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  • New Artist Announcement

    New Artist Announcement

    CLB France welcomes the Tana String Quartet to their roster for General Management.

    Based in Belgium, the Tana String Quartet perform specialist contemporary repertoire. This strong focus on music of today, however, does not prevent the quartet from performing classical repertoire in the most prestigious concerts halls and festivals. With immaculate technique and musicality, the quartet promises to be one of the most visionary ensembles of its generation. Highly accustomed to using electronics and other forms of technology within performance, the group shun conventional sheet music in favour of ipads. A real 21st Century ensemble!
  • New Artist Announcement

    New Artist Announcement

    CLB France welcomes Ensemble Correspondances to their roster for General Management.

    Ensemble Correspondances is the 'Rising Star' of French Baroque music, having displayed excellence in their two recordings for Zig-Zag Territoires label: O Maria is a collection of Motets by Charpentier, a composer to whom the ensemble are perhaps most closely affiliated, while L'Archange et Le Lys presents gems by Antoine Boësset from the famous Deslauriers manuscript. The aim of Artistic Director Sébastien Daucé, an harpsichordist, organist and musicologist, is to explore and unearth the remaining 60% of Charpentier's scores, which have not been performed since the composer's death.
  • Andreas Staier

    Andreas Staier

    Andreas' latest recording for Harmonia Mundi - Beethoven: Diabelli Variations (902091) - has been chosen as The New Yorker music critic Alex Ross' CD of the week. Read Ivan Hewitt's 5 star Telegraph Review here.
  • Alasdair Malloy

    Alasdair Malloy

    It has been confirmed that Alasdair will be manning his percussion sticks and performing during the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games 2012 - more exciting details to follow in due course...
  • Jerusalem Quartet

    Jerusalem Quartet

    The Jerusalem Quartet have emerged victorious at Kings Place, London, as they picked up the Chamber Award for their CD Mozart: String Quartets, K157, 458 & 589 (Harmonia Mundi HMC 902076) at the 2012 BBC Music Magazine Awards.
  • Alexandre Tharaud

    Alexandre Tharaud

    Alexandre received a fantastic review of his recent recital at Le Poisson Rouge in the New York Times. Anthony Tommisini, chief music critic, described his five Scarlatti sonatas as “exquisite, crisp and beautifully textured”, and noted that the normally informal venue audience were “exceptionally quiet and palpably absorbed” throughout the evening.

    Photo Credit: Ruby Washington/The New York Times

    For the full NY Times review, click here

     

  • Yossif Ivanov

    Yossif Ivanov

    Last month saw the release of 75 Years Ysaÿe & Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition, a 4CD anniversary box set containing 8 of the most celebrated violin concertos performed by some of the laureates who have made their mark on the history of the Competition. Yossif is featured, playing Shostakovich – Concerto no. 1. Yossif took part in the prestigious competition, which is held in his home country Belgium, in 2005, coming 2nd overall.
  • Pražák Quartet

    Pražák Quartet

    The Pražák Quartet welcome the release of two new discs this month, both recorded exclusively for Praga Digitals. The purest version of the seven sermons, Joseph Haydn: The Seven Last Words of our saviour on the cross demonstrates the Quartet's finesse with the great Classical master's intricate and devoted style, while Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire offers a fine contrast in genre and substance, allowing the Quartet to express a more modern vibe by channeling Schoenberg's variety of musical influences to create a rich and dramatic atmosphere.

    Both are available to purchase at the Harmonia Mundi Store.
  • Christian Mason

    Christian Mason

    2012 is proving to be a prosperous year for composer Christian Mason, as his recent commission - a Brass Quintet for the LSO, Isolarion II - will premiere in Hiroshima, Japan, on April 16th. This will be followed by several performances in Tokyo. His current project - music for Peter Gill's production of Robert Holman's play Making Noise Quietly – will also be showing from April 19th - May 26th at Donmar Warehouse, London.

  • Jordi Savall

    Jordi Savall

    Jordi Savall will be performing at a number of prestigious UK festivals this summer. First, he will perform Les Goûts Réunis, with his ensemble Le Concert des Nations, at the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, St John’s, Smith Square, on May 18. He will then make two appearances with Hespèrion XXI; at Aldeburgh Festival on June 23, presenting Mare Nostrum; and York Festival on July 8, performing Route of the New World; From Spain to Mexico. He will also be receiving the York Early Music Lifetime Achievement Award.
  • Mary Carewe

    Mary Carewe

    Mary Carewe and Philip Mayer's new album, Serious Cabaret for Orchid Classics, offers a wonderful collection of Berlin Cabaret, Art and Broadway songs mixed with contemporary cabaret material. Visit her YouTube channel to view a fantastic selection of caberet performances with Philip.