Harmonia Mundi
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Charpentier: Messe de Minuit - in Nativatem Domini Canticum
Ensemble Corrrespondances, Etienne Bazola (baritone), Randol Rodriguez, Renaud Brès, Anne-Sophie Petit, Caroline Weynants, Marie-Frédérique Girod, Jordan Mouaïssia, Paco Garcia, Sébastien Daucé
[The Noëls] and the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei are sung with joy and gentle intensity by Ensemble Correspondances, although director Sébastien Daucé shies away from some of... —
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Coming soon. Prokofiev: Chout (complete Ballet) - Symphony No. 1 'classical'
Ndr Radiophilharmonie, Stanislav Kochanovsky
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The performances by the Cuarteto Casals, completing their Shostakovich quartet cycle, have the same humane glow and loving finesse of earlier volumes...However chilly and painful the music may... —
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Hasse: Piramo e Tisbe
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Anett Fritsch (Piramo), Roberta Mameli (Tisbe), Jeremy Ovenden (Il Padre)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
The piece has been recorded before by La Stagione Frankfurt, but this new version is better, with livelier tempi and superb singing from two bright-voiced sopranos, Anett Fritsch and Roberta... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2025, Opera & Stage Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos.1, 3 & 4
Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya
Personality, thought Stravinsky, was Prokofiev’s strongest quality. Vadym Kholodenko has plenty of it…Though his playing is always lucid, never muddy, Kholodenko looks at these three works through... —
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Laloum is a noted chamber player, but this recording is a reminder of his solo excellence...The Op. 116 Fantasien are gorgeously played, Laloum making the most of the huge landscape they inhabit. —
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Ascendit Deus: Music for Ascensiontide & Pentecost
Peter Harrison, Matthew Jorysz (organ)
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge & The Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross
the famous setting of Ascendit Deus by Peter Philips spurts forward like a colt sprung freshly from a stable, the vocal decorations spinning vertiginously round like Monteverdi. It's a bracing... —
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This is state-of-the-art Charpentier, following traditions established by William Christie’s Les Arts Florissants. The “O” Antiphons for Advent — short, intense consort pieces proclaiming the... —
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Laloum can be trusted to be musical and thoughtful. He isn’t out to impose his personality on D 894 or to present a sharply new angle. The C-Minor Sonata, D 958, is approached the same way,... —
