HARMONIA MUNDI

Charpentier: Pastorale de No?l - On this recording, S?bastien Dauc? and Ensemble Correspondances recreate Christmas Eve as it was celebrated in France during the reign of Louis XIV. Charpentier's...

Marc-Antoine Charpentier is the only composer of the age of Louis XIV to have distinguished himself so remarkably in the genre of the 'sacred history': he wrote more than thirty such works, all...

Choral singing enjoys astonishing vitality in the United States of America. Alongside Bernstein's prodigious Chichester Psalms, Barber's Two Choruses, and Erb's much-loved arrangement of Shenandoah,...

De Lalande / Dauce,Sebastien Lecons De Tenebres CD1. O Mors 2. Miserere Mei Deus - Et Secundum Multitudinem Miserationem Tuarum 3. Amplius Lava Me - Tibi Soli Peccavi 4. Ecce Enim in Iniquitatibus -...

More than fifty years after the harmonia mundi's coveted Historical Organs of Europe set, Arnaud de Pasquale has taken up the torch and invited us to hear instruments that have been preserved as...

This generous song recital of Debussy M?lodies features soprano Sophie Karth?user and baritone St?phane Degout, accompanied by pianists Eugene Asti and Alain Plan?s. Drawing on Symbolist and...

Claude Debussy's taste for the arts, and for painting in particular, is well known. His wide-ranging interests ran from the Italian paintings of the Renaissance to the masterpieces of Symbolism and...

Alfred Deller - The Voice of Purcell - 1979 saw the death of one of the leading players in the baroque revolution. Undoubtedly the most famous countertenor of the twentieth century, Alfred Deller's...

Deverite / Uemura / Terakado Forqueray: Les Tourments De L'Me CD

In the thirty-two movements that make up the Goldberg Variations, Bach offers us a perfect equilibrium between structure, proportion, counterpoint and melody. Diego Ares, for whom this remarkable...

From the mid-1810s until the end of his life, Beethoven constantly tested to the limit the forms he had inherited from Haydn and Mozart. His last two cello sonatas bear witness to this structural...

Passionate about travel, Saint-Sa?ns was strongly influenced by the cultural diversity he encountered in North Africa. Zahia Ziouani, as one immersed in these twin cultures herself, is able to shed...