Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XX - El Cancionero de Medinaceli 1535-1595 (2002)

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Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XX - El Cancionero de Medinaceli 1535-1595 (2002)

Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XX - El Cancionero de Medinaceli 1535-1595 (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 281 Mb | Total time: 62:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Astrée / Naïve | # ES 9973 | Recorded: 1992

The Cancionero de Medinaceli or Cancionero Musical de Medinaceli (CMM) is a manuscript containing Spanish music of the Renaissance. It was copied during the second half of the 16th century and kept at the library of the Duke of Medinaceli's house, hence its name. Is it probably the most important compilation of Spanish secular polyphony of the Renaissance after the Cancionero de Palacio.

David Willcocks - George Frideric Handel: L'Allegro ed il Penseroso; Ode for St Cecilias Day (1999)

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David Willcocks - George Frideric Handel: L'Allegro ed il Penseroso; Ode for St Cecilias Day (1999)

David Willcocks - George Frideric Handel: L'Allegro ed il Penseroso; Ode for St Cecilias Day (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 760 Mb | Total time: 73:51+76:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 460 287-2 | Recorded: 1960, 1967

'L'Allegro il penseroso ed il moderato' brings together Sir David Willcocks, some fluent chamber players and the illustrious tenor Peter Pears - not the most orthodox of Handel interpreters in an era of so-called authentic performance, but here appropriately sonorous. The greater feast, however, is the 'Ode for St Cecelia', whose spiritual patronage of the sonic arts first really took off in the seventeenth century and has not looked back since. April Cantelo and Choir of King's College Cambridge offer an inspired and inspiring account of a rich, celebratory and gorgeously double-rhythmed delight.

Marcia Hadjimarkos - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Pièces de caractère (2002)

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Marcia Hadjimarkos - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Pièces de caractère (2002)

Marcia Hadjimarkos - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Pièces de caractère (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 286 Mb | Total time: 67:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Zig-Zag Territories | ZZT 020301 | Recorded: 2001

This fine recording shows the many types of keyboard music that CPE Bach wrote, and presents it on two instruments that truly give the music the tone it needs. Marcia Hadjimarkos is an excellent performer and her choice of works is very judicious.

Jos van Immerseel, L'Archibudelli - Franz Schubert: Trout Quintet; Arpeggione; Notturno (1998)

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Jos van Immerseel, L'Archibudelli - Franz Schubert: Trout Quintet; Arpeggione; Notturno (1998)

Jos van Immerseel, L'Archibudelli - Franz Schubert: Trout Quintet; Arpeggione; Notturno (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 342 Mb | Total time: 69:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SK 63361 | Recorded: 1997

Schubert's quintet (which gets its name from his song "The Trout," used for a set of variations at its apex) is as lighthearted as it is melodious, qualities reflected in this excellent performance. The period-instrument balances are ideal; the fortepiano, less resonant than a modern piano, does not overpower the strings. The arpeggione was an odd, newly invented six-stringed instrument when Schubert wrote for it. The lovely sonata is here played on an obsolete five-stringed instrument, the violoncello piccolo–closer to the original than the modern cello or viola usually heard on recordings. The "Notturno" is a haunting movement, probably intended for a larger work.

Neville Marriner - Manuel de Falla: El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Noches in los Jardines de España (1994)

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Neville Marriner - Manuel de Falla: El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Noches in los Jardines de España (1994)

Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Manuel de Falla: El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Noches in los Jardines de España (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 234 Mb | Total time: 62:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # CDC 5 55049 2 | Recorded: 1992, 1993

The sultry warm atmosphere of an Andalusian night is almost palpable in Falla’s spellbinding Noches en los jardines de España. With its shimmering, sensuous harmonies, exquisite orchestral colours and exuberant melodies and rhythms, it’s perhaps Falla’s most impressionistic work. Using a large orchestral canvas on which he paints with deft, luminous strokes, Falla skilfully integrates a virtuoso piano part to create lovingly evocative music, full of captivating beauty.

