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Monika Mauch, Matthias Maute, Ensemble Caprice - Alla turca: Fux, Badia, Caldara (2007)

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Monika Mauch, Matthias Maute, Ensemble Caprice - Alla turca: Fux, Badia, Caldara (2007)

Monika Mauch, Matthias Maute, Ensemble Caprice - Alla turca: Fux, Badia, Caldara (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 320 Mb | Total time: 72:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Atma | # ACD22347 | Recorded: 2005

The delightfully unusual disc Alla turca takes its initial inspiration from the failed 1683 siege of Vienna by the Turks and never looks back. The music explored here belongs to the Holy Roman Empire of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, an empire that celebrated both the arms that held back the Islamist hordes, and the more gentle arts of music that several Emperors personally studied. Alla turca brings a seldom-heard Baroque repertory to life in vivid musical color.

Alfredo Bernardini, Kirchheimer BachConsort - Johann Sebastian Bach: Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid - Dialog-Kantaten (2016)

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Alfredo Bernardini, Kirchheimer BachConsort - Johann Sebastian Bach: Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid - Dialog-Kantaten (2016)

Alfredo Bernardini, Kirchheimer BachConsort - Johann Sebastian Bach: Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid - Dialog-Kantaten (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 367 Mb | Total time: 71:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 555 068-2 | Recorded: 2016

Dominik Wörner, a prizewinner at the Bach International Competition in Leipzig in 2002, established the Kirchheimer BachConsort in 2008. Its members, leading musicians from the early music scene, perform as an ensemble of soloists in programs focusing on the repertoire of the eighteenth century. On this brand-new CD release Wörner leads his ensemble and the Czech soprano and harpist Hana Blažiková in interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach’s dialogue cantatas.

Béatrice Mayo-Felip, Le Concert Calotin - Sébastien de Brossard: Cantates spirituelles et sonates d'église (2004)

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Béatrice Mayo-Felip, Le Concert Calotin - Sébastien de Brossard: Cantates spirituelles et sonates d'église (2004)

Béatrice Mayo-Felip, Le Concert Calotin - Sébastien de Brossard: Cantates spirituelles et sonates d'église (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 272 Mb | Total time: 58:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Arion | # ARN 68626 | Recorded: 2003

The verse was written by a young man named André de Mézenge, a nephew on his mother’s side of the aforementioned Sébastien de Brossard. This young man showed great promise, not only in poetry, but also in several other arts, but the Lord took him from us in the year 1708, at the age of twenty-two.’ (Brossard, Catalogue, p. 366)

Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 16 [3CDs] (2004)

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Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 16 [3CDs] (2004)

Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 16 [3CDs] (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 833 Mb | Total time: 03:13:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Challenge Classics | # CC 72216 | Recorded: 2002, 2003

The cantatas in this sixteenth volume are all from the third cycle of Bach's Leipzig cantatas. This yearly cycle began on the First Sunday after Trinity (3 June) 1725 and extended over a period of about three years - unlike the two preceding cycles of 1723-24 and 1724-25. Bach's rhythm of composition had slowed down markedly in the middle of 1725. It is also significant that from February to September 1726 he performed a long series of cantatas by his cousin Johann Ludwig Bach (1677-1731), Kapellmeister at the ducal court of Meiningen. But even if the proportion of original compositions declined markedly, these include a series of particularly accomplished and extended works, such as Cantatas BWV 43, 39, 170 and 102. Musically, Bach's third yearly cycle of cantatas is distinguishable by the fact that they do not begin with large-scale instrumental symphonies, nor do they have unusually extended or richly scored opening movements.

L'Astrée, Laura Polverelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera III (2005)

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L'Astrée, Laura Polverelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera III (2005)

L'Astrée, Laura Polverelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera III (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 323 Mb | Total time: 60:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30381 | Recorded: 2000, 2003

The project to record all of the 450-odd works by Vivaldi held by the National University Library of Turin proceeds apace. It only seems yesterday that I was reviewing the opera "Orlando Furioso". For that set a very radical band of period performers was chosen, the Ensemble Matheus. L’Astrée – a Turin group in spite of its French name – are less radical in the sense that they don’t make their instruments rasp and bite, but I would say no less imaginative. With the help of a really lifelike recording – the instruments truly seemed to be in my listening room – the music just leaps off the page.

