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Ossuaires: Office for Elizabeth of Hungary by Pierre de Cambrai (13th century) / Graindelavoix

1 CD / Glossa / 2012-11-04

Works: Cambrai Chant: Gaudeat Hungaria, jubilet Thuringia!, antiphon (from the Office of St. Elisabeth "Gaudeat Hungaria"); Sub Conrado Dei viro, responsory (from the Office for Elizabeth of Hungary); Ante ...
Conductors: Schmelzer, Björn
Ensemble: ; Graindelavoix

The first in a trilogy of recordings exploring religious, social and political discourses around 13th century music sees Björn Schmelzer and Graindelavoix set off on...continue...
Recording information: Braine-l'Allaud, France (07/2010-08/2010)....continue...

Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies / Bruggen, Orch. of the 18th Century

5 Super Audio CD / Glossa / 2012-10-06

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 1 in C major, Op. 21; Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"; Symphony no 2 in D major, Op. 36; Symphony no 4 in B flat major, Op. 60; Symphony no 6 in F maj...
Conductors: Brüggen, Frans
Ensemble: ; Orchestra of the 18th Century

It was some years after founding the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century in 1981 that Frans Brüggen first turned his attention to the music of...continue...

Alexander Striggio: Mass for 40 and 60 voices

1 Super Audio CD / Glossa / 2012-02-05

Works: Gregorian Chant: Beata viscera , communion in mode 1; Orazio Benevoli: Laetatus sum; Miserere; Magnificat; Francesco Corteccia: Bonum est confiteri; Gloria Patri; Alleluia; Tu puer propheta Altissimi...
Conductors: Niquet, Hervé

As his starting point for a brand new recording of the music from the polychoral Renaissance and the "monumental Baroque", with Alessandro Striggio's 40 and...continue...
Recording information: Notre Dame du Liban, Paris (08/2011)....continue...

Gustave Charpentier: Music for the Prix de Rome

2 CD / Glossa / 2011-11-03

Works: Gustave Charpentier: Impressions d'Italie, symphonic suite for orchestra; Didon, for voices & orchestra; La Vie du Poète, symphony-drama for soloists, chorus & orchestra; La Fête des myrtes...
Performers: Buet, Alain; Devieilhe, Sabine; Richter, Bernard [Tenor]
Conductors: Niquet, Hervé; Segers, Yves

This third release in the Prix de Rome series by Glossa is set to demonstrate a composer whose range of talents far extends beyond his...continue...
Recording information: Brussels (Flagey) & Antwerp (De Singel), Belgium (06/2011)....continue...

Luzzasco Luzzaschi: Concerto delle Dame

1 CD / Glossa / 2011-10-03

Works: Luzzasco Luzzaschi: Aura soave, for voice and continuo; O primavera gioventú dell'anno, for voice & continuo; Ch'io non t'ami cor mio, for voice & continuo; Toccata, for harp; Stral pungente d'a...
Performers: Cassinari, Francesca; Contadin, Cristiano; Galli, Emanuela; Graziolino, Marta; Mameli, Roberto [Soprano Vocal]; Palomba, Gabriele; Pozzi, Davide
Conductors: Cavina, Claudio
Ensemble: ; La Venexiana

Claudio Cavina and La Venexiana now return to the end of the 16th century, following the 'Poppea' of Monteverdi with the 'Artemisia' by Cavalli.

They put...continue...
Recording information: Chiesa de S. Giovanni, Pinerolo, Italy (08/2009)....continue...

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Cantiones Sacrae

2 CD / Glossa / 2011-06-04

Works: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Diligam te Domine, fortitudo mea, motet for 8 voices; In te Domini speravi, motet for 5 voices & continuo (Cantiones Sacrae no 4); Diligam te Domine, fortitudo mea, motet f...
Conductors: van der Kamp, Harry

Brought together in 1619, the collection Cantiones Sacrae quinque vocum was published in Catholic Antwerp by Petrus Phalesius, the same publisher who a quarter of...continue...
Recording information: Renswoude (Nederlands Hervormde Kerk), Netherlands (05/2009/07/2009)....continue...

Francesco Cavalli: Artemisia

3 CD / Glossa / 2011-06-04

Works: Francesco Cavalli: Artemisia, opera
Performers: Frigato, Silvia; Mazzulli, Francesca Lombardi; Vitale, Salvo
Conductors: Cavina, Claudio

Where next for Claudio Cavina and La Venexiana after their exhilarating run of recordings of Monteverdi madrigals, operas and much more? One route is proving...continue...
Recording information: La Sala Ghislieri, Mondovi, Italy (10/2010)....continue...

J.S. Bach: St. John Passion / Brüggen

2 CD / Glossa / 2011-04-03

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Saint John Passion, BWV 245
Conductors: Brüggen, Frans

One of the many delights coming from Frans Brüggen's distinguished career has been the understanding which he brings to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach...continue...
Recording information: De Doelen, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2010-03-30_2010-03-31&2010-); Philharmonie, Haarlem, Netherlands (2010-03-30_2010-03-31&2010-); Stadsgehoorzaal, Leiden, Netherlands (2010-03-...continue...

Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres

1 CD / Glossa / 2011-03-03

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Troisième leçon de ténèbres du mercredi saint, motet for 5 voices, instruments & continuo, H. 135; Troisième leçon de ténèbres du jeu...
Performers: Cuiller, Daniel; Delume, Caroline; Duffaud, Francoise; Gervreau, Alain; Paulet, Stephanie; Perrot, Benjamin; Queyras, Gesine; Zemanov, Helena
Conductors: Niquet, Hervé

Recording information: Église Notre Dame du Liban, Paris, France (03/2001)....continue...

Mendelssohn: A Midsumer Night's Dream / Brüggen

1 CD / Glossa / 2011-03-03

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Conductors: Brüggen, Frans

BBC Music Magazine
A performance full of character and joy. It bristles with energy without adopting extreme tempos; period instrument sonorities refresh even that over-exposed Wedding...continue...
Recording information: Utrecht (Vredenburg), The Netherlands (06/1997)....continue...

Jean Philippe Rameau: Orchestral Suites Vol. 2

1 CD / Glossa / 2011-03-03

Works: Jean-Philippe Rameau: Naïs (Suite from the Pastorale-héroïque); Zoroastre (Suite from the Tragédie en musique)
Conductors: Brüggen, Frans

Recording information: Utrecht (Vredenburg), Netherlands (09/1998/11/2000)....continue...

Charpentier: Messe de Monsieur de Mauroy / Niquet

1 CD / Glossa / 2011-03-03

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe pour Monsieur de Mauroy, for 6 voices, chorus, instruments & continuo, H. 6
Performers: Bardon, Emmanuel; Boragno, Pierre; Boulay, Raphael; Bouquey, Emmanuel; Bouture, Didier; Briand, Olivier; Chapuis, Michel; Cohen-Akenine, Patrick [Violin]; Coville, Annie; Delume, Caroline; Gaillard, ...
Conductors: Niquet, Hervé

BBC Music Magazine
Le Concert Spirituel expertly draws us into his heartfelt harmonies in a fabulous recording.
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Recording information: Abbey, St.-Michel-en-Thiérache, Aisne, France (06/1999)....continue...

Parisian Easter Music of the 13th & 14th Centuries

1 CD / Glossa / 2011-02-04

Works: Anonymous, Notre Dame School: Breves dies hominis; Mors vite propitia; Baptiste Romain: Estampie no 1 for vielle; Estampie no 2 for vielle; Nota for rebec; Anonymous, French: Quis tibi Christe merita...
Performers: Budzinska-Bennett, Agnieszka; Donadini, Lorenza; Landerkin, Kelly; Romain, Baptiste
Conductors: Budzinska-Bennett, Agnies
Ensemble: ; Ensemble Peregrina

Recording information: Heilig Kreuz Kirche Binningen-Bottmingen, Basel, Switze (06/2010)....continue...

Giuseppe Antonoi Brescianello: Concerti, Sinfonie, Ouverture

1 CD / Glossa / 2011-02-04

Works: Giuseppi Antonio Brescianello: Symphony no 5 in F major, Op. 1; Concerto for violin, oboe, strings & continuo in G minor; Concerto for Violin no 4 in E minor, Op. 1; Ouverture for 2 oboes, 2 violins,...
Conductors: Luks, Václav; Plantier, David

Recording information: Katholische Kirche Seewen, Suisse (09/2002)....continue...

Camille Saint-Saëns: Music for the Prix de Rome

2 CD / Glossa / 2011-01-02

Works: Camille Saint-Saëns: Ivanhoë, cantata for soloists & orchestra; Le retour de Virginie, for chorus; Ode à Sainte-Cécille. for solo voice, chorus & orchestra; Chour de Sylphes, for ...
Performers: Cypers, Bart; Fuchs, Julia; Saint-Yves, François
Conductors: Niquet, Hervé

Saint-Saëns and the Prix de Rome... surely a strange bringing together of ideas, given that the composer never gained that coveted award and consequently never...continue...
Recording information: Flagey, Brussels (2010-02-??&2010-03-??&2010-); Jezuïetenkerk, Heverlee (2010-02-??&2010-03-??&2010-); Koningin Elisabethzaal, Antwerp (2010-02-??&2010-03-??&2010-)....continue...

An Evening with Leopold Stokowski

1 Super Audio CD / Glossa / 2011-01-02

Works: Leopold Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, transcription for orchestra (after Bach, BWV 565); Purcell Suite, for orchestra (a set of transcriptions after Purcell); Antonio Cesti: Tu mancavi a t...
Conductors: Egarr, Richard

The charm and sheer full-blooded pleasure offered by Leopold Stokowski's transcriptions continues to hold sway today - complete with opulent and resonant strings - some...continue...
Recording information: Studio 4, Flagey, Brussels (06/16/2008-06/20/2008)....continue...

