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Schubert: Messe No. 6 en Mi Bémol Majeur, D. 950

Michel Corboz

Sacred Vocal Music - Released January 31, 2008 | Mirare

Here's a recording that, to use the terminology of African-American vernacular music, is old school in every way. It begins with a decidedly odd sound, which has a hollow, boxy quality, with distortion at the frequency extremes, that could almost have been heard on a 1950s LP. The booklet indicates that the disc was recorded by Swiss Radio, but it's not clear whether the performance was actually taken from a radio broadcast; even if it was, it's subpar. The list of vintage qualities continues with veteran conductor Michel Corboz and the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne accompanied by the Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne. Despite the suggestion of modest dimensions in these names, the combined forces are large, maybe not Mormon Tabernacle Choir plus Philadelphia Orchestra large, but bigger than the current fashion for music of the early nineteenth century. And of course the old school hangs on for a good reason: Corboz and his Swiss choristers have a warmth, clarity of articulation, and vigorous response to the text that are hard to find these days. Corboz catches the almost operatic quality of Schubert's final mass, which asks us to believe not in a holy catholic and apostolic church (the composer leaves those words out of the Credo) but that Christ came into the world to the strains of a transcedently beautiful Ländler, sung by a Viennese vocal trio of the streets. Corboz's Schubert deliberately traces outlines of light and shade, lands firmly but not over-heavily on dramatic strokes, and shows the kind of control over large-scale architecture that makes for really good Schubert. The bottom line is that this is a Schubert disc that, though brand new, will feel familiar. Corboz has been doing this kind of performance, and doing it well, for almost 50 years now, and it's still worthwhile even if there are various fresher recordings to choose from. © TiVo
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Bach : Contemplation

Anne Queffélec

Classical - Released January 8, 2009 | Mirare

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Scarlatti: Ombre et lumière

Anne Queffélec

Classical - Released January 12, 2015 | Mirare

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Musique de chambre

Louise Farrenc

Chamber Music - Released August 30, 2005 | naïve classique

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Domenico Scarlatti : 50 Sonates pour clavecin

Pierre Hantaï

Chamber Music - Released November 17, 2014 | Mirare

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Hélène de Mongeroult, portrait d'une compositrice visionnaire

Marcia Hadjimarkos

Classical - Released September 20, 2023 | iMD-Seulétoile

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Mozart: Horn Concertos & Bassoon Concerto

Louis-Philippe Marsolais

Classical - Released March 1, 2017 | ATMA Classique

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J'écoute Bach et Haendel avec ma maman

Anne Queffélec

Classical - Released December 3, 2012 | Mirare

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Schubert . Impromptus

Philippe Cassard

Classical - Released January 1, 2008 | Universal Music Division Decca Records France

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Beethoven Symphonies

Emmanuel Krivine

Symphonic Music - Released March 21, 2011 | naïve

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Johann Sebastian Bach : Œuvres pour clavier

Christophe Rousset

Classical - Released November 4, 2010 | Aparté

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Chopin, Schubert & Prokofiev

Yulianna Avdeeva

Classical - Released September 8, 2014 | Mirare

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Schubert: Trios Op. 99 & Op. 100

Denis Pascal

Chamber Music - Released March 12, 2021 | La Musica

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Franz Schubert

Vanessa Wagner

Classical - Released October 21, 2010 | Aparté

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Fauré: Nocturnes pour Piano, Theme et Variations Op. 73 by Eric Heidsieck

Eric Heidsieck

Classical - Released February 9, 2023 | Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording

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Hélène de Montgeroult: La marquise et la marseillaise

Bruno Robilliard

Classical - Released November 21, 2005 | HORTUS

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Schubert: Hymne an Die Nacht, Hymne À la Nuit

Brigitte Engerer

Classical - Released January 10, 2008 | Mirare

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Johann Christian Bach: Sonates pour clavier Op. 5 & Op. 17

Johann Christian Bach

Classical - Released May 17, 2010 | Saphir Productions

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Vivaldi

Les Violons du Roy

Classical - Released March 1, 2016 | ATMA Classique

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This album from the Quebec City Baroque group Les Violons du Roy is titled simply Vivaldi. You don't get quite the range implied; the program consists mostly of concertos with one instrumental sinfonia from an opera. But it is a delightfully diverse set, including big Handelian outdoor-oriented pieces with horns; pastoral concertos for multiple winds; and intricate, multiple-violin pieces including a lithe reading of the familiar Concerto for four violins, strings, and continuo, Op. 3, No. 10 (RV 580). Les Violons du Roy, under their longtime assistant conductor Mathieu Lussier, eschew the high-octane approach of contemporary Italian groups, and one can wish for the syncopations to rock a bit more when they are essential to the structure of a movement. But the group is quick and holds together well. Sample the little-played, three-movement Sinfonia from the opera La verità in cimento (tracks 17-19): the opening movement is a study in register and dynamics of which the total serialists would have been proud; the slow movement opens like a flower; and the miniature finale is over before you know it. The orchestra's energy never flags here or anywhere else, and the result is a very fresh album of Vivaldi concertos that will appeal even to those with lots of shelf or hard drive space already allotted to the composer.© TiVo
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Antonio Vivaldi: Les quatre saisons

Jacques Gandard

Classical - Released March 2, 2019 | Bion Records