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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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René Jacobs

Opera - Released by harmonia mundi on Apr 29, 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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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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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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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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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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Isabelle Faust

Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on Aug 27, 2021

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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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