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Harmonia Mundi

Classical CD Reviews: Kevin Puts — Choral Music, Symphony no. 4 and Hanns Eisler — Songs (Harmonia Mundi)

New discs from Harmonia Mundi: One explores the music of Pulitzer prize-winner Kevin Puts, the other focuses on the songs of Hanns Eisler, and it is one of the most fascinating albums to come from any label so far this year.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Hanns Eisler, Hanns Eisler: Songs, Harmonia Mundi, Kevin Puts, Kevin Puts: Choral Music, Matthias Goerne, Symphony no. 4, Thomas Larcher

Fuse CD Reviews: The Nutcracker Suites (Harmonie Ensemble/New York and Steve Richman); Veni Emanuel (Choir of Clare College, Cambridge/Ross and Haigh)

Two new releases from Harmonia Mundi celebrate the sacred and secular sides of the Christmas season.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Cambridge/Ross and Haigh, Choir of Clare College, Harmonia Mundi, Harmonie Ensemble/New York and Steve Richman, The Nutcracker Suites, Veni Emanuel

Classical CD Reviews: Harmonia Mundi Serves up First-Rate Performances of Schubert and Elgar

Harmonia Mundi has, of late, released a series of excellent Schubert albums.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Freiburger Barockorchester, Harmonia Mundi, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Jiri Belohlavek, Pablo Heras-Casado

CD Reviews: Isabelle Faust plays Bartók; Wolfgang Rihm’s Symphonie “Nähe fern”; Tokyo String Quartet plays Dvorak and Smetana; Thea Musgrave’s Chamber Works for Oboe (Harmonia Mundi)

A round-up review of new releases from Harmonia Mundi — an invigorating crop of albums.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: CD, Harmonia Mundi, Isabelle Faust, Nicholas Daniel, Symphonie “Nähe fern”, Thea Musgrave, Tokyo String Quartet, Wolfgang Rihm

Classical CD Reviews: Gloria Cheng’s The Edge of Light, Matthias Goerne’s Erlkönig, and Emmanuelle Bertrand plays Shostakovich

The winter doldrums may be upon us, but the first few months of 2013 have been anything but uninteresting when it comes to releases from Harmonia Mundi (HM).

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Andreas Haefliger, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Calder Quartet, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Erlkönig, Gloria Cheng, Harmonia Mundi, Matthias Goerne, Pascal Amoyel, Pascal Rophé, The Edge of Night

Fuse Classical CD Reviews: “Barber: An American Romantic” (Conspirare) and “Imogen Holst: Choral Works” (Choir of Clare College, Cambridge)

This recording makes as strong a case for Barber’s unjustly neglected choral music as any: it’s a disc not to miss.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Barber: An American Romantic, Choral Music, Harmonia Mundi, Imogen Holst: Choral Works

Classical CD Reviews: Three of the Nineteenth Century’s Greatest Quintets

Chamber music fans will know that the current season will be the last for the extraordinary Tokyo String Quartet (TSQ), which opted to disband rather than replace retiring violinist Kikuei Ikada and violist Kazuhide Isomura.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Harmonia Mundi

Fuse Concert Review: A Lively Anonymous 4

The Anonymous 4 went through their medieval and early Renaissance paces, vibrato-less but historically informed and performed.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Anonymous 4, Calderwood Hall, Harmonia Mundi, Isabella-Stewart-Gardner-Museum

Classical Music Review: Stile Antico Enchants Singing Tudor Music for Christmas and Advent

Most importantly, there were the amazing, booming acoustics of St. Paul’s, which favored the soaring soprano voices that were, for me, the reason to see this excellent ensemble.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Christmas Mass, Early Music, Harmonia Mundi, Missa Puer natus est, St Paul's Church, Stile Antico

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