Haydn / Crozman / Ellis / Les Violons Du Roy - Haydn: Cello Concertos - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

There is something wondrous in the music of Sergei Prokofiev, says Nemanja Radulovic, Inchas if it constantly moves between light and shadow, searching for truth through contrast, sarcasm, magic, love, irony, and beauty.Inch Now the violinist - praised by The Times for both his Inchlyric delicacyInch and Inchsuper-virtuosityInch - has recorded an entire album devoted to Prokofiev. It embraces a variety of musical genres the Violin Concerto No 2 (with the Philharmonia Orchestra under it's principal conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali); the Sonata for Solo Violin; the Sonata for Two Violins (with Johan Dalene), and (with pianist Laure Favre-Kahn), the Five Melodies Op.35bis and arrangements of excerpts from the ballets Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella, the opera The Love for Three Oranges, and the 'Classical' Symphony.

Winner of the Berliner International Music Competition, the Prix Jeune Soliste des Medias Francophones Publics, and the International Manhattan Music Competition, young cellist Christoph Croise debuts on AVIE performing the two Cello Concertos by Franz Joseph Haydn. His fresh and fervent approach is matched by his collaborators, the Eurasian Soloists Chamber Orchestra, as they recreate the original set up of the works' first performances in the Esterhazy Castle when the composer directed from the harpsichord alongside the first violinist and the soloist. Christoph concludes the album with Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto for Violin and Cello, RV 547, joined by the orchestra's founder and director, Kazakh violinist Sherniyaz Mussakhan. Incha magical performance... delicate yet virtuosicInch (BBC Music Magazine) InchCroise plays with considerable ardency and styleInch (MusicWeb International)

A pioneer in the rediscovery of the French Baroque repertory, William Christie has been recording Charpentier's finest works for over forty years. This boxed set offers you the opportunity to rediscover the key titles among these benchmark interpretations, which have become hard to find, or totally unavailable, such as the Magnificat (1980), Actéon (1982), Médée (1984), Le Reniement de saint Pierre (1986) and David et Jonathas (1988). A significant aspect of the history of recording and of French music is once again available in a limited edition.