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JOSEF HAYDN
Cantatas for Esterhazys Sunhae Im, Johanna Stojkovic (sopranos) Max Ciolek (tenor) / VokalEnsemble KAln / Cappella Coloniensis / Andreas Spering [ Harmonia Mundi Haydn Edition / CD - released 1/Feb/2009 ] MARBECKS STAFF PICK: REISSUE CD OF THE YEAR 2009 - "The music is so enjoyable, the performances so good, and the sound so exemplary that it can be warmly recommended to anyone interested in vocal music from the mid-18th Century." - American Record... |
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FRANK MARTIN
Golgotha (complete oratorio) Judith Gauthier (sop) Marianne Beate Kielland (alto) Adrian Thomson (ten) / Cappella Amsterdam / Estonian National Symphony Orchestra / Daniel Reuss [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] "Reuss maintains a tight grip on the unfolding drama...there is such an obvious intensity and love of this extraordinary piece that it never feels as though it is dragging...A revelatory recording." Gramophone Awards 2010 Finalist - Choral |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Passio: Music for Holy Week & Easter King's College Choir, the Clare College Choir, La Stravaganza Köln, Cappella Augustana, Rheinische Kantore [ Brilliant Classics / 25 CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] This unique box‐set presents a musical journey through one of the most crucial episodes of Christianity: the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It tells of the deepest sorrow and anguish in the Lamentation and Stabat Mater, the moving... |
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COLOMBANO
Colombano: Psalms for Six Voices La Cappella Musicale Della Cattedrale di Vercelli, Denis Silano [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2018 ] The conventual franciscan Orazio Colombano (c.1554-after 1595) hailed from Verona and came to the ancient city of Vercelli, in Piedmont, east of Turin, in 1579 to take up his first professional appointment as Moderator for Music at the Cathedral, a... |
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ALFONS V EL MAGNANIM
El Cancionero de Montecassino - Musica Religiosa & Profana La Cappella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall |
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SCRIABIN / RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 1, Op. 26 / Six Choruses, Op. 15 Larissa Kostyuk (contralto) Oleg Dolgov (tenor) Tigran Alikhanov (piano) / Russian State Symphonic Cappella / Russian State Symphony Orch / Polyansky [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Apr/2005 ] Valeri Polyansky and his Russian forces are renowned for their special affinity with their native music, nowhere more so than in their choral works. |
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FRANCESCO SACRATI
Sacrati: La finta pazza Leonardo García Alarcón; Cappella Mediterranea [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / 3 CD Box Set - released 27/May/2022 ] 1645: for the pleasure of the Queen Mother Anne of Austria, and attended by a young King Louis XIV, Cardinal Mazarin put on the first Italian opera in Paris. The Italian company, invited at great expense, performed Sacrati's La Finta Pazza. |
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ALEXANDER GRECHANINOV
Symphony No. 3, Op. 100 / Cantata 'Kvalite Boga' (Praise the Lord), Op 65 Ludmila Kuznetsova (mezzo) / Russian State Symphonic Cappella / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Valeri Polyansky [ Chandos / CD - released 12/Dec/2005 ] After graduating from the Moscow State Conservatoire, Valeri Polyansky attended a postgraduate course in opera and symphonic conducting, where he studied with Gennady Rozhdestvensky. |
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Ludmila Kuznetzova, Russian State Symphonic Cappella, Russian St Sym, Polyansky
Bruckner - Mass No. 2 in E minor, O du liebes Jesu Kind, etc [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 15/Dec/2000 ] "The catalogue already boasts some admirable versions of the E minor Mass but I think this one from Polyansky, with its unique timbre and approach and vibrant recording, is likely to stand high in my affections henceforth." International Record... |
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LEONARDO LEO
L'Alidoro (complete opera) Maria Grazia Schiavo / Maria Ercolano / Valentina Varriale / Baroque Orchestra Cappella Della Pietà Dei Turchini / Antonio Florio [ Dynamic / CD - released 5/Feb/2011 ] Opera Now said of the opera: "The music, a cross between Rameau and Vivaldi, is attractive and stylishly played by Antonio Florio's Baroque orchestra. This is a real find." It was also awarded a DIAPASON D'OR. |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Lettera amorosa Mariana Flores; Cappella Mediterranea; Leonardo Garcia Alarcón [ Ricercar / CD - released 27/Apr/2018 ] After the success of their album of music by Francesco Cavalli, the same performers now return in a programme devoted entirely to works a voce sola by Claudio Monteverdi, from the famous Lamento d'Arianna to the sublime (and much less well-known)... |
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Mariana Flores; Julie Roset; Cappella Mediterranea; Leonardo García Alarcón
Sigismondo d'India: Lamenti & sospiri [ Ricercar / 2 CD - released 11/Jun/2021 ] 'Sigismondo d'India has a "twin", a "mirror" in music: Claudio Monteverdi. Both men developed, in parallel, a style that radically changed the history of music. A style inherited from composers such as Luca Marenzio and Carlo Gesualdo, but which... |
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DVORAK
Mass Op 86 / Te Deum Op 103 [with free Chandos catalogue] Marina Meshcheriakov (soprano) Sergei Miasnikov (bass) / Russian State Symphonic Cappella / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Valeri Polyansky [ Chandos Classics / CD/Book - released 20/Mar/2003 ] |
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BABELL / BASTON / DIEUPART / WOODCOCK
The Virtuoso Recorder III Michael Schneider (recorder & direction) Cappella Academica Frankfurt [ CPO / CD - released 28/Aug/2015 ] Following the label's previous collections of German and Italian virtuosic recorder concertos- Michael Schneider now turns to Baroque England. His concertos are based on three anthologies by William Babell, Robert Woodcock, and John Baston, which all... |
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MONTEVERDI
Orfeo (An Introduction to) Narrated by David Timson with Soloists / Cappella Musicale di San Petronio di Bologna / Sergio Vartolo [ Naxos Opera Explained / CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] This audiobook series introduces, in words and music, the plot and background of major operas. Using the principal themes and arias, taken from the Naxos recordings of the complete works. |
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GAVIN BRYARS
Piano Concerto (The Solway Canal) / After Handel’s Vesper / Ramble on Cortona Ralph van Raat (piano) / Cappella Amsterdam / Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic / Otto Tausk [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Apr/2011 ] "It's in the nature of Bryars's solo piano music that it flows along in gently timeless way...it also severally challenges a performer's ability to keep the listener's attention suitably gripped. In After Handel's Vesper's and Ramble on Cortona,... |
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SHOSTAKOVICH
Moskva Cheryomushki, Op.105 (Complete Opera) Russian State Symphonic Cappella / Residentie Orchestra The Hague / Rozhdestvensky [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 21/Sep/2001 ] Complete operetta |
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REGER
Psalm 100, Op. 106 / Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart Russian State Symphonic Cappella / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Polyansky [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 29/Jan/2002 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (April 2002) |
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ALEXANDER GRECHANINOV
The Seven Days of Passion Russian State Symphonic Cappella / Valeri Polyansky [ Chandos / CD - released 26/Jan/2006 ] Grechaninov left Russia in 1922 and settled first in Paris and then in the United States where he obtained American citizenship in 1946. |
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BORTNYANSKY
Scared Concertos Vol 2 (Nos 10-16) Russian State Symphonic Cappella / Valeri Polyansky [ CHANDOS / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] The rare repertoire featured in this series was originally recorded in Russia but never released. |