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TRADITIONAL
Mediterranea: Troubadours songs Alla Francesca: Brigitte Lesne, vocal, Pierre Hamon, flute and Carlo Rizzo, tabors & vocal [ Zig Zag Territories / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] Troubadours songs; laude to the Virgin and estampies from trecento mingle with Sephardic lullabies and folksongs collected in Italy. They tell the stories of simple men and women of the Mediterranean world. Languages and music have survived to the... |
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Antoine Pierre, Urbex Electric
Suspended (Live at Flagey) [ Outnote Records / CD - released 11/Sep/2020 ] Suspended is Urbex's third album, but also the first live recording of this adventurous group formed five years ago. |
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Antoine Pierre; Urbex Electric
Suspended: Live at Flagey (LP) [ Outnote Records / LP - released 11/Sep/2020 ] Suspended is Urbex's third album, but also the first live recording of this adventurous group formed five years ago. |
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HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ BIBER
Requiem in F / etc Arsys Bourgogne. Pierre Cao [ Ambroisie / CD - released 1/Apr/2012 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Vepres a Vienne Arsys Bourgogne / Pierre Cao / L'Arpeggiata / Christian Pluhar [ Ambroisie / CD - released 20/May/2009 ] Vespers at the Court of Charles VI in Vienna |
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BOULEZ / BERG / STRAVINSKY / HENZE / MESSIAEN / SCHOENBRG / etc
Boulez: Le Domaine Musical - 1956-1967 Various performers conducted by Pierre Boulez [ Deutsche Grammophon / 10 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2016 ] For the occasion of Pierre Boulez' 90th birthday on 26 March 2015, Universal Classics France present a revised and enhanced version of the former edition celebrating his years at the helm of Paris' legendary "Le Domaine Musical" concerts. Initially... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / FRANZ SCHUBERT / GYORGY KURTAG
Lines of life: Schubert & Kurtág Benjamin Appl, György Kurtág, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, James Baillieu [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Benjamin Appl met Hungarian composer György Kurtág in 2019 and has worked with him ever since. 'He has shaped me both as a musician and as a human being, perhaps more than anyone else,' says Appl. |
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Niccolò Jo
Te Deum D-Dur; Messe D-Dur Berry, Benacková, La Pierre, Meer; Prager Kammerchor, Virtuosi di Praga, Griffiths [ ORFEO / CD - released 15/Mar/2001 ] |
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JEAN-BAPISTE LULLY / MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER / JEAN HENRY d"ANGLEBERT / etc
Splendeurs de Versailles [10 CD set] Cafe Zimmermann, Le poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre, Ensemble Pierre Robert, Frederic Desenclos, etc [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] Versailles: its court, its atmosphere and its music . . . So many splendours emblematic of a monument with an incomparably rich history. The works associated with the palace have travelled down the centuries and today represent a precious part of our... |
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VERDI
La Traviata [recorded 1956] Rosanna Carteri, Cesare Valletti, Leonard Warren / Coro e Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Pierre Monteux [ Testament / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "perhaps the principal reason for valuing this vintage set lies in the conducting of the octogenarian, Pierre Monteux. He brings together lyrical warmth and vigour with a rhythmic lift that is amazing in an ageing conductor. The mono sound is nicely |
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DELIBES
Coppelia (complete ballet recorded in 2001) Charline Giezendanner / Mathieu Ganio / Pierre Lacotte / École De Danse And Opéra National De Paris / David Coleman [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] On the programme this evening is Coppélia, or the girl with the enamel eyes by Léo Delibes. The excitement among the girls is great because today they will be performing in the (reproduced) scenery and costumes which at the premiere on 25 May 1870... |
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RODOLPHE KREUTZER
Kreutzer: La Mort D'abel (2CD + Book) Katia Velletaz, Yumiko Tanimura, Jennifer Borghi, Sébastien Droy, Jean-Sébastien Bou, Pierre-Yves Pruvot / Les Agrémens, Guy Van Waas [ Bru Zane Ediciones Singulares / 2 CD/Book - released 22/Oct/2012 ] "the fine performance of Guy van Waas and Les Agrémens reveals music of imaginative colours and profuse sentimentality that sometimes sounds like a stepping-stone between Haydn's Creation and Berlioz's Damnation of Faust." (Gramophone) |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner Choruses Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Silvio Varviso, Pierre Boulez & James Levine [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Mar/2016 ] Bayreuth is the holy grail of Wagner lovers and this outstanding disc captures great choral moments from Wagner's operas over a period of nearly 30 years, with key 'big' moments from seven operas, from the Sawallisch Tannhäuser (1962) to Peter... |
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MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe (complete ballet) / Rapsodie espagnole / etc Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / London Symphony Orchestra / Pierre Monteux [ Decca Historic / CD - released 10/Apr/1990 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) "There is only one word for this work, this performance, and this recording, and that is - ravishing." Gramophone |
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CHAUSSON / RAVEL / HONEGGER / DEBUSSY / FAURE
French Violin Masterpieces Christian Ferras (violin) Pierre Barbizet (piano) / Belgian National Orchestra [ Decca Legends / CD - released 1/Nov/2002 ] "..the remastering has done justice to the recordings and the memory of a fine artist." (Amazon.co.uk) |
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TCHAIKOVSKY / NIGG / FRANCK / BACH / BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / etc
Christian Ferras Edition Christian Ferras (violin) with Ernest Lush, Shuku Iwasaki, Pierre Barbizet, etc (piano) / various conductors [ Deusche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / 19 CD Box Set - released 17/Feb/2023 ] This Limited Edition original-jackets collection brings together the Decca and Deutsche Grammophon recordings of Christian Ferras, supplemented by those he made for these labels' French and Japanese divisions. |
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ERIC MONTALBETTI
Montalbetti: Chamber Music Harmonieuses Dissonances Christian Tetzlaff / Alexander Vorontsov / Delphine Haidan / Pierre Génisson / Les Dissonances / Solistes de l'Ensemble intercontemporain [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Apr/2020 ] Harmonieuses Dissonances: that is the title of the string quartet that closes this second album of music by Eric Montalbetti, but above all it is a statement of the very subject of the works assembled here: they start out from heterogeneous elements,... |
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Christian-Pierre Marca
Various: L'heure.. [ Sony Classical / CD - released 2/May/2011 ] |
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BACH / MOZART / GLUCK
Music for flute & orchestra Claude Monteux (flute) / London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] "Claude Monteux's tone is clear and cool, his technique impeccable, his style admirably Mozartian, and in choosing his own cadenzas to play he chose right: these are at once the most idiomatic and the most effective of all those at present on offer". |
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W. A. MOZART / J. S. BACH / GLUCK
Music for flute & orchestra Claude Monteux (flute) / London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] "Claude Monteux's tone is clear and cool, his technique impeccable, his style admirably Mozartian, and in choosing his own cadenzas to play he chose right: these are at once the most idiomatic and the most effective of all those at present on offer" |