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Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Gioacchino Rossini: Stabat Mater (2001)

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Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Gioacchino Rossini: Stabat Mater (2001)

Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Gioacchino Rossini: Stabat Mater (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 232 Mb | Total time: 57:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901693 | Recorded: 1999

One of the first, and best, recordings of this splendid but interpretatively elusive work was made in Berlin in 1954 under the direction of Ferenc Fricsay. Like the present recording, it featured the RIAS (Berlin Radio) Chamber Choir, though in those days the fledgling choir was supplemented in the full choruses by the famous St Hedwig’s Cathedral Choir. Now it is on its own, acquitting itself superbly in all movements and dimensions; what’s more, the conductor of the entire enterprise is its own conductor, the English-born Marcus Creed.

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - J.S.Bach: Triple Concerto BWV 1044, Harpsichord Concerto BWV 1052 (2001)

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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - J.S.Bach: Triple Concerto BWV 1044, Harpsichord Concerto BWV 1052 (2001)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - J.S.Bach: Triple concerto BWV 1044, Harpsichord Concerto BWV 1052; Müthel: Harpsichord Concerto (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 309 Mb | Total time: 74:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901740 | Recorded: 2001

Le prestigieux Collegium Musicum créé par Telemann fut l'orchestre attitré de Bach lorsqu'il prit ses fonctions à Leipzig. Il put ainsi tester avec cette formation de nouvelles associations de timbres que l'on retrouve dans le Concerto pour clavecin BWV 1052, le Concerto pour piano forte en si bémol majeur et le Triple Concerto BWV 1044. Il s'agit parfois de transcriptions et d'adaptations, d'œuvres originellement pour violon, mais le résultat est étonnant de brio et de force expressive. Il faut écouter ce fameux Triple Concerto pour flûte, violon, clavecin et cordes porté par les couleurs de l'Akademie für Alte Musik : on y retrouve l'impulsion rythmique, la richesse de tempérament du Concerto Brandebourgeois n° 5, un esprit de danse et de fête qui privilégient sans conteste le clavier.

RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Justin Doyle - Handel: Coronation Anthems (2023)

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RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Justin Doyle - Handel: Coronation Anthems (2023)

RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Justin Doyle - Handel: Coronation Anthems (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 280 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 137 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:59:17
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: harmonia mundi

In 1727, having just become a naturalised British subject, Handel was commissioned to write a set of anthems for the coronation of George II. Since he could hardly have expected ever to see a more majestic occasion, the composer took full advantage of it to put on a musical firework display of unprecedented splendour. The RIAS Kammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin give thrilling accounts of these flamboyant works – some of which are still used today at each new coronation!

Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin - Friedrich der Grosse 1712-2012: Music for the Berlin Court (2012)

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Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin - Friedrich der Grosse 1712-2012: Music for the Berlin Court (2012)

Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin - Friedrich der Grosse 1712-2012: Music for the Berlin Court: J.G.Graun, Nichelmann, Friedrich II, C.P.E.Bach (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 371 Mb | Total time: 73:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC902132 | Recorded: 2011

The year 2012 marks the tercentenary of the birth of Frederick the Great, whose political and military glory has often relegated his musical talent to the status of a mere hobby. But Frederick II was not only the key personality of Berlin musical life for the whole of the 18th century – as is shown by the works of the composers presented on this CD, all of whom worked at his court at some point in their careers – but also an excellent flautist who left posterity a number of fine flute sonatas from his own pen.

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Midori Seiler - Rebel: Les elements; Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni (2009)

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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Midori Seiler - Rebel: Les elements; Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni (2009)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Midori Seiler - Rebel: Les éléments; Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni (2009)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 78 min | 6,40 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | Recorded: 2008

Harmonia Mundi's Rebel: Elements – Vivaldi: Four Seasons combines two of the Baroque's biggest instrumental barnburners as performed by one of the top period instrument groups in Europe, Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin, under the leadership of concertmasters Clemens-Maria Nuszbaumer and Georg Kallweit and featuring their star attraction, violinist Midori Seiler. Like Vivaldi's often derided as over-familiar Four Seasons, Jean-Féry Rebel's 1737 ballet Les Éléments does not want for good recordings, but it is nowhere near as famous as the Vivaldi; this is the first time the two have been combined on a recording, and these pieces are quite compatible given their shared, programmatic purposes.

Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Konrad Junghanel – Handel: Poro, re dell'Indie (2007)

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Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Konrad Junghanel – Handel: Poro, re dell'Indie (2007)

Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Konrad Junghanel – Handel: Poro, re dell'Indie (2007)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 181:38 | 980 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Göttingen Handel Festival | Catalog: none

Much has been said and written about Handel and Metastasio, and the composer’s supposed lack of interest in the librettos of the famous Roman poet. The fact is that Handel generally used adaptations of much older librettos which perhaps represented a bigger space of liberty for its work and conception of drama. Though Handel set to music only three librettos by Metastasio (Siroe, Poro and Ezio), we can hardly doubt he knew and recognised the qualities of their dramaturgy. Two of the three were successful and all of them gave him opportunity to write beautiful music.

Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS-Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (1994)

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Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS-Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (1994)

Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS-Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (1994)
EAC | APE | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 711 Mb | Total time: 61:54+56:25+41:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Berlin Classics | # BC 1057-2 | Recorded: 1994

Jephtha, first performed in 1752, was Handel’s last major work, written while he was struggling with poor health and failing eyesight. Yet the score contains some of his most powerful and moving music, notably the chorus’s bleak paean to blind faith, ‘How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!’ Jephtha is also one of his more operatic oratorios and, if many Baroque operas require the suspension of disbelief, this libretto (by Thomas Morell) may need modern listeners to suspend their distaste at the perversities of its 18th-century pietism. Handel’s wonderfully humane music cuts through all such sanctimony, however, as if – as the Handel scholar Winton Dean has argued – in highlighting the themes of personal suffering and capricious fate, Handel implicitly ‘makes Jehovah the villain of the piece’.

Hans-Christoph Rademann, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Johann Christian Bach: Missa da Requiem (2011)

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Hans-Christoph Rademann, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Johann Christian Bach: Missa da Requiem (2011)

Hans-Christoph Rademann, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Johann Christian Bach: Missa da Requiem (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 331 Mb | Total time: 74:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 902098 | Recorded: 2010

After an acclaimed disc of Johann Ludwig Bach, Hans-Christoph Rademann continues his fascinating exploration of the most famous musical dynasty. Born in 1735, the ‘London Bach’ was the youngest of Johann Sebastian’s sons. He seems to have remained in his father’s shadow until the age of 19, when he had the chance to travel to Italy, very likely to receive guidance from the celebrated Padre Martini, as his (future) friend Mozart was to do some years later. It was in Milan that he wrote the two works recorded here, including an incredible Requiem with a completely unexpected formal design; in matters of style, however, the 22-year-old composer had already laid the foundations of all his later output.

Bernhard Forck, Die Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6; Knecht: Le Portrait musical de la Nature (2020)

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Bernhard Forck, Die Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6; Knecht: Le Portrait musical de la Nature (2020)

Bernhard Forck, Die Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral'; Knecht: Le Portrait musical de la Nature (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 303 Mb | Total time: 66:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902425 | Recorded: 2019

This recording presents two symphonies "on the theme of nature." Valid though this expression is, it nevertheless calls for quotation marks. Far from being a prefiguration of Beethoven's famous Pastoral, Justin Heinrich Knechts' Symphonie 'Portrait musical de la nature' represented a highly convincing attempt by it's composer to extricate himself from program music. It is exciting to hear these two works recorded together for the first time by the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin directed by it's concertmaster, Bernhard Forck.

Lumieres - La musique du XVIIIeme siecle (29 CD), Part 03 [2011]

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Lumieres - La musique du XVIIIeme siecle (29 CD), Part 03 [2011]

Lumières - La musique du XVIIIème siècle (29 CD), Part 03: Sammartini, W.F.Bach, C.P.E.Bach, J.C.Bach, Boccherini, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven [2011]
EAC (flac, image, cue, log) | TT: 81.11+72.34+65.55+62.29 | Scans | 1.22 Gb
Classical | Harmonia Mundi | 2908601.30 | Rec: 1986-2006

The eighteenth century is probably the most extraordinary period of transformation Europe has known since antiquity. Political upheavals kept pace with the innumerable inventions and discoveries of the age; every sector of the arts and of intellectual and material life was turned upside down. Between the end of the reign of Louis XIV and the revolution of 1789, music in its turn underwent a radical mutation that struck at the very heart of a well-established musical language. In this domain too, we are all children of the Age of Enlightenment: our conception of music and the way we ‘consume’ it still follows in many respects the agenda set by the eighteenth century. And it is not entirely by chance that harmonia mundi has chosen to offer you in 2011 a survey of this musical revolution which, without claiming to be exhaustive, will enable you to grasp the principal outlines of musical creation between the twilight of the Baroque and the dawn of Romanticism.

