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    Hermann Max, Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzer - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Cantatas (2011)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Hermann Max, Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzer - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Cantatas (2011)

    Hermann Max, Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzer - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Cantatas (2011)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 464 Mb | Total time: 53:56+59:40 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | 94256 | Recorded: 1991

    This set is a rerelease of recordings made in 1991, not previously reviewed in Read more . In the order listed in the header, these four cantatas were composed for the following festal days in the liturgical church calendar: the Third Sunday in Advent, the Feast of St. John the Baptist, Pentecost, and Easter Sunday. All stem from the time of the younger Bach’s increasingly fractious and unhappy years as director of music in Halle, which spanned 1747 to 1764. The first of these is definitely known to have been written in 1749; the dates for the others are less certain, but stem from the mid to late 1750s.

    Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - Johann Sebastian Bach: Oster-Oratorium (1999)

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    Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - Johann Sebastian Bach: Oster-Oratorium (1999)

    Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - Johann Sebastian Bach: Oster-Oratorium (1999)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 302 Mb | Total time: 72:36 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMX 2951513 | Recorded: 1995

    Once in while a recording comes along in which the performers, producers, and recording team get everything right. This is one of them. First issued in 1995, this production of Bach’s Easter “oratorium” easily can claim supremacy among several very good alternatives. Largely cobbled from an earlier secular cantata for a duke’s birthday, the music is some of Bach’s most poignant while being alternately festive and meditative. There are no “roles” as we find in the Passions, no Evangelist-type recitatives, no chorales, and there’s no real dramatic story line. Instead, we visit a particular scene–Peter, John, and the two Marys discover the empty tomb and contemplate its meaning.

    Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert - Christoph Graupner: Two Overtures, Cantata (1999)

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    Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert - Christoph Graupner: Two Overtures, Cantata (1999)

    Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert - Christoph Graupner: Two Overtures, Cantata (1999)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 276 Mb | Total time: 64'34 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 592-2 | Recorded: 1983, 1996

    Johann Christoph Graupner (1683-1760) was a German Baroque composer with over 1,500 published works to his credit, yet hardly anyone recognizes his name anymore. He worked as Kapellmeister at the Hesse court in Darmstadt for almost fifty years, composing both secular and religious music, and he might have gotten the music director's post in Leipzig that went to J.S Bach instead had Graupner's patron allowed him leave.

    Christoph Spering - Mozart arrangement of Handel's: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day; Acis and Galatea (1991)

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    Christoph Spering - Mozart arrangement of Handel's: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day; Acis and Galatea (1991)

    Christoph Spering, Das Neue Orchester, Chorus Musicus Köln - Mozart arrangement of Handel's: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day; Acis and Galatea (1991)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 625 Mb | Total time: 73:46+77:25 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Opus 111 | OPS 45-9109/10 | Recorded: 1991

    It is not always easy to avoid writing a shade smugly about the arrangements Mozart made of choral works by Handel. Nowadays, increasingly, we try to listen to such works as Acis and Galatea and the Cecilian Ode in the form in which Handel composed them; to hear them through the prism of the classical musical consciousness is disconcerting. For once we feel that we know better than Mozart. Well, so we do, about Handel and the way he makes the best effect (at least on us); but a different kind of historical awareness is needed here, one that puts us into the frame of mind of late eighteenth-century Vienna and its perception of Handel.

    Barbara Schlick, Klaus Mertens, Bob van Asperen, Wouter Möller - Bach: Schemellis Gesangbuch BWV 439-507 (1998)

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    Barbara Schlick, Klaus Mertens, Bob van Asperen, Wouter Möller - Bach: Schemellis Gesangbuch BWV 439-507 (1998)

    Barbara Schlick, Klaus Mertens, Bob van Asperen, Wouter Möller - Johann Sebastian Bach: Schemellis Gesangbuch BWV 439-507 (1998)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 656 Mb | Total time: 153:20 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: CPO ‎| 999 407-2 | Recorded: 1995

