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Ars Antiqua Austria & Gunar Letzbor - Franz Joseph Aumann: Passion Oratorio (2024)

Posted By: delpotro
Ars Antiqua Austria & Gunar Letzbor - Franz Joseph Aumann: Passion Oratorio (2024)

Ars Antiqua Austria & Gunar Letzbor - Franz Joseph Aumann: Passion Oratorio (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 485 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 258 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:52:00
Classical, Sacred, Oratorio | Label: Accent Records

It was a sensational find in many respects when Gunar Letzbor discovered the Passion by the composer and Augustinian canon Franz Joseph Aumann in the archives of St Florian's Abbey (near Linz, Austria) and other monasteries.

Étienne Meyer, Les Traversées Baroques - Bonaventura Aliotti: Il trionfo della morte (2020)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Étienne Meyer, Les Traversées Baroques - Bonaventura Aliotti: Il trionfo della morte (2020)

Étienne Meyer, Les Traversées Baroques - Bonaventura Aliotti: Il trionfo della morte (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 477 Mb | Total time: 01:34:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Accent | # ACC 24368 | Recorded: 2019

With "Il trionfo della morte" by Bonaventuro Aliotti from 1677, the French ensemble Les Traversées Baroque presents an important example of an early oratorio. The form of the oratorio developed after the Catholic Church in the Council of Trent (1545-1563) severely restricted the use of music in church services. Some religious congregations then began to perform new forms of music in their prayer and assembly rooms, the "oratorios". An important center for the development of the oratorio or "Dialoghi sacri", as this musical form of theological approach was called, was Sicily.

René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor - Joseph Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten / The Seasons (2008)

Posted By: ArlegZ
René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor - Joseph Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten / The Seasons (2008)

René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor - Joseph Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten / The Seasons (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 563 Mb | Total time: 2 h 05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMX 2961829.30 | Recorded: 2003

When Nature took on new meaning. The transition from Winckelmann to Rousseau marked one of the biggest upheavals of thought in the Enlightenment - and it is perfectly illustrated in these four Seasons with their decidedly Romantic 'descriptivism'! In this music, even though lambs frisk, fish teem and thunder booms, it is the question of Man within Nature that is the central issue. By going back to the very first version of The Seasons (with the orchestral introductions played in their entirety), René Jacobs enables us to relive that day in April 1801 that saw the triumph of old 'Papa' Haydn.

Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Antonio Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans (2019)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Antonio Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans (2019)

Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Antonio Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 901 Mb | Total time: 75:56+64:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alia Vox | # AVSA9935 | Recorded: 2006

‘Judith triumphant over the barbarians of Holofernes’ is the only survivor of the four oratorios that Vivaldi is known to have composed. The work was commissioned to celebrate the victory of the Republic of Venice over the Turks during the siege of Corfu. All characters, male and female, are interpreted by women (originally the singers of the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice). Although the rest of the oratorio survives completely intact, the overture has been lost and Jordi Savall has selected two existing concertos as introduction, of which the key, mode and no doubt date of composition coincide most closely with the subject of the oratorio.

Helmuth Rilling, Bach Kollegium Stuttgart, Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart - George Frideric Handel: Saul (2007)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Helmuth Rilling, Bach Kollegium Stuttgart, Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart - George Frideric Handel: Saul (2007)

Helmuth Rilling, Bach Kollegium Stuttgart, Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart - George Frideric Handel: Saul (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 635 Mb | Total time: 60:12+70:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hänssler Classic | # CD98.280 | Recorded: 2006

Handel's Saul is an operatic oratorio with ever intensifying action and increasingly drastic scenes. Handel seems to have been especially moved by this particular text. He gives each of the five main soloists a distinctive profile. Even the vocal supporting roles are unique and intentionally individual. In none of his other oratorios does Handel call for a more differentiated orchestra. Alongside the strings, he uses oboes, recorders, bassoons, trumpets, timpani and trombones. For me, Saul is one of the great high points of Handel's works. All of the performers on this recording thoroughly enjoyed taking on the challenges brought forth by this music.

