HARMONIA MUNDI

(2-CD) PIANO SONATAS
Released for the first time in 2003 and 2005, this two-CD set combines two Mozart recordings in which Andreas Staier raises the questions of ornamentation and improvisation with a hefty dose of impishness in his interpretative options (as in ‘his' Rondo alla turca!). Andreas Staier plays a fortepiano by Monika May, Marburg, 1986, after Anton Walter, Vienna, 1785....
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(CD) SONATAS OP.1
This CD offers you the chance to discover an aspect of the greatest German composer of the late seventeenth century that has remained little known up to now. Yet one cannot but be constantly astonished by these "Suonate a doi violino e violadagamba con cembalo" (sic). Well before Bach, Buxtehude achieved in these sonatas a sumptuous synthesis between the styles of the French and the Italian Baroque - with an inspiration, a sense of fantasy that are his alone: the musical material is perpetually renewed, and the pleasure of discovery increa...
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(CD) RAVEL-CHAUSSON: PIANO TRIOS
Two major works from the chamber music repertory. Rarely recorded, the Chausson Trio is a marvel of finesse, variety and invention, equal in beauty to Ravel's....
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(CD) SONATE POUR FLUTE, ALTO ET HARPE - SYRINX - CHANSONS DE BILITIS
'The great twin reed on which we lay beneath the sky.' Stephane Mallarme was very impressed by the way in which Debussy had expanded on the moods of his poem, L'Apres-midi d'un faune. The flute is not the most widely used instrument in Debussy's music, but he wrote one or two masterpieces for it. With the exception of his famous last Sonata for flute, viola and harp, all of the pieces on this recording were associated with theatrical or literary performances - an opportunity to put Syrinx back in context (Gabriel Mourey's drama, Psyche) a...
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(CD) MISSA VIRI GALILAEI
Missa Viri Galilaei 1. Introit. Viri Galilaei 2. Kyrie 3. Gloria 4. Alleluia. Verset : Ascendit Deus In Jubilitatione / Alleluia. Verset : Vere Dignum Et Justum Est 5. Credo 6. Offertoire. Ascendit Deus In Jubilitatione 7. Preface. Vere Dignum Et Justum Est 8. Sanctus 9. Benedictus 10. Agnus Dei I 11. Agnus Dei II 12. Communion. Psallite Domino 13. Motet Viri Galilaei 14. Magnificat Primi Toni Ensemble Organum / Marcel Peres, Conductor Ensemble Vocal Europeen / Philippe Herreweghe, Conductor...
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(CD) DIE SCHONE MULLERIN - LA BELLE MEUNIERE
Die schoene Muellerin, op.25 D.795 (1824) La Belle Meuniere...
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(CD) AUTANT EN EMPORTE LE VENT
Tout ce qui est de plus beau dans les cieux, chanson Une puce j'ay Perdre rien, chanson Je file quand on me donne de quoy, chanson Monsieur l'Abbe, chanson Quand vous series quelque fille, chanson L' aute joun jou m'en anabi de Tholoze a Montrejau, chanson O feux sacrez, chanson Povre coeur entourne, chanson Autant en emporte le vent, chanson D'un oeil farde, chanson Qu'est devenu ce bel oeil, for vocal ensemble Je suis desheritee a 6 Nostre vicaire un jour de feste, chanson Je boy a toy mon compagnon, chanson La Guerre, chan...
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(CD) MUSIQUE DE LA GRECE ANTIQUE
Whereas proofs of the greatness of Ancient Greek architecture and literature still exist in abundance, no more than a few scraps of their music have miraculously survived. They have been gathered together here for the first time in a partly ‘archaeological', partly imaginary panorama of this music that was, after all, an integral part of daily life in Ancient Greek....
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(2CD) CELLO CONCERTOS
Vivaldi remains one of the best-known composers of Italian Baroque music, one of the most frequently performed and appreciated in our modern age. To be sure, his works are imbued with the joyous bustle, the swirling movement that was the very soul of Settecento Venice. But the more we get to know this composer's output, the better we understand the craze this outstanding virtuoso inspired throughout Europe in his day. In this respect, the cello concertos stand with those for violin at the very peak of Vivaldi's art....
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(CD) TE DEUM - MOTETS
"This four-voice gem will find a soft spot in the heart of every choral music lover." - CD Review "Those who have not yet met the composer yet might well start with this disc." - Fanfare "...If you have never discovered this amazing composer before, start with the Christie recording..." - American Record Guide...
