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HMGold
A new Prestige Collection at mid-price.
HMGold will assemble the recordings that have marked the history of harmonia mundi, packaged in elegant gold digipaks and enhanced with carefully chosen editorial material. A collection that begins, naturally enough, with the historic Deller recital Music for a While, but which contains many other gems
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Supported by outstandingly vivid sound, Trio Wanderer give marvellously exhilarating performances. The players encompass all the wit and passion of these inspired compositions written during... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2002, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Special offer. Handel: Concerti grossi Op. 6 Nos. 1-12 HWV319-330
RecommendedAcademy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze
Widely considered state-of-the-art on their first release, these recordings by the Academy of Ancient Music combine hyper-vivid articulation with wonderful poise and panache, plus a lovely soulfulness... —
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Building A Library, March 2024, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Schütz: Psalms of David, SWV 22-47 (Op. 2)
RecommendedElisabeth Scholl, Annette Labusch (sopranos), Elisabeth Popien (contralto), Gerd Türk, Wilfried Jochens, Jörn Lindemann (tenors) & Stephan Schreckenberger, Stephan MacLeod (bass)
Cantus Cölln & Concerto Palatino, Konrad Junghänel
Published in 1619, the young Schutz's landmark settings revel in the musical riches of Gabrieli's Venice - wonderfully brought to life by Junghanel's forces. —
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Building A Library, December 2021, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Pandolfi - Complete Violin Sonatas
RecommendedAndrew Manze (violin) & Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
These are virtuoso performances of some quite extraordinary music. Each sonata has its own descriptive subtitle and a movement layout which seems reluctant to conform to any set pattern. Presumably... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Special offer. Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
RecommendedPascal Moraguès (clarinet)
Trio Wanderer
Trio Wanderer and clarinettist Pascal Moraguès emphasise extremes, ranging from barely audible and excessively brittle piano tone in contrasting movements to an astonishingly slow ‘Louange à... —
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Building a Library, March 2017, Also Recommended
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Eight 'Ouverture-Suites' packed with witty and outrageous descriptive devices...Superbly played. —
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Special offer. Ginastera: Estancia, Variaciones concertantes & Harp Concerto
Magdalena Barrera (harp)
Orquestra Ciudad de Granada, Josep Pons
What makes this spectacularly engineered Harmonia Mundi disc especially attractive is the inclusion of the Variaciones concertantes, arguably the masterpiece of Ginastera’s nationalist period.... —
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No other ensemble in my experience captures this despairing sense of being overwhelmed by expressive needs as powerfully as does the Trio Wanderer. Not even Copland’s own reading [of Vitebsk]... —
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Special offer. Guillaume Dufay: O gemma, lux
The complete isorhythmic motets
Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel
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