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GUILMANT / VIERNE / DUPRE
Organ Works Kristiaan Seynhave (organ, Heuvel du Victoria-Hall de Geneve) [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 20/Aug/2009 ] Van den Heuvel (organ) |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
The very best of Handel: Excerpts from orchestral, vocal, keyboard and chamber works Kym Amps (soprano) Ulrike Andersen (alto) Johann Aratore (organ) Anthony Camden (oboe) Alan Cuckston (harpsichord) and many others [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Dec/2005 ] Presented in a stylish slipcase with a modern take on John Minnion's composer cartoons, with detailed track listings and accessible texts on the composer's life and an overview of their most famous works. |
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SAMMARTINI
Concertos for the organ, Op. 9 La Risonanza / Fabio Bonizzoni (organ) [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] La Risonanza |
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ALLESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Responsories For Holy Week - Holy Saturday La Stagione Armonica, Carlo Steno Rossi (organ), Sergio Balestracci [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Aug/2018 ] "The 16-strong La Stagione Armonica are not, it must be said, as smooth as many of the comparable mixed choirs in the field today, nor even as in tune, but the sound they make is appealing in its firm-throated expressiveness and in the way Balestracc |
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MATEO FLECHA
Ensaladas (with de Cabezon - Diferencias) La Stagione Armonica / Concerto di Viole 'Amoroso' / Sergio Balestracci / Massimiliano Raschietti (organ) [ CPO SACD / SACD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] La Stagione Armonica; Concerto di Viole 'L'Amoroso', Sergio Balestracci |
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PETERIS VASKS
Vasks: Laudate Dominum Latvian Radio Choir & Sinfonietta Riga, Sigvards Kļava, with Ilze Reine (organ) [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Jul/2018 ] This release includes new works written by Peteris Vasks (b. 1946), internationally the most well-known composer from Latvia, performed by his compatriots, the Latvian Radio Choir and Sinfonietta Riga under the direction of Sigvards Klava. During the... |
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TOMKINS
Choral and Organ Works Laurence Cummings (organ) / Oxford Camerata; Jeremy Summerly, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jan/2004 ] "Much of the music on this excellent recording was composed during Tomkins's final decade, before his death in 1656 in relative obscurity... At all times, the Oxford Cameratta, led by Jeremy Summerly, sing with the clarity and purity of voice... |
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GEOFFROY
Music For Choir And Organ Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet (Organ And Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "It's remarkable to have such obscure repertoire, performed so admirably, at the price of this disc. The most important Geoffroy issue yet" - Fanfare |
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MENDELSSOHN
Organ Works: Mendelssohn in London Leo van Doeselaar (Thomas Hill Organ, St. Pieterskerk Leiden) [ MDG SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] When Mendelssohn first played the organ in England, he surprised his public with his virtuosity, which was completely unknown to the British on this instrument. His pedal playing was particularly impressive, and as a consequence England's extremely... |
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Lincoln Minster School Chamber Choir, Aric Prentice, with Charles Harrison (organ)
Great Hymns from Lincoln [ Priory / CD - released 15/Mar/2013 ] "The singing is solid and secure throughout, but the choir is definitely at its strongest during the unaccompanied passages, where the balance between vocal parts is very good, the diction at its clearest and the ensemble tight." MusicWeb |
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BRUCKNER
Symphony No.8 in C minor (transcribed by Lionel Rogg) Lionel Rogg (organ) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Mar/1998 ] Lionel Rogg plays his own transcription of Bruckner's massive 8th Symphony on the van den Heuvel organ of the Victoria Hall, Geneva. |
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J. S. BACH
Die Kunst der Fuge [Art of Fugue] Léon Berben (organ) [ Ramee / CD - released 28/Sep/2011 ] Berben's interpretation is characterised by the rigour of his textual reading and his vivacious playing - without doubt a new benchmark in the recording history of the piece. |
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STEPHEN HOUGH
Mirabilis: The Music of Stephen Hough London Choral Sinfonia, James Orford (organ), Michael Waldron (conductor) [ Orchid Classics / CD - released 15/Sep/2023 ] Named by The Economist as one of Twenty Living Polymaths, Sir Stephen Hough combines a worldwide career as a pianist with those of composer and writer. ""My father said that I had memorised seventy nursery rhymes by the age of two. This sounds... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel at Vauxhall, Volume 1 Kirsty Hopkins (soprano) Eleanor Dennis (soprano) Greg Tassell (tenor) Charles MacDougall (tenor) Daniel Moult (organ) / London Early Opera, Bridget C [ Signum / CD - released 4/May/2016 ] "an attractive potpourri by Handel and others. These bright, lively accounts of music which we know was heard at Vauxhall include an aria from Acis and Galatea and a fine John Hebden concerto, and to close, the glorious duet As steals the morn from H |
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J. S. BACH
Trio Sonatas / Suite BWV997 Lorenzo Cavasanti (recorder / transverse flute) & Sergio Ciomei (harpsichord / organ) [ Dynamic / CD - released 20/Apr/2016 ] The Trio Sonatas occupy an important position in J. S. Bach's extensive output of chamber music, both for their number and the variety of instrumental groups for which they were written. On this CD, flautist Lorenzo Cavasanti weaves an intense... |
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C. P. E. BACH
CPE Bach: Complete Organ Music Luca Scandali (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2014 ] From the outset the sonatas met with widespread favour, with their galant style, full of good humour and energy...The chorale preludes are naturally more clean-cut and sombre but they still take the opportunity for colourful musical illustration. |
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LIGETI / MATTER / PERETTI / ESSL / FITKIN etc
Le Nuove Musiche Luca Scandali (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] This new recording presents an anthology of organ compositions written in Europe during the last 70 years. From a stylistic point of view the new organ installed at the Parish Church of Our Lady of Fatima in Pinerolo is suitable for a variety of... |
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BALDASSARE GALUPPI
Galuppi: Organ Sonatas Luca Scandali (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] Baldassare Galuppi (1706‐1785) was born in Venice, where he spent much of his life, although he travelled Europe extensively, holding important musical posts at the courts of London and St. Petersburg. He was a famous keyboard player as well as an... |
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PELLEGRINI & PADOVANO
Pellegrini & Padovano: Complete Organ Music Luca Scandali (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 13/Apr/2018 ] This collection of Toccatas, Ricercars and Canzones by Annibale Padovanoand Vincenzo Pellegrini comprises examples of all the main forms o fItalian organ music of the Renaissance, the Golden Age in which keyboardmusic flourished and huge leaps of... |
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RINK
Works For Organ Ludger Lohmann (Organ) [ NAXOS / CD ] |