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Henry du Mont - Grands motets for the chapel of Louis XIV at the Louvre
Ensemble Pierre Robert, Frédéric Desenclos (organ, Claude Parizot 1739 & direction)
Henry Du Mont has long been credited as one of the creators, alongside Lully, of the grandmotet, the opulent style of church composition for soloists, choir and orchestra associated with Louis... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2005, Editor's Choice
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Billed as ‘Kate Lindsey with Baptiste Trotignon’, it reveals the jazz pianist, who shows luminous classical credentials here too, as equal to the mezzo’s multi-hued originality…I’d like to hear... —
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Bach - Secular Cantatas
Monika Frimmer (soprano), Robin Blaze (alto), Markus Schäfer (tenor) & Stephan MacLeod (bass)
Café Zimmermann & Les Chantres du centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Gustav Leonhardt & Olivier Schneebeli
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The Basel CO demonstrate how pinpoint precision and a depth of understanding, borne of performing and touring this music before recording it, pays dividends…The disc is filled out with a selection... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Miserere: Clérambault & Couperin
RecommendedIsabelle Druet, Hasnaa Bennani, Claire Lefilliâtre
Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre
These performances, in a nicely-captured resonant acoustic, are engaging and expertly ornamented. Hasnaa Bennani is particularly affecting in the first of Couperin's Lessons for the Wednesday... —
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Building a Library, November 2018, Also Recommended
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Nouveauté
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'Les girls' have tremendous fun playing up the kinship between Poulenc and Brubeck, and the whole album breathes lightly-worn chic and joie de vivre. Watch out for the final moto perpetuo of... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2018
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Building a Library, April 2016, Also Recommended
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2008
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Listening to No. 9 on the piano is a curious experience, but if the variety of tone-colour of the orchestral (and vocal) original is inevitably diminished, the music's harmonic boldness and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2016, Editor's Choice
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