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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Paulus Op. 36 (complete oratorio) Melanie Diener, Annette Markert, James Taylor, Matthias Goerne / La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi HMHeritage / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] "Like all Herreweghe's performances of choral works, this one has a welcome unity of purpose in a reading notable for finely moulded choral singing and sensitively executed orchestral playing, all controlled by the conductor's disciplined yet flexibl |
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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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Schneider/La Stagione Frankfur
Various: Il Primo Uomo [ Sony Classical / CD - released 28/Mar/2011 ] |
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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. |
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GIUSEPPE de MAJO / LEO / HANDEL / PORPORA / etc
Dramma Simone Kermes (soprano) / La Magnifica Comunita, Isabella Longo [ Sony Classics / CD - released 22/Jul/2013 ] Emblazoned on the title page of many an 18th-century Italian opera libretto, "dramma per musica" soon became the name for the operas composed to those words. |
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Sinfonica Di Roma/La Vecchia
Ghedini: Architetture [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] |
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TRADITIONAL
Cantiques de l'Orient: Hymns from Lebanon Sister Marie Keyrouz / L'Ensemble de la Paix [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] Soeur Marie Keyrouz & L' Ensemble de la Paix |
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TRADITIONAL
Cantiques de l’Orient: tradition Melchite Sister Marie Keyrouz / L’Ensemble de la Paix [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Mar/2012 ] |
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MARCO MARAZZOLI
Occhi Belli, Occhi Neri Soledad de la Rosa & Ensemble Mare Nostrum, Andrea De Carlo [ Arcana / CD - released 22/Mar/2014 ] One of the most productive and versatile of Italian composers, Marco Marazzoli is remembered today principally for his part in the development of Roman opera. Or maybe not even that, seeing that his output is represented in current record catalogues... |
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ANTOINE REICHA
Reicha: Musique de Chambre Solistes de la Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth [ Alpha / 3 CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] ".it all leaves you wanting to hear more, both of Reicha and of his performers." Gramophone |
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MISSA
Les plus belles messes de l'histoire musicale: the finest masses in musical history Soloists / Choeur et Orchestre du Collegium Vocale Gent / La Chapelle Royale / RIAS-Kammerchor / Philippe Herrewege / Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - released 10/Sep/2008 ] From the contrapuntal summits of the Renaissance to the great solemn Masses of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, from Romantic renewal to contemporary disillusion: Harmonia mundi invite you to discover generous excerpts from the Masses that have made history! |
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MONTEVERDI
Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria [3 CD set] Soloists / La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina [ Glossa / 3 CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - August 2012 |
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HALFFTER
Chamber Music Volume 1 Soloists of the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 10/May/2011 ] Rodolfo Halffter's music embraces almost every genre but he was primarily an instrumental composer. His three piano sonatas rank among his most important works for that instrument, combining Scarlattian playfulness with Romantic and avant-garde... |
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RODOLFO HALFFTER
Chamber Music Volume 2 Soloists of the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] The Spanish-born, Mexican-based composer Rodolfo Halffter's chamber music embraced influences from both the Old and New Worlds, his compositional approach shifting freely between nationalism, neo-classicism and the avant-garde. The works on this... |
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GOFFREDO PETRASSI
Petrassi: Concertos for Orchestra Nos. 7 & 8 Sonata da camera Soloists, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Aug/2025 ] In the early 1960s Goffredo Petrassi's idiom was almost indistinguishable from that of the Italian avant-garde. Completed in 1964, the Seventh Concerto evolves with mounting tension and a sense of underlying menace. The Eighth Concerto from 1972 was... |