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BACH: MASS IN B MINOR BWV 232
SCHUBERT: PIANO TRIOS. NOS.1 & 2
Schubert: Lieder / Matthias Goerne
Each of the eleven albums in this set of recordings was designed as an individual program, a poetic voyage through the vast corpus of Schubert's lieder. Matthias Goerne made his personal selection from the songs, in which the three great cycles sit alongside many masterpieces like Des Fischers Liebesglück, an interpretation which in itself would be enough to justify this magnificent undertaking." At his finest, here and elsewhere, Goerne touches greatness as a Schubertian." (Gramophone)
LOCATELLI: IL VIRTUOSO IL POETA - VLN CONS & CON
GRANADOS: GOYESCAS - EL PELELE
SAINT-SAENS: CELLO CON 1 - FRANCK FAURE & POULENC
LIONEL TERTIS CELEBRATION
PAUL LEWIS PLAYS SCHUBERT
WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER - BOOK 1
LIEBE AMALIA
Fauré: Ballade, Mélodies / Degout, Planès
The genre of the mélodie accompanied Fauré like a kind of personal journal. This music voluptuously - and sometimes vehemently - encompasses the meanderings of the soul: dreams, nostalgia, reflections or mirages. Stéphane Degout and Alain Planès take advantage of the iridescent tones of an 1892 Pleyel in their interpretation of some of his finest song cycles, including the testamentary, L'Horizon chimérique.
Bach: A Life in Music, Vol.1 / Agnew, Les Arts Florissants
Couperin: Concerts Royaux / Gallon, Boutineau
Wagner: Famous Opera Scenes / Lugansky
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin / Prégardien, Bezuidenhout
This first release in an exclusive recital collaboration with harmonia mundi presents Julian Prégardien's reading of a cycle that explores quintessentially Schubertian themes: nature, love, solitude, death. Taking full advantage of the unique timbres of a Graf-style fortepiano, the young German tenor and Kristian Bezuidenhout create an expressive palette of exceptional variety, full of striking contrasts.
Fauré: Nocturnes & Barcarolles / Piboule
The Nocturnes and Barcarolles are key works in Fauré's output for solo piano that reflect his stylistic evolution. From his early efforts, still close to Chopin and Schumann, to the final pieces with their heady yet elusive harmonies, Aline Piboule invites us to rediscover a whole world of sound on a sublime Gaveau instrument of 1929.
Marais: Tombeau Pour Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe / La Rêveuse
On this new album, Florence Bolton and Benjamin Perrot revisit the composer who gave their ensemble it's delightful name, La Rêveuse. Drawing on his heritage (Sainte-Colombe), his friendships (Robert de Visée) and his own visionary genius, Marin Marais blazed new trails for his instrument in his second book of viol pieces (1701). Alongside the customary dances and sets of variations, he invented the 'character pieces' that were to become so popular in the eighteenth century.
Stravinsky & Falla / Alard, Heras-Casado, Mahler Chamber Orchestra
The three works on this album evoke the worlds of commedia dell'arte (Pulcinella), Don Quixote (El retablo de maese Pedro) and picaresque Spain (the Harpsichord Concerto). Telling their stories with color, rhythm and humor, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado and Benjamin Alard (playing a sumptuous Pleyel harpsichord) invite us to an exhilarating fireworks display.
SCHUMANN TRILOGY. COMPLETE CONCERTOS & PIANO TRIOS
Monteverdi: Vespro Della Beata Vergine / Pichon, Pygmalion
After Stravaganza d'amore, their superb album of late sixteenth-century Florentine music, Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion returned to Italy, this time to Mantua. Here they offer us their reading of one of the peaks of sacred music from this period: Monteverdi's Vespers. Revealing like no other interpreters the poignant interiority of these pieces, they bring out to the full their inherent sense of theatre for an overwhelming experience.
Conversation - Gaspard Le Roux: Suites for 2 Harpsichords / Taylor, Christie
Schubert & Desyatnikov / Kolesnikov, Tsoy
For their very first recording with harmonia mundi, the duo formed by Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy offers us three closely related works: Schubert's celebrated Fantasy, his Divertissement à la hongroise, full of contrasts between bursts of energy and enigmatic mists, and Leonid Desyatnikov's Trompe-l'œil, written specifically 'to echo' the Fantasy. This porgram is an intriguing hall of mirrors.
ICE LAND - THE ETERNAL MUSIC
BRAHMS: COMPLETE LIEBESLIEDER WALZER OP.52 & 65
