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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles - Schumann: Frauenliebe Und -Leben / L'amour Et La Vie D'une Femme (2008)

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles - Schumann:  Frauenliebe Und -Leben / L'amour Et La Vie D'une Femme (2008)

Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles - Schumann: Frauenliebe Und -Leben / L'amour Et La Vie D'une Femme (2008)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 244 MB | 01:00:10
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Harmonia Mundi

Bernarda Fink's voice is well suited to the nineteenth century lied; it's warm, full, and intensely focused, with a radiant luminosity over its whole range. She projects a sense of regal composure and a maturity that's not so much chronological as spiritual; you just have the sense that this is a very centered individual. Those qualities, along with her interpretive sensitivity, make this a truly memorable version of Frauenliebe und -leben.

John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, Wiener Philharmoniker - Anton Bruckner: Mass No. 1 in D minor; Motets (2001)

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John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, Wiener Philharmoniker - Anton Bruckner: Mass No. 1 in D minor; Motets (2001)

John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, Wiener Philharmoniker - Anton Bruckner: Mass No. 1 in D minor; Motets (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 260 Mb | Total time: 66:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 459 674-2 | Recorded: 1996, 1998

Bruckner is one of those composers you either love or loathe. The trouble is, most people make up their minds only after hearing his symphonies. But Bruckner also composed some of the most original and profound church music after Bach, and although there are clear connections between the symphonies and the liturgical works, the musical voice is quite distinct. The connections with Rococo and Renaissance choral styles are much clearer – it’s surprising how well the shades of Haydn, Wagner and Palestrina get on with each other – and yet the music never sounds derivative or nostalgically archaic.

Bernarda Fink, Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Il Pianto di Maria: The Virgin's Lament (2009)

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Bernarda Fink, Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Il Pianto di Maria: The Virgin's Lament (2009)

Bernarda Fink, Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Il Pianto di Maria: The Virgin's Lament (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 269 Mb | Total time: 60:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 478 1466 | Recorded: 2008

Rare recordings of two settings of Mary’s passionate Easter lament. For their second L’Oiseau Lyre disc, Il Giardino Armonico, again under their director Giovanni Antonini, are joined by celebrated mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink, for a project exploring the Passion of Christ as seen through the eyes of the Virgin Mary. The two central works are both vocal settings of the Virgin’s lament.

Barbara Bonney, Bernarda Fink, Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel - Johann Adolf Hasse: Salve Regina (1997)

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Barbara Bonney, Bernarda Fink, Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel - Johann Adolf Hasse: Salve Regina (1997)

Barbara Bonney, Bernarda Fink, Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel - Johann Adolf Hasse: Salve Regina (1997)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:12:00 | 394 MB
Genre: Baroque, Vocal | Label: Archiv Produktion | Catalog: 0289 453 4352 5

“During this visit, these young ladies were so obliging as to sing me a Salve regina, lately set by their father, in duo. It is an exquisite composition, full of grace, taste and propriety.” What more could one ask of an antiphon than that which Charles Burney found in an impromptu performance by Hasse’s daughters during a visit to their father in Vienna in 1772? Hasse composed several settings of the Salve regina of which Reinhard Goebel has chosen two for his interesting programme of vocal and instrumental pieces by the composer.

Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - George Frideric Handel: Amadigi di Gaula (1991)

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Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - George Frideric Handel: Amadigi di Gaula (1991)

Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - George Frideric Handel: Amadigi di Gaula (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 714 Mb | Total time: 76:25+73:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 2292-45490-2 | Recorded: 1989

Amadigi di Gaula (HWV 11) is a "magic" opera in three acts, with music by George Frideric Handel. It was the fifth Italian opera that Handel wrote for London and was composed during his stay at Burlington House in 1715. It is based on Amadis de Grèce, a French tragédie-lyrique by André Cardinal Destouches and Antoine Houdar de la Motte. Charles Burney maintained near the end of the eighteenth century, Amadigi contained "…more invention, variety and good composition, than in any one of the musical dramas of Handel which I have yet carefully and critically examined.” The opera received its first performance in London at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket on 25 May 1715. Handel made prominent use of wind instruments, so the score is unusually colorful, and at points resembles the Water Music, which he composed only a few years later.

