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Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Domenico Scarlatti: Salve Regina; Antonio Vivaldi: Stabat Mater (2003)

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Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Domenico Scarlatti: Salve Regina; Antonio Vivaldi: Stabat Mater (2003)

Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Domenico Scarlatti: Salve Regina; Antonio Vivaldi: Stabat Mater (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 273 Mb | Total time: 57:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Analekta | # FL 2 3171 | Recorded: 2003

Quebec contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux scored a top rating on her earlier Analekta disc of Handel Italian cantatas, and in that review I expressed a desire for more recordings from this sensational young singer. If you enjoyed the Handel program (and if you don't have it, get it), you'll be just as happy with this new disc that combines two famous Baroque solo-vocal works with some engaging, relentlessly upbeat orchestral selections from the same period. Lemieux continues to impress with her warm, true-contralto tone, fluid legatos, canny phrasing, and total command of the technical aspects of these justifiably popular yet challenging works.

Bruno Weil, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik Chamber Choir - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (2016)

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Bruno Weil, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik Chamber Choir - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (2016)

Bruno Weil, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik Chamber Choir - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 302 Mb | Total time: 66:09 | Covers included
Classical | Label: Tafelmusik Media | # TMK1030CD | Recorded: 2016

For this release on Tafelmusik Media, Bruno Weil and the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir perform Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, "Choral," in a streamlined presentation notable for its authentic instrumentation and historically informed performance practice. The hallmarks of Classical style are immediately apparent, from the brisk tempos and the reduced size of the orchestra, to the straight, vibrato-less string tone and the distinctive and occasionally raw timbres of early 19th century woodwinds and brass. (Note especially the contrabassoon, track four, at the 09:36 mark.) Yet all of this is secondary to the effectiveness of the music, which Weil and his musicians keep uppermost in their minds.

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi - La Discotheque Ideale: Baroque et Musique Ancienne - La Legende en 25 CDs (2013)

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Deutsche Harmonia Mundi - La Discotheque Ideale: Baroque et Musique Ancienne - La Legende en 25 CDs (2013)

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi - La Discothèque Idéale: Baroque et Musique Ancienne - La Légende en 25 CDs (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 6.86 Gb | Total time: 25 h 25 min | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/Sony Music | # 88883719232

This is an excellent and varied selection of composers from the very well known like Palestrina, Monteverdi, Bach and Vivaldi, through the less famous but familiar like Frescobaldi, Sainte-Colombe and Zelenka, to the downright obscure. It is all delightful: the musicians are uniformly excellent, and include such great names as Gustav Leonhardt, Cantus Colln, Christopher Hogwood and so on. They give fine performances both of the familiar works and of the less familiar ones. Obviously there will be discs you like more than others and you may already have favourite versions of some works, but these discs are never less than very good and are often outstanding.

Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik, Karina Gauvin - George Frideric Handel: Arias and Dances - Excerpts from Agrippina and Alcina (1999)

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Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik, Karina Gauvin - George Frideric Handel: Arias and Dances - Excerpts from Agrippina and Alcina (1999)

Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik, Karina Gauvin - George Frideric Handel: Arias and Dances - Excerpts from Agrippina and Alcina (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 390 Mb | Total time: 76:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Analekta | # FL 2 3137 | Recorded: 1999

Handel was first and foremost a composer of opera. It was his passion for opera which first led him away from his homeland to Italy. Handel soon became the darling of Italian opera lovers, and ended his three-year sojourn with a triumphant production of his opera Agrippina in Venice in 1709. It ran for an unprecedented 27 nights.

Anner Bylsma, Jean Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Joseph Haydn, Anton Kraft: Cello Concertos (1990)

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Anner Bylsma, Jean Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Joseph Haydn, Anton Kraft: Cello Concertos (1990)

Anner Bylsma, Jean Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Joseph Haydn, Anton Kraft: Cello Concertos (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 341 Mb | Total time: 66:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 7757-2-RC | Recorded: 1989

An album overflowing with musical joy that transcends the composer. It is clear from the first sound of the CD and fills the space of the listening room brightly. A brilliance and lively fulfillment that rivals Mozart's finest moments. Anner Bylsma's cello tone and wonderful performance using period instruments, Melting with it, it progresses while adding luster, brilliance and dynamism.

