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ALLESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Bella madre dei fiori-Cantatas Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) / Concerto Soave, Jean-Marc Aymes, director [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "Three chamber cantatas, including the finest Correa nel seno amato, its opening an outpouring of rare intensity and sustained despair. Tweaking tone controls softened a tungsten edge to Kiehr voice." (BBC Music) |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 And 2 Maria Kliegel (Cello) / Bournemouth Sinfonietta / Jean-Francois Monnard [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "It's all very virtuosic, and Maria Kliegel performs with impressive panache and precision. A most welcome addition to the catalogue." - Gramophone |
WEBER
Clarinet Concertos Martin Frost (clarinet) / Tapiola Sinfonietta / Jean-Jacques Kantorow [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] "This is an absolutely wonderful disc in every way. Weber's clarinet music is delightful, and it's hard to imagine it being better played or recorded. Martin Fröst has such a supple, liquid timbre that at times you could almost swear there were words... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Royal Brass Music of King James I / English Baroque Trumpet Music Maurice André, Jean Pirot (trumpets), Thurston Dart (harpsichord) Philomusica of London [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] 'If, like me, you find brass choirs irresistible, you should enjoy dipping into this collection.' High Fidelity, October 1961 (Royal Brass Music) |
MAX RICHTER
Mary Queen of Scots (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Max Richter, Dave Foster, Jane Marshall (cor anglais), Hugh Webb (harp), London Voices (chorus), Jean Kelly (celtic harp) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 25/Mar/2019 ] "It's a rich palette - strings, percussion, harp, cor anglais, glass armonica, choir - but the music is never over-embellished…Besides Celtic harp and some martial percussion, Richter steers clear of a particularly period sound, but delivers a robust... |
BERLIOZ
Damnation de Faust (complete) Michael Myers (Tenor) / Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Mezzo-soprano) / Alain Vernhes (Baritone) / Jean-Claude Casadesus (Conductor) [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 27/Jun/2006 ] "The cast is a good one, the orchestra idiomatic and Jean-Claude Casadesus, who has made his mark on disc before, is at the helm." (MusicWeb July 2006) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The World's Very Best Opera for Kids ... In English!-14 best loved arias the whole family will enjoy Michael Schade / Jean Stilwell / Allan Monk / Tracy Dahl / Daniel Taylor / Suzie Leblanc etc. [ Classical Kids / CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Hungarian Dances (with Dvorak - Slavonic Dances) Michel Beroff, Jean-Philippe Collard (pianos) [ EMI Gemini / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Brahms recommended Dvořák, eight years his junior, to his publisher, Simrock, in 1877 and the following year duly published the first set of Slavonic Dances which they commissioned. |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Symphonies transcribed for piano by Franz Liszt Michel Dalberto, Jean-Claude Pennetier, Alain Planès [ Harmonia Mundi / 7 CD ] This box set assembles the complete Beethoven symphonies, patiently transcribed for piano over a quarter of a century and recorded for harmonia mundi by a glittering array of soloists in the late 1980s. Liszt's assiduity in this task reminds us of... |
W.A. MOZART
Clarinet Quintet / Clarinet Trio Michel Portal (clarinet) Ragis Pasquier, Roland Daugareil, Bruno Pasquier, Roland Pidoux, Jean-Claude Pennetier [ Harmonia Mundi Mozart Edition / CD - released 1/Oct/2005 ] "This kind of playing is not often heard these days, for we seem to be obsessed with brilliance and energy. Everything just flows into its proper place, and the beauty of Mozart's world shines forth. Michel Portal is a sensitive clarinettist,... |
BERLIOZ
L'Enfance du Christ Op 25 (Complete oratorio) Michele Lagrange ; Orchestre National de Lille-Region Nord ; Choeur Regional Vittoria de l'Ille de France ; Jean-Claude Casadesus, conductor [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 4/Feb/2003 ] Hector Berlioz was born in 1803 at La Cote-St-Andre in the departement of Isere, the eldest son of a doctor of some local distinction. |
PETER EOTVOS
DoReMi / Cello Concerto Grosso / Speaking Drums Midori, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Martin Grubinger Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France [ Alpha / CD - released 10/Jul/2016 ] "The first of these three concertos was not only written for Midori, but playfully takes the (adjusted) syllables of her name as a quasi-tone row from which to concoct a tripartite argument." (Sunday Times) |
Mike Patton / Jean Claude Vannier
Corpse Flower [ Universal / CD - released 13/Sep/2019 ] Mike Patton and renowned French composer Jean-Claude Vannier, who is perhaps best known for his work with Serge Gainsbourg, have come together on the 12-song album, Corpse Flower. "Jean-Claude and I met while working together on a Gainsbourg... |
Mike Patton / Jean-Claude Vannier
Corpse Flower (LP) [ Universal / LP - released 13/Sep/2019 ] Mike Patton and renowned French composer Jean-Claude Vannier, who is perhaps best known for his work with Serge Gainsbourg, have come together on the 12-song album, Corpse Flower. "Jean-Claude and I met while working together on a Gainsbourg... |
VERDI / MONTEVERDI / MOZART / BOESMANS
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence Vol.2 - La Traviata / L'Incoronazione di Poppea / Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail / Julie (complete operas) Mireille Delunsch / Anne Sofie von Otter / Matthew Polenzani / Marc Minkowski / Zeljko Lucic / Jean-Paul Fouchecourt / and more [ Bel Air Classiques / 4 DVD Box Set - released 17/Oct/2011 ] Four operas filmed in the Aix-en-Provence Festival from 2000 to 2006 in a limited edition box sets: internationnaly acclaimed productions of L'Incoronazione di Poppea by Klaus Michael Grüber, Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Deschamps & Makeïeff or... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 (Arr. for string orchestra) Montreal Players / Jean-Philippe Tremblay [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Nov/2006 ] "These (arrangements) were done with tremendous respect for Schumann's work. It is an experiment and I had no desire whatever to change in any way the composer's original vision." |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Leonore Nathalie Paulin, Jean-Michel Richer, Stephen Hegedus, Matthew Scollin, Pascale Beaudin, Keven Geddes, Alexandre Sylvestre, Opera Lafayette, Ryan Brow [ Naxos / Blu-ray - released 8/Jan/2021 ] Beethoven started composing Leonore in January 1804. The subject - the release to freedom of an unjustly imprisoned man by his devoted wife - was part of the genre of 'rescue operas' which were very popular at the end of the 18th century. The... |
JOSEPH JONGEN
Complete Works for Viola and Piano Nathan Braude (viola) / Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden (piano) [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 28/Sep/2011 ] The composer left behind him an extremely rich and qualitative solo repertoire for viola players. |
CÉSAR FRANCK
Franck: Rédemption The Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Jean Fournet [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] César Franck described his Rédemption as a "Poème-symphonie", a hybrid work in which choral parts and solo arias are interspersed with spoken recitative (often omitted in modern performances as they are in this recording) and including a purely... |
C.P.E. BACH
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Nevermind, Anna Besson, Louis Creac'h, Robin Pharo; Jean Rondeau [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] For their third album on Alpha, the musicians of Nevermind - Anna Besson (flute), Louis Creac'h (viola), Robin Pharo (viola da gamba) and Jean Rondeau (harpsichord) - explore the riches of a little-played repertory, the quartets and sonatas of Carl... |
