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ICPN number:                7243 5455542 8 Artist:                           CHRISTIE, WILLIAM/KUROSAKI, HIRO Title:                            HANDEL: SONATAS FOR VIOLIN & HARPSICHORD Format:                         CD   Price Code:                   Full Price Repertoire Owner:          VIRGIN CLASSICS Release Date:                January 06, 2003
ICPN number:                7243 5455472 8 Artist:                           BIONDI, FABIO/EUROPA GALANTE Title:                            VIVALDI: THE FOUR SEASONS, CONCERTOS Format:                         CD        Price Code:                   Full Price Repertoire Owner:          VIRGIN CLASSICS Release Date:                January 06, 2003
ICPN number:                7243 5621182 7 Artist:                           LEDGER, P/ ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Title:                            VARIOUS: SAUL/THE CHOICE OF HERCULES/ALEXANDER’S FEAST Format:                         5 CD   Price Code:                   Super Budget Repertoire Owner:          VIRGIN CLASSICS Release Date:                January 06, 2003
ICPN number:                7243 5621672 3 Artist:                           PARROTT, ANDREW/ TAVERNER CONSORT Title:                            FROM MONTEVERDI TO VIVALDI (Works by Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Grandi, Castello, Legrenzi, Lotti &Vivaldi) Format:                         5 CD   Price Code:                   Super Budget Repertoire Owner:          VIRGIN CLASSICS Release Date:                January 06, 2003

 

 

 

RELEASE MONTH                         December 2002

CATALOGUE NUMBER           5 45531 2

PRICE                                         Full-price

STATUS                                       Musique à Versailles new release

 

Salomé Haller

Damien Guillon

Howard Crook

Hervé Lamy

Alain Buet

La Grande Ecurie & La Chambre du Roy

Les Pages & Chantres de la Chapelle/Olivier Schneebeli

 

 

Grands Motets

1.       Beati quorum

2.       Quam dilecta

3.       Audite Coeli

 

 

 

·         Recorded last October at the Chapelle Royale du Château de Versailles, these Motets by Michel-Richard de Lalande are a new recording to follow Virgin Classics’ collaboration with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. These works are a world premiere on disc.

 

·         A continuation of the Musique à Versailles full-price series.

 

·         Michel-Richard de Lalande (b. Paris, 1657; d, Versailles 1726): French composer of the reign of Louis XIV and Louis XV; organist and harpsichordist, and acknowledged as the leading composer of the Late Baroque grand motet. He composed over 70 motets for the royal chapel, which were during the 18^th century considered as ‘masters of the genre’ (J.J Rousseau).

 

·         Under the musical direction of Olivier Schneebeli since 1991, the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles (founded in 1987) has a group of singers, the Pages & Chantres de la Chapelle who are specialised in reviving the lost traditions of the French Musical repertoire of the 17^th and 18^th centuries, especially that of the French Court. Olivier Schneebeli’s former recording of the Desmarest’s Mass released in 2001 was enthusiastically received by the press and Baroque music-lovers alike.

 

·         Founded by Jean-Malgoire in 1966, the instrumental ensemble La Grande Ecurie & la Chambre du Roy performs above all the instrumental and vocal works of composers such as Lully, Rameau, Handel, Charpentier, Monteverdi, Mozart…

 

 

OLIVIER SCHNEEBELI DISCOGRAPHY

Campra: Requiem, Miserere                                                                                   5615282

Visse / Ragon / Harvey / Les Pages de la Chapelle

Desmarest: Messe à deux choeurs et deux orchestres                                            5454162

Nova Stravaganza

Du Mont: Motets à la Chapelle de Louis XIV                                                           5616752

Les Pages de la Chapelle / Musica Aeterna

 

 

 

 

 

RELEASE MONTH                         January 2003

CATALOGUE NUMBER          

PRICE                                         Full-price

STATUS                                       Veritas

 

William Christie, harpsichord

Hiro Kurosaki, violin

 

 

HANDEL Violin Sonatas

 

Sonata HWV 371 in D major

Sonata HWV 359 in D minor

Sonata HWV 358 in G major

Sonata HWV 364 in G minor

Sonata no. 3

Sonata no. 10

Sonata no. 12

 

 

·         To inaugurate a 3-disc contract very recently signed with William Christie, a disc of Handel’s chamber sonatas for violin and continuo. At the harpsichord the American ‘father’ of the Baroque revival, William Christie, accompanies as continuo the first violin to the Arts Florissants, Hiro Furosaki.

 

·         It is no accident that Les Arts Florissants, founded in 1979 by the harpsichordist and conductor William Christie, have in their first twenty years of existence become one of the best-loved orchestral and vocal ensembles in baroque music. Their concert repertoire is seemingly inexhaustible, including Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Campra, Moulinié, Mondonville, Montéclair and Bouzignac, and they have introduced much forgotten music to the public. William Christie and his ensemble have greatly contributed to the dissemination of French and Ancient musicmusic throughout the world.

