HARMONIA MUNDI

The original colors of two "tubes" from the repertoire. Toscanini considered this orchestration of the Tables of a exhibition as an instrumentation treaty. Les couleurs originales de deux "tubes" du...

La Mer is one of Debussy's most universally admired orchestral works. By contrast, his Premi?re Suite d'Orchestre was lost for more than a century, and came as a complete discovery in 2013 when Les...

Ligeti's interest in sonorities and instrumental timbres is well known. Fran?ois-Xavier Roth and the musicians of Les Si?cles, themselves true alchemists of sounds and colors, recorded shimmering...

Continuing their exploration of Ravel's output, Fran?ois-Xavier Roth and Les Si?cles offer us two works linked by his love of Spain. Alongside the famous Bolero, which regains it's original flavor...

Camille Saint-Sa?ns, virtuoso pianist, organist and conductor, was also a great admirer of Liszt. His Symphony No.3, which adds both his chosen keyboard instruments to the orchestra, and his Piano...

Fran?ois-Xavier Roth and Les Si?cles offer us a double-sided portrait of Saint-Sa?ns here. On one side, some of the most fascinating symphonic poems of French Romanticism are revealed in all the...

Levy,Mathias Unis Vers CD

In 2020, the world will celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. This specially priced boxed set collects highly acclaimed harmonia mundi recordings made by pianist Paul Lewis. Included...

When we think of Beethoven and the piano, his monumental thirty-two sonatas come to mind. They have often been referred to as the 'New Testament' to Bach's 'Old Testament,' the Well-Tempered Clavier...

Paul Lewis's recording of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas at once took it's place as one of the great modern sets. To celebrate twenty years of collaboration with the British pianist, harmonia...

Paul Lewis explores the world of late Brahms, wherein the old master, far from growing more sedate, deploys a palette of infinite colors and sensibilities in his last four collections for solo piano...

Haydn's relationship with the keyboard was so intimate and inspirational that it enabled him to develop ideas of the most varied character. From the whimsical to the dramatic, this highly attractive...