Concertgebouworkest - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 1-9 (2020)

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Concertgebouworkest - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 1-9 (2020)

Concertgebouworkest - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 1-9 (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 1,56 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 897 Mb | Digital booklet | 05:41:32
Classical | Label: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Ludwig van Beethoven's 'Nine Symphonies' are the core repertoire of virtually every orchestra in the world and the Concertgebouworkest is no exception. Until the 1960s the Beethoven tradition of the Concertgebouworkest meant yearly symphony cycles that closed concert seasons. Later on Beethoven 'Symphonies' were mainly programmed one at a time, with a different (guest) conductor. This box set offers the finest recorded Concertgebouworkest live performances of the 'Nine Symphonies' since the 1970s. With a variety of conductors, from Leonard Bernstein to Nikolaus Harnoncourt it demonstrates the orchestra's incredible versatility.

Lisa Milne, Bernarda Fink, John Mark Ainsley, Roger Vignoles - Joseph Haydn: Songs (2011)

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Lisa Milne, Bernarda Fink, John Mark Ainsley, Roger Vignoles - Joseph Haydn: Songs (2011)

Lisa Milne, Bernarda Fink, John Mark Ainsley, Roger Vignoles - Joseph Haydn: Songs (2011)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 77:00 | 251 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Hyperion | Catalog: CDH55355

Haydn’s songs, German and English, have never quite had the standing they deserve: two of the English canzonettas and one of the German songs here are not even in the current catalogue. Most often they are sung by sopranos, but there is no reason why a tenor shouldn’t be used; Haydn, a tenor, is known to have sung them himself. The performances here, by all three singers and Roger Vignoles’ alert and thoughtful accompanying perhaps plays a key role take them seriously and show them as the substantial music they are.

Lumieres - La musique du XVIIIeme siecle (29 CD), Part 05 [2011]

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Lumieres - La musique du XVIIIeme siecle (29 CD), Part 05 [2011]

Lumières - La musique du XVIIIème siècle (29 CD), Part 05 - Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice [2011]
EAC (flac, image, cue, log) | TT: 40.10+50.34 | Scans | 363 Mb
Classical | Harmonia Mundi | 2908601.30 | Rec: 2001

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.

John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir - Bach: Christmas Oratorio (2014/1999) [Blu-ray]

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John Eliot Gardiner,  English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir - Bach: Christmas Oratorio (2014/1999) [Blu-ray]

John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir - Bach: Christmas Oratorio (2014/1999) [Blu-ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 28749 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 146 min | 40.7 Gb
Audio1: Deutsch / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 16-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 2027 kbps / 16-bit
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BluRay-rip1 | MKV 1920x1080 / 4972 kbps / 29,97 fps | 146 min | 8,20 Gb
BluRay-rip2 | MKV 1280x720 / 2000 kbps / 29,97 fps | 146 min | 5,16 Gb
Audio: Deutsch / PCM / 2ch / 48.0 KHz / 16 bits | DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 16 bits
Classical | EuroArts | Sub: English, German, French, Japanese, Korean

In the historic Weimar Herder Church Sir John Eliot Gardiner finds the perfect setting for his recording of the Bach Christmas Oratorio. Against the backdrop of the dramatic altar and Lucas Granach paintings, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists perform Gardiner's new interpretation of this classic piece. With this interpretation of the Christmas Oratorio, Gardiner shows himself once again to be an incontestible specialist of Bach's music.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium (2008)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium (2008)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien & Arnold Schoenberg Chor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 735 Mb | Total time: 77:08+72:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 7333212 | Recorded: 2006-07

Christine Schäfer models the notes in a sovereign and refreshingly light manner: Werner Güra not only convinces as an evangelist, but also proves his class in the arias." The two bassists intone a hearty-bawdy, sometimes very soft and gentle tone There is nothing wrong with Harnoncourt's portrayal of the opening movement of the Third Cantata, where the music explodes in a way that has not been heard before.

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.

