HMGold
A new Prestige Collection at mid-price.
HMGold will assemble the recordings that have marked the history of harmonia mundi, packaged in elegant gold digipaks and enhanced with carefully chosen editorial material. A collection that begins, naturally enough, with the historic Deller recital Music for a While, but which contains many other gems
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Handel: Concerti grossi Op. 6 Nos. 1-12 HWV319-330
RecommendedAcademy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze
Widely considered state-of-the-art on their first release, these recordings by the Academy of Ancient Music combine hyper-vivid articulation with wonderful poise and panache, plus a lovely soulfulness... —
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Building A Library, March 2024, Recommended Recording
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Supported by outstandingly vivid sound, Trio Wanderer give marvellously exhilarating performances. The players encompass all the wit and passion of these inspired compositions written during... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2002, Critics' Choice
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Victoria - Et Jesum & Motets à voix seule
RecommendedCarlos Mena (countertenor), Juan Carlos Rivera (lute, vihuela) & Francisco Rubio Gallego (cornet)
It needs a special voice to focus the attention so clearly on itself, and Mena’s fits the bill. He has an extraordinary range…I suspect that those who dislike the ‘churchy’ manner in which the... —
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Building a Library, May 2011, Featured
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Beethoven: Christus am Ölberge, Op. 85
RecommendedLuba Orgonasova (Seraph), Plácido Domingo (Jesus) & Andreas Schmidt (Petrus)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Kent Nagano
Nagano is often very expressive… Both Fritz Wunderlich and Keith Lewis are more apt with their lighter, smoother, more beautiful voices… Orgonasova’s big, creamy, rounded voice provides its... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Building a Library, April 2017, Also Recommended
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Building A Library, December 2021, Recommended Recording
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Bartok - Violin Sonatas
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), with Ewa Kupiec (piano), with Florent Boffard (piano)
…outstanding…full of grit and fantasy —
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Young Artist of the Year
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Berlioz - Nuits d'été
RecommendedBrigitte Balleys (mezzo), Mireille Delunsch (soprano)
Orchestre des Champs Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
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Building a Library, January 2014, First Choice
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Astonishingly insightful playing, musically captivating and technically blemishless. Each and every phrase rings so completely true that one can't imagine the music being played any other way. —
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Building a Library, January 2012, Recommended Recording
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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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