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TRADITIONAL
The Routes of Slavery 1444-1888: Africa, Portugal, Spain & Latin America Hesperion X11. La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Jordi Savall [with Kassé Mady Diabaté & Violet Diallo (Mali)] [ Alia Vox SACD + DVD / 3 Hybrid SACD/DVD - released 20/Mar/2017 ] "It's both a timely reminder of our ignoble instinct to subjugate and a moving gesture of reconciliation." Sunday Times, 26th February 2017 |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Pro Pacem: Texts, Art & Music for Peace [CD with large book] Hesperion XXI / La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall with Monterrat Figueras [ Alia Vox SACD / CD/Book - released 20/Dec/2012 ] An ambitious programme flows, from cantorial invocations and Gregorian chant, to motets by Binchois, Josquin, Guerrero and Pärt, stretching across 19 centuries of conflict. The common cause is peace, as expressed in song, painting and essay." Indep.. |
ALFONSO X / YEHUDA HALEVI / JUAN del ENZINA & others
Granada 1013-1526 Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Jul/2016 ] "In short, this is a breathtaking achievement. It's the kind of disc that often left me in quiet astonishment not just at its ambition, artistry or skill, but at the way it tries to further the human story and enrich the experience of us all. Bravo! |
![War & Peace 1614-1714 [2 CDs plus large book] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10542/10542819.jpg)
TRADITIONAL / BIBER / HANDEL / JENKINS / DUMANOIR / etc
War & Peace 1614-1714 [2 CDs plus large book] Hespèrion XXI, Les Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 CD/Book - released 12/Jul/2015 ] "I was left repeatedly amazed that Savall and his performers are so good at such a wider range of repertoire...This isn't just an impressive musical release: it's a whole cultural festival within two covers. Both for its ambitions and for its artisti |
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice Iestyn Davies, Sophie Bevan, Rebecca Bottone / La Nuova Musica, Davis Bates [ Pentatone / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] "High praise, then, for David Bates and his ensemble." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Opera |
VERDI / BELLINI / DONIZETTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Joan Sutherland: Verdi / Bellini / Donizetti Joan Sutherland (soprano), Orchestre de la Societe des concerts du Conservatoire, Paris, Nello Santi [ Decca Opera Gala / CD - released 10/Oct/1982 ] Original recordings from 1959 and 1960 |
TRADITIONAL
Bailoar Cantando: Fiesta Mestiza en el Peru Tembembe Ensamble Continuo, Hesperion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / CD - released 17/Aug/2018 ] The Codex Trujillo is a manuscript edited by Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón, bishop of Trujillo, Peru. It contains 1,411 watercolours and 20 musical scores documenting the life in the diocese. It shows how baroque pieces imported from Western... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI / W. A. MOZART / GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Vivaldi / Mozart / Handel: Dixit Dominus Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations, la Capella Reial de Catalunya [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 21/Oct/2016 ] Following the critically acclaimed Magnifcat & Concerti two years ago, here we experience the full maturity of Savall's ensembles. |
BIZET / VERDI / OFFENBACH / PUCCINI / BOITO / etc
Joseph Calleja - The Maltese Tenor Joseph Calleja (tenor) L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marco Armiliato, with Aleksandra Kurzak, soprano [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 26/May/2011 ] "Calleja's timbre, brilliant, caressing, keenly focused, is entirely individual...All in all, this is a fine calling-card for a tenor, still only in his early thirties, on the threshold of greatness, during a transition phase of his career. The... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23, Symphony No. 40 & Don Giovanni Overture Andreas Staier, Le Concert de La Loge, Julien Chauvin [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] Julien Chauvin meets up with one of the great harpsichordists and fortepianists of our time, Andreas Staier, who is a leading interpreter of the Mozart concertos. He presents us with his vision of the Piano Concerto no.23 and its famous Adagio, 'one... |
JOHANN PACHELBEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Pachelbel: Easter Cantatas La Capella Ducale, Musica Fiata, Roland Wilson [ CPO / CD - released 2/Jul/2004 ] "Pachelbel's little-explored sacred music here provides a glorious experience" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine July 2004 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Villancicos y Danzas Criollas: Iberian, African and New World music from the 15th and 16th centuries. La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] "the supreme exponent of French viol playing." Gramophone |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI & OTHERS
Monteverdi: Vespro Di Natale / Christmas Vespers La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, La Cetra Vocalensemble Basel, Andrea Marcon [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 18/Nov/2022 ] On 29 December 1616 Claudio Monteverdi wrote to the poet Alessandro Striggio - who was also the secretary to the Duke of Mantua - to apologize for his late reply, which he attributed to "the hard work that had to be done on the Mass for Christmas... |
STEPHEN FLAHERTY
Flaherty: Once On This Island - A New Musical La Chanze & Jerry Dixon / 1990 Original Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 2/Feb/1990 ] Once on This Island is a coming-of-age one-act stage musical with a book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. It is based on the 1985 novel My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl by Rosa Guy, a Caribbean-set retelling of Hans... |
BUXTEHUDE
Membra Jesu Nostri La Chapelle Rhenane / La Maitrise de Garcons de Colmar / Benoit Haller [ K617 Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] "One long oration in music" is how the musicologist Gilles Cantagrel describes this cycle, unique in Buxtehude's output. These meditations on the 'Seven Words of Christ on the cross' possess a truly mystic dimension.This performance by Benoît Haller... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Il Turco in Italia (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY La Fenice Opera / Simone Alaimo, Myrto Papatanasiu, Bruno De Simone / Jonathan Webb, conductor [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Mar/2010 ] Il Turco in Italia is one of Rossini's wittiest but most neglected works. It is full of ingenious and freshly composed invention. It is Rossini's first collaboration with Felice Romani - Bellini's librettist - on this opera and Romani understood... |
La Fonte Musica; Michele Pasotti
Zacara da Teramo: Enigma Fortuna (Complete Works) [ Alpha Classics / 4 CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] In this recording entitled Enigma Fortuna, the ensemble La Fonte Musica, directed by Michele Pasotti, aims to shed light on the mysterious and eccentric personality of Antonio Zacara da Teramo (1355-1416). A contemporary of Boccaccio, Donatello and... |
GIUSEPPE TARTINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Trio Sonatas / Violin Sonatas Op 2 and Op 6 La Magnifica Communita with Enrico Casazza (violin) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2008 ] Giuseppe Tartini's best-known work must be his sonata for violin 'Devil's trill'. Now meet the virtually unknown Tartini on these three CD's. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Il Trovatore (complete opera recorded in 2012) La Monnaie de Munt / Misha Didyk, Marina Poplavskaya, Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo, Scott Hendricks / Marc Minkowski (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 20/Dec/2014 ] Stage Direction, Set Design, Costumes: Dmitri Tcherniakov After the success of 'Rigoletto', Verdi called on librettist Salvadore Cammarano in 1851 for his new opera 'Il Trovatore', based on the eponymous play by Spanish playwright Antonio García... |
BROSSARD / CARISSIMI / CHARPENTIER
Sacrifices La Nuova Musica, David Bates [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Sep/2014 ] "To these affecting narratives (separated by instrumental interludes by De Brossard), La Nuova Musicabring superbly straight tone, unerring tuning and plangent phrasing." The Observer, 20th July 2014 **** |
