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Marie Hallynck; Sophie Hallynck
Confidentes [ Cypres Records / CD - released 11/Jun/2021 ] 2021/22, a cultural season unlike any other, brings the 30th anniversary of Cypres. Musical renewal and reinvention is of the essence for any record label in today's environment. An enterprising spirit; a constant quest for newly composed works; firm... |
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Marie Haslemore
Kotahi Te Miriona [ Ode Records / CD - released 6/Nov/2008 ] With candour, devotion and fabulous harmonies, qualities of a true perfomer, NZ Maori woman, Marie delights throughout these songs. |
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DEBUSSY / OFFENBACH / HERVE / POULENC / COSMA
"Une jeunesse française" : mélodies & airs d'opérette Marie Perbost (soprano) & Josephine Ambroselli (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 22/Feb/2019 ] "The debut recording from this young French soprano is full of colourful, often humorous songs. Despite occasional stumbles from slight over-enunciation, this is a fun, theatrical listen" BBC Music |
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Marie Queenie Lyons
Soul Fever [ Vampisoul Records / CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] More than three decades after its original release, and for the very first time on CD, here is Marie Queenie Lyons cult classic 'Soul Fever'! |
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Marie-Claire Alain
Widor: Organ Symphonies (2CD) [ Apex / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2005 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
History of the Organ boxset - From Latin Origins to the Modern Age Marie-Claire Alain, Louis Robilliard, René Saorgin, Gustav Leonhardt, Xavier Darasse, André Isoir, Bernard Foccroulle & Hans Heintze (organs) [ ArtHaus Musik DVD / 4 DVD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2017 ] This four part series outlines the history of this magnificent instrument, ranging from the beauty of the sound to the wealth of music written for it, and encompassing the craftsmanship involved in building such a complicated structure. |
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EMILIO de CAVALIERI
Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo Marie-Claude Chappuis, Johannes Weisser, Gyula Orendt, Mark Milhofer / Staatsopernchor, Concerto vocale, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2015 ] "Typically Jacobs make the orchestral realisation of the score sumptuous within its turn-of-the-17th-century constraints; no one could mistake this for anything but a grandly ceremonial piece." (Guardian) |
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LAMBERT / BATAILLE / LULLY / BALLARD / MOULINIE / etc
Sous l'Empire d'Amour: French Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Lute Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo), Luca Pianca (lute) [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Aug/2017 ] Featuring exquisite and rarely performed 17th-century French songs for mezzo-soprano and lute. The first half of the seventeenth century marked the heyday of the air de cour at the French court. This was a monophonic lute-accompanied song that was... |
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SCHUBERT
Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata & Trio No. 2 Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Antje Weithaas, Martin Helmchen [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Following a first recording on Alpha devoted to Brahms which garnered much praise - 'real duo playing' said Gramophone, while Classica discerned 'shared music making . . . a world full of nuances and subtlety, boundless sonic imagination... |
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SHOSTAKOVICH / SCHNITTKE / PROKOFIEV / RACHMANINOV / STRAVINSKY / WEINBERG
From Eastern Europe - Cello Sonatas Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) & Martin Helmchen (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2025 ] The Hecker/Helmchen duo is renowned for the high standard of their performances, which is reflected in their recordings. The German cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker caused a sensation by winning both the First Prize and two Special Prizes at the eighth... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Sonatas Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) & Martin Helmchen (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 27/May/2016 ] "[Hecker and Helmchen] bring to the sonatas a seamless ensemble, producing something truly greater than the sum of its parts…their ability to control energies together creates the natural gusts of momentum and repose Brahms demands" BBC Music |
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Marie-Luise Hinrichs
Soler: 10 Piano Sonatas [ Cpo / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] |
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BRAHMS / LIGETI
Horn Trios Marie-Luise Neunecker, horn, Antje Weithaas, violin, Silke Avenhaus, piano [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] BIS present two major works for horn, violin and piano, bringing together Johannes Brahms, generally regarded as the great traditionalist of the late 19th century, and György Ligeti, born 90 years after Brahms, and one of the most innovative and... |
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W.A. MOZART
Requiem Mass Marie-Noelle de Callata (soprano) / Netherlands Bach Society / Jos van Veldhoven [ Channel Classics / CD - released 14/Jul/2002 ] Mozart as he was intended to sound |
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W.A. MOZART
Requiem Mass Marie-Noelle de Callata (soprano) / Netherlands Bach Society / Jos van Veldhoven [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Jul/2003 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Messe de Requiem / Partsongs Marie-Paule Dotti (sop) Guillemette Laurens (mezzo) Luca Lombardo (tenor) Nicolas Testa, bass Coro della Radio Svizzera, Lugano Orchestra del Italiana [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Jul/2004 ] This is the only available recording of the Requiem Mass, a highly appealing work with beautiful and complex harmonies. |
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LOUIS-FERDINAND HEROLD
Herold: Le Pré Aux Clercs (complete opera) Marie-Ève Munger, Marie Lenormand, Jeanne Crousaud, Michael Spyres / Coro e Orquestra Gulbenkian, Paul McCreesh [ Bru Zane Ediciones Singulares / 2 CD/Book - released 10/Jan/2017 ] "Hérold's effervescent music is performed with tremendous charm by Paul McCreesh and the Gulbenkian Orchestra...Munger [is] in exquisite form, coloratura cascading like champagne...Ensembles fizz and it's a joy to hear " Gramophone |
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ÉTIENNE NICHOLAS MEHUL
Méhul: Uthal (complete operetta) Marie-Ève Munger, Marie Lenormand, Jeanne Crousaud, Michael Spyres / Coro e Orquestra Gulbenkian, Paul McCreesh [ Bru Zane Ediciones Singulares / CD/Book - released 20/Apr/2017 ] "Speech and song are seemlessly integrated here, maintaining both dramatic tension and consistency of characterisation throughout. It's hard to imagine a better bicentenary tribute: do listen to it." Gramophone |
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MENOTTI
The Medium / The Telephone (recorded 1947) Marilyn Cotlow / Frank Rogier / Evelyn Keller / Marie Powers / Beverly Dame / Orchestra / Emanuel Balaban [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] This original 1947 cast recording of The Medium, made by the American Columbia company, was first released in the UK in 1961, when The Gramophone wrote enthusiastically "its effectiveness as a musical work for the stage is beyond argument". |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto 3 & Triple Concerto Martin Helmchen (piano), Antje Weithaas (violin), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Andrew Manze (cond) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] German pianist Martin Helmchen continues his journey through Beethoven's piano concertos with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and Andrew Manze. In the Third Concerto, published in 1804, Beethoven seems to be moving away from the Mozartian model... |