Secular Vocal Music
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Mirages (Messager, Debussy, Delibes, Delage, Thomas...)
Sabine Devieilhe
Secular Vocal Music - Released by Warner Classics on 10 Nov 2017
Le Choix de France Musique4F de TéléramaChoc de ClassicaChoc Classica de l'annéeDiapason d'orGramophone Editor's ChoiceVictoire de la musique5 Sterne Fono Forum JazzThis project originated, Sabine Devieilhe says, from her desire to tackle Lakmé. In fact, Delibes was able to compose for her heroine some of the most ...
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Handel : Italian Cantatas
Emmanuelle Haïm
Cantatas (secular) - Released by Erato on 23 Nov 2018
Choc de Classica5 de DiapasonGramophone Record of the Month5 Sterne Fono Forum KlassikHandel's Italian cantatas date from early in his career, with few exceptions (none on display here). As a group they are less well-known than his oper ...
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Mozart : Arien
Anett Fritsch
Secular Vocal Music - Released by Orfeo on 6 Jan 2017
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Rossi : La lyra d'Orfeo & Arpa Davidica
Christina Pluhar
Secular Vocal Music - Released by Erato - Warner Classics on 8 Nov 2019
5 de Diapason5 Sterne Fono Forum KlassikChristina Pluhar has long been interested in the vocal music of the 17th century, in particular that of composer Luigi Rossi born around 1597 in the b ...
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Silence & Music
Paul McCreesh
Secular Vocal Music - Released by Signum Records on 6 Oct 2017
5 de DiapasonThe Gabrieli ensemble, under the direction of their remarkable leader Paul McCreesh, explore here the immensely rich British choral repertoire which i ...
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Hans Abrahamsen : Let me tell you
Barbara Hannigan
Secular Vocal Music - Released by Winter & Winter on 21 Dec 2015
Prise de Son d'ExceptionDiapason d'or de l'annéeDiapason d'orGramophone Editor's Choice5 Sterne Fono Forum KlassikAll the information about this half-hour-long song cycle is relegated to websites, and websites with user-unfriendly URLs, at that. So here's the basi ...
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Chimère
Sandrine Piau
Secular Vocal Music - Released by Alpha Classics on 13 Apr 2018
The least that we can say here is that soprano Sandrine Piau refuses to be pigeonholed: she cheerfully steers a course from the German romanticism of ...
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Joseph Haydn : Les Saisons
René Jacobs
Oratorios (secular) - Released by harmonia mundi on 1 Jan 2004
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Monteverdi : Night. Stories of Lovers and Warriors
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Secular Vocal Music - Released by naïve classique on 7 Feb 2017
4F de TéléramaChoc de ClassicaChoc Classica de l'annéeDiapason d'orDiapason d'or / Arte2017 marks the 450th anniversary of Claudio Monteverdi, one of the fathers of modern music, who gave a major impulse to expressivity and individuality ...
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Schumann : Szenen aus Goethes Faust, WoO 3
Daniel Harding
Secular Vocal Music - Released by BR-Klassik on 29 Sep 2014
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Gesualdo : Terzo libro di madrigali
La Compagnia del Madrigale
Secular Vocal Music - Released by Glossa on 28 Oct 2016
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Il giardino dei sospiri (Marcello, Gasparini, Leo, Handel, Sarro)
Magdalena Kožená
Secular Vocal Music - Released by PentaTone on 3 May 2019
5 de DiapasonOn her first album under the label PentaTone, Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená returns to her first baroque loves, collaborating with her fellow c ...
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Paolo Da Firenze : Amor, tu solo'I sai - Ballate e Madrigali
Thomas Baeté
Secular Vocal Music - Released by Musica Ficta on 1 Jun 2013
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Venez chère ombre
Eva Zaïcik
Secular Vocal Music - Released by Alpha Classics on 25 Jan 2019
Mezzo-soprano Eva Zaïcik, who has signed up with Alpha for several recordings, is one of the most prominent vocal artists of her generation. She was c ...
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Quella Fiamma
Nathalie Stutzmann
Secular Vocal Music - Released by Warner Classics on 27 Oct 2017
5 de DiapasonThis album is a selection of pieces from Arie antiche, a 19th Century collection of songs edited by Alessandro Parisotti to be a vocal primer. Though ...
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Joseph Haydn : Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons / Les Saisons)
Philippe Herreweghe
Secular Vocal Music - Released by Phi on 28 Apr 2014
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L'Alessandro amante
Xavier Sabata
Secular Vocal Music - Released by Aparté on 30 Nov 2018
5 de DiapasonGramophone Editor's ChoiceThis recital by the countertenor Xavier Sabata, accompanied by Arnadí's Vespres ensemble, takes its title "L'Alessandro amante" from a lost homonymous ...
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Brava Berganza ! Rossini & Songs
Teresa Berganza
Secular Vocal Music - Released by Decca on 1 Jan 1959
A newly remastered collection of four original Decca albums featuring the Spanish mezzo-soprano at the height of her powers in the repertoire most ass ...
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Claudio Monteverdi : Secondo Libro de Madrigali
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Secular Vocal Music - Released by naïve classique on 1 Jun 2009
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Perpetual Night: 17th Century Airs and Songs
Lucile Richardot
Secular Vocal Music - Released by harmonia mundi on 6 Apr 2018
Prise de Son d'Exception4F de TéléramaDiapason d'orWe could say that the composers chosen here by Sébastien Daucé and the Ensemble Correspondances cover England from 1600 to 1700, from Coprario's gener ...
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