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Twenty-Five Years! - Marais, Charpentier, Handel, Purcell et al. / Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet

2 CD / Glossa / 2012-10-06

Works: Pierre Bouteiller: Missa pro defunctis; Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Missa Assumpta est Maria; Messe de Monsieur de Mauroy; Messe à huit voix; Te Deum à huit voix; George Frederick Handel: Mus...
Performers: Bayodi, Hanna; Christoyannis, Tassis; Cornwell, Joseph; d'Oustrac, Stéphanie; Duthoit, Marie Louise; Fernandes, Joao; Gens, Véronique; Harvey, Peter Harvey; Mechaly, Galle; Mercer, Shan...
Conductors: Niquet, Hervé
Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel Orchestra

26 years ago, Hervé Niquet recalls having become so incensed with the disparaging remarks directed at French music and the Lamentations of Jean Gilles in...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...

La Guitarra Española

2 CD / Glossa / 2011-05-01

Works: Luys de Narváez: Diferencias (7) for guitar on "Guárdame las vacas"; Paseávase el rey moro; Cancion del emperador, for vihuela; E López: Fantasia for vihuela; Luis de Mil&...
Performers: Moreno, José Miguel

There is no question of Jose Miguel Moreno being anything other than the leading Spanish specialist in historic plucked string instruments. As a concert performer,...continue...
Recording information: Villa Consuelo, San Lorenzo de El Escorial (03/1994/06/1996)....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...

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...

Albéniz/Guerrero: Suite Iberia Highlights / Encinar, et al

1 CD / Glossa / 2008-01-04

Works: Isaac Albéniz: Iberia Suite, Book 1; Iberia Suite
Conductors: Encinar, José Ramón
Ensemble: Galicia Symphony Orchestra

The arrangement of Isaac Albeniz's Iberia for orchestra was the last major enterprise undertaken by Francisco Guerrero, although the composer's sudden and unexpected death in...continue...

Elgar: Symphony no 1, etc / Brabbins, et al

1 Super Audio CD / Glossa / 2007-11-03

Works: Edward Elgar: Symphony no 1 in A flat major, Op. 55; The Kingdom, Op. 51
Conductors: Brabbins, Martyn
Ensemble: Flemish Radio Orchestra

Elgar on Glossa? And why not, when it brings together one of the UK’s leading conducting talents in Romantic music with the committed advocacy of...continue...

Albéniz: Iberia / Rosa Torres-Pardo

2 CD / Glossa / 2007-05-06

Works: Isaac Albéniz: Iberia Suite
Performers: Torres-Pardo, Rosa

In a co-production with the Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales in Spain, Glossa has prepared a special limited edition of the recording of Albeniz's Iberia...continue...

Rachmaninov: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom / Putnins, et al

1 Super Audio CD / Glossa / 2006-10-08

Works: Sergei Rachmaninov: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31
Conductors: Putnins, Kaspars
Ensemble: Flemish Radio Choir

"This riveting performance of the liturgy is given added splendour by tip-top sound... An endlessly fascinating disc, this. Rachmaninov's Liturgy - in a deeply atmospheric...continue...

Kodály: Missa brevis, Psalms, etc / Duijck, et al

1 Super Audio CD / Glossa / 2006-03-07

Works: Zoltán Kodály: Missa brevis; Psalm 121 "I will lift up"; Psalm 114; Jesus and the traders; Pieces (7) for Piano, Op. 11; Transylvanian lament; The Music Makers; Norwegian girls
Performers: Duijck, Johan; Thomas, Peter [organ]
Conductors: Duijck, Johan
Ensemble: Flemish Radio Choir

"The Flemish Radio Choir and their soloists do full justice to this splendid music-performing with precision, passion and lush sonorities... they are a shade better...continue...

Platinum - Satie: Gnossiennes, Gymnopedies, etc / Cohen

1 CD / Glossa / 1998-04-09

Works: Erik Satie: Gnossiennes (6) for Piano; Danse de travers; Pièces froides; Gymnopédies (3) for Piano; Petite ouverture à danser; Première pensée Rose + Croix; Sarabandes (3) fo...
Performers: Cohen, Patrick