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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 (2016)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 (2016)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 322 Mb | Total time: 70:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88875136452 | Recorded: 2015

Nikolaus Harnoncourt and his period orchestra, Concentus Musicus Wien, never recorded a complete cycle of the symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven, and this 2016 Sony release is their only recording of the Symphony No. 4 in B flat major and the Symphony No. 5 in C minor, made almost ten months before the conductor's death. Harnoncourt planned for this to be his last recording before his retirement, so it inevitably has the feeling of a valedictory performance, and one can also hear it as the orchestra's warm tribute to its leader and his sterling musicianship. But beyond the well-deserved accolades, this is a truly fine live recording of one of the most famous symphonies of all time and its somewhat less loved sibling, so the musical value of this singular Beethoven disc is quite high. Because the Symphony No. 4 is often overlooked, it's gratifying that it opens the album, and listeners are well advised to try it first.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Georg Philipp Telemann: Musique de Table [4CDs] (2009)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Georg Philipp Telemann: Musique de Table [4CDs] (2009)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Georg Philipp Telemann: Musique de Table (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,17 Gb | Total time: 260:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 2564687041 | Recorded: 1986, 1988

Telemann's 1733 compendium exhibits impeccable 'table manners' thanks to Concentus Musicus Wien's innate vivacity and Harnoncourt's charm offensive.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor - George Frideric Handel: Messiah (2005)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor - George Frideric Handel: Messiah (2005)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor - George Frideric Handel: Messiah (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 686 Mb | Total time: 69:27+71:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 82876 64070 2 | Recorded: 2004

what makes this recording so satisfying is the warmth, serenity and pliant lyricism of the performance. We have come to expect fleet tempos from the early-music movement. If anything, Mr. Harnoncourt's tempos, over all, are spacious. The sweet-voiced tenor Michael Schade is given such freedom to shape the phrases of the accompanied recitative "Comfort ye my people," that you listen to these words as if you had never heard them before…The soprano Christine Schäfer and the alto Anna Larsson also do radiant and affecting work. The chorus sings with impressive clarity and full-bodied yet unforced sound…Mr. Harnoncourt adheres to the manuscripts and editions of the work he deems the most reliable, especially with regard to the size of the string ensembles in the various movements.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus musicus Wien - Johann Sebastian Bach: 4 Orchestral Suites (2008)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus musicus Wien - Johann Sebastian Bach: 4 Orchestral Suites (2008)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus musicus Wien - Johann Sebastian Bach: 4 Orchestral Suites (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 620 Mb | Total time: 53:58+49:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 2564 69457-5 | Recorded: 1966

This well-documented and handsomely presented set is well worth considering. Harnoncourt led the way in ‘authentic’ Bach performances, and in some respects – the slow minuets and the somewhat portentous introductions, for instance – these Sixties recordings differ from more recent practice. But no matter, since the approach is full of life, and the balance allows details to be heard clearly and naturally. The fugal sections are particularly successful.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte; Kaffee-Kantate (2009/1982)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte; Kaffee-Kantate (2009/1982)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte; Kaffee-Kantate (2009/1982)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.67 Gb+7.59 Gb (2xDVD9) | 269 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol

Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, named after their dedicatee the Margrave Christian Ludwig von Brandenburg, have been part of Nikolaus Harnoncourt's permanent repertoire ever since he founded his Concentus musicus ensemble. The ensemble has recorded them and played them on their tours throughout the world.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Mozart: Missa 'Credo', Litaniae de venerabili altari sacramento (1992)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Mozart: Missa 'Credo', Litaniae de venerabili altari sacramento (1992)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa 'Credo', Litaniae de venerabili altari sacramento (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 311 Mb | Total time: 61:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 9031 72304-2 | Recorded: 1991

Harnoncourt offers us two wonderful religious works of the great Mozart: Missa K. 257 and Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento K. 243. Works of great musical beauty where the Arnold Schoenber Choir gives us an excellent interpretation. The soloists, especially the soprano Angela Maria Blasi, magnificent.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa "Dominicus", Vesperae de Dominica (1994)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa "Dominicus", Vesperae de Dominica (1994)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa "Dominicus", Vesperae de Dominica (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 362 Mb | Total time: 75:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 2292 46469-2 | Recorded: 1990

In l769, Wolfgang Theophilus Mozart, who had already excited great wonder as a child prodigy, turned into an adolescent youth. As of 1770, he assumed the name Wolfgang Amadeo, and this had symbolic value: henceforth, he regarded himself definitively as an artist in his own right. The experiences of his travels as a wunderkind now belonged to the past. In addition to the marvellous church music of his native Salzburg, he had got to know the major European music centres, and had been able to familiarize himself with both traditional styles and the latest stylistic trends.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa Solemnis K 337 (1993)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa Solemnis K 337 (1993)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa Solemnis K 337; Litaniae de Venerabili Altaris Sacramento K 125; Regina Coeli K 276 (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 320 Mb | Total time: 60:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 4509 90494-2 | Recorded: 1992

