Germain Pinel (1600-1661): Sarabande (D’Anglebert)
Jean-Patrice Brosse, harpsichord

From Le Clavecin du Roi Soleil – The Sun King’s Harpsichord (2011)
Released by Saphir Productions



Germain Pinel (1600-1661): Sarabande (D’Anglebert)

A wonderful 2CD set of harpsichord music composed during the reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France.


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Reine, vous savez qu’en ce jour…
Céline Scheen, soprano (Philonoé)
Ingrid Perruche, soprano (Sténobeé)
Christophe Rousset, conductor
Les Talens Lyriques, baroque orchestra
Chamber Choir of Nemur

From Lully: Bellérophon (2011)
Released by Aparté




Lully: Bellérophon: Reine, vous savez qu’en ce jour…

Jean-Baptiste Lully: Bellérophon, Libretto by Thomas Corneille.

First performed on January 31st 1679, Bellérophon was among the most popular of Lully’s operas during his lifetime.
The myth of Bellérophon was intended as a metaphor for Louis XIV’s military victories in the Netherlands.
This world première and eagerly anticipated release is the fruit of lengthy musicological research by Christophe Rousset.
Let’s discover together this sensational recording.


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Poulenc: Sonata for flute and piano “Cantilena”
Vincent Lucas, flute
Emmanuel Strosser, piano

From Promenade – The Art of the French Flute (2008)
Released by Indésens




Poulenc: Sonata for flute and piano “Cantilena”

Beautiful recording of some exceptional music for flute from Fauré, Debussy, Widor, Poulenc, Gaubert, Messiaen and Jolivet.


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No. 3, Allegro vivace
Francine Aubin
Orchestre Romantique Européen
Lionel Stoléru, conductor

From Lionel Stoléru: Symphonie Juive (2011)
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Lionel Stoléru: Symphonie Juive, No. 3, Allegro vivace

Lionel Stoléru, considered one of the leading European economists, has a passion for music since his childhood.
He studied piano and conducting while at the same time, prepared a Ph. D. in economics at Standford.
He wrote economics books and also created his own orchestra, the “Orchestre Romantique Européen”.
In order to preserve the Jewish musical religious heritage, Stoléru selected traditional sefarade and ashkenaze melodies to structure into the symphonic form, thus, creating the “Symphonie Juive” in 2009.

The third part, very lively, begins with two melodies of “Leha dodi”, one ashkenaze, and one sefarade.


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Cantata BWV105: Aria “Wie zittern und wenken”
Elizabeth Watts, soprano
Harry Bicket, conductor
The English Concert, chamber ensemble

From Bach: Cantatas and Arias (2011)
Released by Harmonia Mundi




Bach: Cantata BWV105: Aria “Wie zittern und wenken”

Elizabeth Watts (Winner of the 2006 Kathleen Ferrier Award and 2007 The Cardiff Song Prize) received the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award for this marvelous recording of J. S. Bach’s Cantatas and Arias.


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Triple Helix Trio

From Bright Sheng: Four Movements for Piano Trio





Bright Sheng: Triple Helix Trio




II. quarter note = 72
This work will be performed in Hong Kong on May 1st, 2011.


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Rêverie, from Images (oubliées)
Anne Kaasa, piano

From Anne Kaasa – Debussy: Images (oubliées), Six Epigraphes antiques, Pièces pour Piano (2011)
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Debussy: Rêverie, from Images (oubliées)

Dreamy melody, definitely not to be oublié (forgotten).


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Tutti: Meine Bande sind zurissen
RIAS Kammerchor, choral ensemble
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Early music ensemble
Hans-Christoph Rademann, conductor

From Johann Ludwig Bach: Trauermusik (2011)
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Johann Ludwig Bach: Tutti: Meine Bande sind zurissen

Tutti:
My bonds are broken asunder.
Lord, this is thy doing.
Now I may see at my feet
those whom once I had to obey;
Satan, Death and Sin.

Johann Ludwig, second cousin of Johann Sebastian, and Kapellmeister to the Meiningen court, was commissioned by the Duke Ernst Ludwig of Saxe-Meiningen to compose this funeral music in his memory.

The Trauermusik was based on a strophic song written by the Duke, and is by far, the largest and most ambitious of Johann Ludwig Bach’s surviving compositions.


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Vivaldi: Aria (Larghetto), from Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera
Simone Kermes, soprano
Andrea Marcon, conductor
Venice Baroque Orchestra

From Simone Kermes – Amor Sacro (2007)
Released by Deutsche Grammophon




Vivaldi: Aria (Larghetto), from Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera

Our belle Simone in my favorite Vivaldi Motet.

Specially for Stephane.


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Laudent Deum cithara
Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge

From Laudent Deum – Sacred Music by Orlande de Lassus (2011)
Released by Chandos




Orlande de Lassus: Laudent Deum cithara

Orlande de Lassus was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance, he is considered today to be the chief representative of the polyphonic style.

Laudent Deum cithara
Let the lyre praise God
Let the lyre, voice of the choir, trumpet, viol, horn, organ, praise God.
Alleluia


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