HARMONIA MUNDI

Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants conclude their exploration of this fascinating corpus. Even more than in his first books, Gesualdo here displays incredible modernity, playing in inimitable...

A hybrid work between oratorio, ode and serenata, L'Allegro is undoubtedly one of Handel's most mysterious works, but also his most inspired. With their accustomed poetry, William Christie and Les...

Commissioned by the Comte d'Ogny for the Le Concert de la Loge Olympique, the 'Paris' Symphonies form a key milestone in Haydn's output. William Christie and Les Arts Florissants have long loved...

Les Arts Florissants Les Maitres Du Monet CD

Les Arts Florissants Monteverdi: Madrigali - Mantova Cremona Venezia CD

On the strength on the immense success of Dido & Aeneas and King Arthur, in 1692 Purcell went on to produce The Fairy Queen, based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The work is, in fact, a...

In 1611, after two years of study with Gabrieli in Venice, Heinrich Sch?tz tried his hand at composing madrigals on Italian poems. This mere 'graduation exercise' turned out to be a masterpiece: the...

Si Vous Vouliez Un Jour Airs Serieux Et A Boire 2 - With this second volume of airs s?rieux and airs ? boire, William Christie continues his exploration of this vast repertory of song settings of...

A puzzling paradox: although Vivaldi devoted over 30 years to composing for the Ospedale della Piet? in Venice, no complete musical setting of any liturgy by him has come down to us. By intercalating...

Alternating between transcendental secular music and theatrical sacred music, this latest recording from Geoffroy Jourdain invites us to explore the many expressions of human passion. Built around...

Geoffroy Jourdain and Les Cris de Paris introduce us to a facet of Heinrich Sch?tz that is often overlooked: his works directly inspired by Italy, and more especially by Venice, where he worked...

Melancholia Geoffroy Jourdain Melancholic poetry provided endless nourishment for musical creativity in the late Renaissance. In his first recording for harmonia mundi, Geoffroy Jourdain leads Les...