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GREGORIO ALLEGRI / CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Anamorfosi Le Poème Harmonique / Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] "This is an album so nuanced you can almost taste it." Recording of the Month Awards Issue 2019 |
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ANTOINE BOESSET
Boesset: Je Meurs Sans Mourir Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] From the Alpha Collection III of reissues restoring to the limelight some of the gems of early music repertory in their catalogue of labels. The discs in this series allow listeners to renew acquaintance with treasures of the Renaissance and Baroque,... |
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LUIS DE BRICENO
El Fenix de Paris Le Poème Harmonique / Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha / CD - released 26/Sep/2011 ] On this album discover le Poème Harmonique in a repertoire bearing the marked touch of popular Spanish music, accompanied by the delightful song of Isabelle Druet and Claire Lefilliâtre. |
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BULL / GIBBONS / JOHNSON / MORLEY / HOLBORNE / ANONYMOUS
Love is Strange - works for lute consort Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Essential Baroque Masterpieces / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] Stylish performances of familiar (Greensleeves, Sellengers Rounde and Dowland's Lachrymæ) and unfamiliar music by Anthony Holborne (?-1602) and contemporaries. |
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JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Lully: Le bourgeois gentilhomme Le Poème Harmonique; Vincent Dumestre [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] In 1670, Molière and Lully presented to the King Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, a sumptuous Comédie-Ballet performed by Molière's Troupe, with musicians conducted by Lully, ballets by Pierre Beauchamp, scenery by Carlo Vigarani and Turkish costumes by the... |
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SEBASTIAN DURON
Durón: Coronis Le Poème Harmonique; Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 11/Feb/2022 ] This recording provides an opportunity to discover a forgotten Baroque operatic treasure, a zarzuela, the key dramatic and musical genre of the Spanish Golden Age. Sumptuous choruses, poignant arias and folksongs blend in a rich and spectacular... |
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SCLAVIS / PIFARELY / COURTOIS
Asian Field Variations Louis Sclavis (clarinet), Dominique Pifarely (violin), Vincent Courtois (violoncello) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] Asian Fields Variation marks the first time that clarinettist Louis Sclavis, violinist Dominique Pifarély and cellist Vincent Courtois have recorded as a trio. Sclavis summoned the project into existence, but this is a democratic group of creative... |
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Maria Callas (soprano), Angelina Jolie (narrator), Pierfrancesco Favino (narrator), Vincent Macaigne (narrator)
Maria (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [ Warner / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from the movie Maria, directed by Pablo Larraín, written by Steven Knight, which delves into the tumultuous final days of the iconic opera singer in 1970s Paris, interpreted by Angelina Jolie. |
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Maria Callas (soprano), Angelina Jolie (narrator), Pierfrancesco Favino (narrator), Vincent Macaigne (narrator)
Maria (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (LP) [ Warner / 2 LP - released 14/Feb/2025 ] The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from the movie Maria, directed by Pablo Larraín, written by Steven Knight, which delves into the tumultuous final days of the iconic opera singer in 1970s Paris, interpreted by Angelina Jolie. |
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Mark Vincent
Best So Far [ Sony CD / CD - released 24/Oct/2014 ] At the age of 15 Mark Vincent was the 2009 winner of Australia's Got Talent. Since then he has gone on to release five hugely successful albums. Each of his releases has achieved a #1 spot on the classical chart as well as topping the ARIA album... |
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HENRY PURCELL
Dido and Aeneas (complete opera recorded in 2014) Opera de Rouen / Vivica Genaux, Henk Neven, Ana Quintans, Marc Mauillon / Vincent Dumestre (cond) [ Alpha DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] CHOEUR ACCENTUS Vivica GENAUX Dido Henk NEVEN Æneas Ana QUINTANS Belinda Marc MAUILLON Sorceress, Marin Vincent DUMESTRE Musical direction Cécile ROUSSAT & Julien LUBEK Staging, Choregraphy, Set, Costumes Laurent CASTAINGT Lights Stéphane... |
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HENRI DUTILLEUX
Dutilleux: Le Loup / La Fille du Diable / Mélodies / etc Vincent Le Texier (baritone) / Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Pascal Rophé [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 16/Feb/2016 ] In the centennial year of the composer's birth, the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire and Pascal Rophé present a programme which focuses on works composed before 1954, and offers the opportunity to discover a less familiar side of Dutilleux |
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GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater Patrizia Bovi (soprano), Pino de Vittorio (tenor), Bernard Arrieta (bass) / Chantres de la Chapelle, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] This recording stands out insofar as it restores the context of the sun-drenched, dramatic processions through the streets of Naples.: the singing and playing of professional musicians mingled with ritual dances and other singing. |
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J.S. BACH
Concertos for 2,3 and 4 harpsichords Pieter-Jan Belder, Menno van Delft, Siebe Henstra, Vincent van Laar (harpsichords) / Musica Amphion / Pieter-Jan Belder [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] Sowing machines or musical instruments? Today, in the era of (copies of) period instruments harpsichords can not be mistaken for machines any more. Not even when four of them are playing simultaneously. |
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François Salque / Vincent Peirani / Tomás Gubitsch
Tanguillo [ Zig-Zag Territoires / CD - released 20/May/2013 ] Their two sonorities, as magnificent as they are different, intertwine and interlace amid the melodic and rhythmic undulations of the pieces, sometimes adapted, sometimes created by Vincent Peirani, Jocelyn Mienniel, and Tomás Gubitsch. |
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KEATS / WORDSWORTH / SHELLEY / COLERIDGE / BYRON / BLAKE
Poetry of the English Romantics Sir Ralph Richardson / Sir Cedric Hardwicke / Tyrone Power / Vincent Price [ Forum / 3 CD Box Set - released 9/Aug/2013 ] Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir Cecile Hardwicke, Vincent Price and Tyrone Power read the poetry of the English Romantics |
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St Vincent
Actor [ 4AD / CD - released 4/May/2009 ] The follow-up to St. Vincent's (Annie Clark's) first album "Marry Me" (2007) features eleven new songs, all written and arranged by Clark. The arrangements are more masterful, the songwriting grander, the performances ever more confident and... |
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St Vincent
All Born Screaming (Red Vinyl LP) [ Virgin / LP - released 26/Apr/2024 ] Album number seven and St. Vincent continues to thrill, educate and be innovative. Her first fully self-produced album (having co-produced every one of her previous efforts), All Born Screaming is St. Vincent at her most primal. Featuring Clark... |
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St Vincent
Daddy's Home [ Virgin / CD - released 21/May/2021 ] Daddy's Home, the sixth album from Annie Clark a/k/a St. Vincent, is the latest facet of an ever-evolving artist regarded by many as the most consistently innovative and intriguing presence in modern music. Annie Clark made her recorded debut as St.... |
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St. Vincent
Marry Me [ Beggars Banquet Records / CD - released 5/Nov/2007 ] 'Marry Me's songs are literary, evocative, and complicated; their dramatic ebb and flow is wildly varied, but a smooth and cohesive ride through and through. "Elegantly crafted and darkly mischievous... |