Jérôme Hantaï, Pierre Hantaï, Alix Verzier - Marin Marais: Pièces de viole (1997)

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Jérôme Hantaï, Pierre Hantaï, Alix Verzier - Marin Marais: Pièces de viole (1997)

Jérôme Hantaï, Pierre Hantaï, Alix Verzier - Marin Marais: Pièces de viole (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 413 Mb | Total time: 72:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Veritas | # 5 45266 2 | Recorded: 1997

There is nothing left wanting in these performances. Hantaï and Verzier both display adroit virtuosity, possess warm tones but distinctive approaches, and share a telepathic sense of interplay, all excellent qualities in these intimate chamber works. Brother Pierre Hantaï on the keyboard sticks with them throughout, following them even in the most tempo rubato-saturated Sarabande. The lion's share of the pieces here are in the standard stylized Baroque dance forms, but Marais' expressive melodies, pungent harmonies, and highly individual take on the forms make each piece unique.

Michael Korstick, Tatjana Ruhland, Dirk Altmann - Charles Koechlin: Chamber Music; Piano Works (2017)

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Michael Korstick, Tatjana Ruhland, Dirk Altmann - Charles Koechlin: Chamber Music; Piano Works (2017)

Michael Korstick, Tatjana Ruhland, Dirk Altmann - Charles Koechlin: Chamber Music; Piano Works (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,6 Gb | Total time: 08:32:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: SWR Music | # SWR19047CD | Recorded: 1980-2016

This release is a truly unique collection of magical orchestral music by Charles Koechlin. November 2017 marks the 150th anniversary of Koechlin's birth, and this release includes many world première recordings. The Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and Heinz Holliger are experienced interpreters of this special repertoire.

Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Les Travailleurs de la Mer (2004)

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Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Les Travailleurs de la Mer (2004)

Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Les Travailleurs de la Mer (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 443 Mb | Total time: 76:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMU 907330 | Recorded: 2003

The Baltimore Consort used to do programs similar to this one, but The Harp Consort takes the production values and vocal artistry to an even higher level. From the opening, a highly rhythmic, sensuously melodic traditional Breton number, you're drawn into a world of earthy, folk-based music that's filled out with the colors of period instruments and brought to life by the expressive voices of singers who allow the flow and pulse of the language to shape phrases and create natural accents and inflection. The result is affecting, engrossing performances that convey what we can only surmise is a reasonably accurate realization of these ancient and justifiably enduring tunes.

Ferdinand Leitner, Cappella Coloniensis - George Frideric Handel: Tamerlano (2015)

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Ferdinand Leitner, Cappella Coloniensis - George Frideric Handel: Tamerlano (2015)

Ferdinand Leitner, Cappella Coloniensis - George Frideric Handel: Tamerlano (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 679 Mb | Total time: 79:59+65:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Profil Medien | # PH11029 | Recorded: 1966

Conductor Ferdinand Leitner (1912-96), learning his trade from masters like Walter, Busch, Richter and Karl Muck (as rehearsal pianist at Bayreuth), gained the experience that lead to his being dubbed the "singers' conductor" by all who worked with him during a long and lustrous career marked by his tenure as Zurich Opera music director (1969-84) and some 300 commercial recordings. The 1970s-80s Bayreuth stalwart, bass-baritone Franz Mazura as Tamerlano and famed American lyric soprano Helen Donath as Asteria headline this 1966 Leitner-led performance of Handel’s Tamerlano.

Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic - Joseph Haydn: Symphonies Parisiennes (2001)

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Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic - Joseph Haydn: Symphonies Parisiennes (2001)

Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic - Joseph Haydn: Symphonies Parisiennes (2001)
XLD | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 750 Mb | Total time: 144:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SM2K 89566 | Recorded: 1964,1967,1968

2 CDs mit Leonard Bernsteins herausragenden Interpretationen der Haydn-Sinfonien mit dem New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Als erster US-Amerikaner war Leonard Bernstein von 1958-1969 Musikdirektor des New York Philhamonic Orchestra. In seinem Wirken als Dirigent fand er weltweit große Beachtung mit einem Repertoire, das von der Klassik bis zur Avantgarde reichte.

