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Rameau: Symphonies for Two Harpsichords / Pierre Hantaï, harpsichord; Skip Sempé, harpsichord

1 CD / Mirare / 2012-09-12

Works: Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Indes galantes; Platée; Zoroastre; Dardanus; Zoroastre (Pieces de clavecin); Les Paladins; Pygmalion; Hippolyte et Aricie; L'Agaçante, for harpsichord, violin & vi...
Performers: Hantai, Pierre [Conductor/Harpsichord]; Sempe, Skip

The numerous instrumental pieces or symphonies found in the dramatic works of Rameau are remarkably effective when played on the harpsichord. The composer himself, with...continue...
Recording information: théâtre d'Arras (12/2011)....continue...

Le Triomphe de L'Amour: Songs by Grétry, Luly, Rameau, Campra, Rebel et al. / Sandrine Piau, soprano

1 CD / Naïve / 2012-03-27

Works: André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry: L' amant jaloux; Le tableau parlant; Jean-Baptiste Lully: Acis et Galatée; Jean-Philippe Rameau: Anacréon; Les fêtes de Ramire; Les Paladins; Les...
Performers: Correas, Jerome; Nicolet, François; Piau, Sandrine; Roumailhac, Juliette
Conductors: Correas, Jerome
Ensemble: Les Paladins (France)

A renowned figure in the world of Baroque music, French soprano Sandrine Piau performs regularly with such celebrated conductors as William Christie, Philippe Herreweghe, Christophe...continue...
Recording information: Royaumont Abbey, France (10/2011)....continue...

La Belle Danse: Lully, Marais, Muffat / Capriccio Stravagante

1 CD / Paradizo / 2011-12-13

Works: Marin Marais: Alcyone; Jean-Baptiste Lully: Le Triomphe de l'Amour; Roland; Alceste; Atys; Les Plaisirs de L'Ile Enchantée; Armide; Le Grand Divertissement de Versailles; La Pastorale Comique; W...
Performers: Alunni, Benjamin; Buet, Alain; Sempe, Skip; Wanroij, Judith Van
Conductors: Sempe, Skip
Ensemble: ; Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons

Skip Sempé, distinguished for many years as a master interpreter of the French classical harpsichord repertoire, has recently been hailed as "the quintessential ambassador of...continue...
Recording information: Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn (08/2010)....continue...

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Surprises de l'Amour

1 CD / Alpha Productions / 2011-03-08

Works: Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Surprises de l'Amour, opéra-ballet
Performers: Trocellier, Pierre
Conductors:
Ensemble: A Deux Violes Esgales

Alpha continues its exploration of the baroque repertoire in this recording of a transcription by Hesse of Rameau’s Surprises de l’Amour. These transcriptions (for two...continue...
Recording information: Chapelle de l'Hôpital Notre-Dame du Bon-Secours, Paris (09/2009)....continue...

Rameau: Que les mortels servent de modéle aux dieux... / Haas, Warnier, Richard, Ausonia

1 CD / Alpha Productions / 2009-05-12

Works: Jean-Philippe Rameau: Zaïs; Zoroastre, tragédie en musique; Daphnis et Églé, pastorale héroïque
Performers: Glodeanu, Mira; Haas, Frederick; Richard, Arnaud; Warnier, Eugénie
Conductors: Haas, Frederick
Ensemble: Ausonia

'Zoroastre' and 'Zais', written around the same time (1749 and 1748), have been treated like two poles. On the one hand, 'Zoroastre' is the darkest...continue...

D'Anglebert: Pièces de Clavecin, etc / Céline Frisch

2 CD / Alpha Productions / 2007-09-01

Works: Jean-Henri d'Anglebert: Suite for harpsichord no 1 in G major (Pièces de Claveçin); Suite for harpsichord no 2 in G minor (Pièces de Claveçin); Fugue Grave (Primère...
Performers: Frisch, Celine
Conductors:
Ensemble: Café Zimmermann

