classical music: Philippe Herreweghe

classical music: Philippe Herreweghe

classical music:

Philippe Herreweghe

Rameau - Les Indes Galantes, Suites d'orchestre / La Chapelle Royale · Herreweghe

Jean-Philippe Rameau, Philippe Herreweghe, ...

Hmf Musique D'abord, 2000

Rameau and the Rococo
I used to think the Rococo was nothing but Mozart and Haydn with a few lesser lights imitating them. I discovered Rameau in college when I bought an old Vox recording of Les Indes back in the 1960s. Gunter Kerr led his fine ensemble in a forthright performance. This ...

Mozart: Requiem

Hanno Muller-Brachmann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ...

Harmonia Mundi Fr., 1997

The best of these other five performances that i own:
I own 6 different performances of Mozart's Requiem, which is in my mind, one of the deepest moving, most thrilling pieces of music ever composed. This performance ranks top among the following performances, which i own, not given here in any particular order: 1. von ...

Bach - Mass In B Minor

Johann Sebastian Bach, Philippe Herreweghe, ...

Harmonia Mundi (France), 1998

What you will hear at the gates of Heaven
Though I generally prefer OVPP (one voice per part) performances, Herreweghe's rendition of the Sanctus transcends any other performance I have ever heard -- and I have heard and own most of them. I understand the one reviewer's quibble. Herreweghe lacks the ...

Faure: Requiem and Franck: Symphony in D Minor

Gabriel Faure

Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2002

Authentic death and resurrection
Making fun of the `authenticist' movement is still easy enough if you feel the need to, though performance standards are by now so high and so far removed from the struggling off-key trumpets and underpowered violins of the pioneering years that the most violent ...

Schutz: Opus Ultimum - Schwanengesang

Heinrich Schutz, Philippe Herreweghe

Harmonia Mundi, 2007

The Great Lutheran master's setting of the longest psalm
Heinrich Schutz, the great Lutheran master, provides an exquisite setting of Psalm 119 in this new collection. Written at age 86, Schutz concluded his musical output with sacred motets for double choirs. Besides the setting of the longest psalm, Schutz also provides ...

Christmas Oratorio (Weihnachtsoratorium)

Johann Sebastian Bach, Barbara Schlick, ...

Angel Records, 2005

Warm and gentle, but unsentimental ... absolutely wonderful
Nothing but praise for this 1989 'Christmas Oratorio' to which I would ascribe a perfection seldom achieved. (This and Gérard Lesne's recordings of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's 'Leçons de ténèbres' are, I think, the absolute highlights of the Virgin Veritas series.) The ...

Bach: Matthaus-Passion (St Matthew Passion) BWV 244 /Bostridge * Selig * Rubens * Scholl * Gura * Henschel * ...

Johann Sebastian Bach, Philippe Herreweghe, ...

Harmonia Mundi Fr., 1999

The True Drama of the St. Matthew Passion
There are gratefully many recordings of Bach's great St. Matthew Passion from which to choose, and the approaches to this long and mighty work of inspiration are varied. While this listener cut his teeth of the old Klemperer recording now re-mastered from the LP days ...

Brahms: Requiem [Hybrid SACD]

Gerald Finley, Johannes Brahms, ...

Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2004

Absolutely astonishing performance!
There are many recordings of the German Requiem of Brahms, and I have seven of them in my library. This recordng ranks among the finest and is unique in the clarity of voices, whether solo, choral, or orchestral. The woodwinds and brass are never covered by the ...

Faure: Requiem; Messe des Pêcheurs de Villerville

Peter Kooy, Gabriel Faure, ...

Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2008

As it's intended to be
Faure wrote this Requiem "simply for pleasure, not for any event" where he reflected his personal conpect of death "as a happy deliverance". His Requiem has a couple of different versions. The 1888 version only has five movements. 1893 version has all the seven ...

Bruckner: Mass No. 3 in F minor

Alfred Reiter, Anton Bruckner, ...

Harmonia Mundi, 2008

The best Bruckner mass in a superb version
Once again Herreweghe do an extraordinary job with another masterpiece of religious music. Without doubt this is the best version available followed by Celibidache's recording. Buy it now, there'll be no regret.

Gilles: Requiem; Corrette: Carillon des morts

Peter Kooy, Ulrich Studer, ...

Archiv Produktion, 2002

Manuscript Version
Jean Gilles (1668 - 1705): Messe des morts (Requiem)./Michel Corrette (1709 - 1795): Carillon des morts. Performed by: Anne-Marie Rodde, soprano; Jean Nirouet, altus; Martyn Hill, tenor; Ulrich Studer, bass I; Peter Kooy, bass II; Musica Antiqua Köln (dir. Reinhard ...

Celestial Christmas: A Special Collection of Seasonal Music

Johann Christoph Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Celestial Harmonies, 1991

Clestial Christmas worth a million stars
I have had this collection on cassette and have listened to it faithfully for years. I did not have a CD player at the time, and then it went out of print, so I am thrilled to find it here. The album is a sensitively made collection of music for Christmas, not all of ...

Bach: Mass in B minor
Hanno Muller-Brachmann, Peter Kooy, ...

Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2007

Beethoven: Symphony 4 & Symphony 7 [Hybrid SACD]

Ludwig van Beethoven, Philippe Herreweghe, ...

Classic Talent, 2005

Magnificent performances - could not be bettered.
I am surprised that so few have ordered this recording and that there have been no reviews up until now. Herreweghe has wonderful way with Beethoven: his performances of the Missa Solemnis and the Ninth Symphony combine clarity and richness, great energy and ...

Cantates pour alto

Johann Sebastian Bach, Philippe Herreweghe, ...

Harmonia Mundi Fr., 1998

a voice teacher and early music fan
SCHOLL SINGING IN HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE: SUPERB! Three of Bach's four cantatas for solo alto were written within the period of a few months in the year, 1726. It is surmised by musicologists that they were written for a specific singer, for they are very difficult, ...