Lumieres - Music of the Enlightenment - Box Set 29CDs

Label : Harmonia Mundi
Format : Flac (image + cue)
Cover : Yes

The unprecedented expansion of music in the age of enlightenment
The eighteenth century is probably the most extraordinary period of transformation Europe has known since antiquity. Political upheavals kept pace with the innumerable inventions and discoveries of the age; every sector of the arts and of intellectual and material life was turned upside down. Between the end of the reign of Louis XIV and the revolution of 1789, music in its turn underwent a radical mutation that struck at the very heart of a well-established musical language. In this domain too, we are all children of the Age of Enlightenment: our conception of music and the way we ‘consume' it still follows in many respects the agenda set by the eighteenth century. And it is not entirely by chance that harmonia mundi has chosen to offer you in 2011 a survey of this musical revolution which, without claiming to be exhaustive, will enable you to grasp the principal outlines of musical creation between the twilight of the Baroque and the dawn of Romanticism.

CD 01 : French Harpsichord Music - Christophe Rousset
CD 02 : Campra, Pergolesi – Sacred Music - Philippe Herreweghe
CD 03-04 : Handel – Solomon - Daniel Reuss
CD 05 : Vivaldi, Telemann, J.S.Bach, Handel – Concertos - Midori Seiler, Richard Egarr
CD 06 : Tartini, Monn, C.P.E.Bach, J.C.Bach – Concertos - VA
CD 07 : Haydn, Mozart, Pleyel – Concertos
CD 08 : Mozart, Beethoven – Piano Concertos - Stefan Vladar, Paul Lewis
CD 09 : Sammartini, W.F.Bach, C.P.E.Bach, J.C.Bach, Boccherini – Symphonies - Andrew Manze, Stephan Mai, Chiara Banchini
CD 10 : Haydn, Mozart – Symphonies - Gottfried von der Goltz, Petra Müllejans
CD 11 : Haydn, Mozart – Symphonies - René Jacobs
CD 12 : Beethoven - Symphony no.9 - Philippe Herreweghe
CD 13-15 : Rameau – Castor et Pollux - William Christie
CD 16-17 : Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice - René Jacobs
CD 18-20 : Mozart – Le Nozze di Figaro - René Jacobs
cD 21 : Vivaldi, Telemann, J.S.Bach, C.P.E.Bach, J.C.F.Bach, Schobert – Sonatas - VA
CD 22 : Kuhnau, Mondoville, Mozart – Sonatas - VA
CD 23 : Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven – Keyboard Trios - VA
CD 24 : Haydn – Piano Sonatas - Alain Planès
CD 25 : Mozart – Piano Sonatas - Andreas Staier
CD 26 : Beethoven – Piano Sonatas - Paul Lewis
CD 27 : Telemann, Mozart, Haydn, Stamitz – Quartets - Jerusalem Quartet
CD 28 : Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven – String Quartets - Jerusalem Quartet, Tokyo String Quartet
CD 29 : Beethoven – String Quartets - Tokyo String Quartet