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    Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (2001)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (2001)

    Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (2001)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 486 Mb | Total time: 110:51 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMC 901748.49 | Recorded: 2001

    Philippe Herreweghe uses the second of Bach's four versions of the St. John Passion, the one from 1725, which substitutes some of the arias and the opening chorus, along with lesser changes. The result is somewhat more dramatic than the standard version, which Herreweghe recorded previously. Those familiar with the conductor's work will find his usual warmth, making the most of the lyric moments, but they'll also find greater sensitivity to rhythmic and dramatic thrust and a generally livelier approach. The singers are uniformly fine. Padmore is an unusually effective Evangelist, projecting the drama without undue overacting.

    Gérard Lesne, Il Seminario musicale - Alessandro Scarlatti: Sedecia, re di Gerusalemme (2001)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Gérard Lesne, Il Seminario musicale - Alessandro Scarlatti: Sedecia, re di Gerusalemme (2001)

    Gérard Lesne, Il Seminario musicale - Alessandro Scarlatti: Sedecia, re di Gerusalemme (2001)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 577 Mb | Total time: 46:54+47:22 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Virgin Veritas ‎| 72435454522 | Recorded: 2000

    The edition for this premiere recording has been made by Karl Böhmer, who has provided an informative introductory essay, and Oliver Mattern. Gérard Lesne has made something of a speciality of Scarlatti’s music and his lively direction of Sedecia benefits from his fluent handling of dramatic and stylistic aspects of the work… A splendid achievement.

    William Christie, Les Arts Florissants, Lorraine Hunt - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Médée (1995)

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    William Christie, Les Arts Florissants, Lorraine Hunt - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Médée (1995)

    William Christie, Les Arts Florissants, Lorraine Hunt - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Médée (1995)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 955 Mb | Total time: 61:17+74:36+58:39 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Erato ‎| 4509-96558-2 | Recorded: 1994

    Charpentier’s Médée is one of the glories of the Baroque. Medea’s betrayal by Jason, her comprehensive revenge and the plight of those caught up in this epic tragedy prompted Charpentier to compose music of devastating power. Transcending the constraints of the Lullian tragédie lyrique, he produced characterisations of astonishing complexity and invested vast stretches of music with a dramatic pace and a harmonic richness rivalled among contemporaries only by Purcell. The electrifying exchanges of the third act, mingling pathos with extreme violence, alone put Charpentier on the same imaginative level as Rameau and Berlioz. The machinations of the fourth act and the dénouement in the fifth maintain the same captivating impetus.

    Peter Holman, Opera Restor’d - John Frederick Lampe: Pyramus and Thisbe (1995)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Peter Holman, Opera Restor’d - John Frederick Lampe: Pyramus and Thisbe (1995)

    Peter Holman, Opera Restor’d - John Frederick Lampe: Pyramus and Thisbe (1995)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 284 Mb | Total time: 64:12 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA 66759 | Recorded: 1994

    Although accorded a substantial article in the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the German-born composer John Frederick Lampe (1702/3-51) remains largely unknown except to connoisseurs of 18th-century English music. Yet on the evidence of this disc, such neglect is hardly deserved, since Lampe possesses a rare gift for writing genuinely comic opera. The basis for his Pyramus and Thisbe of 1745 (subtitled ‘a mock opera’) is the famous play-within-a-play sequence from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

    William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Michel Pignolet de Montéclair: Jephté (2002)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    William Christie, Les Arts Florissants  - Michel Pignolet de Montéclair: Jephté (2002)

    William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Michel Pignolet de Montéclair: Jephté (2002)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 629 Mb | Total time: 70:09+79:21 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMX 2901424.25 | Recorded: 1992

    "Jephte" was Monteclair's second and final stage work, a lyric tragedy written when he was 65 and apparently the first Biblical opera produced in France since the mystery plays. The influences on Rameau's stage works music are readily apparent: the canny use of orchestral color for dramatic purposes, vivid musical characterization, infectiously lively dance music, and, above all, inspired and stirring choral writing.

    Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - Heinrich Schütz: Geistliche Chormusik (1996)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - Heinrich Schütz: Geistliche Chormusik (1996)

    Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - Heinrich Schütz: Geistliche Chormusik (1996)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 249 Mb | Total time: 60:34 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901534 | Recorded: 1994

    …This is the best you will ever hear of the "Spiritual Choir-Music of Heinrich Schuetz (1585-1672). This one-disk performance is a selection of ten of the 49 motets in Schuetz's 1648 opus, interspersed with six quite distinct selections from the Kleine Geistliche Konzerte of 1636. The two sources are radically different; the earlier works are in the operatic 'secunda prattica' style of Monteverdi, sung by soloists over decorated basso continuo; the later works are superbly old-fashioned choral polyphony of the 'prima prattica' of composers dead before Schuetz was born. As a concert listening experience, the combination is highly effective, offering a variety and sprightliness that a through-reading of the complete Geistliche Chormusic can't provide.