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(CD) HISTOIRE DU TANGO
It was in December 1998 that Cecile Daroux recorded this disc, which has since become a benchmark both for flute aficionados and in the Piazzolla discography. Accompanied by Pablo Marquez and a 100% Argentinian supporting cast, the French flautist - who died sadly young in 2011 - provides an exemplary overview of the great Astor Piazzolla's output, in which the tango is omnipresent. A must! This title was released for the first time in 1999....
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(CD) IMPROVISATIONS AU ZARB
To hear a great zarb player is to hear sounds of the great poetry of Iran - the cavalcades of the legendary conquerors, the whispers of the lovers Leyla and Majnoun, the fervor of the mystics. This budget-priced reissue, released for the first time in 1976, features the legendary Djamchid Chemirani....
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(CD) HARPSICHORD CONCERTOS
J. S. Bach's seven harpsichord concertos and the "Triple" concerto BWV 1044 span the total range of Baroque experience: from the tempestuous e'lan of BWV 1052, through the disquiet and anger of BWV 1056, to the joy and elation of BWV 1055. Richard Egarr and The Academy of Ancient Music, led by Andrew Manze, present these masterpieces in radically fresh, intimate readings charged with dramatic intensity.This title was released for the first time in 2002....
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(CD) SYMPHONIES NO.38 "PRAGUE" AND NO.41 "JUPITER"
Conducting the musicians of the Freiburger Barockorchester, Rene Jacobs offers us a chance to rediscover two symphonies whose 'classic' status is such that we thought we knew everything there was to know about them! The guiding principle of this interpretation is clarity of texture, with the aim of bringing out the most powerful element in this music: its sense of drama. It forsakes the 19th-century symphonic tradition for a quite different style of rhetoric....
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(CD) PIECES DE CLAVECIN EN CONCERTS
Combined with the violin and viola da gamba, the Pieces de clavecin en concerts (1741) betoken a kind of nostalgic flashback to Rameau's first loves: the French ''piece de caractere'', concealing eminently Baroque portraits behind enigmatic titles!...
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(CD) MEMBRA JESU NOSTRI
It was in 1680 that the organist of the Marienkirche in Lubeck wrote this highly unusual work. In the course of this cycle of cantatas, the imaginary observer of Christ's sufferings gradually directs his gaze upwards, from the feet (cantata no.1, Ad pedes) to the face (cantata no.7: Ad faciem). A classic of German Baroque sacred music. This title was released for the first time in 2006....
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CD FLAMENGO LOS MALAGUENOS
C'est un art difficile, eblouissant, d'une violence sans cesse contenue. Mais ce n'est pas un art d'elite: venu du peuple, le flamenco choisit quelques voix d'exception, comme Nena et Conchita Cano. Avec elles, les guitares d' El Malagueno et Marino Cano se marient au plus haut niveau de l'expression: celui de la passion, de la flamme! (Note de l' editeur) A difficult, dazzling art, of a painfully restrained violence. It is not, however, an elitist art: born of the people, Flamenco chooses certain exceptional voices, like Nena and Conchit...
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(CD) WORKS FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO / SONATES POUR VIOLON ET PIANO
Sonorous games and wagers. In amusing himself by confronting two instruments he judged incompatible, Ravel remains faithful to his legendary penchant for anything resembling a gamble - whether of sonorities or of technique. Both serious and playful works, side by side, without any apparent contradiction - an ambiguity quite typical of the composer of L'Enfant et les Sortileges!...
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(CD) LE VIOLIN VAGABOND
Virtuoso or primitive, aristocratic or proletarian, the violin has no truck with private preserves. It can take in jazz, as in Igor Frolov's Piece in Blues Style; salon music, of which Tchaikovsky's Valse-Scherzo offers a distillation; poetic exoticism as in Lotus Land, a model of harmonic refinement; or the authenticity of the Romanian Folk Dances: nothing is foreign to the instrument's protean nature. This title was released for the first time in 2004....
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(CD) JANACEK: VIOLIN SONATA - LUTOSLAWSKY: PARTITA - SZYMANOVSKY: MYTHES
This programme comprises three major 20th-century chamber works, all of them deeply rooted in the musical world of Central Europe. The pieces by Janac ek and Szymanowski are exactly contemporary. Composed respectively at the beginning and the end of the 20th century, Szymanowski's 'Mythes' and Lutoslawski's 'Partita' constitute two landmarks of Polish music....
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