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... |
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... |
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. |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel - The Early Ansermet Recordings Motet de Genève / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 9/Apr/2007 ] Recorded between October 1951 and June 1953, these mono recordings have been much prized and sought-after by collectors and now reappear on CD at super-budget price. Ravel and Ansermet were well acquainted and that adds a special authenticity to... |
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Antar / May Night / The Tale of Tsar Saltan / The Flight of the Bumblebee / Capriccio Espagnol / etc Motet de Genève / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Paris Conservatoire Orch / Ernest Ansermet [ Decca ABC Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "The Tsar Saltan suite shows Ansermet and the Decca engineers in glittering form... The Christmas Eve suite is played with much affection and that mixture of spontaneity and remarkably graphic orchestral palette which made Ansermet's performances... |
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) |
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 |
CANTELOUBE
Songs Of The Auvergne [complete] Netania Davrath (Soprano) / Orchestra conducted by Pierre De La Roche [ ALTO / 2 CD - released 25/Jan/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die - "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 Davrath's classic... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Serenade No. 4 in D major, KV 203 / Serenade No. 9 in D major, KV 320 'Posthorn' New Symphony Orchestra / Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Peter Maag [ Decca ABC Eloquence / CD - released 16/Jun/2006 ] Newly mastered from the original tapes and released on Decca for the first time, this Maag release couples the familiar Posthorn Serenade with the lesser known D major, KV 203. |
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... |
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Symphony No.8; Symphonic Prelude; For Liverpool Norrkaping Symphony Orchestra conducted by La Jia [ BIS / CD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] This is the first Schnittke disc from the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra under its chief conductor Lü Jia, but the team will be familiar from our recent three-disc series of the orchestral music of Ingvar Lidholm, where the interpretations were highly... |
MARIANNA MARTINES
Martines: Il Primo Amore Nuria Rial (Soprano) / La Floridiana, Nicoleta Paraschivescu [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/Mar/2012 ] "Nicoleta Paraschivescu and her little band of woodwind, horns and single strings are powerful advocates and Nuria Rial is splendidly passionate in the scena. Buy the disc: you won't regret it." Gramophone |
O De La Societe Des Concerts
Masenet/Adam/Auber/Herold/Supp [ Testament / CD - released 7/Jul/2003 ] |
O De La Societe Des Concerts
Prokofiev: Symphonies 5 & 7 [ Testament / CD - released 5/May/2003 ] |
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) |
Orc De La Suisse Romande/Janow
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 In C [ Pentatone / SACD - released 17/Jan/2011 ] |
Orch De La Suisse Romande
Mozart: Symphonies 29 & 34 [ Testament / CD - released 7/Jul/2003 ] |
Orch Sinf Di Roma/La Vecchia
Mancinelli: Scene Veneziane [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] |
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... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Violin Concertos / Symphonies 26, 52 & 53 Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Elizabeth Wallfisch / La Petite Band / Sigiswald Kuijken [ Virgin Veritas / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2000 ] 'These are fresh, vital, cleanly articulated performances which wear their authenticity lightly' Penguin Guide |