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The 26-year-old harpsichordist Céline Frisch turns in a promising solo debut disc for Harmonia Mundi’s valuable “Les Nouveaux Interpreters” series. Her all-Bach recital encompasses a
Harmonia Mundi and Radio-France co-produce a collection presenting what they call “the cream of the new generation of musicians”. As in any collection of this
This release of sonatas and canzonas by Giovanni Gabrieli is the realization of what many others have attempted–to faithfully capture the unique sound, spatial orientation,
In presenting four of Bach’s early cantatas–three of which were composed in the “pre-Weimar” years when Bach was in his early 20s–this disc makes it
Besides the first rate performances, recorded in 1982 and now reissued as part of Harmonia Mundi’s Bach Edition, this classic traversal of Bach’s “Little Organ
What more do you say about a musician who’s already stormed and conquered the world of Baroque violin repertoire and performance? About to embark on
I have a confession: Mendelssohn’s vocal music to me is like a limp salad or soggy cereal. The promise was there, but it just sat
There’s much to admire about Davitt Moroney’s quietly austere 1985 recording of Bach’s Art of Fugue. His use of meantone as opposed to equal temperament
French pianist Alain Planès already recorded Debussy’s complete Préludes in the mid-1980s for the now-defunct Harmonic Records label. It was a scrupulous reading, slightly under-characterized
Although most of Heinrich Schütz’s surviving music is for the church, his first published work was this set of Italian madrigals–a remarkable collection of pieces
