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Jelka Weber, Jan Vogler, Stefan Dohr, Robert Kolinsky - Kabelac: Complete Chamber Music (2024)

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Jelka Weber, Jan Vogler, Stefan Dohr, Robert Kolinsky - Kabelac: Complete Chamber Music (2024)

Jelka Weber, Jan Vogler, Stefan Dohr, Robert Kolinsky - Kabelac: Complete Chamber Music (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 2:52:09 | 772 Mb
Genre: Classical

After decades of neglect, many collectors will feel that it's high time to revisit the eight symphonies and grand orchestral passacaglia Mystery of Time by Miloslav Kabeláč (1908–1979); and those who are appreciative of those works will surely find this compendium of his complete chamber music highly attractive. The programme represents the full gamut of his fifty-year development as a composer, with examples of both conventional and experimental forms, and ranging from the early horn and cello sonatas, to his Suite for Saxophone, and concluding with the dramatic chamber cantata Osudová dramata člověka. This 3-CD set happily includes performers who are noted enthusiasts for Kabeláč's music, not least Albrecht Mayer, Sarah Willis and Jan Vogler.

Edgar Krapp - Famous European Organs - Ottobeuren (1998)

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Edgar Krapp - Famous European Organs - Ottobeuren (1998)

Edgar Krapp - Famous European Organs - Ottobeuren (1998)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 357 MB | 01:16:39
Genre: Classical | Label: Capriccio

Part of Capriccio’s “Famous European Organs” series, this CD presents music from the Baroque and Classic periods, played with flair and sensitivity on the Riepp organs of the Benedictine abbey of Ottobeuren. These are modest instruments, yet capable of making quite a formidable sound when the right stops are pulled, as in the raucous Battaglia by Johann Kerll. Most listeners, however, will be more enchanted with the many dulcet sound combinations exhibited here. Consider the lovely flutes at the beginning of Haydn’s Aus der Flötenuhr or the charming combination of Copel 8′ coupled with Doublet 2′ in the opening movement of the Franz Schnizer Sonate.

Vladimir Spivakov, Sergei Bezrodnyi - Violin Sonatas (2001)

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Vladimir Spivakov, Sergei Bezrodnyi - Violin Sonatas (2001)

Vladimir Spivakov, Sergei Bezrodnyi - Violin Sonatas (2001)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 343 MB | 01:11:37
Genre: Classical | Label: Capriccio

The excellence of the sound on this disc is partly down to Vladimir Spivakov, who has the most amazing tonal quality. Kyung Wha Chung likened Heifetz's tone to the effect of looking at a very beautiful woman; one is awed by it, thrilled in the moment of hearing, wanting never to lose that sense of heightened aesthetic awareness. Such is the effect of Spivakov's playing as well. It comes across admirably thanks to the Capriccio engineers, both here and in his Chausson disc from around the same time. Because it is a small label, and Spivakov rarely heard in Britain, the disc seems to get little attention, but right from the opening moments of the early Ravel sonata (as opposed to the more famous later one) the quality is unmistakeable.

Maria Lettberg, Ariane Matiakh - Zara Levina: The Piano Concertos (2017)

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Maria Lettberg, Ariane Matiakh - Zara Levina: The Piano Concertos (2017)

Maria Lettberg, Ariane Matiakh - Zara Levina: The Piano Concertos (2017)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers + Digital Booklet | 56:16 | 234 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Capriccio | Catalog: C5269

Zara Alexandrovna Levina, born 1906 in Alexandrovsk (Ukraine), witnessed two world wars, the Revolution as well as the collapse and totalitarian reconstruction of her homeland. She was under the constant ideological pressure of the existentially threatening state censorship, which was particularly exerted by the notorious RAPM (Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians) in the 1920s and 1930s, driving her to the brink of a creative and health disaster. However, Zara Levina was able to retain her own and unmistakable voice in her music.

Burkhard Glaetzner - Vivaldi: Oboe Concertos, Vol.2 (1989)

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Burkhard Glaetzner - Vivaldi: Oboe Concertos, Vol.2 (1989)

Burkhard Glaetzner - Vivaldi: Oboe Concertos, Vol.2 (1989)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 47:49 | 241 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Capriccio | Catalog: 10 230

Amazing to think in these days of plenty, when Vivaldi's sun has surely never shone brighter, that there can still be examples of his 660 or so concertos which have yet to be heard on record, but this invaluable set contains one such work, the G minor concerto RV459, as well as all the other works which the Venetian composer originally wrote for an instrument for which he evidently conceived a great affection, well suited as it is to the virtuoso roulades and trills which distinguish his writing for his own instrument, the violin, as well as testing the soloist with great demands on breath control in the fast outer movements and lyrical intensity in the central slow ones.

