod tackled the operatic genre for the last time in 1881 with what is probably his most ambitious work, Le Tribut de Zamora. The action takes place in ninth-century Spain - from Act Two onwards, on 'a picturesque site on... |
ANDRÉ CAMPRA / HENRY DESMAREST
Desmarets & Campra : Iphigénie en Tauride Véronique Gens, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Thomas Dolié, David Witczak, Olivia Doray, Floriane Hasler; Tomislav Lavoie; Le Concert Spirituel; Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Nearly a century before Gluck, another opera called Iphigénie en Tauride - same plot, same protagonists - had immense success on the opera stage. This 'first' Iphigénie has rather a curious history. |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: The Trio Sonata Project Walter van Hauwe, recorders; Tripla Concordia (Lorenzo Cavasanti, recorders; Sergio Ciomei, harpsichord & organ; Caroline Boersma, violoncello; Manuel [ Arcana / CD - released 22/Mar/2019 ] Johann Sebastian Bach has always been considered one of the greatest music transcribers of all times. Many of his transcriptions (mostly the ones from Italian composers Vivaldi and Marcello) have become instant classics, and they are still viewed as... |
FRANK MARTIN
Concertos Vol 2 Willi Zimmermann (violin) Rudolf Scheidegger (Cembalo) / Musikkollegium Winterthur / Jac van Steen [ MDG SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] The Collegium Musicum of Winterthur under the conductor Jac van Steen continues its MDG series of recordings of twentieth-century works with a second volume featuring Frank Martin's orchestral works. |
Wim van Dullemen
Hartmann, Thomas de - Music for Gurdjieff's '39 Series [ Channel Crossings / 2 CD - released 6/Dec/2001 ] history and development of the special music created by Thomas-de-Hartmann |
HARTMANN, VON GRUNELIUS, HINDEMITH, FISCHER
Chant d'Automne Wim Van Hassel (trumpet) [ Channel Classics / CD - released 20/May/2016 ] The title of this CD, featuring two world premieres (Grunelius and Fischer), is taken from the composition by the German pianist and composer Wilhelm von Grunelius. The inspiration for his work for flugelhorn, timpani and strings came from the poem... |
DANASE / MAIER / MICHEL / PADDING / PURCELL / etc
Tintomara Wim Van Hasselt (trumpet) & Jorgen Van Rijen (trombone) [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] "There is indeed little that these players cannot project in terms of multifacted lyricism, colour and dramatic presence, and this is matched by the very best in modern brass programming…all the facets of this project are outstanding and it starts wi |
CARL ORFF
Carmina Burana Yeree Suh (soprano), Yves Saelens (tenor), Thomas Bauer (baritone) / Anima Eterna Brugge, Collegium vocale gent & Cantate Domino, Jos van Immerseel [ Zig-Zag / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] "Carmina Burana as you've never heard it before; a triumph for all concerned." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb Nov 2014) |
J.S. BACH
Easter Oratorio: Kommt, eilet und laufet, BWV249 / Ascension Oratorio: Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV11 Yukari Nonoshita (soprano) Patrick van Goethem (counter-tenor) Jan Kobow (tenor) / Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] "if you buy only one recording, buy the Suzuki." (MusicWeb March 2006) |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection' Yvonne Kenny, Jard van Nes / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Klaus Tennstedt [ LPO Live / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] "The LPO, giving everything to their former chief, play like creatures possessed." (The Sunday Times) |
Anneke Van Giersbergen
Drive [ CD - released 27/Sep/2013 ] "Drive" - the fifth studio album of Dutch singer-songwriter (ex- The Gathering) Anneke van Giersbergen - shows Anneke to be on top form and more multifaceted than ever, with songs ranging from her signature intimate ballads to euphoric stadium rock... |
Armin Van Buuren
Embrace [ 405 Recordings / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] Embrace is the sixth full-length original studio album by leading electronic dance music DJ and producer, Armin van Buuren. |
Armin Van Buuren
Mirage [ 405 Recordings / CD - released 6/Sep/2010 ] |
Armin Van Buuren
A State Of Trance 2014 [ 405 Recordings / 2 CD - released 16/May/2014 ] |
