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Du Mont: Motets for the Chapel of Louis XIV at the Louvre

Alpha

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Sep 01, 2007

Classical Music

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Alpha

Sep 01, 2007

ALPHA069

Deux Siecles d'Orgue / Lebegue, Bouvard, Desenclos, Espinasse, Robin

Alpha

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Aug 27, 2013

Two centuries of organ music at the Chapelle Royale, Versailles . . . The recently restored organ of the chapel bears witness to the glorious past of this historic site and the magnificence of the royal liturgy. This project, entrusted to the four resident organists of the instrument, presents a rich panorama of the composers who had the privilege of entering the Versailles organ loft, from the Couperin dynasty to Balbastre. It forms part of a new series produced by Alpha with the Château de Versailles, which will present the fruits of the latest research into the organ repertory in a sumptuous edition.

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Alpha

Aug 27, 2013

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Un Siecle de Musique Francaise: Escales Symphoniques

Sony Masterworks

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May 13, 2016

A symphonic profile of eight outstanding French composers of the 19th & 20th centuries, with the majority of recordings featuring Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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Sony Masterworks

May 13, 2016

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The Essential Montserrat Caballe

Sony Masterworks

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Jan 15, 2008

Her nickname "La Superba" can be comprehended by any non-Spanish speaker, and the passion of this Spanish soprano translates into every language. Her talent for shifting from power to delicacy is on display all across these 2 CDs as she performs pieces from Verdi's La Traviata and Rigoletto ; Puccini's La Boheme ; Wagner's Tristan Und Isolde ; Verdi's Requiem Mass (CD debut), and more!

The Essential Montserrat Caballe

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Sony Masterworks

Jan 15, 2008

88697213572

CONTEMPLATION

ERATO

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Oct 18, 2024

Terrific debut album for Huw Montague Rendall, showcasing his multifaceted talent and stylistic sensitivity. Contemplation spans three centuries, the idioms of opera, operetta, Broadway musical, lied and melodie with arias and songs by Mozart, Thomas, Gounod, Duparc, Messager, Mahler, Korngold, Rodgers and Britten. In a duet from Mozart's Die Zauberflote the baritone is joined by Canadian soprano Elisabeth Boudreault.

CONTEMPLATION

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ERATO

Oct 18, 2024

EAO236378.2

Éric Montalbetti: Solos – A Personal Diary in Music

Alpha

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Sep 30, 2016

Eric Montalbetti has had a long and fulfilling music career, though not necessarily in the field of composition. He is most known for his 18 year tenure as Artistic director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. However, he began composing as a young child and has continued throughout his whole life. Montalbetti writes of this project: “Today, I am most happy to see my scores taking life thanks to wonderful conductors and soloists, and to develop new composition projects for the future.” In this music one can hear all of our most varied emotions- energy, mourning, hope, love, rage, and gratitude. Notable works on this release include “Trois etudes pares Kandinsky” for piano, and “Esprit tendre,” for oboe, which is a tribute to Helen and Elliott Carter. These works are performed by some of the best soloists in the current French music scene.

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Alpha

Sep 30, 2016

ALPHA263

Montalbetti: Orchestral Pictures

Alpha

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Jan 10, 2025

By 2014 eric Montalbetti had amassed 20 years of experience as Artistic Director of the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, all the while he had also been composing, something he had been engaged in since childhood: an activity he did not publicly reveal until 2015. Conscious of the heritage of Debussy and Messiaen ('my very first heroes') as well as skilled in the serialism of Boulez - whose teaching courses he attended at the College de France - and fascinated by the sonic nuances of spectral music, eric Montalbetti seeks a point of convergence, a possible synthesis enabling him to blend modality and serialism, without rejecting the harmonic contours of composers such as Murail. This new album dedicated to Montalbetti's work includes a Flute Concerto, whose commission was encouraged by Emmanuel Pahud: it's telling title is Memento vivere (Remember that you must live).

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Alpha

Jan 10, 2025

ALPHA1113

Emmanuel: Chamber Music And Songs

Toccata

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May 27, 2014

•These three early works of the French composer Maurice Emmanuel (1862–1938) show him emerging from under the influence of César Franck. The ambitious Violin Sonata is here receiving its first recording. The Greek Folktunes Suite attest to Emmanuel’s deep knowledge of Greek music. The texts of the song-cycle Musiques, here receiving only its second recording, are by the poet, geologist and historian Louis de Launay.

