harmonia mundi was born in 1958: sixty years and several thousand recordings later, the company continues to affirm its identity and its singularity with insolent vitality! Anniversaries also offer an opportunity to reflect on the distance travelled.

This first volume invites you to relive the highlights of the label’s first thirty years and pays tribute to the artists who built harmonia mundi on the heights of Saint-Michel-de-Provence, in a passionate quest for excellence that caused a genuine revolution in the world of early music.

CD 1-2 A passion for the organ

Historic organs from Trujillo, Malaucène, Brescia & Trebel

CD 3 The discovery of the Old World

Ancient Greek music / Gauls / Roman chants

CD 4 From Renaissance to Baroque

Madrigals by Marenzio, Caccini, Bottrigari, Gesualdo, Monteverdi

CD 5-11 The Baroque revolution

PURCELL King Arthur / Songs : O Solitude, Music for a while…

SCHÜTZ Motets / Kleine geistliche Konzerte & Symphoniae Sacrae

J. S. BACH Magnificat BWV 243, Aria Erbarme dich (St. Matthew Passion)

PERGOLESI Stabat Mater / CESTI Orontea (extraits/excerpts)

LULLY Atys (extraits/excerpts) / Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

CHARPENTIER Te Deum H.146 / RAMEAU Les Indes galantes

DE LALANDE Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roy 12eSuite

CD 12-14 A fresh look at the score

MOZART Church Sonatas

BEETHOVEN Symphony “Eroica” transcribed by Franz Liszt

JOHANN SCHOBERT Piano Quartet op. VII n° 2

ERNEST CHAUSSON Concert op. 21

GABRIEL FAURÉ Requiem op. 48 (version 1893)

JOHANNES BRAHMS Motets Op. 29 & Op. 74

Mélodies sur des poèmes de Victor Hugo

CD 15 The twentieth century

SCHOENBERG Piano Pieces Opp. 11, 19, 23 & 25

LUCIANO BERIO Laborintus 2 CD

16 A window on the worldIranian music, Arabo-Andalusian music, Byzantine chant, Corsica, La Folia de la Spagna