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ANONYMOUS
El Cant de la Sibil-la 1400-1560: Catalunya Montserrat Figueras & La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall, dir [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] Thanks to this historic recording, one of Astrée's biggest successes, Montserrat Figueras established her reputation as the high priestess of this repertoire. A must-have for any lover of ancient music |
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TRADITIONAL
El Cant de la Sibil-la 1400-1560: Mallorca, Valancia Montserrat Figueras & La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Jordi Savall, dir [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Oct/2004 ] "This is a recording which really does touch on that indefinable edge where musical expression becomes something transcendent and numinous." - MusicWeb May 2000 |
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Montserrat Figueras & La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Jordi Savall, dir
El Chant de la Sibil.la 1400-1560 : Mallorca, Valancia [ Alia Vox / CD - released 25/Jan/2001 ] The ancient songs are filled with gravitas and wonder, and Figueras has the vocal clarity and projection, coupled with beauty of tone and shear passion, to send shivers down the spine. This is a recording which really does touch on that indefinable... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
El Nuevo Mundo - Folias Criollas Montserrat Figueras (singer) / Tembembe Ensamble Continuo / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/May/2010 ] After meeting the musical traditions of the New World, the European Baroque repertoire enriched itself with new colours and rhythms, which make it irresistible. Jordi Savall invites us to an unprecedented instrumental and vocal journey from Spain to... |
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TRADITIONAL
Cancons de la Catalunya Millenaria [with comprehensive booklet] Montserrat Figueras (soprano) / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] This album is a landmark of in the career of Montserrat Figueras : her innovative style of interpretation, characterised by great fidelity to the historical sources combined with an extraordinary creative power, sounds at its best. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Misteri d'Elx - Homenatge al: La Vespra (Sacred Drama for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) Montserrat Figuerras, Marlia Vargas, Arianna Savall, La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / CD - released 15/May/2004 ] "Listed by UNESCO on its list of masterpieces of oral history, the Mystery of Elche is a powerful work with deep roots. Jordi Savall does this sort of music with a tremendous sense of idiom, and he conjures some amazing sounds from his Catalonian... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Complete works on 170 CDs Mozart Akademie Amsterdam, Jaap ter Linden, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Ton Koopman, La Petite Bande, etc [ Brilliant Classics Mozart Edition / 170 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "The performances and recordings always seem by experience or repute either at least good and at best outstanding..Mozart is one of the greats so if you are tempted by the low price don't feel you have to hold back." (MusicWeb Dec 2010) |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosí fan Tutte, Die Zauberflöte; Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande Monica Groop, Huub Claessens, Nancy Argenta, Christina Högman, Soile Isokoski, Harry van de Kamp / La Petite Bande [ Brilliant Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2019 ] "..this is an excellent way to obtain four of Mozart's greatest works, well performed, cleanly recorded and at a very modest price point." Gramophone |
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JOSEPH CANTELOUBE
Canteloube: Songs Of The Auvergne [24 numbers] Netania Davrath (Soprano) / Orchestra conducted by Pierre De La Roche [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] "The Chants d'Auvergne are not easy to sing and demand a well-trained voice. But Canteloube did not want them to be sung in an overtly operatic fashion; he preferred an earthier, more unaffected approach. And that is the great glory of Netania... |
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PASCAL DUSAPIN
Dusapin: Concertante Works Nicolas Hodges, Natascha Petrinsky, Carolin Widmann, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Pascal Rophé (conductor) [ BIS / CD - released 30/Nov/2018 ] Pascal Dusapin has composed a number of works for the stage, one of the more recent being the opera Penthesilea, after Kleist's play. From the opera he has also fashioned Wenn Du dem Wind…, the suite which opens this disc. Although beginning and... |
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O De La Societe Des Concerts
Masenet/Adam/Auber/Herold/Supp [ Testament / CD - released 7/Jul/2003 ] |
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O De La Societe Des Concerts
Prokofiev: Symphonies 5 & 7 [ Testament / CD - released 5/May/2003 ] |
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CASELLA
Notte di maggio / Cello Concerto / Scarlattiana Olivia Andreini (mezzo-soprano) / Andrea Noferini (cello) / Sun Hee You (piano) / Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "A beautiful disc, and one that collectors should snap up without delay." (9/9 ClassicsToday.com) |
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Orch De La Suisse Romande
Mozart: Symphonies 29 & 34 [ Testament / CD - released 7/Jul/2003 ] |
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Orch Sinf Di Roma/La Vecchia
Mancinelli: Scene Veneziane [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] |
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OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Complete Orchestral Music Volume 2 [Incls 'Trittico Botticelliano'] Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco la Vecchia [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/2012 ] The second installment of the Complete Orchestral Works of Ottorino Respighi contains a wealth of the slightly lesser known works (the most famous of course being the Roman Trilogy, issued in the first volume) of the highest quality: the luminous... |
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OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Maria Egiziaca Orchestra e Coro del Teatro la Fenice, Manlio Benzi [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jan/2026 ] Ottorino Respighi's Maria Egiziaca, described by the composer as a 'mystery in three episodes', narrates the life of Saint Mary of Egypt in a profoundly moving and deeply sensuous musical representation of Christian faith as seen through its various... |
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GIOVANNI SGAMBATI
Sgambati: Symphony No. 2 / Sinfonia Epitalamio ('Nuptial Symphony') Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI, Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Giovanni Sgambati, a composer admired by Wagner, was the man Busoni predicted would take Italian music 'towards a bright new future'. Sgambati's Symphony No. 2 is a compendium of Austro-Germanic devices whose mix of chromaticism and melodic invention... |
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OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: The Complete Orchestral Music [8 CD set] Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Brilliant Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 22/Aug/2015 ] The only edition of the orchestral works by Respighi, now available in a 8CD set! |
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OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Complete Orchestral Music Vol 1 [Incls 'Roman Festivals'] Orchestra Sinfonica Di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2012 ] "La Vecchia secures eloquently wrought readings" (Gramophone) |