Label: harmonia mundi Catalog: 2908500/09 Format: CD
Brigitte Engerer. Bernarda Fink. Werner Güra. Philippe Herreweghe. Régis Pasquier. Roland Pidoux. Jean-Claude Pennetier. Alain Planès. RIAS Kammerchor. Trio Wanderer.
Beethoven. Brahms. Chopin. Schubert. Schumann.
A 10-CD set
Launched to mark harmonia mundi's 50th birthday, the hmGold series has won over the most demanding music-lovers with its outstanding artistic quality and the care lavished on its presentation. Nearly 70 titles have been released since 2008; now, as the festive season approaches, 30 of these "treasures of harmonia mundi" have been gathered together in elegant gilt boxed sets.
The ‘Romantic' set honours the great masters of European Romanticism, Beethoven, Hummel, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms. Here we range widely over the spirit of the nineteenth century, with solo vocal music, sacred choral works and chamber music, focusing on such masterpieces of the repertoire as Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Brahms's German Requiem, the lieder of Schumann, and the Nocturnes and Preludes of Chopin. An unforgettable journey to the heart of Romantic passion and sensibility!