Odeon Trio - Brahms: Complete Piano Trios (1993)

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Odeon Trio - Brahms: Complete Piano Trios (1993)

Odeon Trio - Brahms: Complete Piano Trios (1993)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:55:23 | 841 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Capriccio | Catalog: 10633

The Odeon Trio go for gold. Unlike either the Beaux Arts (Philips) or the Fontenay (Teldec), they use three CDs to include everything by Brahms that could possibly be called a piano trio, not forgetting the Op. 114 and Op. 40 wind trios, whose wind parts can well be rendered by strings. They decide, too, that the original 1853 version of the B major Trio is for them, rather than the revised version of 1889 which is more generally favoured.

Max Pommer - Handel: Die Wahl des Herakles (The Choice of Hercules) (1992)

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Max Pommer - Handel: Die Wahl des Herakles (The Choice of Hercules) (1992)

Max Pommer - Handel: Die Wahl des Herakles (The Choice of Hercules) (1992)
EAC FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 51:28 | 266 MB
Genre: Classical, Choral | Label: Capriccio | Catalog: 10019

Max Pommer, sometimes called one of the few remaining "Old World" conductors, first drew attention for his interpretations of the works of J.S. Bach and other Baroque composers. But since the 1980s he has explored a much broader range of repertory, taking in compositions by contemporary Finnish composers Einojuhani Rautavaara and Kalevi Aho, as well as more traditional fare by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Debussy, and even Weill. Pommer, more than most first – rank conductors, has devoted much of his career to teaching, as well as to conducting university ensembles

Margarete Babinsky, David Fruhwirth, Roger Epple - Egon Wellesz: Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto (2010)

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Margarete Babinsky, David Fruhwirth, Roger Epple - Egon Wellesz: Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto (2010)

Margarete Babinsky, David Fruhwirth, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Roger Epple - Egon Wellesz: Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto (2010)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 243 MB | 53:25
Genre: Classical | Label: Capriccio

Only a few Austrian composers (Webern, for example) elected to stay in their homeland after Nazi Germany annexed the country in 1938. Of those who left, some went to America (Schoenberg) while others went to England (Egon Wellesz). Whether they stayed or left, Austrian composers continued to write distinctly Austrian music in their own distinctive voices. In this disc of Wellesz's 1933 Piano Concerto and 1961 Violin Concerto, the musical language remains the same, fundamentally tonal in harmony, though with strong chromatic and atonal accents and essentially romantic in style, though with a dash more irony and a dollop more anguish. Both pieces are given exemplary performances by conductor Roger Epple leading the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, with Margarete Babinsky as the soloist in the Piano Concerto and David Frühwirth in the Violin Concerto.

Petersen Quartett, Michael Sanderling - Schubert: String Quintet (1997)

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Petersen Quartett, Michael Sanderling - Schubert: String Quintet (1997)

Petersen Quartett, Michael Sanderling - Schubert: String Quintet (1997)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 55:15 | 279 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Capriccio | Catalog: 10 788

The playing is strongly Romantic in character, emphasizing the violent contrasts and almost painful expressivity of the score; the ensemble can deliver feathery, near-inaudible pianissimos and powerful fortissimos with equal presence. Intonation is more or less flawless, and ensemble work is superb with all five parts often being equally audible with no loss of coordination. On each repeated listen I find new details springing out of the texture. There are occasional miscalculations—the cello pizzicati at the start of the adagio are a bit too prominent, though the reverberant acoustic (recorded in a church) could also be partly to blame—but for the most part everything is well judged.

Petersen Quartett - Mozart: 6 String Quartets ("Haydn-Quartette") (1992)

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Petersen Quartett - Mozart: 6 String Quartets ("Haydn-Quartette") (1992)

Petersen Quartett - Mozart: 6 String Quartets ("Haydn-Quartette") (1992)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:44:15 | 849 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Capriccio Records | Catalog: 10605

Written between December 1782 and January 1785 the set of six string quartets which Mozart dedicated to Haydn are striking masterpieces, and that he meant them to be so is clear from the printed dedication to his older colleague. ''Dearest friend and famous man,'' he wrote, ''here are… these six sons of mine. They are the fruit of long and laborious effort. One thing has a little encouraged and comforted me: the hope, flatteringly whispered to me, that these musical works might one day be a joy to me… I therefore commend my children to you, hoping that they will not seem totally unworthy of your love.'' Furthermore, Mozart's choice of the medium seems appropriate since he and Haydn had on occasion played together as members of a string quartet, and both surely thought of it as a more refined vehicle for musical thought than the symphony orchestra.

