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J. S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244
Raphaël Pichon
Sacred Oratorios - Released by harmonia mundi on Mar 11, 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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Georg Philipp Telemann: Viola Concertos - Overtures - Fantasias
Antoine Tamestit
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on Jan 7, 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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Vivaldi, Leclair & Locatelli : Violin Concertos
Théotime Langlois de Swarte
Concertos - Released by harmonia mundi on Feb 18, 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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Brahms: Late Piano Works, Opp. 116-119
Paul Lewis
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on Jan 21, 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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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Kristian Bezuidenhout
Concertos - Released by harmonia mundi on Mar 25, 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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Ravel: Concertos pour piano - Mélodies
Cédric Tiberghien
Concertos - Released by harmonia mundi on May 20, 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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J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Concertos - Released by harmonia mundi on Sep 17, 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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Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
René Jacobs
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by harmonia mundi on May 13, 2022
A composition as brilliant as it is protean - the earliest sections date back to 1724, others were written in 1733 in the hope of obtaining a post in ...
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Johannes Brahms: Sonatas & Liebeslieder for Cello and Piano (Bonus Track Version)
Emmanuelle Bertrand
Chamber Music - Released by harmonia mundi on Jul 23, 2021
Emmanuelle Bertrand and Pascal Amoyel celebrate their twenty years together as a cello and piano duet. It is hardly surprising that they chose to mark ...
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Rameau: Platée (Live)
Les Arts Florissants
Opera - Released by harmonia mundi on Oct 15, 2021
A marsh nymph thinks she is so irresistible that Jupiter himself will take an interest in her... Brimming with exceptional dramatic and musical verve, ...
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Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1, 3 & 5, Visions fugitives
Alexander Melnikov
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on May 6, 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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Michel-Richard de Lalande: Grands Motets, Dies irae, Miserere, Veni creator
Ensemble Correspondances
Sacred Vocal Music - Released by harmonia mundi on Feb 4, 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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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
François-Xavier Roth
Opera - Released by harmonia mundi on Jan 28, 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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"Générations" Senaillé & Leclair : Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord
Théotime Langlois de Swarte
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on Jul 16, 2021
To say that young French baroque violin star Théotime Langlois de Swarte has begun his solo recording career with a bang of prolificity and brilliance ...
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Weber: Der Freischütz
René Jacobs
Opera - Released by harmonia mundi on Apr 29, 2022
Choc de ClassicaAs 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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Mozart: String Quartets dedicated to Joseph Haydn K. 421, 458 'Hunt', 464
Cuarteto Casals
Chamber Music - Released by harmonia mundi on Sep 3, 2021
After the early quartets and the famous "Dissonance" Quartet, the Cuarteto Casals continues its exploration of the set of works Mozart dedicated to Jo ...
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Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonatas Nos. 20, 34, 51 & 52
Paul Lewis
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on Sep 10, 2021
In 2018, Paul Lewis embarked on an exploration of one of the richest bodies of work of the Classical era: the keyboard sonatas of Haydn. For this seco ...
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Chopin, Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonatas
Jean-Guihen Queyras
Chamber Music - Released by harmonia mundi on Jun 10, 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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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 4, Op. 58 & "6", Op. 61a
Gianluca Cascioli
Concertos - Released by harmonia mundi on Nov 5, 2021
Unexpected Beethoven. With Beethoven’s Piano Concertos No. 4 and Op. 61a, the latter being the composer’s own transcription of his Violin Concerto, Gi ...
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Stravinsky: Histoire du soldat (version française), Élégie, Duo concertant
Isabelle Faust
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on Aug 27, 2021
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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 14, 17 & 23
Nikolai Lugansky
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on Feb 11, 2022
After a first part devoted to the late sonatas, Nikolai Lugansky continues his exploration with this second volume of complete Beethoven work. This re ...
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