Harmonia Mundi
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Andrew Staples (tenor), Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
The upside of period-instrument orchestral sound, with less heft than its modern counterpart, is the accommodating scope it gives to solo voices. Andrew Staples's contribution is a highlight;... —
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Stravinsky: Pulcinella, Le Baiser de La Fée (divertimento)
Isabel Leonard (mezzo-soprano), Paul Appleby (tenor), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno
This is perhaps the most sheerly lovely Pulcinella I’ve heard, slightly romanticised with a full-orchestral richness rather than the spring of a chamber ensemble. But to match the beautifully... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2025, Orchestral Choice
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Deeply compelling, tonally beguiling, technically immaculate accounts that exalt in Schubert’s insatiable melodic genius and explore the dark recesses of his creative psyche to devastating effect —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st April 2008
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2008, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2008
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol. 9
Köthen, 1717-1723 - The Happy Years
Benjamin Alard (organ), Sien Huybrechts (flute), Anne Pekkala (violin), Paul Monteiro (violin), Samantha Montgomery (viola), Ronan Kernoa (violin), Marc Mauillon (baritone)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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His colourful baritone - mellow and ductile, yet with an incisive cutting edge where apt - is a pleasure in itself, and his response to each of these songs immediate and individual. Nothing... —
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Special offer. Gluck: Orphée Et Eurydice
Reinoud van Mechelen (Orphée), Ana Vieira Leite (Eurydice), Julie Roset (Amour), Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew
Van Mechelen brings vocal suppleness, expressivity and perfect diction to his fine account of Orpheus...The chorus of Les Arts Florissants are fully engaged participants in the drama, clearly... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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New. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson: A Tribute
Bach, Handel, Purcell
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Freiburger Barockorchester, Nicholas McGegan
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Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Sara Mingardo (contralto), Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Women's choir of Schola Heidelberg, Young singers of the Kölner Dom, François-Xavier Roth
[Roth] goes at the crazy world of the Third with all wind and brass guns blazing…He isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty with the raggle-taggle marchers of the first movement. Even the trombone... —
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Record Review, 2nd March 2019, Disc of the Week
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César Franck: Violin Sonata, Piano Trio No.1 & Piano Quintet & Vierne: Piano Quintet
Trio Wanderer (piano trio), Catherine Montier, Christophe Gaugué
Vierne’s extraordinary Piano Quintet...is an apposite choice here, not just for its affinity to Franck, readily apparent in this searing performance, but as a programmatic black armband in this... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Beethoven: Violin Sonatas & Piano Trios
RecommendedDaniel Sepec (violin) & Andreas Staier (fortepiano), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Underpinned by the musicianship of Andreas Staier, these recordings are real classics. Sepec is using Beethoven's own violin. —
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Building a Library, December 2014, First Choice
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