REVIEW:

The performances here are persuasive and committed. We of course don’t have any points of comparison, and I could perhaps imagine something even more successful with a violinist and a singer with more inherently beautiful timbres. But these are at a level that is more than serviceable, and they convey the essence of the music thoroughly. Pianist Killian is particularly strong. The recorded sound is very well balanced and natural in the violin-piano works, though I find just a bit too much air around the voice. But do not let that stand in your way. The helpful, informative notes and texts and translations round out what is a very important release of music that should be a wonderful discovery for most listeners.

-- Fanfare

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Toccata

May 27, 2014

TOCC0231

German & French Songs / Perry, Lemaire

Solo Musica

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Aug 12, 2016

Soprano Janet Perry hails from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She began her career with lessons on piano and violin at a young age. In her adulthood she has found resounding success, having recorded several major works under Karajan’s baton, including Mozart’s C Minor Mass, Beethoven’s 9th symphony, and Bruckner’s Te Deum. Perry writes of the works chosen, “...classical music has truly made me who I am today. It has been a constant companion since my earliest childhood... The songs of Mozart Debussy, Faure, Duparc, and Strauss have been in my repertoire for a long time, we are old friends who enjoy music-and the silence between the notes, together.” Perry is accompanied by pianist Jean Lemaire, who specializes in accompaniment and chamber music. He frequently performs throughout Europe, the USA, Japan, and South America.

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German & French Songs / Perry, Lemaire

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Solo Musica

Aug 12, 2016

SM239

A LA GUERRE!

Dynamic

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Jan 25, 2011

A LA GUERRE!

A LA GUERRE!

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Dynamic

Jan 25, 2011

DYN-DM8004

Desmarets & Campra: Iphigenie en Tauride

Alpha

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Jan 24, 2025

Nearly a century before Gluck, another opera called Iphigenie en Tauride - same plot, same protagonists - had immense success on the opera stage. This 'first' Iphigenie has rather a curious history. The opera was sketched out by composer Henri Desmarest around the year 1695, but he was then banished from France by Louis XIV for having married a young girl without her father's consent. The uncompleted score of Iphigenie was then entrusted to Andre Campra. The opera, since lost and forgotten, was rediscovered by Benoit Dratwicki, Director of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, who marvels at it's stylistic unity: 'Campra easily adopted Desmarest's style. He just added some virtuoso arias to the divertissements, as well as the tuneful choruses that were his speciality.' Iphigenie en Tauride had it's premiere on 6 May 1704, and was revived throughout Europe from 1711. Thanks to Herve Niquet, a top-flight team of singers, an orchestra well versed in French repertoire, and all their collaborative research into the practices and specific playing techniques of the early 18th century, Iphigenie sees the light of day once more.

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Alpha

Jan 24, 2025

ALPHA1106

Imperial Fanfares - Monteverdi, Lully, Salieri, Et Al / Leeb

Naxos

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Jul 01, 2003

Includes fanfare(s) by various composers. Ensemble: Vienna Art of Trumpet. Conductor: Leonhard Leeb.
Includes work(s) by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Salieri. Ensemble: Vienna Art of Trumpet. Conductor: Leonhard Leeb.

Imperial Fanfares - Monteverdi, Lully, Salieri, Et Al / Leeb

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Naxos

Jul 01, 2003

8555879

Pierre Monteux Edition Vol 14 - Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 4-6

RCA

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May 13, 2010

PIERRE MONTEUX EDITION VOL 14

Pierre Monteux Edition Vol 14 - Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 4-6

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RCA

May 13, 2010

RCA61901

Montalbetti: Chamber Music - Harmonieuses Dissonances / Various

Alpha

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Apr 24, 2020

Harmonieuses Dissonances: that is the title of the string quartet that closes this second album of music by Eric Montalbetti, but above all it is a statement of the very subject of the works assembled here: they start out from heterogeneous elements, like the diversity of the people we know, or of our moods and thoughts, and aim – through encounters, comparisons, organization or a search for common ground – to find the meaning of a life that we hope will, in the end, be harmonious. Since the first album of his music, Solos, appeared in 2016, Eric Montalbetti has been fortunate enough to hear seventeen of his scores come to life thanks to some wonderful musicians in France, Germany, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Japan and Korea. Two duos (including a Hommage a Matisse), a piano trio and a string quartet, were premiered and have now been recorded by Christian Tetzlaff and Alexandre Vorontsov, Delphine Haidan and Pierre Genisson, the soloists of the Ensemble intercontemporain and the Quatuor Les Dissonances.