Philippe Herreweghe, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées - Joseph Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten (2014)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Philippe Herreweghe, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées - Joseph Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten (2014)

Philippe Herreweghe, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées - Joseph Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 533 Mb | Total time: 2 h 09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: PHI | # LPH013 | Recorded: 2013

Impressed by the Handel works that he heard in London, Haydn felt the need to compose oratorios. First came Die Schöpfung (‘The Creation’), which met with resounding success; then Baron Gottfried van Swieten proposed to Haydn an arrangement of James Thomson’s poem ‘The Seasons’. Initially, Haydn was little attracted by the text, which deviates from the classic oratorio based on a religious text, but subsequently let himself be convinced. The result, for three soloists, chorus and orchestra, is a vast pictorial fresco of Nature that describes landscapes and the feelings that they arouse. For the first time, Philippe Herreweghe gives us his own vision of an oratorium by Haydn.

Frans Brüggen, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Nederlands Kamerkoor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (2002)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Frans Brüggen, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Nederlands Kamerkoor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (2002)

Frans Brüggen, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Nederlands Kamerkoor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 671 Mb | Total time: 160:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 473 263-2 | Recorded: 1996

This is a St Matthew Passion which should please many readers. Bruggen’s interpretation is eloquent, thoughtful in matters of style and expressive content, and it benefits from a textural clarity which few competitors can rival. All aspects of Bach’s miraculous score are taken into account.

Marco Mencoboni, Cantar Lontano - Antonio Giannettini: L'uomo in bivio (2021)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Marco Mencoboni, Cantar Lontano - Antonio Giannettini: L'uomo in bivio (2021)

Marco Mencoboni, Cantar Lontano - Antonio Giannettini: L'uomo in bivio (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 416 Mb | Total time: 86:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 923524 | Recorded: 2016

This recording is released on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the death of Antonio Giannettini (1649-1721), a composer almost unknown today, who musically can be placed on a level with Stradella and Pasquini, generally regarded as the pinnacle of late 17th century Italian music. Giannettini received his training from Sebastiano Enno, Carlo Grossi and probably from Giovanni Legrenzi in Venice. He worked at St Mark's Cathedral from 1674, first as a singer and from 1677 as an organist. In 1686 he was appointed maestro di cappella at the court of Modena, a position he was to hold until his death in 1721.

Richard Neville-Towle, Ludus Baroque - George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast (2010)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Richard Neville-Towle, Ludus Baroque - George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast (2010)

Richard Neville-Towle, Ludus Baroque - George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 436 Mb | Total time: 82:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Delphian | # DCD34094 | Recorded: 2010

Handel's musical illustration of Dryden's Alexander's Feast, first performed in 1736, was a critical and popular success. A day after the première, the London Daily Post reported 'Never was upon the like Occasion so numerous and splendid an Audience at any Theatre in London, there being at least 1300 Persons present'.

Attilio Cremonesi, Orchestra of the Antipodes - Antonio Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans (2008)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Attilio Cremonesi, Orchestra of the Antipodes - Antonio Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans (2008)

Attilio Cremonesi, Orchestra of the Antipodes - Antonio Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 592 Mb | Total time: 59:51+58:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ABC Classics | # ABC4766957 | Recorded: 2007

Australia's most exciting opera company, Pinchgut Opera has attracted rave reviews since making its debut with Handel's Semele in 2002. ABC Classics has been with Pinchgut all the way, releasing all five of their previous productions on CD to critical acclaim; the magic continues with Pinchgut's performance of Vivaldi's Juditha Triumphans. Enter a world of musical ecstasy with the exquisite voices of Pinchgut and the subtle beauty of rare Baroque instruments in Vivaldi's gripping tale of virtue, passion and revenge.

