Harmonia Mundi was born in 1958: sixty years and several thousand recordings later, the company continues to affirm it's identity and it's singularity with insolent vitality! Anniversaries also offer an opportunity to reflect on the distance travelled. - This first volume invites you to relive the highlights of the label's first thirty years and pays tribute to the artists who built harmonia mundi on the heights of Saint-Michel-de-Provence, in a passionate quest for excellence that caused a genuine revolution in the world of early music.
Works:
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CD 1-2 A passion for the organ
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Historic organs from Trujillo, Malaucène, Brescia & Trebel
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CD 3 The discovery of the Old World
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Ancient Greek music / Gauls / Roman chants
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CD 4 From Renaissance to Baroque
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Madrigals by Marenzio, Caccini, Bottrigari, Gesualdo, Monteverdi
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CD 5-11 The Baroque revolution
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PURCELL King Arthur / Songs : O Solitude, Music for a while…
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SCHÜTZ Motets / Kleine geistliche Konzerte & Symphoniae Sacrae
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J. S. BACH Magnificat BWV 243, Aria Erbarme dich (St. Matthew Passion)
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PERGOLESI Stabat Mater / CESTI Orontea (extraits/excerpts)
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LULLY Atys (extraits/excerpts) / Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
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CHARPENTIER Te Deum H.146 / RAMEAU Les Indes galantes
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DE LALANDE Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roy 12eSuite
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CD 12-14 A fresh look at the score
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MOZART Church Sonatas
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BEETHOVEN Symphony “Eroica” transcribed by Franz Liszt
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JOHANN SCHOBERT Piano Quartet op. VII n° 2
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ERNEST CHAUSSON Concert op. 21
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GABRIEL FAURÉ Requiem op. 48 (version 1893)
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JOHANNES BRAHMS Motets Op. 29 & Op. 74
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Mélodies sur des poèmes de Victor Hugo
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CD 15 The twentieth century
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SCHOENBERG Piano Pieces Opp. 11, 19, 23 & 25
LUCIANO BERIO Laborintus (2 CD)
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CD 16 A window on the world Iranian music, Arabo-Andalusian music, Byzantine chant, Corsica, La Folia de la Spagna