    Wo wir schon bei Liedern sind: 1736 wurde im Katalog zur Frankfurter und Leipziger Ostermesse folgende Neuheit angezeigt: »Musicalisches Gesangbuch von 950 auserlesenen geistl. Liedern und Arien. Die unbekandten Melodien sind von Herrn Capellmeister Bach entweder neu verfertigt, oder nach Befinden verbessert und so dann sauber in Kupffer gestochen worden.«

    Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - Johann Ernst Bach: Passionsoratorium (1990)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - Johann Ernst Bach: Passionsoratorium (1990)

    Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - Johann Ernst Bach: Passionsoratorium (1990)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 627 Mb | Total time: 123:05 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Capriccio | # 10 310/11 | Recorded: 1989

    Today it is the Passions of J.S Bach which are most commonly known. The Passion Oratorio by J.S Bach’s nephew, godson and pupil Johann Ernst Bach is lesser known. On this Capriccio re-release his Passion Oratorio is performed alongside an Ode on the 77th Psalm for tenor, chorus and orchestra and a Motet for solo voices, four-part chorus, strings and continuo.

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 3 [3CDs] (1996)

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    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 3 [3CDs] (1996)

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 3 [3CDs] (1996)
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 894 Mb | Total time: 3h 15m | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Erato | # 0630-14336-2 | Recorded: 1995

    The third volume of our complete recording of Bach's cantatas comprises works drawn from three different categories. First comes a group of seven sacred cantatas from the years 1714-17, the majority of which were written for the Weimar Schloßkirche. Taken together with the cantatas contained in Volumes 1 and 2,these seven works - Cantatas 54,63,155, 161,162,163 and 165 - form the group of 23 sacred cantatas that have survived complete from the years leading up to the end of Bach's term of office as Konzertmeister to the Weimar court in 1717.

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 2 [3CDs] (1996)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 2 [3CDs] (1996)

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 2 [3CDs] (1996)
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 864 Mb | Total time: 3h 01m | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Erato | # 0630-12598-2 | Recorded: 1995

    In the autumn of 1713, Bach was invited to apply for the post of organist and music director at the Marktkirche in Halle in succession to Handel's teacher, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow. Bach was honoured to accept the invitation and in doing so made it clear that he was keen to extend his activities. Under Zachow, who had created a respectable repertory of sacred works of the most varied genres, including a large number of church cantatas, music in Halle had flourished and reached a level that offered Bach an area of responsibility that he evidently found attractive.

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 1 [3CDs] (1995)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 1 [3CDs] (1995)

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 1 [3CDs] (1995)
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 895 Mb | Total time: 3h 18m | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Erato | # 4509-98536-2 | Recorded: 1995

    Bach's 200 existing cantatas (100 more have been lost) represent one of music history's most remarkable achievements. The first volume in Erato's ambitious but much-needed traversal of the complete canon contains nine cantatas from Bach's early career. Except for "Christ lag in Todesbanden," these are lesser-known works, yet that doesn't mean they are of lesser quality. Here are some of Bach's most compelling choruses, accompanied by colorful and ingenious instrumental writing. Highlights abound, including the appendices that reproduce Bach's revised versions of cantatas 4 and 21. The choral singing is excellent: sensitive and agile, with unforced tone.

    Michael Schneider, La Stagione - Johann Adolf Hasse: Piramo e Tisbe (1994)

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    Michael Schneider, La Stagione - Johann Adolf Hasse: Piramo e Tisbe (1994)

    Michael Schneider, La Stagione - Johann Adolf Hasse: Piramo e Tisbe (1994)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 602 Mb | Total time: 123:39 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Capriccio | # 60 043-2 | Recorded: 1993

    Charles Burney described Johann Adolf Hasse, his contemporary, as ‘the most natural, elegant and judicious composer of vocal music, as well as the most voluminous now alive…’ His output includes 63 operas, but only two are currently recorded, yet inexplicably this is the second Piramo, albeit markedly livelier and with the bonus of its two ballet suites. Schneider’s perceptive booklet note comments that too readily we find such composers immature – ‘almost like Mozart’, rather than excitingly expressive and individual. Here even the subtitle Intermezzo tragico is novel, implying a fusion of two traditions, comic and serious. The music is equally unconventional. Recitatives slip seamlessly into and out of arias, creating a strong sense of dramatic continuity.

    Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Last Sufferings of the Saviour (2010)

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    Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Last Sufferings of the Saviour (2010)

    Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Last Sufferings of the Saviour (2010)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 462 Mb | Total time: 60:23+59:23 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88697 5727 2 | Recorded: 1987

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second (surviving) son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. His second name was given in honor of his godfather Georg Philipp Telemann, a friend of Johann Sebastian Bach. C. P. E. Bach was an influential composer working at a time of transition between his father's baroque style and the classical and romantic styles that followed it. His personal approach, an expressive and often turbulent one known as empfindsamer Stil or 'sensitive style', applied the principles of rhetoric and drama to musical structures. Bach's dynamism stands in deliberate contrast to the more mannered galant style also then in vogue.

    Ton Koopman, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra - George Frideric Handel: La Resurrezione (1991)

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    Ton Koopman, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra - George Frideric Handel: La Resurrezione (1991)

    Ton Koopman, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra - George Frideric Handel: La Resurrezione (1991)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 544 Mb | Total time: 63:50+52:21 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Erato | # 2292-45617-2 | Recorded: 1990

    La Resurrezione, composed in Rome in 1708, was Handel’s first oratorio on a sacred theme. The soloists take the roles of an Angel, Mary Magdalene, Mary Cleophas, St John and Lucifer, who are portrayed in vivid operatic terms with the help of a lavishly-scored orchestra. The distinguished Dutch keyboard-player and conductor Ton Koopman (b.1944) founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra in 1979. The group consists of internationally renowned baroque specialists. Conductor and orchestra are joined here by singers acknowledged as leading specialists in the baroque repertoire.

    Ton Koopman, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1993

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    Ton Koopman, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1993

    Ton Koopman, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1993)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 647 Mb | Total time: 144:36 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Erato | 2292-45814-2 | Recorded: 1992

    This is vintage, classic Koopman: Tempi that never linger, orchestral textures that accord privilege to clarity and insight over effect and superb, beautifully articulated, solo vocal lines. Koopman's lucidity might appear a little too detached or cool for some listeners who are used to responding to the emotional charge of Bach's Passions. One of Koopman's greatest strengths is his grasp of architecture: of the unfolding of the passion events; of the relative roles and interactions of the soloists and 'crowds'; of the inevitability of events in a musical - as opposed to a Biblical - sense.

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Koor Van de Nederlandse Bachvereniging - Bach: Johannes-Passion (1994)

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    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Koor Van de Nederlandse Bachvereniging - Bach: Johannes-Passion (1994)

    Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Koor Van de Nederlandse Bachvereniging - Johannes Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (1994)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 436 Mb | Total time: 59:30+49:00 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Erato | # 4509-94675-2 | Recorded: 1993

    Bach’s St. John Passion with a star-studded lineup of soprano Johennette Zomer, countertenor Andreas Scholl, tenor MLike Koopman's reading of the St Matthew Passion last year, this is an intimate, if occasionally idiosyncratic, account. His understanding and shaping of the structure of the work produce powerful results, while an intuitive sense of pacing means the more contemplative sections serve to heighten the main dramatic narrative, rather than interrupt it. Koopman also achieves a sensitive balance between voices and instruments, so that the solo singers become very much part of the contrapuntal texture, and the instrumental parts are given due focus.

    Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (1990)

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    Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (1990)

    Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (1990)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 522 Mb | Total time: 59:30+62:49 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # GD77041 | Recorded: 1987

    Founded in 1972 at the suggestion of Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and led since its inception by Dutch violinist turned conductor Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande is surely among the finest of early music orchestras with a discography ranging from Lully through Mozart. Among the group's most successful projects, however, have been recordings of Bach's sacred works, particularly the 1985 Mass in B minor and this 1987 St. John Passion. Both are superbly performed with excellent solo and choral singing and outstanding orchestral playing, but both are distinctly dissimilar in tone and effect. The conductor makes the difference.