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Francesco Canova da Milano: Il Divino - Lute Music; Paul O'Dette, lute

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-05-14

Francesco da Milano (dubbed "Il Divino") was celebrated as the preeminent composer of lute music in Renaissance Italy. He was widely published in his lifetime...continue...

Dvorak: Quartet No. 12, Op. 96 "American"; Smetana: Quartet No. 1 "From My Life"; Tokyo String Quartet

1 Super Audio CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-05-14

Conductors:
Ensemble: Tokyo String Quartet

On their valedictory release, the world-renowned Tokyo String Quartet presents a pair of the group's favorite chamber works that offer a glimpse into the private...continue...

Music Watteau: The Music Lesson: Lully, Vivaldi, Couperin, et al.; René Jacobs, William Christie, Bernarda Fink, Paul OÆDette

2 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-05-14

This special collection was created in celebration of an exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels commissioned by musician and conductor William Christie and...continue...

Wolfgang Rihm: Symphony "Near Far"; Hans Begemann, baritone; Luzerner Sinfonieorchester; James Graffigan

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-05-14

Conductors: Graffigan, James
Ensemble: Luzerner Sinfonieorchester

This release presents the world première recording of Wolfgang Rihm's latest orchestral work, the symphony Nähe fern (Near Far), commissioned by and composed in close...continue...

Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus, RV 807; In furore iustissimae irae, RV 626; Handel: Dixit Dominus, HWV 232 / Lucy Crowe, soprano

1 Super Audio CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-04-09

Conductors: Bates, David
Ensemble: La Nuova Musica

David Bates leads the ensemble La Nuova Musica in a pair of contrasting settings of Psalm 109. Handel's masterful and ambitious HWV 282 was penned...continue...

Schubert: Licht und Liebe - vocal duets, trios and quartets / Marlis Petersen, Anke Vondung, Werner Gura, Konrad Jarnot. Christoph Berner, piano

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-04-09

Licht und Liebe features Schubert's vocal duets, trios and quartets - works that reveal the full variety of his creative impulses. Composed for the famous...continue...

Brahms: Clarinet Quintet; String Quartet No. 2 / Sharon Kam, clarinet; Jerusalem Quartet

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-04-09

Conductors:
Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet

Brahms's implacable self-criticism was at its height in the domain of chamber music; he was already forty when he produced his second String Quartet (of...continue...

Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1; Sonata for Cello and Piano / Emmanuell Bertrand, cello; Pascal Amoyel, piano

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-04-09

Conductors: Rophé, Pascal
Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Written 25 years apart, the two masterpieces for cello by Shostakovich recorded here were represent very different periods in the composer's career. The audaciously insolent...continue...

Bach: Violin Concertos, BWV 1041-1043; Concerto for 3 violins, BWV 1064R / Petra Mullejans, Gottfried von der Goltz, Anne Katharina Schreiber, violins

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-04-09

Conductors:
Ensemble: Freiburger Barockorchester

Bach's three well-known Violin Concertos are paired here with a splendid concerto for three violins, reconstructed from the surviving version for three harpsichords, BWV 1064....continue...

Thea Musgrave: Chamber Works for Oboe / Nicholas Daniel, oboe; Emer McDonough, flute; James Turnbull, oboe; Joy Farrall, clarinet; Huw Watkins, piano

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-04-09

Conductors:
Ensemble: Chilingirian String Quartet

Rich and powerful musical language and a strong sense of drama have made Scottish-American composer Thea Musgrave (b.1928) one of the most respected and exciting...continue...

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Septem Verba a Christo / Sophie Karthäuser, Christophe Dumaux, Julian Behr, Konstantin Wolff. René Jacobs

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-03-12

Works: Giovanni Pergolesi: Septem Verba a Christo, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (spurious)
Performers: Wolff, Konstantin
Conductors: Jacobs, René
Ensemble: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin

The history of the oratorio Septem verba a Christo in cruce moriente prolata is as shrouded in mystery as its probable creator. The title of...continue...
Recording information: Teldex Studio Berlin (08/2012)....continue...