Hervé Niquet, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Persée (2005)

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Hervé Niquet, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Persée (2005)

Hervé Niquet, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Persée (2005)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Francais (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | 127 min | 7,47 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: EuroArts | Sub: English, Francais, Deutsch | Recorded: 2004

In his position as the king’s composer, Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) created the opera Persée for Louis XIV. The opera was considered the crowning achievement of 17th century French music theatre and was widely recognized as Lully’s greatest work. Filled with dancing, fight scenes, monsters and special effects, this truly spectacular music drama recounts the thrilling story of Perseus, son of Zeus and heroic vanquisher of the snake-haired Gorgon Medusa. More than half a century after its premiere, Louis XV chose “Persée” to open the new Royal Opera House at the Chateau de Versailles, an event that formed part of the celebrations for the future Louis XVI’s marriage to Marie Antoinette.

Sony The Classical Collection [30CDs], Vol. 1: Bach, Handel, Vivaldi (2008)

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Sony The Classical Collection [30CDs], Vol. 1: Bach, Handel, Vivaldi (2008)

Sony The Classical Collection [30CDs], Vol. 1: Bach, Handel, Vivaldi (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,18 Gb | Total time: 03:57:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88697334532 | Recorded: 1961-2006

This Sony-made 30CD classical music collection covers almost all classical music, from the early Baroque period represented by Bach to the schools of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms represent romantic, national and even modern musical schools led by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, etc. representative, everything wonderful and vivid.

Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - The Baroque Virtuoso (2014)

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Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - The Baroque Virtuoso (2014)

Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - The Baroque Virtuoso (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 393 Mb | Total time: 74:28 | Scans included
Classical | Tafelmusik | TMK1026CD | Recorded: 1991-2011

Music Director of Tafelmusik from 1981 to 2014, Jeanne Lamon was loved by audiences, and praised by critics in Europe and North America for her virtuosity as a violinist and her brilliant musical leadership. Under her direction, Tafelmusik achieved international stature with over 80 recordings to its name, and with tours to over 350 international cities including invitations to the most prestigious concert halls and festivals in the world.

Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik - Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Harmonia artificioso-ariosa (2006)

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Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik - Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Harmonia artificioso-ariosa (2006)

Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik - Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Harmonia artificioso-ariosa (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 409 Mb | Total time: 77:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # C10702 | Recorded: 1993

Biber was one of the most talented and fascinating composers of the 17th century. He spent his life working between Czechoslovakia and Austria, attaining a considerable amount of fame and even earning a patent of nobility (he was permitted later in life to refer to himself as "von" Biber). His instrumental music is the most fanciful and entertaining of the period, partly due to his use of scordatura, or mistuning. This technique requires a different violin-string tuning for each of the seven partitas in this collection, which gives each a particular instrumental color. A partita, by the way, is the same thing as a suite–a selection of dances collected together to make a contrasting set.

Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos (2012)

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Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos (2012)

Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 511 Mb | Total time: 93:27 | Covers included
Classical | Label: Tafelmusik Media | # TMK1004CD2 | Recorded: 1994

The Six Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) are considered by musicians, critics and audiences alike among the finest musical compositions of the baroque era. Bach presented the concertos to the Margrave of Brandenburg, Christian Ludwig, in Berlin, March 24, 1721, with the hopes some patronage would come his way. The music was preserved in the Brandenburg archives, and when rediscovered in the 19th century became some of the most beloved music of all time. Beloved is the operative word in this re-release of the masterpieces in the hands of Jeanne Lamon and the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.

Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik - W.F. Bach: Sinfonias; Suite in G minor; Concerto for Harpsichord in D major (1997)

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Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik - W.F. Bach: Sinfonias; Suite in G minor; Concerto for Harpsichord in D major (1997)

Jeanne Lamon, Charlotte Nediger, Tafelmusik - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Sinfonias; Suite in G minor; Concerto for Harpsichord in D major (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 348 Mb | Total time: 71:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SK 62720 | Recorded: 1996

The well-known painting of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach reproduced on the cover of this CD must be one of the most immediately attractive composer portraits ever made. The wide-brimmed hat, the fur-lined coat, the wisp of steely hair and, above all, the reddened but unmistakably genial face (displaying, if I’m not mistaken, his father’s nose) suggest a man one would want to accompany straightaway to the nearest coffee-house. But Friedemann was actually a little more complex than that, both as a person who could be lazy and argumentative and as a talented musician torn between the styles of the late baroque and early classical periods, so it is perhaps no surprise to find that there is considerable variety in the music on this disc.

Elizabeth Wallfisch, Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Antonio Vivaldi: L'Estro Armonico (2007)

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Elizabeth Wallfisch, Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Antonio Vivaldi: L'Estro Armonico (2007)

Elizabeth Wallfisch, Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Antonio Vivaldi: L'Estro Armonico (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 353 Mb + 2,38 Gb (dvd bonus) | Total time: 63:30+54:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony | # 88697190442 | Recorded: 2007

The performances are scintillating, dynamic, articulate, and vibrant, the virtuoso violin solos by Elizabeth Wallfisch occupying a playfully precarious edge between daring excitement and temporal excess–a stance joined in equal measure by her fellow soloists and her very fine orchestral partners. This is Vivaldi performance uninhibited by self-conscious stylistic gestures or distracting "period" mannerisms–it's just informed, virtuosic ensemble playing.

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi: 50th Anniversary Edition [50CDs], Part 1 (2008)

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Deutsche Harmonia Mundi: 50th Anniversary Edition [50CDs], Part 1 (2008)

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi: 50th Anniversary Edition [50CDs], Part 1 (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 6,92 Gb | Total time: 50:56:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88697 281822 | Recorded: 1969-2000

A beautifully-packaged 50-disc box set, released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, one of the most important and adventurous early music labels. The set contains 50 classic recordings of baroque and ancient music, chosen to represent the breadth of this huge and varied catalogue and each disc is slip-cased with artwork replicating the original CD or LP artwork.

Vivarte Collection Vol. 1 [60CDs] (2013)

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Vivarte Collection Vol. 1 [60CDs] (2013)

Vivarte Collection Vol. 1 [60 CDs] (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 16,7 Gb | Total time: 62:33:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88765448882 | Recorded: 1986-1999

VIVARTE is the legendary Sony Classical period music label known for producing outstanding recordings on period instruments. The recordings by legendary producer Wolf Erichson are made with the best recording technologies available and by one of the best production teams in the world (Tritonus Music Production, Stuttgart). The collection contains a perfect overview of VIVARTE's legendary catalogue ranging from Vivaldi to Brahms including recordings with specialists in historically informed performance practice such as Anner Bylsma, Gustav Leonhardt, Tafelmusik, Huelgas Ensemble, L'Archibudelli among others. Many of the recordings received critical acclaim all over the world and won prestigious awards. This box set includes CDs presented in paper sleeves with the original artwork, a 250 page booklet with track listings and the original liner notes for each recording.

Frieder Bernius, Tafelmusik, Kammerchor Stuttgart - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa Dei Filii, Litaniae Lauretanae (2009)

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Frieder Bernius, Tafelmusik, Kammerchor Stuttgart - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa Dei Filii, Litaniae Lauretanae (2009)

Frieder Bernius, Tafelmusik, Kammerchor Stuttgart - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa Dei Filii, Litaniae Lauretanae (2009)
EAC | APE | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 340 Mb | Total time: 70:26 | Cover included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88697568762 | Recorded: 1989

First revived in the 1970s, Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka was once touted as the Arcimboldo of music owing to the bizarre twists and turns of his instrumental music, which accounts for only a tiny part of his output. While this was effective marketing and won him a certain avant-garde cachet, the vast majority of Zelenka's music is of the sacred vocal variety, and overall it is probably more useful to view him as a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach able to pursue professionally what the proudly Lutheran Bach could only do vicariously: compose Catholic service music.