Hermann Prey - Hermann Prey (2015)

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Hermann Prey - Hermann Prey (2015)

Hermann Prey - Hermann Prey (2015)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 1.3 Gb | 05:08:26
Genre: Classical | Label: Capriccio

'I am an EU singer', Hermann Prey always said about himself. However, by that he did not mean so much his citizenship of a European Union country as the fact that he felt at home in the fields of 'E' and 'U', i.e. in 'serious' and entertainment music alike. For Prey, this distinction never existed, but only the issue of the quality of music, and he found this not only in opera and Lied, but also in operetta, the musical and the well-made hit. For forty-six years Prey convinced audiences; this five-disc collection reveals his fascinatingly wide-ranging repertoire and interpretative skill.

Concerto Köln - Sinfonias espanolas: Arriaga, Pons, Moreno, Nono (1993)

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Concerto Köln - Sinfonias espanolas: Arriaga, Pons, Moreno, Nono (1993)

Concerto Köln - Sinfonias espanolas: Arriaga, Pons, Moreno, Nono (1993)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 58:43 | 302 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Capriccio | Catalog: 10488

Two of the works on this CD follow the 4 movement Classical era format while the other two show the decided influence of the Italian overture. The Spanish royal court and wealthy noblemen imported a generation of Italian musicians including Domenico Scalatti, Gaetano Brunetti and Luigi Bocherini. These composers inspired the local talent, and this disc highlights the results.

Ton Koopman - Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (2016)

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Ton Koopman - Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (2016)

Ton Koopman - Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (2016)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 365 MB | 01:00:33
Genre: Classical | Label: Capriccio

The Fitzwilliam Virginal book is one of the primary sources of keyboard music. The book, which is now housed in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, hails from the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods in England. + This release features excerpts from the Fitzwilliam Virginal book from composers including Giovanni Picchi, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull, William Bird, and more. + Dutch conductor, organist, and harpsichordist Ton Koopman performs the works on this album. He was knighted in 2003, receiving the Order of the Netherlands Lion, and is currently a professor at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

Ton Koopman - Scarlatti: 16 Sonatas (2017)

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Ton Koopman - Scarlatti: 16 Sonatas (2017)

Ton Koopman - Scarlatti: 16 Sonatas (2017)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 432 MB | 01:08:21
Genre: Classical | Label: Capriccio

Capriccio Encore is a series of re-releases of the most famous recordings from Capriccio’s back catalogue, fully re-mastered and competitively priced. The legendary recordings of artists such as Sandor Végh, Ton Koopman, Sir Neville Marriner and the Vienna Boys’ Choir also contain repertoire highlights that have a particularly special appeal, from the baroque to the present day. This installment in the series features Ton Koopman performing Domenico Scarlatti’s sixteen keyboard sonatas. Born in The Netherlands, Ton Koopman had a classical education and studied organ, harpsichord and musicology in Amsterdam. He received the Prix d’Excellence for both instruments. He became fixated on Baroque music, and soon became a figure in the “authentic performance” movement, making him perfectly suited to record these pieces.

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Concerto for 2 Keyboards, Overture (2005)

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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Concerto for 2 Keyboards, Overture (2005)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Concerto for 2 Keyboards, Bwv 1061, Overture (Suite) No. 2 (2005)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 338 MB | 56:59
Genre: Classical | Label: Capriccio

Many fine recordings over the years have taught me that they know Bach in Leipzig, so I expected a lot from this recording, and wasn’t disappointed. These are possibly the best, or at least equal to the best, performances of these frequently performed works I’ve ever heard. They are very fast, but there is no sense of the music being rushed; it simply erupts at this tempo as if it couldn’t help itself, as if this were the only way it could possibly be played. Having just finished reading and reviewing a book on the origins of our ideas of original performance practice, this recording is a perfect example of what it was all about, Bach’s music pretty much the way he played it and heard it himself.