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Raffaele La Ragione (mandolin), Il Pomo d'Oro, Francesco Corti
Mandolin on Stage [ Arcana / CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] Two years after the great acclaim aroused by Beethoven and his Contemporaries, his first recording for Arcana ('Young Raffaele La Ragione is to the mandolin today what Gustav Leonhardt once was to the harpsichord' - Le Monde), Raffaele La Ragione... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Serenata Napoletana: Music for mandolin and piano Raffaele La Ragione (mandolin) & Giacomo Ferrari (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] This release invites to you an evening in Naples, one of the most beautiful and romantic cities in the world, and listen to an enchanting collection of Neapolitan songs, played by the mandolin, the instrument most closely related to that city of... |
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ERWIN SCHULHOFF
Schulhoff: Flammen Raymond Very (Don Jun), Iris Vermillion (La Morte), Arnold Schoenberg Chor, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bertrand De Billy [ Capriccio / 2 CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] In the 1920s and 30s, Czechoslovakia was flourishing culturally and boasted a multi-faceted musical scene. In considering the works of composers such as Pavel Haas, Gideon Klein, Hans Krása, Viktor Ullmann and Erwin Schulhoff, we can see how they... |
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JEAN SIBELIUS / SAMUEL BARBER
Sibelius/Barber: Violin Concertos Renaud Capucon (violin) / Orchestre de la Suisse Romande,.Daniel Harding, conductor [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 21/Feb/2025 ] Renaud Capuçon's new album is a return to core repertoire: Sibelius's Violin Concerto, op.47, and Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, op.14 - recorded with Daniel Harding as conductor and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Prima Donna in Paris Regine Crespin (soprano) / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Wiener Volksopernorchester / Alain Lombard / Georges Sebastian [ Decca Originals / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] 'I am sure she enjoyed herself enormously, and on any count she stands very high in the list of Parisian prima donnas celebrated in this set ... she has been splendidly served by her accompanists, not to mention the recording engineers.' Gramophone... |
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MATTHIAS WECKMANN
Complete Works Ricercar Consort, La Fenice [ Ricercar / 5 CD Box Set - released 22/Apr/2016 ] Matthias Weckmann is doubtless the most fascinating Hamburg composer of the mid-17th century. A disciple of Schütz, nurtured on Italian music and, in particular, that of Claudio Monteverdi, he shone in all genres, achieving an impressive blending of... |
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Ricercar Consort/La Pastorella
Telemann: Les Plaisirs De La T [ Ricercar / 7 CD - released 24/Nov/2008 ] |
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J. S. BACH
Mass in B minor Roberta Invernizzi, Lynne Dawson (sops) Gloria Banditelli (mezzo) Christoph Prégardien (ten) Klaus Mertens (bass) / Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2012 ] This famous recording, licensed from the Swiss label Arts, is based on the Historically Informed Performance Practice, and presents the best voices in this field: Roberta Invernizzi, Lynn Dawson, Gloria Banditelli and Christoph Prégardien. |
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FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 39 Roberto Cappello (piano) / Coro Luca Marenzio, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] Busoni's monumental Piano Concerto was completed in 1904 and remains the longest piano concerto to have been heard in public. He thought of the work as his 'Italian Symphony' but this Concerto for piano, orchestra and male chorus is an unclassifiable... |
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ANDRE MESSAGER
Messager: Les P'tites Michu (complete operetta) Romain Dayez, Pierre Dumoussaud, Anne-Aurore Cochet, Marie Lenormand / Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Pierre Dumoussaud [ Bru Zane / 2 CD/Book - released 11/Jan/2019 ] "The cast is predominantly youthful, as is the conductor Pierre Dumoussaud. Their account of the work is uniformly spirited, energetic, sympathetique and also full of comic broadness. But there's the rub." Opera |
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Roos/La Pastorella
Les Flutes D'angleterre [ Ricercar / CD ] |
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Roos/La Pastorella
Vivaldi: Concertos [ Ricercar / 2 CD - released 1/May/2011 ] |
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GEORG ANTON BENDA
Harpsichord Concertos Sabine Bauer (Harpsichord) / La Stagione Frankfurt / Michael Schneider [ CPO SACD / CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] CPO presents the enthralling harpsichord concertos of Georg Anton Benda in surround sound. These magnificent works, probably composed around 1780-90, place the highest technical demands on the virtuoso soloist Sabine Bauer, and she more than rises to... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven Révolution Vol. II Symphonies 6 to 9 Sara Gouzy, Salome Fischer, Mingjie Lei, Manuel Walser / Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Nacional de Catalunya, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / 3 CD Box Set - released 25/Feb/2022 ] "This is a very special release...Savall's may well have just become my favourite period-instrument Beethoven cycle of them all." Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Orchestral |
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: Works for Violin and Orchestra Saténik Khourdoïan; Alain Altinoglu; La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 11/Jun/2021 ] Exchanging roles between soloist and Konzertmeisterin, the accomplished young violinist Saténik Khourdoïan here makes her recording debut in an exciting programme with La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and its acclaimed Music Director Alain Altinoglu.... |
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MICHEL RICHARD de LALANDE
Symphonies pour les soupers du Roy Sébastien Marq, Marie-Ange Petit, Gilles Rapin, Jérôme Hantaï La Simphonie du Marais, Hugo Reyne [ Harmonia Mundi Heritage / 4 CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] With this first-ever complete recording of the legendary Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roy in 1990, Hugo Reyne produced a set of discs as varied as it is comprehensive. Twenty-five years later - and 300 years after the death of Louis XIV! - it still... |
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Schneider/La Stagione
Abel:symphonies 1 - 6 [ Cpo / CD ] |
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Schneider/La Stagione
Holzbauer:gunter Von Schw. [ Cpo / 3 CD ] |
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Schneider/La Stagione
Telemann:don Quixote [ Cpo / CD ] |
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MOZART
Mozart: Requiem La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-ÉlyséesPhilippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] Tired by his many voyages around Europe ever since he had been rejected in Vienna, Mozart could not find the strength to honour his promise to compose a Requiem in record time for the person who had commissioned it. |