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Brahms: The String Quartets, Piano Quintet Op.34 [HMI987074.75] Cuarteto Casals, Claudio Martinez Mehner
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The string quartets of Brahms demonstrate his perfectionism: he wrote dozens of works in the genre, but rejected all but three, and worked at the first one for twenty long years before publishing it. Even the famous Piano Quintet op.34 was rewritten several times for various formations before it was published in its final version, whose achievement is today undisputed. These works stepped out of Beethoven’s shadow to take a firm place in musical history.

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Byrd: The Three Masses [HMU907223] Paul Hillier, Pro Arte Singers
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Fauré: Requiem 1901, Franck; Symphony in D Minor [HMC901771] Herreweghe, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées
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Thirteen years after his memorable recording of the first version of the Fauré Requiem - an intimate version first performed by the composer in 1892, at Saint-Gervais in Paris - Philippe Herreweghe here conducts the 1901 version for full orchestra commissioned by Fauré's publisher for performance in large concert halls.
Fauré said of this masterpiece: 'My Requiem was composed for nothing… for pleasure, if I may say so!'

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Martinu: Les Nouveaux Musiciens [HMN911770] Mathieu Dufour, Aleksandar Madzar
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Pécou: L'oiseau Innumérable [HMC901974] Alexandre Tharaud, Andrea Quinn, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris
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For Thierry Pécou, to live is to travel, and to travel is to write, as if to compose were at once to plunge into another universe, to take affective possession of the space, and, above all, to stand back and choose to live in the margins of one’s everyday cultural milieu. The works presented on this CD bear witness to a constantly renewed artistic standpoint; they have been entrusted here to the expert fingers of another great traveller . . .

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Purcell: Keyboard Suited & Grounds [HMU907428] Richard Egarr
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Published a year after his death, Henry Purcell’s eight keyboard suites were long overshadowed by his more celebrated works. They are the heirs to a characteristically English vein, shifting from humour to seriousness in delightfully casual fashion, like the elegant grounds chosen by Richard Egarr to echo them here; the musical testament of a composer who died all too soon.

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Rameau: Tharaud plays Rameau [HMC901754] Alexandre Tharaud
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Rameau on the piano?
Until very recently pianists no longer dared play the French harpsichord repertoire: the pertinence of the ''authentic'' performances on period instruments by new artists had established their claims – and we had decided once and for all that this music was unsuited to today’s pianos… Hence Alexandre Tharaud’s approach is both brave and original: this young man is equally indebted to the legendary recordings of Marcelle Meyer and to current interpretations on the harpsichord. Hard work, humility, the urge to carve out all the poetic contours of this marvellous music: Tharaud has taken the time to assimilate the tremendous contribution of the ''Baroque movement'', yet without repudiating his origins nor his own style of playing. A real discovery

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Victoria: Et Jesum [HMI987042] Carlos Mena, Juan Carlos Rivera, Francisco Rubio Gallego
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The fame of Tomás Luis de Victoria soon spread beyond the frontiers of Spain and extended across 16th Century Europe. In Holland as well as in England, his polyphonic musical pieces gave an inspiration to transcribers who adapted them for lute and solo voice. This more intimate repertory reflects the care that Victoria used to take with each detail; he was one of the first composers to introduce instruments to accompany singing in churches.

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Vivaldi: Seven Concertos [HCX3957046] Verbruggen, Goodwin, Holloway, Godburn, Toll, Comberti
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Medieval Christmas [HMU907418] The Orlando Consort
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Medieval Christmas celebrations encompassed several feasts, including Circumcision & Epiphany. The Orlando Consort offers an unusual collection of carols ranging from devotional to boisterous, drawn from a 500-year span of secular and liturgical music from England, France and the Low Countries.

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The Second Circle - Love Songs of Francesco Landini [HMU907269] Anonymous 4
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