Reinhard Goebel, Musica Antiqua Koln - Bach: Bachianas - Music By The Bach Family [5CDs] (2012)

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Reinhard Goebel, Musica Antiqua Koln - Bach: Bachianas - Music By The Bach Family [5CDs] (2012)

Reinhard Goebel, Musica Antiqua Köln - Bach: Bachianas - Music By The Bach Family [5CDs] (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,54 Gb | Total time: 05:19:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 00289 479 0377 | Recorded: 1986, 2000, 2002, 2003

Reinhard Goebel and Musica Antiqua Koln s recordings of J. S. Bach are classics of the Early Music movement. Equally revelatory is their championing of the music of the Bach family stretching from the mid-17th to the late 18th century: a treasure trove of vocal and instrumental works. Here they are complete in a single box for the first time, with Magdalena Kozená a stunning soloist.

L'Astrée, Gemma Bertagnolli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera II (2004)

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L'Astrée, Gemma Bertagnolli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera II (2004)

L'Astrée, Gemma Bertagnolli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera II (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 312 Mb | Total time: 63:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30404 | Recorded: 2000, 2003

En ce nouveau volume, Opus 111 poursuit son entreprise de découverte de l'oeuvre vivaldien. Le choix de mêler concertos et cantates, opéré déjà dans le précédent volume, se révèle toujours aussi judicieux : c'est en somme une manière de donner à la philologie et au souci archéologique les séductions du concert.

L'Astrée, Laura Polverelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera I (2002)

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L'Astrée, Laura Polverelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera I (2002)

L'Astrée, Laura Polverelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera I (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 254 Mb | Total time: 54:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30358 | Recorded: 2000

In this second volume of the complete recording of Vivaldi's chamber concertos by L'Astrée, three of these fascinating works are coupled with three chamber cantatas. All these treasures of course come from the incomparable collections of the Biblioteca nazionale in Turin, but the link between the two repertoires does not stop there. First of all, the energy and virtuosity that this composer of genius requires of his musicians are very much the same, whether he is writing for the human voice or for the various instruments used in the concertos, which go from a single solo flute in the concerto La notte RV 104 to the extravagant combination, in RV 97, of viola d'amore, two horns, two oboes and bassoon.

Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 14 [3CDs] (2004)

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Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 14 [3CDs] (2004)

Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 14 [3CDs] (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 892 Gb | Total time: 03:25:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Challenge Classics | # CC 72214 | Recorded: 2000, 2001

The cantatas in this fourteenth series fall into four unequal groups: BWV 26, 123,125 and 178 form part of the second yearly cycle of Leipzig church cantatas, which was abruptly broken off in March 1725.The chorale cantatas - based on strophes of church Lieder or church Lieder paraphrased into recitatives and arias - lent the cycle its distinct character. We do not know any tangible reason for the abrupt break-off, but we may assume that it is connected to the death of the author of Bach's texts, Andreas Stübel, deputy headmaster of the Thomasschule, who is presumed to have died on 31 January 1725.For evidently the composer had at his disposal only texts up to the Marian Feast of the Annunciation, 25 March 1725 (BWV 1).While the texts for BWV 6 and 42 are the work of an unknown poet, in Cantatas BWV 74,68 and 103 Bach set texts by the Leipzig poet Mariane von Ziegler, who evidently filled the gap left by the poet of the chorale cantatas. Finally, BWV 1045 is a sinfonia of a cantata dating from the mid-1740s, the other movements of which have not survived.

Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 13 [3CDs] (2002)

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Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 13 [3CDs] (2002)

Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 13 [3CDs] (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 795 Gb | Total time: 03:04:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Challenge Classics | # CC 72213 | Recorded: 2000

The present set is the debut of Ton Koopman on the Challenge Classics label and the re-start of the series of complete cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach. Volume 13 in this CD presentation contains the third series of chorale cantatas from the second annual cycle Bach composed for Leipzig. Music criticism in the modern sense did not exist in the eighteenth century, so we do not really know anything about how the public responded to Bach's music. One of the few comments we have is in a newspaper report of Bach's first appearance in the capacity of Cantor of St Thomas's, presenting a cantata on 30 May 1723,but we learn only that it was received with approbation, even applause.