Versailles - L'île enchantée - Lully, etc / Sempé, et al

1 CD / Alpha Productions / 2007-09-01

Works: Jean-Baptiste Lully: Psyché, tragédie-ballet, LWV 45; Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43; Amadis, LWV 63; Jean-Henri d'Anglebert: Pièces de clavecin; Passacaille d'Armide, for harpsich...
Performers: Fortin, Olivier; Laurens, Guillemette; Moisio, Jasu; Sempe, Skip
Conductors: Sempe, Skip

Dave Soldier: Chamber Music

2 CD / Mulatta Records / 2007-02-20

Works: Dave Soldier: Duo Sonata; East St. Louis, 1968; Utah Dances; To Spike Jones in Heaven; Little Andre; The Unfolding Opium Poppy; Sontag in Sarajevo; Clever Hans; Hockets and Inventions
Performers: Avery, Dawn; Beck, Steven; Carter, Regina [Violin]; Cherry, Rebecca; Clark, Richard Auldon; de Maranis, Anne; Dick, Robert; Friedlander, Erik; Hilse, Walter; Mizrahi, Michael; Rodriguez, Karlos; Schi...

Composer/performer Dave Soldier, who has challenged the boundaries of music in projects including the Thai Elephant Orchestra and The Most Wanted and Unwanted Songs, offers...continue...

Flaming Heart - Monteverdi: Madrigals, etc / I Fagiolini

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2007-01-16

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo; Madrigals, Book 4; Madrigals, Book 7; Madrigals, Book 5; Madrigals, Book 8; Piagn' e sospira, madrigal for 5 voices (from Book 4), SV 93
Performers: Campbell, Richard; Crookes, Anna; Halls, Matthew; Hogan, Louise; Lane, Carys-Anne; Martin, Catherine; Miller, David [Lute/Baroque Guitar]; Mulroy, Nicholas; Pierron, Catherine; Quinteiro, Eligio; Smi...

"As anyone who has experienced a concert by Robert Hollingsworth and I Fagiolini, the group he founded 20 years ago, would expect, their first Monteverdi...continue...

War & Peace - Philips, Gibbons, Byrd, etc / Bob van Asperen

1 CD / Aeolus / 2006-07-01

Works: Anonymous: Batalha de 6 Ton for Organ; Wilhelmus van Nassouwe; Terpsichore; Antonio de Cabezón: Tiento del primer tono; Francis Correa de Arauxo: Libro de tientos y discursos...; Jan Pieterszo...
Performers: Asperen, Bob van

In 1568 William of Orange-Nassau, called the "Silent", started a resistance movement in the Netherlands against the increasingly bloody oppression and heretical persecution by Phillip...continue...

Dances of Poland / Wanda Landowska

1 CD / Testament / 2005-12-13

Works: Michal Kleofas Oginski: Polonaise for piano in A minor "Farewell to the Fatherland"; Polonaise for piano in G major; Jacob Polonais: Gagliardi, for harpsichord; Wanda Landowska: Bourrée d'Auverg...
Performers: Landowska, Wanda

"Testament restores two of Wanda Landowska's most treasurable and long-out-of-print albums. One is a 1951 collection of Polish dances, originally titled "Landowska plays for Paderewski"...continue...

A Total Embrace: The Composer

3 CD / Sony Classical / 2003-09-09

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Symphony no 1 "Jeremiah"; Serenade for Violin and Orchestra "after Plato's Symposium"; Symphony no 2 "Age of Anxiety"; I Hate Music, cycle of "5 kid songs" for s...
Performers: Adrian, Max; Alexander, Cris [Broadway]; Bernstein, Leonard; Calin, Mickey; Chaplin, Sydney; Chorus; Comden, Betty; Cook, Barbara [pop vcl]; Cooper, Marilyn; Ensemble; Entremont, Philippe; Girls, Sha...
Conductors: Bernstein, Leonard
Ensemble: Chorus; Columbia Jazz Band; Columbia Wind Ensemble; Ensemble; New York City Ballet Orchestra; New York Philharmonic; Orchestra; Symphony of the Air

Personnel: Leonard Bernstein (piano); Nancy Williams (mezzo soprano); Isaac Stern (violin); Benny Goodman (clarinet); Philippe Entremont (piano).

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was not only a br...continue...

