Okay, hope I needn't write Spanish here ... mine's alittle bit rusty. A few that popped to mind immediately upon reading the opening post where Zig-Zag Territoires and naïve, both of which where thrown into the lists on the previous page of posts ... two others I'm most fond of are Glossa and Mirare.
GlossaVery fond of the Monteverdi madrigals series by
Claudio Cavina & La Venexiana, and also a fan of the "Cabinet" releases I've heard so far (more Cavina/Venexiana madrigals by d'India and Marenzio, two discs each, but one of the Marenzios is OOP by now). Also the Gesualso madrigals ... the
sixth book, no longer by La Venexiana but by La Compagnia del Madrigale, was one of my favourite discs of last year. I've not spent much time with their latest release, Gesualdo's
Responsoria, but what bits and pieces I've heard far sounded very good as well! Finally also got Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo" by La Venexiana - but in that, nothing surpasses the Gardiner recording to my ears (third recent one I know is Alessandrini, furthermore the fascinating Hindemith recording that's out on Music & Art).
Another Glossa disc I enjoy is Mitzi Meyerson's Couperin disc.
MirareAgain, I have far from exhaustive knowledge of this label's catalogue, but the one-voice-per-part Bach cantata releases by
Ricercar Consort/Pierlot are glorious, and so is the "Magnificat" ... only gave the St John Passion one spin, but judged on that, it fits in neatly with the others.
The Bach/Händel disc with Nuria Rial doing "Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten" BWV 202 is pretty good as well ... I found their take on Pergolesi's "Stabat mater" somewhat less impressive than other recordings of the pice (Nuria Rial and Carlos Mena notwihtstanding), but I've got to dig it out and give it another spin soon.
Very good are the discs I've heard so far by Pierre Hantaï (three volumes of Scarlatti sonatas, Bach's Goldberg Variations and Book 1 of the WTC ... got his Couperin disc as well, but there Meyerson - and Violaine Cochard - left more of an impression than him and Blandine Rannou).
Another fine recent acquisition was the Purcell disc by La Rêveuse ... and now I'm waiting for their disc of music by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre.
These, btw, are very nicely done digipacks, glossier than the Glossa ones, which are also pretty nice but often prone to slight damage during shipping (the Glossa Cabinets are a bit oversized ... they look gorgeous, but the format is somewhat silly.)
Just because I mentioned them ... the Couperin by Violaine Cochard is on
Amroisie (part of naïve, it seems, as are a few other labels mentioned in this thread, I believe, at least Montaigne seems to be). There are two double sets of complete "ordres" (and Hantaï is added for a second, I think on the second release). That Ambroisie disc with Patricia Petibon is pretty fine, too, "Amour et Mascarade".
Blandine Rannou is great, too - but her Couperin didn't strike me nearly as much as her Rameau, which is desert island music for me! Her discs can be found on
Zig-Zag Territoires, a label that's been name-dropped before in this thread. The Rameau was boxed (three discs solo, one chamber music), as has been some of her Bach (English & French Suite + Toccatas - recommended as well, I guess ... though I'm not really familiar yet with these works). Her Goldberg Variations are weird, very slow ... not sure what to think of them yet (slow isn't a problem per se, I love the Tureck 2CD set in EMI's GRoC series, but I guess nothing ultimately beats Gould for me there).
Other Zig-Zag releases I've checked out include the box of Beethoven's violin sonatas and a 2CD set of Mozart sonatas both by Midori Seiler and Jos van Immerseel ... I love Seiler but almost loathe van Immerseel's plodding harpsichord, I'm afraid. Could be so good, but in the end it's merely good (the Mozart disc by Müllejans/Bezuidenhout on US Harmonia Mundi on the hand is terrific!)
I also recently got the cheapo anniversary set by Zig-Zag (alas minimal booklet only) which includes Amandine Beyer's Rebel disc and the Bononcini disc by Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini - I enjoyed both of these tremendously. Also the disc of Beyer's w/Edna Stern doing CPE Bach sonatas. And Monteverdi's "Selva morale" by Akademia/Lasserre, too ... definitely a label to check out!