Come his last mass to be written in Salzburg, Mozart had an ulterior purpose: to annoy the Prince-Archbishop. Einstein highlights the Gloria. It features an extended "Amen". Its prolongation was designed to inflame the cleric who was no fan of florid church-music. Mention should also be made of the Kyrie with its droll interjections - penitential this ain't. The motif that Mozart uses to unify the Credo is a pale imitation of its counterpart in the Coronation Mass. The Salzburger is back to best form with the fugal Benedictus in A Minor; similarly, he later cannibalised the Agnus Dei when he came to write Figaro. Two other works feature on this disc. Note-spinning predominates in the Litany, K 125; it's sole redeeming feature is the high-spirited Kyrie which only Mozart could have written.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor - Mozart: Requiem (1991)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor - Mozart: Requiem (1991)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 224 Mb | Total time: 48:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 2292-42911-2 | Recorded: 1982

The new instrumentation published by Edition Eulenburg in l972 was used as the basis for this recording. This edition attempts to remove the obvious errors in Franz Xaver Süssmayr`s “routine instrumentation” (Bruno Walter), which has been the subject of criticism more or less since he made it at the request of Constanze Mozart, and furthermore to colour it with the hues ot Mozart’s own palette.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Joseph Haydn: Orlando Paladino (2006)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Joseph Haydn: Orlando Paladino (2006)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Joseph Haydn: Orlando Paladino (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 689 Mb | Total time: 69:44+71:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 82876 73370 2 | Recorded: 2005

This delightful "dramma eroicomico" ("heroic-comic drama"–-a made-up phrase brimming with irony) tells the story of the noble knight Orlando, who goes mad being torn between duty and love, his love, Angelica, who actually wants Medoro, and Alcina, an evil sorceress out to get Orlando, and turns it into a type of farce, with great results. There is some lovely music, mostly for Angelica and Medoro, but most of it is fun and light, with characters whistling, trying to impress people with how well they sing, etc. The scoring wittily underlines their foibles.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Mozart: Mitridate, Re di Ponto (2006/1986)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Mozart: Mitridate, Re di Ponto (2006/1986)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Mozart: Mitridate, Re di Ponto (2006/1986)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.5 Gb (DVD9) | 124 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

Filmed and directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle in the unique interiors of Vicenza's Teatro Olimpico in 1986, this DVD offers an intimate glimpse of Mozart's first major opera, written when the precocious composer was just fourteen. Nikolaus Harnoncourt leads a stellar cast in portraying the inner circle of the Roman Empire's fiercest enemy: Mithridates, king of Pontus.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt & Concentus Musicus Wien - Schmelzer: Sacro-profanus concentus musicus (2023)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt & Concentus Musicus Wien - Schmelzer: Sacro-profanus concentus musicus (2023)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt & Concentus Musicus Wien - Schmelzer: Sacro-profanus concentus musicus (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 317 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 150 Mb | 01:04:48
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

2023 marks the 400th anniversary of Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, an important composer of the early Baroque era. He is remembered for having been one of the most revered violinists of his time, an important figure of the Vienna imperial court where he fostered close relationships with Leopold I, and an essential link in the development of instrumental music. Nikolaus Harnoncourt was the first conductor to exhume his music and put it on record. This collection includes sonatas from manuscripts kept in the Kroměříž (Czech Republic) library and his published Concentus musicus.

Cecilia Bartoli, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Daniel Barenboim - Mozart Arias (2007)

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Cecilia Bartoli, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Daniel Barenboim - Mozart Arias (2007)

Cecilia Bartoli, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Daniel Barenboim - Mozart Arias (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 215 Mb | Total time: 53:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 5144 23649-2 | Recorded: 1989, 1990

Cecilia Bartoli, as is well-known, has been a faithful Decca artist, and her Decca discography includes two all-Mozart recitals, both with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra under György Fischer: Decca 430 513-2DH and Decca 443 452-2DH. However, as a result of inter-company agreements which have allowed Bartoli to team up with conductors and singers contracted elsewhere, most of her appearances in complete Mozart operas have been on other labels. Here we have a selection from three sets in which she took part for Teldec and Erato, now under the Warner Classics umbrella.

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt – Handel, Mozart, Mosel: Timotheus oder die Gewalt der Musik (2013)

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Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt – Handel, Mozart, Mosel: Timotheus oder die Gewalt der Musik (2013)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt – Handel, Mozart, Mosel: Timotheus oder die Gewalt der Musik (2013)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 103:25 | 509 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | Catalog: SICC 30120/1

This cd contains a rendition of a live concert given november of last year (2012) to commemorate the 200 year anniversary of the "Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde" in Vienna. Mr. Harnoncourt conducts, according to the textbook and some online research that I did, a massively expanded Concentus Musicus Wien, the Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna and soloists Roberta Invernizzi, Werner Gura and Gerald Finley.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Concentus musicus Wien - George Frideric Handel: Theodora (1991)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Concentus musicus Wien - George Frideric Handel: Theodora (1991)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Concentus musicus Wien - George Frideric Handel: Theodora (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 588 Mb | Total time: 62:43+67:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 2292-46497-2 | Recorded: 1990

Theodora was Handel's last oratorio but one. He composed this large-scale work in just over a month in the summer of 1749 and it was premiered in March the following year in the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. Only Jephtha was to follow two years later. Handel valued Theodora very highly and stated that the chorus that ends act II, He saw the lovely youth, was the favourite among his own compositions.