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Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion, Julian Prégardien, Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Lucile Richardot, Christian Immler, Reinoud van Mechelen, Maitrise De

Sacred Oratorios - Released by harmonia mundi on 11 Mar 2022

From the opening chorus, it’s clear that Raphaël Pichon and his Pygmalion ensemble are sensitive to nuance. They present a work filled with details an ...

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Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Les Ombres

Concertos - Released by harmonia mundi on 18 Feb 2022

A beautiful and talented new generation of young musicians are giving the classical repertoire a new lease of life. Born into a family of musicians, v ...

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François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles, Sabine Devieilhe

Symphonies - Released by harmonia mundi on 26 Aug 2022

After a period-instrument reading of the Symphony No. 1 that received unanimous acclaim from the critics, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles return ...

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Cédric Tiberghien, Stéphane Degout, Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth

Concertos - Released by harmonia mundi on 20 May 2022

Utilising to the full the unique timbres of their period instruments alongside a superb Pleyel piano of 1892, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles exp ...

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Kristian Bezuidenhout, Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado

Concertos - Released by harmonia mundi on 25 Mar 2022

After the first two instalments, highly praised by the press – ‘one of the finest, most . . . thrilling performances of [the] Fourth Concerto’, wrote ...

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Paul Lewis

Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 21 Jan 2022

In his beautifully written sleeve notes to this late Brahms solo recital from Paul Lewis, Brahms authority Matthias Kornemann draws our attention to t ...

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René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, Robin Johannsen, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Helena Rasker, Sebastian Kohlhepp, Christian Imm

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by harmonia mundi on 13 May 2022

Without even mentioning the playing styles or instruments, this new version of the Mass in B is clearly a far cry from the grandiose austerity that pr ...

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Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew, Sophie Karthäuser, Lucile Richardot

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by harmonia mundi on 24 Jun 2022

A puzzling paradox: although Vivaldi devoted over 30 years to composing for the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, no complete musical setting of any lit ...

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Amandine Beyer, Gli Incogniti

Concertos - Released by harmonia mundi on 2 Sep 2022

A world turned upside down. Vivaldi’s concerti con molti istromenti are true precursors of the symphony in their amplitude and audacity. In these piec ...

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Kristian Bezuidenhout, Freiburger Barockorchester

Concertos - Released by harmonia mundi on 2 Sep 2022

With this latest addition to the complete Mozart keyboard concertos, music lovers finally have a historically informed interpretation - one that goes ...

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Antoine Tamestit, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Sabine Fehlandt, Bernhard Forck

Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 7 Jan 2022

Unfixed dimensions, a paucity of repertoire, and that which there was being dull and unchallenging. These were the reasons that, as the violin rose to ...

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Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexander Melnikov

Chamber Music - Released by harmonia mundi on 10 Jun 2022

After Beethoven, Alexander Melnikov and Jean-Guihen Queyras now turn to two more giants of the repertory. Chopin’s Cello Sonata, his last work publish ...

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François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles, Vannina Santoni, Julien Behr, Alexandre Duhamel, Marie-Ange Todorovitch, Jean Teitgen, Chœur de l'Opéra de Lille

Opera - Released by harmonia mundi on 28 Jan 2022

Chief conductor of Les Siècles symphony orchestra, François-Xavier Roth has been revisiting French music from the beginning of the 20th century for se ...

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Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé

Sacred Vocal Music - Released by harmonia mundi on 4 Feb 2022

By the end of Louis XIV’s reign (and after the death of Jean-Baptiste Lully), Michel-Richard de Lalande (or Delalande) was the King’s favourite musici ...

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Alexander Melnikov

Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 6 May 2022

In this third and final volume of his complete recording of the Prokofiev Sonatas, Alexander Melnikov explores two highly contrasted facets of the you ...

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Paul Lewis

Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 28 Oct 2022

Paul Lewis completes his exploration of Schubert’s sonatas, begun almost twenty years ago, with three early masterpieces. The Sonatas D. 537 and D. 56 ...

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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Isabelle Faust, Antoine Tamestit

Concertos - Released by harmonia mundi on 17 Sep 2021

Buoyancy, elegance, crisp rhythmics, precise articulation, bristling timbres… All modes of description that I’m likely to have at some point used to o ...

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René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Christian Immler, Polina Pastirchak, Kateryna Kasper, Maximilian Schmitt, Max Urlacher

Opera - Released by harmonia mundi on 29 Apr 2022

As is the case for many musicians who grew up listening to baroque music, René Jacobs’ evolution follows the chronology of music history. After treati ...

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Le Caravansérail, Emmanuelle de Negri, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Bertrand Cuiller

Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 8 Apr 2022

Beware the pen of a critic. When in 1720 an arrangement of Domenico Scarlatti’s 1714 opera Amor d’un’Ombra e Gelosia d’un’aura arrived at the King’s T ...

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Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Dmitri Ensemble, Carolyn Sampson, Graham Ross

Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by harmonia mundi on 11 Feb 2022

Icelandic music of the last half century is the focus of this recording by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, led by its conductor, Graham Ross. B ...

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Münchner Philharmoniker, Pablo Heras-Casado

Symphonies - Released by harmonia mundi on 3 Jun 2022

Four symphonies were enough for Robert Schumann to leave his mark. Without allowing himself to be overawed by Beethoven’s shadow, he succeeded from th ...

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