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    Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - Michel Pignolet de Montéclair: Cantatas à Voix Seule (2011)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - Michel Pignolet de Montéclair: Cantatas à Voix Seule (2011)

    Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - Michel Pignolet de Montéclair: Cantatas à Voix Seule (2011)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 346 Mb | Total time: 70:11 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-1865 | Recorded: 2010

    Emma Kirkby and London Baroque here return to BIS with a disc of music from the French composer Michel Pignolet de Montéclair. An almost exact contemporary of François Couperin and only some 15 years older than Rameau, Montéclair was also a composer working in all the genres current at the time, including that of the chamber cantata for one or two voices and strings, dealing mainly with subjects from classical history or mythology. The large majority used French texts with four Italian ones, including La Morte di Lucretia, recorded here.

    The Hilliard Ensemble - Renaissance & Baroque Music: England, France, Flanders, Germany [7CDs] (2017)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    The Hilliard Ensemble - Renaissance & Baroque Music: England, France, Flanders, Germany [7CDs] (2017)

    The Hilliard Ensemble - Renaissance & Baroque Music: England, France, Flanders, Germany [7CDs] (2017)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.55 Gb | Total time: 06:46:29 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Erato | 9029582507 | Recorded: 1980-1990

    The blend between the voices is finely controlled, the tone mellow and the tuning spectacularly accurate, giving rise to an organ-like sonority that is genuinely thrilling,” wrote Gramophone magazine, praising the Hilliard Ensemble’s four singers, who excelled in an extraordinary variety of music over a 40-year career. This seven-CD collection extends from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, offering music by composers from England, France, Flanders and Germany.

    Edward Higginbottom, London Baroque - Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville: De Profundis, Venite exultemus (2000)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Edward Higginbottom, London Baroque - Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville: De Profundis, Venite exultemus (2000)

    Edward Higginbottom, London Baroque - Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville: De Profundis, Venite exultemus (2000)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 279 Mb | Total time: 61:35 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDH55038 | Recorded: 1987

    When churches were closed by clerical ordinance on special feast days, Parisians of the mid-18th century went instead to Concerts Spirituels of music ranging from grand motets to intimate chamber music. Mondonville's contributions are exceptional for their unusual timbral mix. They include a dozen Pièces de clavecin avec voix ou violon, the harpsichord parts designed not as continuo infill, but fully self-sufficient, while nonetheless accompanying violin and soprano soloists. Three of them here create a rare and arresting soundscape.

    The Artistry of Emma Kirkby [4CDs] (2009)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    The Artistry of Emma Kirkby [4CDs] (2009)

    The Artistry of Emma Kirkby [4CDs] (2009)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.25 Gb | Total time: 04:52:32 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: BIS | # BISCD1734/35 | Recorded: 1999-2008

    With her almost supernaturally clear and agile soprano, Emma Kirkby has enchanted audiences ever since she first appeared on the Early Music scene in the 1970s. And as the art of historically informed performance has become more and more widely appreciated, so has her style of singing, to the extent that she in 2007 was included in a listing of ‘the 20 greatest sopranos ever’ made by the BBC Music Magazine. Throughout her career, Emma Kirkby has made a large number of recordings of a wide range of music. Released on the occasion of her 60th birthday, the present collection celebrates her collaboration with BIS, which has resulted in ten discs to date.

    Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - George Frideric Handel: Neun Deutsche Arien; Gloria (2009)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - George Frideric Handel: Neun Deutsche Arien; Gloria (2009)

    Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - George Frideric Handel: Neun Deutsche Arien; Gloria (2009)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 347 Mb | Total time: 69:47 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-1615 | Recorded: 2006

    Among Handel's vocal works - from the early, operatic solo cantatas to the full-blown operas and the oratorios of his London years - the Nine German Arias hold a special place. Possibly composed around the time that the composer made a final journey to Germany to take leave of his ailing mother, they were Handel's last settings of texts in his native language. It seems likely that these circumstances contributed to the intimate character of these highly personal works, in combination with the texts themselves. Barthold Heinrich Brockes' poems point ahead towards the Enlightenment, establishing as their setting a harmonically organised world, in which benevolent Nature is the prime example of God's bounty.

