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Deutsche Harmonia Mundi: 50th Anniversary Edition

Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (DHM)

Cat No: 88697281822

Barcode: 0886972818221

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 50

Release Date: 23rd June 2008

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About

A beautifully-packaged 50-disc box set, released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, one of the most important and adventurous early music labels

The set contains 50 classic recordings of baroque and ancient music, chosen to represent the breadth of this huge and varied catalogue and each disc is slip-cased with artwork replicating the original CD or LP artwork.

Included is a booklet with a detailed history of the label and its artists. It is half a century since Rudolf Ruby founded the label deutsche harmonia mundi in Freiburg. DHM, as it is known, enjoys a reputation primarily as an early music label, but if the label’s entire catalogue as preserved in DHM’s archives is examined, its sheer variety is amazing, for here we find very different aspects of deutsche harmonia mundi: in addition to the vast array of early music, there are also many contemporary works: music by Berg, Webern, Boulez, Hindemith, Messiaen and Rihm, to name but a few.

The company made its first recordings with artists of the stature of Jörg Demus, Elly Ameling, Paul Badura-Skoda, the Deller Consort and Gustav Leonhardt, all of whom increasingly left their mark on the label’s public profile. Among the early music specialists who continued to join the ranks of deutsche harmonia mundi are Andreas Staier, Les Adieux, Konrad Junghänel and his Cantus Cölln, Musica Fiata, Camerata Köln and La Stagione.

The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under Thomas Hengelbrock joined the label’s roster of artists as representatives of the very youngest generation of performers. New faces from the early music scene were soon in evidence: Al Ayre Español under Eduardo López Banzo produced an impressive series of releases of Spanish Baroque music, Andrew Lawrence King and his Harp Consort continued to explore an equally unknown but valuable repertory.

Thomas Hengelbrock then founded his Balthasar Neumann Choir and Ensemble, with which he undertook a number of extremely interesting and musically ravishing projects. And it is surely significant that Nikolaus Harnoncourt is once again playing an important role with deutsche harmonia mundi, a conductor who is one of the great names on the early music scene and who likewise undertook important pioneering work in this field during the early days of the Freiburg-based label.

Contents:
Disc 1 -
ASTORGA - Stabat Mater
PERGOLESI - Confitebor
DURANTE - Magnificat
Freiburger Barockorchester / Thomas Hengelbrock
82876601452

Disc 2 –
BACH - Concertos pour hautbois § Double-concerto
Camerata Köln
74321935422

Disc 3 –
BACH - Goldberg Variations
Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord
82876601462

Disc 4 –
BACH - L’Offrande Musicale
Barthold Kuijken / Sigiswald Kuijken / Wieland Kuijken / Robert Kohnen
82876683522

Disc 5 –
BACH - Motets
Cantus Cölln
74321935432

Disc 6-7 -
BACH - Mass in B minor
Freiburger Barockorchester / Thomas Hengelbrock
82876601482 – 2CD

Disc 8 -
BACH / VIVALDI - Overtures, Symphonies, Concertos
Thomas Hengelbrock
74321935412

Disc 9-10 -
BACH - Suites pour violoncelle solo
Hidemi Suzuki
82876601472 – 2CD

Disc 11 -
BAROCCO ESPANOL - Literes / Duron
Martha Almajano / Al Ayre Espanol
82876601612

Disc 12 -
The Violoncello in the 17th Century
FRESCOBALDI / GABRIELLI / JACCHINI / ANTONII
Anner Bylsma
82876601602

Disc 13 –
BIBER - Requiem à 15
STEFFANI - Stabat Mater
Gustav Leonhardt
82876601492

Disc 14 -
BOCCHERINI - Concertos pour violoncelle, Symphonies
Tafelmusik / Anner Bylsma
82876601502

Disc 15 -
BUXTEHUDE - Sonates
Capriccio Stravagante / Skip Sempé
82876601512

Disc 16 -
CACCINI - Le Nuove Musiche
Jordi Savall / Montserrat Figueras
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
74321935442

Disc 17 -
COUPERIN - La Sultane
Skip Sempé
74321935452

Disc 18 -
FACCO - Pensieri adriarmonici, 6 Concerti Op.1
L’Arte Dell’Arco
82876683532

