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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 11/03/2022

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 18/02/2022

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 26/08/2022

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 20/05/2022

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 25/03/2022

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 21/01/2022

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 13/05/2022

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 24/06/2022

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 2/09/2022

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 2/09/2022

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 7/01/2022

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 10/06/2022

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 28/01/2022

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 4/02/2022

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 6/05/2022

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 28/10/2022

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 17/09/2021

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 29/04/2022

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 8/04/2022

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 11/02/2022

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 3/06/2022

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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