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High Middle Ages |
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Composers : Various Title: Poissance d'amours • mystics, monks and minstrels in 13th Brabant Details Performers: Graindelavoix • Björn Schmelzer direction Label: Glossa    |
Late Middle Ages |
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Title: The St Emmeram Codex Details Performers: Stimmwerck Label: Aeolus (SA-CD) |
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Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548?-1611) Title: Ad Vesperas • Discovered in 1975 in manuscript 130 of the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emmanuele II in Rome (World première recording) • Details Performers: La Colombina • Raquel Abdueza soprano - Jose Hernandez Pastor alto - Josep Benet tenor - Josep Cabre baryton Label: K617 |
Early Baroque • Vocal |
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Composers: various Title: Le Lacrime de Eros • Details Performers: Marivi Blasco soprano - Juan Sancho tenor - Accademia de Piacere Label: Alqhai&Alqhai |
Early Baroque • Instrumental |
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Composer: Jacob van Eyck (c. 1589/90-1657) Title: The Flutes's Garden of Delights Details Performers: ensemble Anthonello Label: Enchiriadis Music |
Baroque • Cantata (sacred music) |
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Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Works: 'Aus der Tieffen ruffe ich Herr zu dit' BWV 131 - 'Himmelskönig sei wilkommen' BWV 182 - 'Christ la in Todesmanden' BWV 4 Performers: Katharina Fuge soprano - Carlos Mena counter tenor - Hans Jörg Mammel tenor - Stephan Macload bass • Ricercar Consort Philippe Pierlot direction Label: Mirare |
Baroque • Cantata (secular music) |
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Composer: Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) Title: Sopra Scarlatti • solo cantatas Details Performers: Maria Espada soprano - Forma Antiqva Label: Arsis |
Baroque • Mass (liturgy) |
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Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) Work: Missa votiva in e minor (1739) ZWV 18 Performers: Various soloists - Collegium 1704 & Collegium vocale 1704 - Václav Luks direction Details Label: ZigZag territoires |
Baroque • Vocal solo |
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Composers: Various Title: Occasional music dedicated to the Virgin Maria Details Performers: Nuria Rial soprano - Bell'Arte Salzburg - Annegret Siedel direction Label: Berlin Classics |
Baroque • Opera (ex aequo) |
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Composer: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Work: La fida ninfa • Dramma per musica in tre atti (Verona, 1732) Performers: Various soloists Details Ensemble Matheus - Jean-Christophe Spinosi direction Label: Naïve |
Baroque • Opera (ex aequo) |
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Composer: Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Work: Dido & Aeneas Performers: Simone Kermes Dido - Deborah York Belinda - Dimitris Tiliakos Aeneas • MusicAeterna - New Siberian Singers - Teodor Currentzis directie Label: Alpha |
Baroque • Harpsichord |
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Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Works: Clavier-Übung I BWV 825 - 830 • Partitas I-VI Performer: Pascal Dubreuil harpsichord (after Hans Ruckers II (1624) by Titus Crijnen, Amsterdam, 1996) Label: Ramée |
Baroque • Chamber music |
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Composer: Michele Mascitti (1664-1760) Works: Sonatas Opus 1 (Vol. I & II) Details Performers: Ensemble Baroques-Graffiti Label: Acte Préalable |
Baroque • Concertos |
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Composer: John Garth (1721-1810) Title: Six Concertos for violoncello & orchestra Performers: Richard Tunnicliffe cello • The Avison Ensemble - Pavlo Beznosiuk violin & direction Label: Divine Art |
Baroque • Orchestral |
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Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) Works : Twelve Grand Concerto's in Seven Parts • 12 Concerti Grossi Opus VI Performers: Arte Dei Suonatori - Martin Gester direction Label: BIS (SA-CD) |
Classical period • Chamber Music |
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Composer: Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Works: String Quartets Op. 9 No. 6 - Opus 74 No. 1 - Op. 50 No. 6 'The Frog' Performers: Schuppanzigh Quartet: Anton Steck violin - Franc Polman violin - Christian Goosses alto - Antje Geusen cello Label: Accent |
Chamber Music 19th Century |
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Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Title: String Quartets No. 13, D.804 & No. 14, D.810 • 'Rosamunde' & 'Death and the Maiden' Performers: Quatuor Terpsycordes Label: Ricercar |
Vocal (songs) 19th Century |
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Composer: Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1851) Title: Le Pape musulman & other songs • Details Performers: Arnaud Marzorati baritone - Yves Rechsteiner harmonium Freddy Eichelberger pianino Pleyel 1845 Label: Alpha |
Musician of the Year |
 Eduardo Egüez on MA•recordings |
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Ensemble of the Year |
 Gli Incogniti Amandine Beyer violon & direction |
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CD of the Year |
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Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Title: Viola da gamba Sonatas BWV 1027-1029, Chorals & Trios Performers: Les Basses Réunies • Bruno Cocset alto, tenor & bass de violon 'alla bastarda' - Bertrand Cuiller harpsicord & organ - Richard Myron contrabass Label: Alpha |
Debut CD of the Year |
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Composer: Giulio Caccini (1551-1618) Work: L'Euridice • Composed in a representative style, 1600 Details Performers: Scherzi Musicali • Nicolas Achten theorbo & direction Label: Ricercar |
CD labels of the Year (ex aequo): 'Obsidian' & 'Hyphen Press Music' |
Some CD's recently released by Obsidian |
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Composers: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Works: Bach arranging and arranged • a.o. Pergolesi's Stabat Mater by Bach on the text of Psalm 51 'Tilge, Höchster, mein Sünden, BWV 1083 details Performers: Rachel Elliott soprano - Sally Bruce-Payne alto - The Bach Players |
DVD of the Year |
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Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) Librettist: Philippe Quinault (1635-1688) Work: A lyrical tragedy in five acts 'Cadmus et Hermione' Performers: Various soloists details • Le Poème Harmonique - Vincent Dumestre direction Label: Alpha |
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