Miriam Feuersinger, Les Escapades - Johann Rosenmüller et al.: Habe deine Lust an dem Herren (2018)

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Miriam Feuersinger, Les Escapades - Johann Rosenmüller et al.: Habe deine Lust an dem Herren (2018)

Miriam Feuersinger, Les Escapades - Johann Rosenmüller et al.: Habe deine Lust an dem Herren (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 283 Mb | Total time: 66:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Christophorus | # CHR 77425 | Recorded: 2017

The outstanding musical significance of Johann Rosenmüller, who was said to be able to merge Italian sensuality and German “gravitas” in his compositions in the most harmonious way, was already undisputed among his contemporaries. He studied in Leipzig, and quite soon the town council realized that he was a musician of an immense talent. Rosenmüller therefore received a position at the famous Leipzig Thomasschule, and was considered as the future successor of the ill Thomaskantor, Tobias Michael.

Miriam Feuersinger, Capricornus Consort Basel - Johann Sebastian Bach: Ich bin vergnügt... Kantaten BWV 51, 82, 84 (2022)

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Miriam Feuersinger, Capricornus Consort Basel - Johann Sebastian Bach: Ich bin vergnügt... Kantaten BWV 51, 82, 84 (2022)

Miriam Feuersinger, Peter Barczi, Capricornus Consort Basel - Johann Sebastian Bach: Ich bin vergnügt… Kantaten BWV 51, 82, 84 (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 368 Mb | Total time: 68:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Christophorus | # CHR 77459 | Recorded: 2021

"Ich bin vergnugt" (I am content) is the title of the new CD by soprano Miriam Feuersinger. It refers to Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata "Ich bin vergnugt mit meinem Glucke" BWV 84, but it also corresponds entirely to the feelings of the singer, who is fulfilling a long-cherished wish of her heart with this programme.

Žak Ozmo, L’Avventura London - Handel in the Playhouse (2009)

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Žak Ozmo, L’Avventura London - Handel in the Playhouse (2009)

Žak Ozmo, L’Avventura London - Handel in the Playhouse (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 294 Mb | Total time: 52:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Label: Opella Nova Records | ONCD014 | Recorded: 2009

London-based early music group L'Avventura announces the launch of their debut CD, a unique collection of previously unrecorded music by Handel. Fighting the deluge of re-recordings and re-issued CDs in this Handel anniversary year, Opella Nova Records is pleased to present a new group with a completely different take on the venerated composer. The playful, eminently-listenable Handel in the Playhouse is the debut album of new early music ensemble L'Avventura London, directed by Zak Ozmo, and is based on new musicological research. Consisting mainly of previously unheard English playhouse music composed by Handel, the recording is perfectly timed to coincide with the anniversary of the composer's death.

Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Spanish Gypsies: Celtic and Spanish music in Shakespeare's England (2013)

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Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Spanish Gypsies: Celtic and Spanish music in Shakespeare's England (2013)

Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Spanish Gypsies: Celtic and Spanish music in Shakespeare's England (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 369 Mb | Total time: 71:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | 88883754552 | Recorded: 1999

The music of Shakespeare's England - ballad tunes, country dances and elegant consorts - seems at first to be quintessentially English. Yet many of these tunes, as popular dances or in the high-art variations of division music, were inspired by Celtic and Spanish styles. In variations, from 17th-century manuscripts and in improvised divisions, 'gypsy' ballads are metamorphosed into exquisite consort music.

Richard Marlow, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge - Bach Family Motets (1997)

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Richard Marlow, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge - Bach Family Motets (1997)

Richard Marlow, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge - Bach Family Motets (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 360 Mb | Total time: 75:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Conifer Classics | # 75605 51306 2 | Recorded: 1997

Several generations of Bachs have been gathered by Richard Marlow and the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge for their programme of motets. All of them have been recorded at various times in the past but many only infrequently, and one or two, perhaps, now make their first appearance on CD. There is no dull music here and two of the pieces, at least, are of outstanding expressive beauty. The earlier of these is Johann Bach’s profoundly affecting Unser Leben ist ein Schatten (“Our life is but a shadow”). This member of the clan survived both the Black Death and the savage bombardment of Erfurt during the Thirty Years War.