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2023-09-04 22:33:29
New and recent releases of interest. Monteverdi, Vespro della beata Vergine; Renaud Brès, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Céline Scheen, Adrien Mabire, Perrine Devillers, Zachary Wilder, Marouan Mankar-Bennis, Antonin Rondepierre, Pierre Gallon, Raphaël Pichon leading the Ensemble Pygmalion (Harmonia Mundi) Tchaikovsky, Symphony...
2020-10-14 10:54:41
Review: Bach – Motets – Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Ensemble Pygmalion, under the direction of Raphaël Pichon, perform Bach's six Motets, together with motets by other composers on a new recording for Harmonia Mundi. The post first appeared on The Classic Review.
2019-12-04 11:30:36
Rating: 0 Advent Carols from King’s College LondonThe Choir of King’s College, London/Joseph FortDelphian DCD34226 A beautifully atmospheric recording of the Advent service from King’s College, London. Don’t miss the new pieces, especially George Benjamin’s and Kerensa Briggs’s. The life of composer George Benjamin Christmas The Gesualdo Six/Owain ParkHyperion CDA68299 A delightful album by an all-male a cappella group is hard to come by – all too often they’re po-faced or schmaltzy; but this is neither. An elegant blend of old and new. In dulci jubilo Harmonia […]
2019-09-01 07:00:26
Raphaël Pichon weaves a postmodern tapestry, and Iestyn Davies teams up with James Hall• Even great composers go through tricky patches. In the period before the great trilogy of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosí, Mozart became stuck on several projects that remained unfinished but contain some superb surviving music. His incomplete operas L’oca del Cairo and Lo sposo deluso have now been woven into a sort of postmodern tapestry in three scenes by the ingenious Raphaël Pichon with his Ensemble Pygmalion on Libertà! (Harmonia Mundi). Magpie-like, Pichon also draws on Mozart’s contemporaries in Vienna, Paisiello, Martín y Soler (the piece that’s quoted in Don Giovanni’s final supper) and Salieri (a comic ensemble that’s a winner). Each tableau starts with a strong overture, the last being a fizzing account of Der Schauspieldirektor, and two finish with calm nocturnes. There’s room for concert arias at which the French soprano Sabine Devieilhe excels, […]
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