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BROSCHI / GALUPPI / GIACOMELI / HASSE / PORPORA
Arias for Farinelli Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano) / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Rene Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "While Vivica Genaux has all the virtupsity needed to negotiate the intricately embellished lines in these songs, she knows, too, how to use ornamentation for expressive effect. Strongly recommended." ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben Bernarda Fink (mezzo) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Mar/2008 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (July 2002) |
BUXTEHUDE
Sacred Cantatas (Incls 'Herzlich lieb hab ich Dich, o Herr') Cantus Colln / Konrad Junghanel [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] Buxtehude's major contribution to mid-baroque German sacred music lay in the Abendmusiken, the evening concerts organized before Christmas by the organist of Lübeck outside the context of his official duties. While most contemporary cantors had to... |
VIVALDI
Sonate a tre 'La Follia' / Sonate a due violini Veronique Mejean, Kathi Gohl & Jesper Christensen / Ensemble 415 / Chiara Banchini (conductor) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] Born in Lugano (Switzerland), Chiara Banchini is one of the most renowned "baroque" violinists on the international musical scene. |
ELGAR
Nursery Suite, Serenade, Dream Children & other works English Chamber Orchestra / Paul Goodwin (with William Bennett, flute) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "Paul Goodwin conducts with flair; alert to what's written on the page, sensitive to what's not." - CLASSIC CD |
GIOVANNI GIROLAMO KAPSBERGER
Lute Works Paul O'Dette (lute) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "This is superb music, melodious, […] wonderfully apt for the instrument. O'Dette, for my money the world's finest lutenist, does the music full justice, and the sound is first-rate. You'll want this one." - FANFARE |
W. A. MOZART
Chamber Sonatas London Baroque, Charles Medlam [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] " Nothing sounds uncharacteristic - bustle, and a sure architectonic ear are in evidence across these works written between 1772 and 1780.They are jewelled little works each in a single movement." (MusicWeb) |
RODRIGO
Concierto de Aranjuez / Fantasia para un gentilhombre / Musica para un jardin / etc Marco Socias (guitar) / Orquesta Ciudad de Granada / Josep Pons [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "Socias and Pons hit you on the head with ethnic flavouring, the music sings tartly, then sweetly, but always with a Spanish accent." - The Times (22 Oct 2002) |
G F HANDEL
Water Music (complete) Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] "This is a very attractive account of the three suites which comprise Handel's Water Music. The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra are a San Francisco-based ensemble whose members play period instruments or copies of them. Nicholas McGegan has been their... |
KRENEK
Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae RIAS-Kammerchor / Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] When Ernst Krenek wrote these Lamentations in 1941, his music had been banned by the Nazi regime as 'degenerate art' and he was an exile in the United States, where he earned his living as a teacher. Ingeniously combining the polyphonic tradition and... |
