HARMONIA MUNDI: August 2003 highlights

HARMONIA MUNDI: August 2003 new release highlights [U.S.]

Tomkins: Above the Starrs Emma Kirkby [sop], Catherine King [alto], Charles Daniels [ten], Donald Grieg [bar], Richard Wistreich, Jonathan Arnold [bass], Fretwork HMU 907320

Brumel: Mass for 12 Voices - Et ecce terrae motus Dominique Visse [cond], Ens Clement Janequin, Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse HMC 901738

Boucourechliev: String Qt III, Miroir 2, Archipel II Ysaye Qt Aeon AECD 0102

Le Parnasse de la Viole - Works of Sainte Colombe & Marin Marais Jordi Savall [viol], Philippe Pierlot [bass viol], Rolf Lislevand, Xavier Diaz-Latorre [guitar, theorbo], Pierre Hantaï [hpschd] Alia Vox AV 9829 (3 CDs for the price of 2)

Haydn: (London) Symphonies vol.1 Florilegium Channel Classics CCS 19698

French Cello Music: Magnard, Widor, Koechlin Mats Lidstrom [cello], Bengt Forsberg [piano] Hyperion CDA 67244

Szymanowski: Mazurkas Marc-André Hamelin [piano] Hyperion CDA 67399

More Songs My Father Taught Me Sir Thomas Allen [bar], Malcolm Martineau [piano] Hyperion CDA 67374

Berlioz: Harold in Italy Tabea Zimmermann [viola], Sir Colin Davis, LSO LSO Live LSO 0040

Sopra la Rosa Arianna Savall [sop], Philippe Pierlot [cond], Ricercar Consort Mirare MIR 9931

Donizetti: Roberto Devereux – Live July 2002 (2 CDs) Nelly Miricioiu, Jose Bros, Roberto Frontali, Sonia Ganassi, Maurizio Benini [cond], Covent Garden Opera Rara ORC 24

Bartok: Rhapsodies, Rumanian Folk Dances (SACD Hybrid) World premiere of 2nd Rhapsody in original version Peter Csaba [violin], Peter Frankl [piano] Praga PRD 250190

Satie: Gymnopedies 1 & 3; Britten: Sinf da Requiem; Dvorak: Sym 7 John Barbirolli [cond], Concertgebouw Orch Testament SBT 1252

Rachmaninov: Etudes Tableaux; Busoni: Piano Works (no details) John Ogdon [piano] Testament SBT 1295

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Gene Frazier Tower Records Classical Database Coordinator

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I hate to sound churlish, but I've already got three recordings of the 'Earthquake Mass' (Clytus Gottwald/Schola Cantorum Stuttgart on Bayer, Paul van Nevel/Huelgas Ensemble on Sony, and Peter Phillips/Tallis Scholars on Gimell; as well as the Gloria with David Munrow/Early Music Consort of London in the Virgin Veritas reissue of 'The Art of the Netherlands', and one each of three other Brumel mass settings: Missa a L'ombre d'ung buissonet, with Dario Tabbia/Daltrocanto on Opus 111; Missa Berzerette with Chanticleer on their own label; and Missa Victimae paschali laudes with the Hilliard Ensemble on their 'Hilliard Live' series. Wouldn't it be nice to have some Brumel works that are as yet unrecorded?

If this has instruments it would be somewhat different than the others, which to my knowledge are a capella. If so I would welcome it. Van Nevel's is a wonderful recording.