    Richard Hickox, Collegium Musicum 90 - Henry Purcell: Dioclesian; Masque from Timon of Athens (1995)

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    Richard Hickox, Collegium Musicum 90 - Henry Purcell: Dioclesian; Masque from Timon of Athens (1995)

    Richard Hickox, Collegium Musicum 90 - Henry Purcell: Dioclesian; Masque from Timon of Athens (1995)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 494 Mb | Total time: 46:27+65:49 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0569/70 | Recorded: 1993, 1994

    Dioclesian is the tale of a simple Roman private, Diocles, who fulfils the prophecy of Delphia (a prophetess, and hence Dioclesian's alternative title) that one day he will become emperor. In the meantime, Diocles avenges the slaying of the previous emperor and becomes a hero. With ambitions realized he discovers the he has over-played his hand by responding to Princess Aurelia's advances in the place of a nice homely girl called Drusilla, whom he had agreed to marry. The prophetess, who happens to be Drusilla's aunt, plans his come-uppance before he realizes the emptiness of his aspirations, abdicates and returns to nature and Drusilla.

    John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique - Berlioz: Les Troyens (2003)

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    John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique - Berlioz: Les Troyens (2003)

    John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique - Berlioz: Les Troyens (2003)
    NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Français (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | 6.06 Gb+6.33 Gb+6.99 Gb (3xDVD9) | 312 min
    Classical | Opus Arte | Sub: Deutsch, English, Espanol, Francais

    Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir, Choeur du Théâtre du Châtelet and Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique in a landmark recording of Berlioz's towering opera. A tragic tale of love and fate, war and peace and the intertwined destinies of two cities, the opera is based on Virgil's imperial vision of the founding myth of Rome. The American tenor Gregory Kunde as Aeneas and the Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci lead an international cast in this stunning production.

    Richard Hickox, Collegium Musicum 90 - Antonio Vivaldi: Ottone in villa (1998)

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    Richard Hickox, Collegium Musicum 90 - Antonio Vivaldi: Ottone in villa (1998)

    Richard Hickox, Collegium Musicum 90 - Antonio Vivaldi: Ottone in villa (1998)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 663 Mb | Total time: 75:54+68:47 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0614(2) | Recorded: 1997

    This, Vivaldi's very first opera, was premièred in Vicenza in 1713 and was an instant hit. The story is a relatively uncomplicated one by the standards of Baroque opera, of amatory pretences and misunderstandings: it has been admirably summarised by Eric Cross (who has edited the work) as a 'light-weight, amoral entertainment in which the flirtatious Cleonilla consistently has the upper hand, and gullible Emperor Ottone (a far from heroic figure) never discovers the truth about the way he has been deceived'. The score proceeds in a succession of secco recitatives (with just a very occasional accompagnato) and da capo arias – which the present cast ornament very stylishly.

    Mark Padmore, Andrew Manze, The English Concert - As Steals the Morn: Handel Arias & Scenes for Tenor (2007)

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    Mark Padmore, Andrew Manze, The English Concert - As Steals the Morn: Handel Arias & Scenes for Tenor (2007)

    Mark Padmore, Andrew Manze, The English Concert - As Steals the Morn: Handel Arias & Scenes for Tenor (2007)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 355 Mb | Total time: 77:11 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMU 907422 | Recorded: 2006

    British tenor Mark Padmore brings together a collection of English and Italian arias from Handel oratorios and operas. Padmore, who performs works of many eras in a wide range of styles, has primarily settled into the kind of repertoire Peter Pears comfortably inhabited, but with a stronger emphasis on Baroque opera and oratorio. Padmore's voice resembles Pears' in some ways; it's a light instrument, and is capable of great agility. It has some of Pears' limitations, particularly a tendency toward tonal blandness and lack of variety in its colors, as well as a slight edge when pushed. Most importantly, though, Padmore does not have Pears' reedy quality or breathiness – his voice is pure and more mellow than Pears'.