    London Baroque - Johann Pachelbel: Arien & Concerti (2006)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    London Baroque - Johann Pachelbel: Arien & Concerti (2006)

    London Baroque - Johann Pachelbel: Arien & Concerti (2006)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 376 Mb | Total time: 75:39 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Cavalli Records | CCD 332 | Recorded: 2006

    For anyone who ever wondered what Pachelbel was up to when he wasn't writing his Canon in D, this CD offers some lovely answers. (He was also playing the organ and teaching, and one of his students was Johann Sebastian Bach, in whose works it's possible to detect Pachelbel's influence.) While there is nothing as immediately catchy as the Canon, the sacred and secular arias and vocal concertos recorded here reveal a composer with a gift for attractive vocal writing and inventive instrumental accompaniments.

    Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - George Frideric Handel: Deutsche Arien (1985)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - George Frideric Handel: Deutsche Arien (1985)

    Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - George Frideric Handel: Deutsche Arien (1985)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 229 Mb | Total time: 52:07 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: EMI | # 7 47400 2 | Recorded: 1985

    Handel’s music from his early years, in Hamburg and Italy, has a remarkably sure touch, coupled with an exuberant spirit which he seldom matched again.
    The Nine German Arias are to texts by Brockes who, preparing a later edition, praised Handel for ‘[setting] them to music in a very special way’. Emma Kirkby expresses with radiant ease and simplicity the confident Pietistic message which runs through them, of God’s goodness reflected in the beauties of nature.

    Arnold Östman, London Baroque Players - Handel: Agrippina (2006/1985)

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    Arnold Östman, London Baroque Players - Handel: Agrippina (2006/1985)

    Arnold Östman, London Baroque Players, Barbara Daniels, David Kuebler - Handel: Agrippina (2006/1985)
    NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 7.63 Gb (DVD9) | 154 min
    Classical | EuroArts | Sub: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Chinese

    Agrippina is brilliant, early Handel. Composed when he was just twenty-four, it was his first big hit in the theatre. It’s full of his fresh, exuberantly inventive music and sets one of the finest librettos Handel worked with. This beautiful production, with an elegant and colorful staging, was recorded at the exquisite Rococo palace theatre in Schwetzingen, built in 1752.

    Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - George Frideric Handel: Sacred Cantatas (2001)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - George Frideric Handel: Sacred Cantatas (2001)

    Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - George Frideric Handel: Sacred Cantatas (2001)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 324 Mb | Total time: 67:28 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-106501-CAT | Recorded: 1999

    Emma Kirkby always has been an excellent Handel singer, from her two 1985 recordings–Italian Cantatas with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music (L'Oiseau Lyre) and German Arias with Charles Medlam and the London Baroque (EMI)–and 1987's Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, again with the London Baroque (Harmonia Mundi) to this new, exemplary program of Latin motets. Kirkby retains a remarkably youthful sound, exhibiting all of her admired agility and intonational accuracy, but with more richness in the lower register than in her younger days.

    London Baroque, Charles Medlam - Marin Marais: La Gamme, Sonate à la Marésienne (1997)

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    London Baroque, Charles Medlam - Marin Marais: La Gamme, Sonate à la Marésienne (1997)

    London Baroque, Charles Medlam - Marin Marais: La Gamme, Sonate à la Marésienne (1997)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 47:09 | 321 MB
    Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi France | Catalog: HMA 1901105

    London Baroque, one of our best pre-classical ensembles, has chosen an all-Marais programme for its debut on gramophone records. Both works come from a collection published in 1723 containing unusually extended pieces in a style often removed from that of Marais's Pièces de violes. The most elaborate of them is La gamme which, as its name suggests, relies both on the ascending and descending levels of the scale for its invention.