 

·         Many of Handel’s sonatas exist in alternative versions: there was a principle of interchangeability in Handel’s music – in the case of this recording, the sonatas are with violin, accompanied by the harpsichord. Handel’s chamber music is inevitably indebted to the tradition established by Corelli and shows Handel’s ease also in miniature forms and the intimate mood of the chamber sonatas.

 

 

 

 

RELEASE MONTH                         January 2003

CATALOGUE NUMBER           5 62118 2 7

PRICE                                         Super Budget price

STATUS                                       Reissue: Black Box series

 

George Frideric Handel 1685-1759

King’s College Choir, Cambridge

English Chamber Orchestra

Academy of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields*

Philip Ledger direction

 

CDs 1-3

 

SAUL

 

Saul: Thomas Allen baritone                                     Michal: Margaret Marshall soprano

Jonathan: Robert Tear tenor                                     Doeg: Gareth Morrell bass

David: Paul Esswood countertenor                            Witch of Ender: Martyn Hill tenor

Abner: Charles Daniels tenor                                    Apparition of Samuel: Matthew Best bass

Merab: Sally Burgess soprano                                  An Amalekite: Christopher Gillett tenor

 

 

 

CD 4

 

ALEXANDER’S FEAST

 

Helen Donath soprano 1                                            Robert Tear tenor

Sally Burgess soprano 2                                            Thomas Allen bass

 

 

CD 5

 

1-7. ALEXANDER’S FEAST (continued)

 

8-31. THE CHOICE OF HERCULES*

 

Pleasure: Heather Harper soprano                            Virtue: Helen Watts mezzo-soprano

Hercules: James Bowman counter tenor                   Attendant on Pleasure: Robert Tear tenor

 

 

 

 

·         Grouped in one box-set, three of Handel’s greatest English oratorios: Saul, Alexander’s Feast and The Choice of Hercules. The works are reissued on the now very successful super budget series ‘Black Boxes’.

 

 

·         All three works are performed by Philip Ledger, a versatile musician renowned as an elegant performer of early English music, who here conducts two equally versatile orchestras: the English Chamber Orchestra, Academy of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, not to mention the King’s College Choir of Cambridge, that render Handel’s choruses with all the necessary panache and brilliance.

 

 

 

RELEASE MONTH                         January 2003

CATALOGUE NUMBER           5 45547 2 8

PRICE                                         Full

Europa Galante

Fabio Biondi, director and solo violin

 

Antonio Vivaldi 1678-1741

From Il Cimento dell’Armonia & dell’Inventione

The four seasons/Die vier Jahreszeiten/Les Quatre Saisons

1-3. Concerto in E major/ E-dur/ en mi majeur, RV 269 « la primavera »

4-6. Concerto in G minor/ g-moll / en sol mineur, RV 315 « l’estate »

7-9. Concerto in F major /F-Dur-/ en fa majeur, RV 293 « l’autunno »

10-12. Concerto in F minor/ F-moll / en fa mineur, RV 297 « l’inverno »

 

13-15. Concerto in E flat major/ Es-dur/en mi bémol majeur, RV 253 « La tempesta di mare »

 

From L’Estro armonico, op.3

16-20. Concerto No. 11 for 2 violins, cello & strings in D minor/ D moll/ en ré mineur, RV 565

21-23., Concerto No. 8 for 2 violins and strings in A minor/ a-moll / en la mineur, RV 522

24-26. Concerto No. 10 for 4 violins, cello and strings, in B minor/h-moll/ en si mineur, RV 580

 

 

 

·         Fabio Biondi and his ensemble Europa Galante are currently Virgin Classics’ best-selling artists: in this light has been devised a strategic reissue of Vivaldi’s famous concertos to boost even more Fabio Biondi’s sales world-wide and to extend his repute to a wider public.

 

 

·         These concertos, each of them being definite block busters, were formerly issued in the complete works they belong to: the albums sold very well everywhere and have rooted Fabio Biondi as one of the best interpreters of Vivaldi’s instrumental works. At many territories’ request the Four Seasons are being reissued on one single disc with a new coupling with other famous concertos such as “La Tempesta di Mare”, from the Concerti con titoli album and other concertos from L’Estro Armonico, another best-selling record.

 

 

·         This release is certain to place Fabio Bondi and Europa Galante’s recent version of the Four Seasons as a ‘pillar’ album of the Virgin Classics label.

 

 

FABIO BIONDI’S VIVALDI DISCOGRAPHY

Vivaldi: Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione                                           5454652

Vivaldi: L'estro armonico                                                                               5453152

Vivaldi: La tempesta di mare, Concerti con titoli                                            5454242

Vivaldi: Salve Regina, Violin Concerto RV 581                                              7592322

Gerard Lesne / Il Seminario musicale

Vivaldi: Stabat Mater, Nisi Dominus                                                               5454742

David Daniels

Vivaldi: Concerto per mandolini, Concerti per molti strumenti                      5455272