VA - Generation Harmonia Mundi 2 (1988-2018) - The Family Spirit [18CD Box Set], (2018)

To celebrate their 60 years of activity, Harmonia Mundi has released 2 commemorative CD boxsets to showcase classical artists and composers. This first volume invites you to relive the highlights of the first 30 years of the label and pays tribute to the artists who built Harmonia Mundi on the heights of Saint-Michel-de-Provence, leading with a passionate quest for excellence a real revolution in the world of early music.

CD 1 The heirs of Alfred Deller
VIVALDI: Stabat Mater RV 621 / CAVALLI: Arias / HANDEL: Arias
Dominique Visse, Andreas Scholl, Lawrence Zazzo, Bejun Mehta

CD 2 The operatic odyssey of Ren? Jacobs
From CAVALIERI to MOZART
(arias from Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo, L'Incoronazione di Poppea, St Matthew Passion, L'Orfeo, Rinaldo, Agrippina, Die Sch?pfung, Cos? fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflote, Die Entf?hrung aus dem Serail)
Bernarda Fink, alto, Andreas Scholl, alto, Maria Cristina Kiehr, soprano, Maria Bayo, soprano, Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano, Inga Kalna, soprano, Johannes Weisser, bass, Anna-Kristiina Kaappola, soprano, & others

CD 3 The ladies of Basel
From MONTEVERDI TO VIVALDI
Monteverdi: Motets for solo voice [Maria Cristina Kiehr, soprano]
Vivaldi: "La Follia" Sonata op. 1 n° 12, RV 63 in D minor / Sonata op.1 n°8, RV 64 in D minor [Chiara Banchini, Ensemble 415]
Vivaldi: Sinfonia de "L'Olimpiade", RV 725, in C major / Concerto per Violino, RV 282, in F major / Concerto per Violino scordato, RV 391, in B minor [Gli Incogniti / Amandine Beyer]

CD 4-5 The new keyboard virtuosos
Works by F. COUPERIN, J. S. BACH, SOLER, MOZART, BEETHOVEN, BRAHMS
Couperin: "Troisi?me Livre de Pi?ces de clavecin [Christophe Rousset]
Bach: Suite No 1 BWV 812 [Richard Egarr]
Soler: Preludes & Sonatas [Diego Ares]
Mozart: Sonata K 333 [Kristian Bezuidenhout]
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations [Andreas Staier]
Brahms: Sonate pour piano op. 2, F sharp minor [Alexander Melnikov]

CD 6-9 The Classical style revisited
HAYDN Die Jahreszeiten Les Saisons / The Seasons / Concerto for cello and orchestra Hob.VIIb:1
MOZART Piano Concerto n° 12, K.414 / Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, K.622
BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis op. 123
RIAS Kammerchor, Freiburger Barockorchester, Ren? Jacobs, La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-?lys?es, Philippe Herreweghe, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Lorenzo Coppola

CD 10 The French cello school
Works by J. S. BACH, SCHUBERT, OFFENBACH, DUTILLEUX
Offenbach: 1st Suite for two cellos
Bach: Cello Suite No 1
Dutilleux: "Trois Strophes sur le nom de SACHER for solo cello
Schubert: "Sonate pour arpeggione et piano, D.821
Roland Pidoux, ?tienne P?clard, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Bruno Philippe

CD 11 Die Neue Romantik
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto Op. 64 / Piano Concerto MWV 02 / Symphony No.4 "Italian"
Isabelle Faust, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Gottfried von der Goltz, Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado

CD 12 Towards 'historically informed performance'
RAVEL Daphnis et Chlo? (2nd & 3rd part) / Ma M?re l'Oye
Les Si?cles, Fran?ois-Xavier Roth

CD 13 A trio of stars . . . and the star trio
Works by SCHUMANN and BRAHMS
Schumann: Piano Trio No 2 / Piano Concerto
Brahms: Trio No 3
Alexander Melnikov, Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado, Trio Wanderer

CD 14 The masters of the lied
Lieder by SCHUBERT, SCHUMANN, WOLF, EISLER
Schubert: Wintereisse [5 excerpts] / 3 Lieder
Schumann: "Liederkreis op. 24 [9 excerpts]
Wolf: Six Lieder
Eisler: Eight Lieder
Werner G?ra, Mark Padmore, Sophie Karth?user, Matthias Goerne

CD 15-16 The new explorers
Works by ROSSINI, DONIZETTI, BELLINI, VIEUXTEMPS, CHOPIN, DEBUSSY, DE FALLA, GERSHWIN, REICH
Rossini: Th?me et variations for cello & piano
Donizetti/Bellini/Vieuxtemps: Alto arias
Falla: El Amor brujo (complete)
Anonymous: 4 extracts
Chopin/Debussy: Piano works (Javier Perianes)
Gershwin: Four excerpts [Including the original version of 'Rhapsody in Blue']
Reich: Double Sextet
Ensemble Explorations, Roel Dieltiens, Antoine Tamestit, C?dric Tiberghien, Orquestra de Cambra Teatre Lliure, Josep Pons, Anonymous 4, Javier Perianes, Al Gallodoro, Harmonie Ensemble, Steven Richman, Ensemble Signal, Brad Lubman.

CD 17 The new generation
Le Concert royal de la Nuit (Premi?re veille) Ensemble Correspondance, S?bastien Dauc?
English Airs and Tunes of Locke, Purcell, Draghi Le Caravans?rail, Bertrand Cuiller
Rheinm?dchen Les Filles du Rhin / Rhinemaidens (Works by Wagner, Schumann, Schubert) "Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano / Pygmalion / Rapha?l Pichon"

CD 18 Masters of every style
HAYDN / KURT?G (Cuarteto Casals)
J.S. BACH / BART?K (Isabelle Faust)
CHOPIN / SHOSTAKOVITCH (Alexander Melnikov)
F. COUPERIN / SATIE (Alexandre Tharaud).