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German Requiem / The Seven Words of Jesus Christ on the Cross Akfelder Vokalensemble / Himlische Cantorey / Barockorchester I Febiarmonici / Wolfgang Helbich / Beate Rollecke (organ) [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] "Wolfgang Helbich's array of singers is impressive, fresh-voiced, and responsive to every textual nuance. A splendid disc." -- George Pratt, BBC Music Magazine, 07/04 |
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Pictures at an Exhibition (with Stravinsky - Rite of Spring) Andrea¯ Vieru, Dan Grigore (pianos) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 23/Feb/2008 ] Drawing their strength from a certain vision of Old Russia, Mussorgsky's and Stravinsky's two most famous 'orchestral' works were both originally written for the piano. Andrei Vieru demonstrates the emotional heights to which the original version of... |
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Psalms and Chansons of the Reformation Ensemble Clement Janequin / Dominique Visse [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] On listening to this Huguenot literary and spiritual treasury, one can only dream of what the Reformation musical tradition could have become had it not been nipped in the bud by the tragic events of the Religious Wars. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Provencal Organs Francis Chapelet / Michel Chapuis / Lucienne Antonini / Rena Saorgin [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Mar/2007 ] Between the beginning of the 15th century and the death of Henry IV (1610) the polyphonists of the Dukes of Burgundy took the works of the Franco-Flemish School as far afield as Italy and Spain. In the wake of the musicians followed the... |