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Deutsche Harmonia Mundi was founded by Rudolf Ruby in Germany in 1958. Along with the French label ERATO, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi is one of the pioneers in Baroque music, and from its beginning has closely worked with the Collegium Aureum, directed by the first violinist Franzjosef Maier. His orchestra was one of the first to use original early instruments, and managed, slowly but surely, to radically change the way we listen to Baroque music. Ruby made distribution agreements with Harmonia Mundi France, in order to distribute its products in France. The DHM catalogue is incredibly rich, including essential artists from the Northern European Baroque movement, such as Gustav Leonhardt, Sigiswald Kuijken, Christoph Prégardien, Andreas Staier, Paul van Nevel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Skip Sempé and the celebrated Freiburger Barockorchestrer, to name just a few.

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Lautten Compagney

Classical - Released October 8, 2021 | deutsche harmonia mundi

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Lautten Compagney Because (Arr. for baroque orchestra and saxophone)

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Because (Arr. for baroque orchestra and saxophone)

Lautten Compagney

Classical - Released September 24, 2021 | deutsche harmonia mundi

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Lautten Compagney Bonduca, Z. 574: No. 4, Air (Arr. for baroque orchestra and saxophone)

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Bonduca, Z. 574: No. 4, Air (Arr. for baroque orchestra and saxophone)

Lautten Compagney

Classical - Released September 3, 2021 | deutsche harmonia mundi

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Lautten Compagney Another Girl (Arr. for baroque orchestra and saxophone)

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Another Girl (Arr. for baroque orchestra and saxophone)

Lautten Compagney

Classical - Released August 13, 2021 | deutsche harmonia mundi

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Sequentia Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstasy

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Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstasy

Sequentia

Classical - Released January 1, 1994 | deutsche harmonia mundi

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Sequentia Hildegard von Bingen: Voice of the Blood

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Hildegard von Bingen: Voice of the Blood

Sequentia

Classical - Released October 31, 1995 | deutsche harmonia mundi

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Sequentia Hildegard von Bingen: Celestial Hierarchy

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Hildegard von Bingen: Celestial Hierarchy

Sequentia

Classical - Released May 13, 2013 | deutsche harmonia mundi

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It is largely due to the work of the German ensemble Sequentia that the name and music of Hildegard of Bingen are popular today even among listeners with little background in medieval music. Sequentia moved on to experimental recordings of lesser-known chant repertories and such things as Icelandic sagas, but it has continued to record Hildegard's music, and the present release marks the conclusion of the group's recordings of her complete works. This is a remarkable accomplishment by any standard, and the entire thing has been done both logically and convincingly. Sequentia's great gift has been its ability to put the great German nun's chants in context, to show that text and music united in her music as much as in that of any other great composer. The chants here begin with Mary, who for Hildegard was at the top of the celestial hierarchy of the title, but the program soon moves into a variety of other figures, including St. John the Evangelist, the Apostles, martyrs, and angels. Soon you are listening to each chant and where the soaring melismas come in relation to the text in order to divine its author's attitudes toward the figures involved, and as usual with Sequentia this is a much more effective device than a program that attempts to replicate liturgies of the time. It may be that the group of choristers on this album is a bit less smooth than on the very best Sequentia releases, but the group's virtues are fully intact after 35 years, and the Hildegard set as a whole is something to treasure. © TiVo

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En Albion: Medieval Polyphony in England

Huelgas Ensemble

Classical - Released July 2, 2021 | deutsche harmonia mundi

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Making the most of the vocal and stylistic near-perfection of his Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel explores English polyphony between 1300 and 1400. The authors of this late medieval music are unknown, as these pieces have come down to us anonymously, unlike many works on the continent, whose composers are known and often highly revered. But in spite of the anonymity, this material which was written around the time of the Hundred Years' War had a great influence on the music of those distant times. The dozen sacred and secular a capella pieces presented here come from various sources preserved in the United States (New York), England (London, Oxford, Durham) and France (Tours, Chantilly). With their strange chromaticism and extreme, complicated modulations, the composers of Albion paved the way for a new musical style. This new album consists of mostly unknown and unrecorded pieces that add to the knowledge of an era that is still largely undiscovered. © François Hudry/Qobuz