Jacqueline Nicolas, Alain Aubin - Alessandro Scarlatti: Diana & Endimione, Ero & Leandro, Correa nel sen amato (1990)

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Jacqueline Nicolas, Alain Aubin - Alessandro Scarlatti: Diana & Endimione, Ero & Leandro, Correa nel sen amato (1990)

Jacqueline Nicolas, Alain Aubin - Alessandro Scarlatti: Diana & Endimione, Ero & Leandro, Correa nel sen amato (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 267 Mb | Total time: 68:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pierre Verany | # PV790013 | Recorded: 1989

The works presented on this dise are by the young Scarlatti, freshly appointed master of thé Chapel Royal in Naples (1684). Despite an occasional use of the da capo, the form is extremely free, more often obeying theatrical instinct than more musical convention. With the présence of ritornelli and with its declamatory recitatives reminiscent of Monteverdi and Legrenzi, the writing testifies to an evident relationship with the Venetian style. The mostly monosyllabic arias occasionally give way to vocalises not in any spirit of virtuosity, but in order to develop an expressive idea. The words here take centre stage ; the broad and dramatic melodie lines call to mind the reforms of Gluck as well as Italian verismo. Apparent here are signs ofan inspirational vein which reappears throughout musical history, complying with a cycle which oscillates between the stylish and the genuine.

Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 12 [3CDs] (2001)

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Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 12 [3CDs] (2001)

Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 12 [3CDs] (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 855 Mb | Total time: 03:21:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 8573-85842-2 | Recorded: 2000

The cantatas in this volume all date from Johann Sebastian Bach's second year of office as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. The series of chorale cantatas, which breaks off in early 1725, forms an almost complete yearly cycle which derives an exceptional unity of style and content from its debt to established Lutheran hymnody. Almost all the cantatas contain the first and last verse of a hymn, the other verses being paraphrased in recitatives and arias. Practically any selection of the chorale cantatas will display the unusually rich variety of form and colour that is one of their most distinctive features.

Peter Whelan, Ensemble Marsyas - George Frideric Handel: Apollo e Dafne (2016)

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Peter Whelan, Ensemble Marsyas - George Frideric Handel: Apollo e Dafne (2016)

Peter Whelan, Ensemble Marsyas - George Frideric Handel: Apollo e Dafne (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 363 Mb | Total time: 68:58 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Linn Records | CKD 543 | Recorded: 2015

Having established a fine reputation as an instrumental ensemble with critically acclaimed recordings of music by Zelenka and Fasch, this is the first foray into vocal music for Ensemble Marsyas. Peter Whelan, directing from the harpsichord, makes his conducting debut.

Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 11 [3CDs] (2001)

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Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 11 [3CDs] (2001)

Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 11 [3CDs] (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 825 Mb | Total time: 03:11:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 8573-80215-2 | Recorded: 1999

Previously begun on Erato, Koopman's cantata cycle was taken over and completed in 2007 on Challenge Classics. It now looks set to surpass the famous Leonhardt-Harnoncourt set on Teldec (and indeed most of his other competitors). Koopman favours an intimate approach to the choruses - namely one voice to a part. Also, he opts for females soloists rather than boys, as would have been the case in Bach's day, and he favours mixed rather than solely male choirs. For many this will be a plus point, and it is good news for fans of Barbara Schlick. He goes for slightly higher than normal pitch - a semi-tone above present day pitch, which, as Christopher Wolff's notes point out, is what Bach used in Mühlhausen and Weimar, brightening the sonority quite a lot. The singing in virtually all the cantatas is pretty impressive and the instrumental playing is of a very high order.

Mitchell Sandler, Marco Vitale, Contrasto Armonico - George Frideric Handel: Cantate 02 (2015)

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Mitchell Sandler, Marco Vitale, Contrasto Armonico - George Frideric Handel: Cantate 02 (2015)

Mitchell Sandler, Marco Vitale, Contrasto Armonico - George Frideric Handel: Cantate 02 (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 340 Mb | Total time: 61:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ayros | # AYHC 02 | Recorded: 2013

Handel’s cantatas represent an important musical repertoire that until recently has been little known. Consisting of about 100 separate works, most were written over a period of a few years for private performance in Italy.