The Edge of Light - Messiaen: 8 Preludes; Pieces for Piano Quintet; Saariaho: Prelude, Ballade et al. / Gloria Cheng, piano. Calder Quartet

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-03-12

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Preludes (8) for Piano; Piece for Piano and String Quartet; Kaija Saariaho: Prelude, for piano solo; Ballade, for piano solo; Je sens un deuxième coeur, for viola, cello & piano
Performers: Cheng, Gloria
Conductors:
Ensemble: Calder Quartet

GRAMMY® Award winning pianist Gloria Cheng brings her probing and insightful style to a fascinating program that couples the brilliant and colorful works of Olivier...continue...

Pour Passer la Mélancolie - Harpsichord works by Froberger, dÆAnglebert, Fischer, Couperin, Clérambault and Muffat / Andreas Staier, harpsichord

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-03-12

Keyboard virtuoso Andreas Staier presents Pour passer la mélancolie (to pass the melancholy), a unique program of French Baroque harpsichord music. The works presented here...continue...

Britten: Suites for Solo Cello / Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-03-12

BBC Music Magazine, March 2013
The influence of Bach and the artistry of the Suites' dedicatee, Rostropovich, is clear in Britten's three Suites. Their elusive soliloquising...continue...

Janácek: Violin Sonata; Lutoslawski: Partita; Szymanowski: Mythes / Isabelle Faust, violin; Ewa Kupiec, piano

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-03-12

BBC Music Magazine, March 2013
An exquisitely shaded performance of the Janacek Sonata sets up heady takes on Szymanowski's Mythes and the fizzing virtuosity of Lutoslawski's...continue...

íEspaña! - Music by Albéniz, Falla, Mompou, Ravel, Rodrigo et al.

5 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-03-12

Conductors: Pons, Josep
Ensemble: Choeur dÆenfants de la maîtrise de Badalona ; Orquesta Ciudad de Granada; Orquestra de Cambra Teatre Lliure

From the late 19th century onwards, following in the wake of Goya, Spain experienced a creative explosion that was to manifest itself in all the...continue...

Rossini: Une larme, Serenata, Sonatas a quattro Nos. 3 & 6; Duetto for cello and double-bass

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-03-12

Conductors: Dieltiens, Roel
Ensemble: Ensemble Explorations

BBC Music Magazine, March 2013
Expert and sensitive chamber-scale performances of Rossini's delightful instrumental chips off the operatic block, but slightly missing their humour.
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / Melanie Diener, soprano; Petra Lang, contralto; Endrik Wottrich, tenor; Dietrich Henschel (1998 Recording)

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-03-12

Conductors: Herreweghe, Philippe
Ensemble: Collegium Vocale; Orchestre des ChampsÉlysées

Claude Le Jeune: Autant en emporte le vent / Ensemble Clément Janequin, Dominique Visse

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-03-12

Conductors: Visse, Dominique
Ensemble: Ensemble Clément Janequin

Early Music Review, February 2013
The flexible singing springing from the words makes a fine introduction to the later generation of French ensemble chansons.
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Hugo Wolf: Mörike-Lieder / Werner Güra, tenor; Jan Schultsz, piano

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-03-12

BBC Music Magazine, March 2013
Harmonia Mundi's budget series typically provides no songtexts; but Werner Gura's uniquely elqouent tenor makes these settings flower so that literal...continue...

Schumann: Papillons; Carnaval; Faschingsschwank aus Wien / Stefan Vladar, piano

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-03-12

BBC Music Magazine, March 2013
Stefan Vladar accepts Schumann's invitation in these works to the dance. Visceral readings are caught in a brightly lit, up-close-and-personal recording...continue...

Strauss, Reger: Sonatas for Cello & Piano / Emmanuelle Bertrand cello; Pascal Amoyel, piano

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-03-12

BBC Music Magazine, March 2013
Beguiling early Strauss and Reger at his most lyrically inspired, whose seductive opulence comes alive when listened to at a healthy...continue...

Richafort: Requiem / Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2013-03-12

Conductors: Van Nevel, Paul
Ensemble: Huelgas-Ensemble