Posts Tagged ‘Harmonia Mundi’
RIHM Astralis – May 09, 2012
Wolfgang Rihm, who runs the Institute of Modern Music at the Conservatory of Music in Karlsruhe, the city where he was born in 1952, [...]
La Nuova Music release Handel world premiere for their debut on Harmonia Mundi – Feb 01, 2012
La Nuova Music, the London, England-based vocal and instrumental ensemble dedicated to performing the music of the European Renaissance and Baroque, is to release [...]
MARIUSZ KWIECIEŃ Slavic Heroes – Jan 30, 2012
Given that the Polish baritone Mariusz Kwiecień is a major presence in opera on both sides of the Atlantic, it’s odd that he has [...]
BACH Goldberg Variations – Jan 23, 2012
The sheer ingenuity of J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations has led to an incalculable number of adaptations of the work for other instruments. Music [...]
HANDEL Agrippina – Nov 21, 2011
Handel composed Agrippina during his period working in Italy, for the carnival season in Venice, from Christmas 1709 into 1710. With a libretto possibly [...]
PAUL HILLIER The Christmas Story – Sep 30, 2011
The gift of CDs of Christmas music is a gauche gesture, because for the most part the music they contain is, at best, passably [...]
BEJUN MEHTA – Sep 15, 2011
It isn’t so very long ago that the countertenor voice was thought to be all but extinct, with the sound of the voice slowly [...]
BEJUN MEHTA Down by the Salley Gardens – Sep 14, 2011
It is fascinating to hear Ivor Gurney’s Down by the Salley Gardens, words that, for many, are inseparable with Benjamin Britten’s setting. Gurney’s is [...]
Howard Shore’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Symphony to get first CD release – Aug 29, 2011
Howe Records is to release a live recording of Howard Shore’s The Lord of the Rings Symphony on the eve of the 10th anniversary [...]
Conspirare celebrates African-American spirituals for Harmonia Mundi – Aug 22, 2011
The American choirs Conspirare and Company of Voices have recorded an album of traditional and lesser-known settings of African-American spirituals, with Craig Hella Johnson [...]