    Peter Harvey, Philippa Hyde, London Baroque – Rameau & Campra: French Cantatas (2007)

    Posted By: tirexiss
    Peter Harvey, Philippa Hyde, London Baroque – Rameau & Campra: French Cantatas (2007)

    Peter Harvey, Philippa Hyde, London Baroque – Rameau & Campra: French Cantatas (2007)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 64:05 | 353 MB
    Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: BIS | Catalog: BIS-CD-1495

    Rameau’s secular chamber cantatas are early works, written before he got his longed-for chance to compose for the stage. While they are clearly the works of a talented and skilled artist, it has to be admitted that they only hint at the powerful personality and individuality of the operas. Yet even that is something to be valued from someone like Rameau, and we can be glad that London Baroque have made them the subject of one of their relatively rare excursions into French repertoire.

    London Baroque - The Trio Sonata in 18th-Century Italy (2012)

    Posted By: Designol
    London Baroque - The Trio Sonata in 18th-Century Italy (2012)

    London Baroque - The Trio Sonata in 18th-Century Italy (2012)
    Albinoni, Bonporti, Vivaldi, Bononcini, Porpora, Sammartini, Locatelli, Gallo, Tartini

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 464 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 185 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-2015 | Time: 01:17:14

    London Baroque offers another installment in its ongoing European Trio Sonata series, this time devoted to 18th-century Italy; as with the ensemble’s previous efforts the program features generally excellent performances of lesser-known repertoire. Ten years ago I reviewed a similar 18th-century Italian program by this same group titled “Stravaganze Napoletane”, also on BIS, and was generally impressed with the performances–except for one piece: Domenico Gallo’s Sonata No. 1 in G major.

    Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - Handel in Italy: Solo Cantatas (2008)

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    Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - Handel in Italy: Solo Cantatas (2008)

    Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - Handel in Italy: Solo Cantatas (2008)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 67:23 | 374 MB
    Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | Catalog: BIS-SACD-1695

    This exciting programme is presented by Emma Kirkby and London Baroque, household names in the sphere of 'early music', and certainly no new-comers to th works of Handel. Indeed, when they last joined forces in a Handel programme the website MusicWeb International called the performances ones that 'make one wish that all Handel music making could be of this order', while the reviewer in BBC Music Magazine wrote 'Ive seldom been as moved by a recording, both music and performance'.

    Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - Christmas Music (2000)

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    Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - Christmas Music (2000)

    Emma Kirkby, London Baroque - Christmas Music (2000)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 66:49 | 348 MB
    Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: BIS | Catalog: BIS-CD-1135

    BIS have come up with that seasonal rarity: the intelligent, considered and beautifully presented Christmas album. Emma Kirkby's pure tone, keen intelligence and utterly natural musicality need no introduction - she has, after all, been delighting us all for decades now. No admirer of either baroque music or Emma Kirkby will want to miss this impeccably programmed disc. The short Böddecker piece acts as a perfect warm-up. It is gentle and pure - the ideal vehicle for Kirkby's voice. Listening to the Cantatas of Alessandro Scarlatti takes us to another, altogether more exalted world.

    London Baroque - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pieces de clavecin en concerts (2003)

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    London Baroque - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pieces de clavecin en concerts (2003)

    London Baroque - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pièces de clavecin en concerts (2003)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 425 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 363 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-1385 | Time: 01:07:00

    Vivaldi, Handel, Purcel, J.S. Bach and now Rameau: London Baroque is proceeding through the Baroque Masters at an impressive pace. After acclaimed recordings of the Fantazias of Purcell and Bach's trio sonatas the turn has come to Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts, Jean-Philippe Rameau's important collection of chamber music works. The title (Concert pieces for harpsichord) is actually misleading, for although the harpsichord does play an important role throughout, the violin and viola da gamba are indispensable. Here London Baroque members Ingrid Seifert, Charles Medlam and Terence Charlston again prove their almost uncanny ability to play as one. Being mainly famous for his operas and stage works, Rameau in his Pièces has created a series of character pieces of which many are portraits of friends and acquaintances of the composer. Among the titles are the names and colleagues such as Marais and Forqueray but there is also a delightful self-portrait in La Rameau. A kaleidoscopic journey through the artistic circles of Paris in 1740, which can only be recommended.