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Montalbetti: Chamber Music - Harmonieuses Dissonances / Various

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Alpha

Apr 24, 2020

ALPHA583

French Cello Sonatas, Vol. 4 - Magnard & Vierne

Brilliant Classics

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Jul 31, 2026

French Cello Sonatas, Vol. 4 - Magnard & Vierne

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French Cello Sonatas, Vol. 4 - Magnard & Vierne

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Brilliant Classics

Jul 31, 2026

BRI97224

MOZART 1 2 3 4 - SOLO DUO TRIO QUARTET

HARMONIA MUNDI

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Mar 28, 2025

In this highly original program, Julien Libeer and his partners bring us the smile and the light of Mozart via an absolutely radiant sonata for solo piano, a sonata for violin and piano in which joy triumphs over anxiety, a flamboyant trio from the time of Le nozze di Figaro, to say nothing of the Piano Quartet K478, a rare combination that allows the composer to play around on the frontiers of the concerto and chamber music. All of this in a surprising dramatic progression.

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HARMONIA MUNDI

Mar 28, 2025

HMF902699.2

Monteverdi: L'Orfeo

Château de Versailles Spectacles

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Jul 05, 2024

In 1607, Claudio Monteverdi premiered his Orfeo for the Carnival opening in the Court Theatre of Duke Vincenzo I of Gonzaga in Mantua. For the first time in the history of music, real characters are brought to life with deeply moving human feelings: with this exceptional dramatic power, modern opera is born. Stephane Fuget, a great specialist in this repertoire and it's historical instrumentalisation, after Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, has brought together some of the finest vocal and instrumental virtuosos for this new Orfeo: he has entrusted the eponymous role to the splendid and sensitive Julian Pregardien, to sing all the magnificence of the first true hero in the history of opera.

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Château de Versailles Spectacles

Jul 05, 2024

CVS103

Fevrier: Pieces De Clavecin - Paris 1734, Circa 1735 / Moersch

Centaur Records

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Aug 01, 2010

The recipient of important awards and prizes, Charlotte Mattax Moersch first gained critical attention as a top prize-winner in 1980 and 1983 at the International Harpsichord Competitions of Bruges and Paris. She was honored with a Solo Recitalist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Woolley Scholarship for study in Paris. Professor Mattax Moersch studied with Gustav Leonhardt at the Sweelinck Conservatory, Bob van Asperen at the Hague Conservatory, and Kenneth Gilbert in Paris. Charlotte Mattax Moersch has performed on harpsichord at concerts and music festivals worldwide.

A specialist in 17th-century French music, she is the author of the book, Accompaniment on Theorbo and Harpsichord: Denis Delair’s Traité of 1690, published by Indiana University Press.

Rarely heard French baroque composer Pierre Février (1696–1760) was also an organist and harpsichordist. Février lived in Paris and served as organist at two churches on the Saint-Honoré street: the Jacobins' church and Saint Roch. He composed two volumes of harpsichord pieces the first of which is dated 1734 and contains five suites in the elegant and individual keyboard style of the French Baroque.

Fevrier: Pieces De Clavecin - Paris 1734, Circa 1735 / Moersch

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Centaur Records

Aug 01, 2010

CRC3084-85

Montgeroult: Complete Piano Sonatas / Horvath

Grand Piano

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Nov 12, 2021

Hélène de Montgeroult began her career as a student of Muzio Clementi in Paris. She survived the French Revolution – during which, as an aristocrat, her life was in grave danger – to become a celebrated pianist, composer and author of a famous piano method. Her compositional language in these nine sonatas is wide and includes Italianate models as well as elements that reflect the influences of Franz Joseph Haydn and Wofgang Amadeus Mozart, with chromatic and surprising harmonies, contrasts of register, chorale-like nobility and brilliantly athletic finales. Featuring several world première recordings, these sonatas represent a major contribution to the French repertoire of the late Classical and early Romantic periods, played with characteristic brilliance and subtlety by the composer's latest champion: Nicolas Horvath.

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Grand Piano

Nov 12, 2021

GP885-86

Montsalvatge: Orchestral Works / Mena, BBC Symphony

Chandos

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Sep 25, 2012

Xavier Montsalvatge (1912 - 2002) was an important composer in Catalan music. His work ranges from operas such as "Una voz en off" and "El gato con botas," to vocal, chamber and orchestral music. Montsalvatge's "Sinfonía de réquiem" is one of the featured works on this disc. Montsalvatge achieved international recognition with the "Cinco canciones negras" for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, also featured in this recording, which shows the influence of Antillean melodic and rhythmic characteristics. His score for the 1987 film Dragon Rapide, about Francisco Franco, was nominated for the Goya Awards.