Michel Corboz conducts Bach - Excerpts: Weihnachtsoratorium, Magnificat, Matthäus-Passion, Johannes-Passion, Mass (2022)

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Michel Corboz conducts Bach - Excerpts: Weihnachtsoratorium, Magnificat, Matthäus-Passion, Johannes-Passion, Mass (2022)

Michel Corboz conducts Bach - Excerpts: Weihnachtsoratorium, Magnificat, Matthäus-Passion, Johannes-Passion, Mass in B Minor; Concertos BWV 1052, 1055 & 1056 (2022)
WEB FLAC | Tracks ~ 1.05 Gb | Total time: 4 h 5 min | Cover included
Classical | Label: Erato

Nurtured by Sunday radio broadcasts of cantatas in his youth, Michel Corboz very soon developed a deep admiration for Bach, whose music was the guiding thread of his career. He approached every major sacred work, some more than once, always questioning the score and exploring new interpretive options. This album is a selection of the best moments from the passions, masses and oratorios, featuring beautiful vocal soloists such as José van Dam, Sandrine Piau and more. It also includes some instrumental tracks with keyboard concertos by Maria João Pires.

Rene Jacobs, Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - Antonio Caldara: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo (2002)

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Rene Jacobs, Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - Antonio Caldara: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo (2002)

René Jacobs, Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - Antonio Caldara: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 607 Mb | Total time: 126:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # 905221.22 | Recorded: 1995

The oratorio as a musical form emerged toward the end of the seventeenth century as a kind of "spiritual exercise" encouraged by the Congregazione dell'Oratorio in Rome. The performances took place in oratories (prayer halls) constructed above church naves and were intended to be attractive but edifying entertainments. Then as later, oratorios generally reflected the popular forms and styles of secular music – and in late Renaissance and Baroque Italy, this meant opera, though based on religious rather than mythological and heroic themes. The most prolific composer in this genre was Antonio Caldara (c1670-1736); New Grove lists 43 oratorios (in addition to many operas) and there are probably more that have been lost, written for patrons in his native Venice, Rome, Florence, Mantua, and Vienna.

Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (2011)

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Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (2011)

Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 808 Mb | Total time: 56:05+57:13+54:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 477 9393 | Recorded: 1994

Hippolyte et Aricie was Rameau's first surviving lyric tragedy and is perhaps his most durable, though you wouldn't know it from the decades we had to wait for a modern recording. Now there are two: this one, conducted by Marc Minkowski, and William Christie's version on Erato. Choosing between the two is tough. Minkowski uses a smaller and probably more authentic orchestra, and with the resulting leaner sound, the performance has more of a quicksilver quality accentuated by Minkowski's penchant for swift tempos. His cast is excellent. The central lovers in the title are beautifully sung by two truly French voices, soprano Véronique Gens and especially the light, slightly nasal tenor of Jean-Paul Fourchécourt. In the pivotal role of the jealous Phèdre, Bernarda Fink is perfectly good but not in the exalted league of Christie's Lorraine Hunt. So there's no clear front-runner, but anyone interested in French Baroque opera must have at least one.

Jean-Claude Malgoire, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Chœur de Chambre de Namur - Handel: Messiah arr. Mozart (2003)

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Jean-Claude Malgoire, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Chœur de Chambre de Namur - Handel: Messiah arr. Mozart (2003)

Jean-Claude Malgoire, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Chœur de Chambre de Namur - Handel: Messiah arr. Mozart (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 531 Mb | Total time: 64:58+61:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # V 5321 | Recorded: 1993

In 1789, a performance of "Messiah" that was to have a radical effect on the course of the oratorio's performance history was given in Vienna. Baron Gottfried Van Swieten, who later translated and edited the text for Haydn's "Creation", had, as a diplomat in London during the late 1760s, become an ardent Handelian. Among other Handel scores, he took back to Austria a copy of the first edition of the full score of "Messiah", published by Randall and Abell in 1767. Beginning with "Judas Maccabaeus" in 1779, he introduced works by Handel into the annual oratorio series given for the benefit of the Tonkunstler Society, a Viennese musical charity. In 1789, he presented "Messiah" and, for this Viennese premiere, commissioned Mozart to fill out the accompaniments, largely dispensing with keyboard continuo and replacing the tromba parts practically unplayable for late 18th century trumpeters.