Alessandro De Marchi, Academia Montis Regalis - Antonio Vivaldi: Juditha triumphans (2001)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Alessandro De Marchi, Academia Montis Regalis - Antonio Vivaldi: Juditha triumphans (2001)

Alessandro De Marchi, Academia Montis Regalis - Antonio Vivaldi: Juditha triumphans (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 845 Mb | Total time: 165:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30314 | Recorded: 2000

Vivaldi may be best remembered for his virtuosic concertos but, as anyone familiar with his famous D major Gloria will know, he also had a real ear for vocal sonorities. His only surviving oratorio, Juditha Triumphans, has until recently been a well-kept secret. The biblical story of Judith overcoming Holofernes and his army (beheading him herself–no shrinking violet she) was popular with both librettists and composers, offering plenty of opportunities for exuberant tub-thumping. And these Vivaldi seizes eagerly, the opening rabble-rousing chorus (here preceded by a sinfonia reconstructed by Vivaldi scholar Michael Talbot) setting the tone in truly martial fashion.

Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic, Westminster Choir - George Frideric Handel: Messiah (1998)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic, Westminster Choir - George Frideric Handel: Messiah (1998)

Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic, Westminster Choir - George Frideric Handel: Messiah (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 665 Mb | Total time: 69:27+48:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SM2K-60205 | Recorded: 1956

This version of Handel's 'Messiah' could quite possibly be feasible today only as a Bernstein reissue. The quest for authenticity has overtaken the performance and recording of early music, and even a conductor recording 'Messiah' without attempting a historically-informed style of performance wouldn't dare introduce the level of revision that Bernstein did for this 1956 recording and the Carnegie Hall performances which preceded it.

Raymond Leppard, English Chamber Orchestra - Handel Edition Vol. 4: Messiah; Samson; Arias [6CDs] (2008)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Raymond Leppard, English Chamber Orchestra - Handel Edition Vol. 4: Messiah; Samson; Arias [6CDs] (2008)

Raymond Leppard, English Chamber Orchestra - Handel Edition Vol. 4: Messiah; Samson; Arias from Rinaldo and other operas (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 2.06 Gb | Total time: 7h 30'33'' | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | 2564 69568-6 | Recorded: 1974, 1978, 1982, 1994

The performance here of Samson is definitive. It is lively, colourful and highly dramatic. There is no comparison with the tedious performance by the Sixteen on Coro. The performance of the Messiah with limited modern instrumental forces of the English Chamber Orchestra and Chorus with very good soloists doesn't sacrifice grandeur nor does it go to the other extreme of over-blown pomp. It is a very good performamce on modern instruments under the direction of the Baroque music specialist conductor Raymond Leppard.

Martin Gester, Le Parlament de Musique - Alessandro Scarlatti: La Giuditta (2005)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Martin Gester, Le Parlament de Musique - Alessandro Scarlatti: La Giuditta (2005)

Martin Gester, Le Parlament de Musique - Alessandro Scarlatti: La Giuditta (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 412 Mb | Total time: 77:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ambronay | # AMY 004 | Recorded: 2004

The biblical story of the princess Judith, who seduces and then beheads the invading Assyrian general Holofernes, has attracted composers from the early days of opera almost down to the present day with its mixture of gore, patriotic self-sacrifice, and latent feminist themes.

Baroque Christmas: George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach (2011)

Posted By: Designol
Baroque Christmas: George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach (2011)

Baroque Christmas: George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach (2011)
Lucia Popp, soprano; Brigitte Fassbaender, contralto; Robert Gambill, tenor; Robert Holl, bass
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart; Sir Neville Marriner, conductor; Sudfunkchor
Dame Janet Baker, contralto; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Choir of King’s College
Cambridge Academy of St Martin in the Fields; Sir Philip Ledger, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 380 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 187 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Choral, Oratorio | Label: EMI | # 50999 6 78165 2 1 | Time: 01:14:56

The peal of church bells, the scent of Christmas trees and gleaming lights in every window: now all that's missing to complete the Yuletide mood is Christmas by great Baroque composers. This CD contains the most moving arias and resplendent choruses from Bach's Christmas Oratorio and Handel's Messiah - the perfect music to celebrate Christmas with.