R E V I E W S:

"The latest release in Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic's La Música de España series marks the centenary of the birth of Catalan composer Xavier Montsalvatge, the best of whose music combines Catalan and Caribbean folk idioms with taut neoclassical structures and a glamorous, post-impressionistic sense of orchestration. The finest work here is Calidoscopi Simfònic, dating from 2001 – the year before Montsalvatge's death – which dazzlingly reworks music from a ballet left unfinished in 1955... The performances are immensely persuasive."
-- The Guardian (UK)

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Chandos

Sep 25, 2012

CHAN 10735

Marais: Sonnerie de Sainte-Genevieve du Mont

Ricercar

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Feb 28, 2025

It was between the publication of the Quatrieme Livre de Pieces de Violes in 1717 and the Cinquieme in 1725 that Marin Marais offered his public an exceptional collection of works that use both the violin and the viol. These works are very different from the earlier viol pieces, from the instruments used to the works' formal structures: they include a sonata inspired by Italian models marked à la maresienne (in Marais' own style), a piece on a three note basso ostinato that evokes the peals of bells in a Parisian church, and an astonishing monument of a piece - La Gamme - that Marais described as an example of a small opera for instruments.

Marais: Sonnerie de Sainte-Genevieve du Mont

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Ricercar

Feb 28, 2025

RIC471

Berlioz, Brahms, Chausson & Others: Works For Orchestra / Monteux, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Bbc Symphony

ICA Classics

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Oct 05, 2018

The great French conductor Pierre Monteux (1875-1964) was naturally considered a specialist of his native country’s music, though he would never allow this to restrict him. This new set of previously unpublished recordings seeks to set the record straight, with a strong representation of German repertoire, notably Brahms’ Symphony No.3 with the Boston Symphony, which he never recorded commercially, in a rare ‘live’ performance from the 1956 Edinburgh Festival. More Brahms featuring two celebrated virtuosos –the Violin Concerto with the French violinist Zino Francescatti, and the Double Concerto where he is joined by his compatriot Pierre Fournier, both ‘live’ recordings from the Royal Festival Hall in 1955. Both selections featured here are previously unpublished.

Berlioz, Brahms, Chausson & Others: Works For Orchestra / Monteux, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Bbc Symphony

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ICA Classics

Oct 05, 2018

ICAC5150

FLAMENCO: 1934-36

Frémeaux

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Oct 01, 2002

(2-CD set) Ram¢n Montoya was the 'inventor' of the Flamenca guitar, the first to have raised this instrument from it's discreet role of accompanying solo folklore singers to become a universal form of expression.

FLAMENCO: 1934-36

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Frémeaux

Oct 01, 2002

FA5049

DE L?ESPAGNE A LA FRANCE 1944-

Frémeaux

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Jul 01, 2012

An actress as much as a singer, Germaine Montero was the perfect incarnation of her texts, whether they were songs or poems; better than anyone, she succeeded in highlighting their rhythms, their spirit and their musical qualities. And she was ideally suited to perform them: she could reach inside the heart and shape of a word, and grasp its meaning and colour. Every one of the 96 titles in this anthology compiled by Jean Buzelin and Marc Monneraye is an illustration of the art of perfect performance. Patrick Fremeaux Actriz y cantante, Germaine Montero encarna a la perfección textos y canciones como poemas de los cuales era capaz de expresar el ritmo, la musicalidad y el espíritu mejor que nadie. Ella fue la interprete ideal de aquellas obras, sabiendo entrar en el corazón de la palabra y del verbo para entender su sentido y su color. Los 96 títulos juntos en esta antología de Jean Buzelin y Marc Monneraye, son ejemplo de su arte perfecto de interpretación. Patrick Fremeaux

DE L?ESPAGNE A LA FRANCE 1944-

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Frémeaux

Jul 01, 2012

FA5379

GESUALDO: TENEBRAE RESPONSORIES FOR MAUNDY

HYPERION

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$18.33

Mar 04, 2022

The expressive extremity of the music and the notoriety of the life seem inextricably bound together where Gesualdo is concerned. Here, his Maundy Thursday Tenebrae Responsories provide the climax of a program which opens with an astonishingly fine rendition of the Tallis Lamentations.

GESUALDO: TENEBRAE RESPONSORIES FOR MAUNDY

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HYPERION

Mar 04, 2022

HYP68348.2

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