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John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir - Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (2003/1989)

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John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir - Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (2003/1989)

John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir - Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (2003/1989)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Latin | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | DTS, 5 ch | 7.80 Gb (DVD9) | 90 min + 20 min (bonus)
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

“This large-scale live recording (Gardiner's second) was made in Venice's St Mark's Basilica. It captures the drama as well as the ceremonial aspect of the work, despite sometimes cloudy recorded sound.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide. “Gardiner's second [recording of the Vespers], spectacularly recorded live in St Mark's, has a punchy choral sound, near-operatic solo singing (Bryn Terfel and Alistair Miles are among the basses), emphatic enunciation, big contrasts and deliberate exploitation of the building's spaces. Its outright theatricality sets it apart from other performances.” Gramophone Magazine.

Martin Gester, Le Parlement de Musique - Montéclair, Hotteterre, Couperin, Marais (1991)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Martin Gester, Le Parlement de Musique - Montéclair, Hotteterre, Couperin, Marais (1991)

Martin Gester, Le Parlement de Musique - Montéclair, Hotteterre, Couperin, Marais (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 59:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 | # OPS 47-9111 | Recorded: 1991

This recording includes works for the oboe by four French Baroque composers, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, Francois Courpin, and Marin Marais. Among them Montéclair is a cantata "Pan et Syrinx" (Pan et Syrinx). The story of the faun Pan chasing the nymph Silinks is popular with composers. On the one hand, this is a sad story about love that can never be obtained, and the drama and imagination in it are quite suitable for composers to play; A flute, this "pan flute" can be played with a modern flute (as in Debussy's Syrinx), or with an oboe like Montéclair. The tone of the oboe is not as cold as the flute, but rather warm, elegant and fresh. On the one hand, it is very suitable for depicting the quiet life of nature or the countryside. The sweet memories of a lost love couldn't be more fitting.

Ryan Brown, Opera Lafayette Orchestra - Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny: Le Déserteur (2010)

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Ryan Brown, Opera Lafayette Orchestra - Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny: Le Déserteur (2010)

Ryan Brown, Opera Lafayette Orchestra - Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny: Le Déserteur (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 397 Mb | Total time: 96:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.660263-64 | Recorded: 2009

Monsigny and Sedaine's brilliant opera-cotnique Le Deserteur, was an immediate and lasting success for its melodic charms and musical variety, its blend of comedy with moments of great sentiment and pathos, and its intellectual radicalism prefiguring the humanitarian ideas of the 19th century Romantics. This recording features the musical items only from this forerunner of the 'rescue' opera, in which the heroine Louise extricates her fiance Alexis from prison and a death sentence.

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Cappella vocale Leverkusen - Gottfried August Homilius: Matthäuspassion (1993)

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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Cappella vocale Leverkusen - Gottfried August Homilius: Matthäuspassion (1993)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Cappella vocale Leverkusen - Gottfried August Homilius: Matthäuspassion (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 634 Mb | Total time: 74:23+56:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Berlin Classics | # BC 1046-2 | Recorded: 1992

Gottfried August Homilius, now considered the greatest cantor of Dresden's Kreuzchor, was, for a while a student of Johann Sebastian Bach. A composer of music for the church, and a great organist, he was described, in 1790, as 'one of the greatest and worthiest organists alive.' While Homilius's name is found on only one score for this passion, stylistic criteria make it almost certain that he wrote this music. This St. Matthew Passion closely resembles Bach's passions - it contains choral movements, recitatives and arias with orchestral accompaniment, and tells the story of the Passion in the same way as was done in churches all over Germany in the 18th century. However, Homilius uses many more short sections with recitative (a total of 89 pieces altogether - most less than one minute long), but his arias are generally much longer than those in Bach's passions and cantatas.

Bruno Weil, Cappella Coloniensis - Johann Christian Bach: Endimione (1999)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Bruno Weil, Cappella Coloniensis - Johann Christian Bach: Endimione (1999)

Bruno Weil, Cappella Coloniensis - Johann Christian Bach: Endimione (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 499 Mb | Total time: 61:34+44:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | 05472 77525 2 | Recorded: 1999

A beguiling rarity. Johann Sebastian’s youngest and most cosmopolitan son composed this serenata in London in 1772. The plot revolves around the triangular relationship between Diana, her nymph Nice and Endymion, slyly manipulated by Cupid and culminating in the obligatory paean to love. In the booklet, Bruno Weil dubs Endimione ‘one of the first operettas’; but though there are touches of cruel humour, usually at Nice’s expense, the musical idiom and structure, based on a sequence of elaborate arias, are essentially those of opera seria. Bach’s suave, mellifluous style often sounds like Mozart minus the master’s dynamic impulse and control of long-range tensions.

Peter Neumann, Kolner Kammerchor, Collegium Cartusianum - Mozart: Masses [5CDs] (2000)

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Peter Neumann, Kolner Kammerchor, Collegium Cartusianum - Mozart: Masses [5CDs] (2000)

Peter Neumann, Kölner Kammerchor, Collegium Cartusianum - Mozart: Masses [5CDs] (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.48 Gb | Total time: 5:43:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | # 5 61769 2 | Recorded: 1988, 1990

As for the Masses, Mozart kept to the traditional plan in six sections (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei), even when the inpression is that the sections are more numerous (as many as 21 in the "Orphanage" Mass), it is actually a matter of sub-sections, of varying number according to the requirements of the particular work, including famous and impressive settings of the 'Laudamus te' and 'Et incarnatus est'.