Caravan - The Ultimate Silk-Road Album

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2002-07-16

Works: Alexander Borodin: In the steppes of central Asia; Prince Igor; Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, suite for orchestra, Op. 10; Modest Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina; Aram Khachatu...
Performers: Abbado, Claudio; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Blomstedt, Herbert; Camarata, Tutti; Dorati, Antal; Karajan, Herbert von; Klee, Bernhard; London Symphony Orchestra; Rodzinski, Artur [Conductor]; ...
Conductors: Salonen, Esa-Pekka; Abbado, Claudio; Järvi, Neeme; Dorati, Antal; Blomstedt, Herbert; Karajan, Herbert von; Camarata, Tutti; Klee, Bernhard
Ensemble: ; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Kingsway Chorus; London Symphony Orchestra; San Francisco Symphony Orchestra; Vienna State Opera Orchestra

This CD contains both ADD and DDD recordings.

Personnel: Michel Schwalbé (violin)....continue...

Schmelzer, et al: Intrada di Polcinelli / Holloway, et al

1 CD / Musicaphon / 2000-08-29

Works: Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Sonata for violin & continuo in B flat major; Sonata for violin scordatura & continuo in G minor; Sonata for violin & continuo in E minor; Sonata for violin scordatura & co...
Performers: North, Nigel [Lute]; ter Linden, Jaap [Cello]; Willi, Barbara Maria

"How difficult it is to categorize this quirky but fascinating release...John Holloway is well established as one of the leading masters of the baroque violin,...continue...

One Piano, Four Hands / Igor Kipnis, Karen Kushner

1 CD / Parnassus / 2000-04-01

Works: Johannes Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes (18) for piano, 4 hands, Op. 52a; Franz Schubert: Divertimento for Piano 4 hands in G minor, D 818/Op. 54 "à l'hongroise"; Maurice Ravel: Ma mère l...
Performers: Kipnis, Igor; Kushner, Karen

"...The selections were complied from several sources...Edited or not, the playing could hardly be better. Kipnis and Kushner are not only thoroughly immersed in the...continue...

The Ultimate Copland Album

1 CD / Decca / 1999-11-09

Works: Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the common man; Rodeo; Old American Songs, Set 1; Appalachian Spring; Our Town; Billy the Kid; El salón México
Performers: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Davis, Carl [Conductor]; Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Dorati, Antal; English Chamber Orchestra; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocal]; Howarth, Elgar; Sinfonietta, London;...
Conductors: Dorati, Antal; Davis, Carl; Howarth, Elgar; Zinman, David
Ensemble: ; Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Detroit Symphony Orchestra; London Sinfonietta

This selection contains both ADD and DDD recordings.

Personnel: Marilyn Horne (mezzo soprano).

Born in the year 1900, Aaron Copland defined a century of American music as no other compo...continue...

The All-Star Christmas Album / Battle, Brightman, et al

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1998-10-20

Works: George Frederick Handel: Der Messias; Franz Gruber: Silent Night; Arcangelo Corelli: Concerti grossi (12), Op. 6; Jester Hairston: Mary's boy child; Felix Mendelssohn: Festgesang "Hark! The herald an...
Performers: Battle, Kathleen; Brightman, Sarah; Carreras, José [Tenor Vocal]; Davis, Carlene; Domingo, Placido; Forsberg, Bengt; Furlanetto, Ferruccio; Gardiner, John Eliot; Herrick, Christopher [Organ]; ...
Conductors: Pinnock, Trevor; Davis, Carl; Karajan, Herbert von; Ocejo, José Luis; Gardiner, John Eliot; Daniel, Paul; Maazel, Lorin; ; Minkowski, Marc; Loges, Karl-Heinz; Marin, Ion
Ensemble: ; Ambrosian Singers; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; English Baroque Soloists; English Chamber Orchestra; English Concert; English Northern Philharmonia; Les Musiciens du Louvre - Grenoble; London Sym...

Personnel: Ambrosian Singers (vocals); Paul Miles-Kingston (soprano, treble); Sarah Brightman, Kathleen Battle, Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano); Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano); Bryn Terfel (baritone, b...continue...