Disc 19 -
FORQUERAY - Pièces de viole et de clavecin
Jay Bernfeld / Skip Sempe
82876601652

Disc 20 -
FRESCOBALDI - Messa della Domenica
Canticum / Lorenzo Ghielmi
82876683552

Disc 21 -
FRESCOBALDI - Messe de la Madone
Canticum
74321935472

Disc 22 -
GLUCK - Le Cinesi
Anne Sofie von Otter
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis / René Jacobs
82876683542

Disc 23 -
LASSUS - Musica Dei Donum, Lauda Sion Salvatorem, Missa « Puisque j’ay perdu »
Pro Cantione Antiqua
82876683592

Disc 24 -
LASSUS - Requiem à 5 / Magnificat
Pro Cantione Antiqua
82876601532

Disc 25 -
LITERES - Los Elementos
Opéra harmonique / Harmonic opera
Al Ayre Espanol
74321935502

Disc 26 -
LULLY - Divertissements
Capriccio Stravagante / Skip Sempé
82876601542

Disc 27 -
MACHAUT - Messe à Notre-Dame
MAGNUS / LE CHANCELIER
Deller-Consort / Collegium Aureum
Alfred Deller
82876683622

Disc 28 -
KNÛPFER, SCHELLE, KUHNAU
Cantors at St. Thomas before Bach
Cantus Cölln
74321935632

Disc 29 -
MARAIS - Fantaisie champêtre
Ensemble Rebel
74321935512

Disc 30 -
MONTEVERDI Lamento d’Arianna, Combatimento di Trancrede et Clorinda
Capriccio Stravagante / Skip Sempé
82876601552

Disc 31-32 -
MONTEVERDI - Vespro della beata Vergine
Cantus Cölln
82876683582 – 2CD

Disc 33 –
PACHELBEL & BACH - Motets
Cantus Cölln
82876601642

Disc 34 -
PALESTRINA - Lamentations du Samedi Saint, Missa in duplicibus
Ensemble Gilles Binchois / Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
Dominique Vellard
82876683562

Disc 35 -
PERGOLESI - La Serva Padrona
Maddalena Bonifaccio / Siegmund Nimsgern
Collegium Aureum
82876683572

Disc 36 –
PURCELL - Dioclesian suite
HAENDEL - Concerto grosso
Freiburger Barockorchester
82876601572

Disc 37 -
PURCELL / LAWES / LOCKE / MATTEIS - English baroque music for recorder & harpsichord
Pedro Memelsdorff / Andreas Staier
82876683602

Disc 38 -
RAMEAU - Hippolyte et Aricie, Orchestral Suite
La Petite Bande / Sigiswald Kuijken
74321935542

Disc 39 -
RAMEAU - Platée et Dardanus - Suites
Nicholas McGegan
74321935802

Disc 40 –
RAMEAU - Pygmalion
La Petite Bande / Gustav Leonhardt
82876683482

Disc 41 –
REBEL - Tombeau, The Complete trio Sonatas
Ensemble Rebel
74321935552

Disc 42 -
SAINTE COLOMBE - Pièces pour viole de gambe
Hille Perl
74321935562

Disc 43 –
SCARLATTI - Cantates
David Daniels / Nicholas McGegan
74321935812

Disc 44 -
SCARLATTI - Passion selon St Jean
René Jacobs / Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
82876683492

Disc 45 -
TELEMANN - Concertos pour instruments à vent
Camerata Köln
74321935572

Disc 46 –
VIVALDI - Les quatre saisons
Freiburger Barockorchester / The Harp Consort
82876601582

Disc 47 -
VIVALDI - Rare Opera Overtures
L’Arte dell’Arco / Christopher Hogwood
74321935602

Disc 48 -
VIVALDI - 6 sonates pour violoncelle
Anner Bylsma / Hidemi Suzuki
74321935612

Disc 49 –
ZELENKA - Missa dei Filii
Tafelmusik
82876601592

Disc 50 -
ZELENKA / PISENDEL - Concerti
Freiburger Barockorchester
74321935532