Il Piú bel Nome

2 CD / Glossa / 2010-08-27

Works: Antonio Caldara: Il piú bel nome, opera
Conductors: Moreno, Emilio

Artists:
Maria Espada, soprano; Raquel Andueza, soprano; Marianne Beate Kielland, mezzo-soprano; Robin Blaze, countertenor; Agustin Prunell-Friend, tenor El Concierto Espanol; Emilio Moreno,...continue...
Recording information: Auditori Enric Granados, Lleida, Spain (11/2009)....continue...

Music and Poetry In St Gallen / Gregorian Chant

1 CD / Glossa / 2010-07-08

Works: Gregorian Chant: Iustus ut palma, alleluia for the Feast of St. Benedict; Alleluia. Dies sanctificatus; Alleluia. Dominus in Sina, in tone 8; Offertory; Alleluia, Spiritus Domini - Psalm 85, for Pent...
Performers: Bonnardot, Emmanuel; Turk, Gerd; Vellard, Dominique
Conductors: Vellard, Dominique

Recording information: Église de Romainmôtier, Vaud, Switzerland (04/1996).

Includes ecce advenit, introit and tropes (hodie clarissima by various composers.

Includes in medio ...continue...

Gretry: Andromaque, opera / Hervé Niquet

2 CD / Glossa / 2010-05-05

Works: André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry: Andromaque, opera
Conductors: Niquet, Hervé

Herve Nigquet and Le Concert Spirituel carry on with their journey of rediscovering forgotten operatic works, this time pitting themselves against music from the close...continue...
Recording information: Salle Henri Le Boeuf, Palais des Beaux-Artes, Brussels (10/2009)....continue...

Bach: Mass In B Minor BWV 232

2 CD / Glossa / 2010-04-03

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Conductors: Brüggen, Frans

Twenty years after the Orchestra of the 18th Century’s first engagement on tour with Bach’s Mass in B minor - a work which has for...continue...
Recording information: Lutoslawski Radio Studio, Warsaw, Poland (03/2009)....continue...

Ullmann: Symphony 1 - Von Meiner Jugend / Albrecht

1 Super Audio CD / Glossa / 2010-01-02

Works: Viktor Ullmann: Der zerbrochene Krug; Symphony no 1 ("On my youth") (reconstructed by Bernhard Wulff); Don Quixote tanzt Fandango, overture for orchestra; Symphony no 2 in D
Conductors: Albrecht, Gerd

The composer Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944) could not have predicted, fortunately, that his name would come to be inseparably linked to the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto. Not...continue...
Recording information: Studio 4, Flagey, Brussels (05/2008)....continue...

Claude Debussy: Music for the Prix de Rome

2 CD / Glossa / 2010-01-02

Works: Claude Debussy: Le gladiateur ("Mort aux Romains, tuez jusqu'au dernier"), cantata for 3 soloists & orchestra, L. 41; Invocation, cantata for male chorus & orchestra, L. 40; La Demoiselle élue...
Performers: Girard, Guylaine [Soprano]; Heisser, Jean-Francois; Jude, Marie-Josephe; Marilley, Sophie; Richter, Bernard [Tenor]
Conductors: Niquet, Hervé

Claude Debussy presented himself as a candidate for the Prix de Rome on three separate occasions during the 1880s, the most innovative decade in the...continue...

Mozart: Music for Horn / McFadden, Wieringa, DeStrube, Bruggen, et al

1 CD / Glossa / 2009-10-03

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 12 Duos for 2 horns, KV 487 (496a); Quintet in E flat for horn, violin, 2 violas and bass, KV 407 (386c); Mitridate, re di Ponto, KV 87 (74a); Concerto for Horn in E flat, KV...
Performers: Bruggen, Albert; Destrube, Marc; Franenberg, Robert; McFadden, Claron; Moreno, Emilio; Swierstra, Staas; Wieringa, Erwin; Zwart, Teunis van der
Conductors: Brüggen, Frans

Of the various wind instruments, it was the natural horn which proved to be the one most favored by Mozart in his solo instrumental music....continue...

Daphnis et Chloe

2 CD / Glossa / 2009-07-05

Works: Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: Daphnis et Chloé, pastorale, Op. 102
Conductors: Niquet, Hervé

After rescuing three important tragedies lyriques from oblivion, Herve Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel are now restoring to the catalogue a recording made in Metz...continue...
Recording information: Grande Salle, L'Arsenal de Metz, France (12/2001)....continue...

Mozart: Violin Concerti, Sinfonia Concertante / Brüggen, Zehetmair, Killius, et al

2 CD / Glossa / 2009-01-08

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Violin no 1 in B flat major, K. 207; Concerto for Violin no 4 in D major, K. 218; Concerto for Violin no 5 in A major ("Turkish") K. 219; Adagio for Piano in B m...
Performers: Killius, Ruth; Zehetmair, Thomas [Conductor/Violin]
Conductors: Brüggen, Frans

Violinist Thomas Zehetmair is on top form and offers a lesson in judicious playing and boundless musicality in repertory which he dominates like nobody else....continue...