    Mark Padmore, Mitsuko Uchida - Schubert: Schwanengesang; Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte (2023)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Mark Padmore, Mitsuko Uchida - Schubert: Schwanengesang; Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte (2023)

    Mark Padmore, Mitsuko Uchida - Schubert: Schwanengesang; Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte (2023)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 242 Mb | Total time: 71:24 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Decca | # 485 3577 | Recorded: 2022

    Two masterful Schubert interpreters, tenor Mark Padmore & pianist Mitsuko Uchida record Schubert’s Schwanengesang and Beethoven’s An Die Ferne Geliebte for the first time. On a new Decca Classics album, Uchida and Padmore appear on record for the first time in this live recording from London’s Wigmore Hall. They perform Schubert’s Schwanengesang (his “Swansong”, first published weeks after the composer’s premature death in 1828) and Beethoven’s only major song cycle An die ferne Geliebte. With a lifetime of experience with this music, Uchida and Padmore are the perfect duo to interpret this magnificent repertoire.

    Richard Hickox, Collegium Musicum 90 - Beethoven: Mass in C major, Elegischer Gesang, Meeresstille un Gluckliche Fahrt (2003)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Richard Hickox, Collegium Musicum 90 - Beethoven: Mass in C major, Elegischer Gesang, Meeresstille un Gluckliche Fahrt (2003)

    Richard Hickox, Collegium Musicum 90 - Ludwig van Beethoven: Mass in C major, Elegischer Gesang, Meeresstille un Glückliche Fahrt (2003)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 232 Mb | Total time: 56:02 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0703 | Recorded: 2003

    This important release follows Hickox and Collegium Musicum 90's award-winning recordings of the Masses of Haydn and Hummel. It continues the Esterházy theme since Beethoven's Mass in C succeeded ones commissioned by the prince from Haydn and Hummel. There are few recordings of this repertoire on period instruments, and with the addition of the two rare cantatas, this CD is especially important.

    Nicholas McGegan, Freiburger Barockorchester - George Frideric Handel: Giustino (1995)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Nicholas McGegan, Freiburger Barockorchester - George Frideric Handel: Giustino (1995)

    Nicholas McGegan, Freiburger Barockorchester - George Frideric Handel: Giustino (1995)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,07 Gb | Total time: 74.22+38.35+60.20+54.16 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMU 907130.32 | Recorded: 1994

    Giustino is the Baroque version of a ‘ripping yarn’. The eponymous hero rises from ploughboy to emperor via an action-packed curriculum vitae that has him seeing visions, routing traitors, fighting bears and even slaying a sea-monster! Written in the autumn of 1736, shortly after Handel had suffered a period of ill-health, Giustino is not among his greatest operas, but it is thoroughly entertaining and offers much fine music. Particularly felicitous are Giustino’s bucolic aria ‘Può ben nascere tra li boschi’ and Anastasio’s lovely ‘O fiero e rio sospetto’. The headlong pace leaves Handel little time to develop the more sensual, amorous side of his music. One exception – and the opera’s most entrancing interlude – is the ravishing love duet in Act II, superbly sung here by Dorothea Röschmann (Arianna) and Dawn Kotoski (Anastasio).

    Richard Hickox, Collegium Musicum 90 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Mass in D minor; Salve Regina (2005)

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    Richard Hickox, Collegium Musicum 90 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Mass in D minor; Salve Regina (2005)

    Richard Hickox, Collegium Musicum 90 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Mass in D minor; Salve Regina (2005)
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 281 Mb | Total time: 57:09 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0724 | Recorded: 2004

    Hummel's choral music, like that of his rival Beethoven, lies pretty far down the list of his compositions in terms of overall renown. But some of it originated in a very famous spot: Hummel succeeded Haydn as a composer of large-scale choral works for the use of the noble Esterházy family at its vast palace. The Mass in D minor heard on this album was composed in 1805, when the "Lord Nelson" mass in the same key by Haydn would still have been very much in the air and ears at Esterháza. Faced with the unenviable task of trying to top it, Hummel turned not to Haydn as a model but, as liner-note writer David Wyn Jones points out, to Mozart: the Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor provides Hummel's mass with its tense general mood, its flexible shifts between the soloists and the larger group, and its flashes of lyrical light.

    The Grainger Edition, Volume 12 - Songs for Mezzo-soprano (1999)

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    The Grainger Edition, Volume 12 - Songs for Mezzo-soprano (1999)

    The Grainger Edition, Volume 12 - Songs for Mezzo-soprano (1999)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 277 Mb | Total time: 73:49 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9730 | Recorded: 1998

    Again Grainger amazes, amuses, arouses, intrigues. These 'Songs for mezzo' originate in Britain (with an excellent sequence of Scottish songs), Jutland and Australia. Some are folksongs collected in the early years of the century; two have words by Kipling, five by Ella, Grainger's wife, and some have no words at all.