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Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Trionfi! A Florentine Festival (1994)

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Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Trionfi! A Florentine Festival (1994)

Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Trionfi! A Florentine Festival (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 344 Mb | Total time: 72:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: L'Oiseau Lyre | # 436 718-2 | Recorded: 1992

Italy was a very progressive country in the fine arts during the late medieval to the baroque eras; the arts were especially great in Florence! This is a fine tapestry of Italian renaissance music with rich instrumental sounds and voices that can swoon the senses. The instrumental arrangements are perfect and the singers sound like they're celebrating the songs, instead of performing them. Philip Pickett has always recorded some of the finest early music.

Philip Pickett, Joshua Rifkin, Christopher Hogwood - Antonio Vivaldi: 14 Concertos (1997)

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Philip Pickett, Joshua Rifkin, Christopher Hogwood - Antonio Vivaldi: 14 Concertos (1997)

Philip Pickett, Joshua Rifkin, Christopher Hogwood - Antonio Vivaldi: 14 Concertos (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 634 Mb | Total time: 156:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 455 703-2 | Recorded: 1976-1991

This is a beautiful CD. On it is a collection of some of Vivaldi' best concertos played on authentic instruments with light, transparent textures, brisk tempi and real excitement. An absolute delight!

Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Georg Philipp Telemann: Water Music; Alster Overture; "The Frogs" Concerto (1998)

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Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Georg Philipp Telemann: Water Music; Alster Overture; "The Frogs" Concerto (1998)

Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Georg Philipp Telemann: Water Music; Alster Overture; "The Frogs" Concerto (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 354 Mb | Total time: 73:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 455 621-2 | Recorded: 1996

It figured that some other prolific composer of Handel’s time would have composed a competing “Water Music,” but Telemann’s half-hour work–otherwise known as an Overture in C–remains relatively obscure. Written for the centenary of the Hamburg Admiralty a few years after Handel’s “Water Music,” it is an invigorating piece of work, consisting of an Overture and nine dance movements with various watery descriptions from mythology that the listener can take or leave.

Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Carmina Burana [4CDs] (1994)

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Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Carmina Burana [4CDs] (1994)

Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Carmina Burana [4CDs] (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.07 Gb | Total time: 255:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: L'Oiseau-Lyre | # 443 143-2 | Recorded: 1987, 1988, 1989

The Carmina Burana is the most famous of all treasuries of medieval Latin and Middle High German poetry, named after the Bavarian monastery where it was compiled and preserved. It is best known today for Carl Orff's hour-long selection from it's rich collection of love lyrics, student songs and religious poetry written in Latin and old German. During the 1960s and 70s a few early-music ensembles made more or less successful efforts to capture the unique mix of secular and sacred idioms brought together by the original manuscripts.

Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Johann Sebastian Bach: 6 Brandenburg Concertos (1994)

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Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Johann Sebastian Bach: 6 Brandenburg Concertos (1994)

Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Johann Sebastian Bach: 6 Brandenburg Concertos (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 493 Mb | Total time: 94:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: L'Oiseau-Lyre | 440 675-2 | Recorded: 1993

Everything that could be desired in a historically informed performance of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos is presented in Philip Pickett's brilliant set with the New London Consort, released in 1993 on L'Oiseau Lyre. This version with period instruments and an ensemble of a size according to Baroque norms is much more than a dry run-through of these beloved works. It is a clever and highly expressive re-creation of Bach's most popular concertos, re-imagined through the artistic and philosophical connections and conventions that likely were found in them by Bach's contemporaries, most probably by Bach and the Margrave of Brandenburg himself.

London Brass, Philip Pickett - Gabrieli In Venice: Gabrieli, Viadana, Marini, Massaino, Frescobaldi (1994) Reissue 2002 [Re-Up]

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London Brass, Philip Pickett - Gabrieli In Venice: Gabrieli, Viadana, Marini, Massaino, Frescobaldi (1994) Reissue 2002 [Re-Up]

London Brass, Philip Pickett - Gabrieli In Venice (1994) Reissue 2002
Giovanni Gabrieli, Lodovico da Viadana, Biagio Marini, Tiburtio Massaino, Girolamo Frescobaldi

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 240 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 154 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Renaissance | Label: Apex | # 0927 40823 2 | Time: 01:01:19

There is no shortage of discs around featuring transcriptions of Renaissance music for brass. Whilst played on modern instruments the main difference here however is that London Brass, several of whom play period instruments in other ensembles, have enlisted the specialist knowledge of Philip Pickett to direct them.

Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Biber & Schmelzer: Trumpet Music (1990)

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Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Biber & Schmelzer: Trumpet Music (1990)

Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Biber & Schmelzer: Trumpet Music (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 318 Mb | Total time: 66:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: L'oiseau Lyre | 425 834-2 | Recorded: 1988

A disc of music by the two most talented composers of seventeenth-century Austria and Bohemia is welcome and doubly so when the performances are as lively as these. Philip Pickett and his New London Consort have chosen a varied programme of pieces by Austrian Schmelzer and Bohemian Biber and while I would not advise anyone to listen uninterrupted to the entire disc, taken in sensible doses it should afford pleasure. Schmelzer was born in the 1620s, eventually attaining a position of the highest importance at the Vienna court. Biber was born in 1644 and in 1670 entered the service of the Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg, with whom he remained until his death in 1704. The programme assembled here is culled from various collections and publications and reflects an assortment of stylistic influences and range of colours and sonorities.

Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Bach: Magnificat, Cantata BWV 63 (1997)

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Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Bach: Magnificat, Cantata BWV 63 (1997)

Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Bach: Magnificat, Cantata BWV 63 (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 302 Mb | Total time: 63:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: L'oiseau Lyre | 452 920-2 | Recorded: 1995

It was a good idea to assemble three pieces associated with Bach’s first Christmas at Leipzig. The Cantata No. 63 and the earlier E flat version of the Magnificat were both performed at Leipzig on Christmas Day, 1723, and it may well be that the D major Sanctus was also sung at the same services. Not all of the music, though, was newly written for the 1723 Festival. The Cantata was already in existence perhaps as much as ten years earlier when Bach may have performed it at Halle as his trial piece for the post of organist of the Liebfrauenkirche in which he was interested. There are notable differences between the E flat version of the celebrated Magnificat and the later, more frequently performed version in D major.

Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Bach: Christmas Oratorio / Weihnachtsoratorium (1999)

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Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Bach: Christmas Oratorio / Weihnachtsoratorium (1999)

Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Bach: Christmas Oratorio / Weihnachtsoratorium (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 588 Mb | Total time: 77:07+69:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 458 838-2 | Recorded: 1997

The recommending word for Philip Pickett and the New London Consort's recording of J. S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio is balance. There is a most satisfying balance on every level of this recording-between singers, between singers and instrumentalists, and between instrumentalists. Pickett mediates between the extreme options for choral forces-one per part at one extreme and a mammoth Romantic-sized choir at the other-by placing several singers on each choral part and drawing his soloists from that choir. Listening to the chorales and chorus movements of Bach's monumental creation will reveal the wisdom of Pickett's decision.