Lumieres - La musique du XVIIIeme siecle (29 CD), Part 02 [2011]

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Lumieres - La musique du XVIIIeme siecle (29 CD), Part 02 [2011]

Lumières - La musique du XVIIIème siècle (29 CD), Part 02: Vivaldi, Telemann, J.S.Bach, Tartini, Monn, C.P.E.Bach, J.C.Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Pleyel, Beethoven [2011]
EAC (flac, image, cue, log) | TT: 76.43+73.10+77.59+54.27 | Scans | 1.29 Gb
Classical | Harmonia Mundi | 2908601.30 | Rec: 1991-2011

The eighteenth century is probably the most extraordinary period of transformation Europe has known since antiquity. Political upheavals kept pace with the innumerable inventions and discoveries of the age; every sector of the arts and of intellectual and material life was turned upside down. Between the end of the reign of Louis XIV and the revolution of 1789, music in its turn underwent a radical mutation that struck at the very heart of a well-established musical language. In this domain too, we are all children of the Age of Enlightenment: our conception of music and the way we ‘consume’ it still follows in many respects the agenda set by the eighteenth century. And it is not entirely by chance that harmonia mundi has chosen to offer you in 2011 a survey of this musical revolution which, without claiming to be exhaustive, will enable you to grasp the principal outlines of musical creation between the twilight of the Baroque and the dawn of Romanticism.

Lumieres - La musique du XVIIIeme siecle (29 CD), Part 01 [2011]

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Lumieres - La musique du XVIIIeme siecle (29 CD), Part 01 [2011]

Lumières - La musique du XVIIIème siècle (29 CD), Part 01: Couperin, Rameau, Campra, Pergolesi, Handel [2011]
EAC (flac, image, cue, log) | TT: 81.16+77.59+80.11+74.50 | Scans | 1.52 Gb
Classical | Harmonia Mundi | 2908601.30 | Rec: 1987-2010

The eighteenth century is probably the most extraordinary period of transformation Europe has known since antiquity. Political upheavals kept pace with the innumerable inventions and discoveries of the age; every sector of the arts and of intellectual and material life was turned upside down. Between the end of the reign of Louis XIV and the revolution of 1789, music in its turn underwent a radical mutation that struck at the very heart of a well-established musical language. In this domain too, we are all children of the Age of Enlightenment: our conception of music and the way we ‘consume’ it still follows in many respects the agenda set by the eighteenth century. And it is not entirely by chance that harmonia mundi has chosen to offer you in 2011 a survey of this musical revolution which, without claiming to be exhaustive, will enable you to grasp the principal outlines of musical creation between the twilight of the Baroque and the dawn of Romanticism.

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Luigi Boccherini: Symphonies op.35, 41 & 42 (2003)

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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Luigi Boccherini: Symphonies op.35, 41 & 42 (2003)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Luigi Boccherini: Symphonies op.35, 41 & 42 (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 364 Mb | Total time: 78:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMA 1951597 | Recorded: 1996

Some Symphonies for the Prussian Court. What better proof than these Symphonies commissioned by the Crown Prince of Prussia to show how the Italian 'Boquerini' never lost contact with Europe, even when retired to the depths of the Spanish countryside. With their colourful instrumentation and some truly inspirational touches in the melody, these are some of the finest works in classical style.

Christina Landshamer, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Bernhard Forck - La passione (2022)

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Christina Landshamer, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Bernhard Forck - La passione (2022)

Christina Landshamer, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Bernhard Forck - La passione (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 319 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 166 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:11:51
Classical, Vocal | Label: Pentatone

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin returns to Pentatone together with soprano Christina Landshamer, presenting La Passione, a collection of dazzling concert arias on love, longing and loss by Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn, paired with the latter’s “La Passione” Symphony. Ranging from pastoral simplicity to exuberant outrage, the programme offers some of the finest vocal writing around 1800, including some of Beethoven’s rare and little-known excursions to Italian bravura opera, as well as one of the most dramatic and expressive symphonies of the eighteenth-century.

Antoine Tamestit, Bernhard Forck, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Telemann: Viola Concertos, Overtures, Fantasias (2022)

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Antoine Tamestit, Bernhard Forck, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Telemann: Viola Concertos, Overtures, Fantasias (2022)

Antoine Tamestit, Bernhard Forck, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Georg Philipp Telemann: Viola Concertos, Overtures, Fantasias (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 350 Mb | Total time: 68:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902342 | Recorded: 2020

A precursor in this field as in so many others, Telemann gave the viola its very first masterpieces, immediately establishing it as a solo instrument in its own right. Alongside Sabine Fehlandt and the musicians of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Antoine Tamestit pays splendid tribute to this pioneering music, which blends melodic charm and contrapuntal rigour into an organic whole.