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add to cart $64.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks RAMEAU Hippolyte et Aricie (Complete opera recorded in 2013) Glyndebourne Opera / Ed Lyon, Christiane Karg, Sarah Connolly / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, William Christie (conductor) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "if you don't grin and giggle you should check your pulse...But the performers hold wonderfully steady. Sarah Connolly's Phaedra throbs with the bottled desire and vulnerability expected of a queen in love with her stepson...Christie lavishes his lov
add to cart $72.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks PURCELL The Fairy Queen (complete opera recorded in 2009) Glyndebourne Opera / Sally Dexter, Joseph Millson, Desmond Barrit, Desmond Barrit, Lucy Crowe / William Christie, conductor [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Jul/2010 ] Gramophone Awards 2010: WINNER DVD Performance - "There are too many highlights to mention in this varied and infinitely delightful entertainment. Glyndebourne has a triumph on its hands." The Stage
add to cart $72.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks HENRY PURCELL Purcell: The Fairy Queen (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Sally Dexter, Joseph Millson, Desmond Barrit, Desmond Barrit, Susannah Wise / William Christie, conductor [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2010 ] "Jonathan Kent's joyous Glyndebourne production burst[s] with opulent stagecraft...Kent is abetted by William Christie in the pit, a man of the theatre down to his gainfully-employed fingertips...Altogether a riotously funny, ravishingly intelligent
add to cart $90.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL Handel: Giulio Cesare (complete opera recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Sarah Connolly / Angelika Kirchschlager / Danielle de Niese / Christophe Dumaux / Christopher Maltman / William Christie (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Apr/2009 ] G - "The sense of teamwork all round is confirmed in the interviews included in the extras. Robin Lough's DVD direction is faultless." (Gramophoen Classical Music Guide)
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks CHARPENTIER David & Jonathas (complete) Gérard Lesne, Monique Zanetti, Jean-François Gardeil, Dominique Visse, Véronique Gens / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2012 ] Released for the first time in 1988, 'David and Jonathan' is a timely reissue to coincide with Les Arts Florissants' concerts at the Edinburgh Festival, directed by William Christie.
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks HENRY PURCELL Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / The Fairy Queen Guillemette Laurens, Jill Feldman, Agnes Mellon, Nancy Argenta, Lynne Dawson, Veronique Gens, Sandrine Piau / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD Box Set - released 30/Jun/2014 ] "Purcell's semi-opera sounds fresh in this recording under Christie, with spirited playing from Les Arts Florissants and vivid singing from the large cast." (Five Stars BBC Music on The Fairy Queen)
add to cart $65.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks RAMEAU Rameau 1764-2014 [10 CD boxed set] Claron McFadden, Sandrine Piau, Isabelle Poulenard, Howard Crook, Jerome Correas / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 10 CD Box Set - released 11/Jan/2008 ] "These could be creaking performances after the passage of so much time but they're not are they, they're still vital and this set as a whole makes a very cost effective guide for anyone who's got a Rameau shaped hole on their record shelves" CDRevie
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks James David Christie Sweelinck:organ Works [ Naxos / CD ]
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks JAN PIETERSZOON SWEELINCK Organ Works James David Christie (organ) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2006 ] "with appealing registrations, an almost ideal choice of programme, good notes and undistractingly natural recording, Naxos have produced a single-CD anthology of this most companionable of organ composer that merits general recommendation" -...
add to cart $21.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks CAMPRA French Cantatas Jill Feldman (sop) Dominique Visse (counter-ten) Jean-Francois Gardeil (bar) / Les Arts Florissants. William Christie, dir [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] Une Europe galante… 'I have attempted as well as I could to mix the delicacy of French music with the vivacity of Italian music,' André Campra wrote in the Preface to his first book of cantatas. The clear-sightedness of the composer from...
add to cart $21.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks MONDONVILLE Piaces de clavecin avec voix ou violon Judith Nelson (soprano) Stanley Ritchie (violin) William Christie (cembalo) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 23/Feb/2008 ] The artistic director of the 'Concert Spirituel' from 1752 to 1762, Mondonville was one of the most fashionable composers in Paris due to his 'grands motets'. But it was in the field of chamber music that he was a real innovator. In creating the...
add to cart $45.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks J. S. BACH Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV232 [recorded live in 2016] Katherine Watson (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor) & André Morsch (baritone) / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2018 ] "At first the approach seems almost too light-toned and ethereal, but soon the intimacy of these modest forces takes an ineluctable grip. Textures are clear, tempi brisk - the Sanctus positively skips." The Observer
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks MICHEL RICHARD DE LALANDE De Lalande: Petits Motets Les Arts Florissants, dir. William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Jul/2018 ] These 'petites' compositions of sacred music for several soloists and a small instrumental ensemble are in a certain sense the pendants to the grands motets of Versailles: Lully's successor excelled in both forms. At the close of the 'Grand Siècle',...
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Handel: Music for the Queen Caroline Les Arts Florissants, dir. William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Jul/2018 ] The wife of George II of England, a woman of great beauty and a defender of both science and the arts, Caroline of Ansbach was also a patron and close friend of Handel. The works recorded here were composed for the major royal ceremonies which marked...
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY Lully: Petits Motets Les Arts Florissants, dir. William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Jul/2018 ] These little motets are not isolated curiosities in French religious music of the period: small motets and elevations, a term that indicates their place in the liturgy of the Mass, by Dumont, Robert, Danielis are other examples of the genre....
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks LAMBERT / COUPERIN / de la BARRE / CHARPENTIER / D'AMBRUYS Bien Que L'amour...Airs sérieux et à boire Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi Les Arts Florissants / CD - released 1/May/2016 ] With this anthology of airs sérieux and airs à boire of the Grand Siècle, Les Arts Florissants launches a new series on harmonia mundi. We may listen to the tracks on this disc as contemporaries turned the pages of successful collections of songs...
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER Charpentier: A Christmas oratorio (Un Oratorio de Noel) Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/Nov/2021 ] Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed some of the most important works of seventeenth-century French music on the subject of the Nativity and its tutelary figure, the Virgin Mary, from dramatic oratorios in Latin to secular cantatas in the vernacular....
add to cart $50.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER Charpentier: Médée Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD/Book - released 27/Sep/2019 ] Following the success of his biblical opera David et Jonathas, written for a Jesuit college, Louis-le-Grand, Charpentier produced Médée for the Royal Academy of Music, his one and only sublime example of the "tragédie lyrique" to reach the...
add to cart $21.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks CHARPENTIER Oratorios: Caecilia, virgo et martyr; Filius prodigus; Magnificat Les Arts Florissants / William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 16/Jun/2003 ] Superb examples of Charpentier's individual qualities: an acute sense of the word and an unprecedented dramatic effectiveness.
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER Charpentier: Te Deum Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] In 1989, William Christie and Les Arts Florissants recorded some of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's finest sacred music for Harmonia Mundi: his celebrated Te Deum alongside two deeply moving works dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Shunning any kind of...