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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy Centenary Discoveries Jean-Pierre Armengaud (piano), Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Natalie Pérez (soprano), Olivier Chauzu (piano), Ensemble Les Essenti'elles [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 25/Apr/2018 ] Debussy Centenary Discoveries offers new insights into a captivating, inventive and influential musical genius. Each recording on these 3-CDs is in some way a first! |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Flute Concertos Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) / I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone [ Warner Classics The Erato Story / CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] Although Vivaldi was a virtuoso violinist and wrote prolifically for that instrument he was able to compose imaginatively and expertly for a wide range of combinations of instruments. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Sonatas for Flute & Harpsichord Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) Robert Veyron-Lacroix (harpsichord) [ Erato / CD - released 6/Aug/1988 ] Recordings made in 1965 |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Piano Works (Incls Piano Sonata in B minor) Jean-Rodolphe Kars (piano), Pascal Rogé (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 30/Apr/2018 ] Two pupils of the great Julius Katchen are featured in the piano music of Liszt on this 2CD set. Pascal Rogé was eighteen years old when he recorded the Liszt Piano Sonata, Mazeppa, Vallée d'Obermann and the third Liebestraum in London in 1969. |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Preludes Books 1 & 2 Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 8/Dec/2023 ] Jean-Yves Thibaudet's classic recording of Debussy's Preludes with Vivienne Westwood created artwork. One of Vivienne Westwood's last creations before she died in December 2022, the design includes a personal tribute from Jean-Yves to Vivienne... |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Symphonies Nos 1 'Jeremiah' & 2 'The Age of Anxiety' Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo-soprano) Jean-Yves Thibaudet, (piano) / Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 17/Dec/2016 ] "It's great to see this music being played with such conviction. I don't think that Bernstein could have done better...the engineering is also rock solid and brilliant by turns. A marvelous release by any standard." ClassicsToday 10/10 Jan 2017 |
GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: The Complete Songs-volume 4 Jennifer Smith, Felicity Lott, Geraldine McGreevy, Jean-Paul Fouchecort, Stephen Varoce / Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] "This final volume is the jewel in the series' crown" - Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice Dec 2005 |
ANDRE CAMPRA
Campra: Cantates françaises Jill Feldman (soprano), Dominique Visse (countertenor), Jean-François Gardeil (baritone), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Jul/2017 ] "Campra combines the delicate and languorous French idiom with the livelier Italian style. With the youthful voices of Feldman and Visse, these performances still sound delightfully fresh." BBC Music |
FRANCESCO CAVALLI
Cavalli: L'Ormindo (complete opera) John Wakefield, Peter-Christoph Runge, Jean Allister, Anne Howells, Hanneke van Borke / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Raymond Leppard [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] 'Leppard […] welds all his forces together to produce one of those wonderfully integrated performances that still characterizes Glyndebourne at its best.' Opera magazine, April 1969 |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Early Cantatas Judith Howarth, Janice Watson (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Jose Van Dam (bass) / Corydon Singers & Orchestra [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 28/Aug/1997 ] 'Arguably Beethoven's first major masterpiece … superb performance, at once fresh and incisive and deeply moving' - PENGUIN GUIDE ROSETTE |
GABRIEL URBAIN FAURE
Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisand - Suite / Prométhée (excepts) / etc Julien Dran (tenor) Tara Erraught (soprano) Ruth Rosique (soprano) / Ireland National Symphony, Jean-Luc Tingaud [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Nov/2024 ] "With its famous 'Sicilienne', the Pelléas et Mélisande Suite will be familiar to many, but it is the sumptuous beauty of songs such as 'La Chanson du pêcheur' and 'Les Roses d'Ispahan' that really grab the ear" BBC Music |
BELA BARTOK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: Concerto for Two Pianos / Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion Katia & Marielle Labèque (pianos) Silvio Gualda, Jean-Pierre Drouet (percussion) / City of Birmingham Symphony, Simon Rattle [ EMI Classics / CD - released 20/Jul/1987 ] "the playing by the Labeques, with Rattle and the CBSO in the Concerto, and the recording, made in 1985, are all exemplary." Classical Candor |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Lamentazioni per la Settimana Santa Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) & Jean-Marc Aymes (organ & conductor) / Concerto Soave [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] The sacred music on this disc -- settings of texts for Holy Week, from the early seventeenth century and influenced by the new monodic style -- has long been less familiar than the fiery secular music of the era. One may admire this recording by... |
ANTONIN DVORAK / JULES MASSENET
Dvorak: Slavonic Dances / Massenet: Le Cid (Ballet music) with Meyerbeer's 'Les Patineurs' London Symphony Orchestra / Israel Philharmonic Orchestra / Jean Martinon [ Decca ABC Eloquence / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] "In Martinon's hands, Massenet's tunes fizz and effervesce like the best champagne." (Rosette Penguin Stereo Guide) |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique Marie-Josephe Jude, Jean-Francois Heisser (pianos) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] A double dose of fantastic! A composition that marked the birth of the modern symphony orchestra, it was instead through the medium of the piano that Symphonie fantastique became generally known to the public when Franz Liszt - a prime champion of... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Claude Debussy: A Portrait Michel Beroff, Jean-Philippe Collard, Samson François (pianos) / Quatuor Ebène / Orchestre National de l'ORTF, Jean Martinon [ Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2018 ] The colours of sound: With his Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune of 1894, Claude Debussy found his way to a completely novel and distinctive idiom that has gone down in music history as Impressionism. Influenced more by painting than by late-romantic... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berioz: Cantatas: Herminie, La Mort de Sardanapale, La Mort d'Orphee Michele Lagrange (soprano) Beatrice Uria-Monzon (mezzo) Daniel Galvez-Vallejo (tenor) / Pas-de-Calais North Regional Choir / Jean-Claude Casadesus [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2006 ] "Berlioz's youthful Cantatas are brimful with wild passion and energy that shaped his larger-than-life adventures in his early days as struggling composer. Jean-Claude Casadesus and dramatic soprano Michele Lagrange give a suitably full blooded... |
JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Orchestral Suites 1-3 / Herodiade (Ballet Suite) New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Jean-Yves Ossonce [ Naxos / CD ] "The playing of the New Zealand orchestra is first class, polished and vivid." Penguin Guide |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY
Mendelssohn & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos Takako Nishizaki (violin) / Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Kenneth Jean [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] "Takako Nishizaki gives a warm and colourful reading, tender but purposeful and full of temperament. As in the Mendelssohn with which this is coupled..With excellent playing and recording, this makes a first-rate recommendation" Penguin Guide |
REYNALDO HAHN
Hahn: Ciboulette (complete operas recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Opera de Toulon / Julie Fuchs, Jean-François Lapointe, Julien Behr / Laurence Equilbey (cond) [ Fra Musica Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Nov/2014 ] Intended to set the spice of Parisian operetta against American musical comedy, 'Ciboulette' was Reynaldo Hahn's first light score. It features the tribulations of the pretty market gardener Ciboulette, determined to earn herself a bright future with |
