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Sara Macliver, Sally-Anne Russell, Antony Walker, Orchestra of the Antipodes - Baroque Duets (2005)

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Sara Macliver, Sally-Anne Russell, Antony Walker, Orchestra of the Antipodes - Baroque Duets (2005)

Sara Macliver, Sally-Anne Russell, Antony Walker, Orchestra of the Antipodes - Baroque Duets: Pergolesi - Stabat Mater; Vivaldi; Handel; Monteverdi (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 308 Mb | Total time: 63:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ABC Classics | 476 7737 | Recorded: 2005

This is the sequel to the best selling “Bach Arias and Duets” featuring two of Australia's leading exponents of Baroque repertoire, Sara Macliver and Sally-Anne Russell. This recording is a collection of some of the most beautiful and charming works written for a soprano and alto, featuring the haunting Pergolesi Stabat Mater.

Pražák Quartet, Hatto Beyerle - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintets K 593 & K 516 (2005)

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Pražák Quartet, Hatto Beyerle - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintets K 593 & K 516 (2005)

Pražák Quartet, Hatto Beyerle - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintets K 593 & K 516 (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 322 Mb | Total time: 60:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Praga Digitals | PRD 350 012 | Recorded: 2000

This first "live" recording of the Prazák Quartet was made in February, 2000 to commemorate the ensemble's 2000th concert. The Prazáks are joined by violist Hatto Beyerlé, best known for his dozen years as the violist of the Alban Berg Quartet. Together, they match the finest performances of these masterpieces on disc. Here is playing with intensity and power that does not exclude delicacy and genuine feeling.

Christoph Hammer, Neue Hofkapelle München - Francesco Bartolomeo Conti: Sventurata Didone (2006)

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Christoph Hammer, Neue Hofkapelle München - Francesco Bartolomeo Conti: Sventurata Didone (2006)

Christoph Hammer, Neue Hofkapelle München - Francesco Bartolomeo Conti: Sventurata Didone (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 331 Mb | Total time: 57:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ORF | CD 456 | Recorded: 2006

Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (1682-1732) left his hometown Florence, in which he had already been a lute player under Kardinals Francesco Maria de Medici in his teens, with 19 he applied to the royal palace of Austria. He also worked in Bernlin, where he met Giovanni Bononcini, and London. 1708 Conti became royal theorbe player in Vienna, from 1713 he was royal composer, writing operas, oratories, cantatas, Musicae sacrae, and a few instrumental pieces. Both as a instrumentalist and composer Conti was able to succeed. Sadly today he still is one of the big unresearched composers.

Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble - Cypriot Advent Antiphons. Anonymous C. 1390 (2009)

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Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble - Cypriot Advent Antiphons. Anonymous C. 1390 (2009)

Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble - Cypriot Advent Antiphons. Anonymous C. 1390 (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 256 Mb | Total time: 57:08 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88697575842 | Recorded: 1989

This cycle of "O" Antiphons is part of the Christmas Vespers ceremony, centered around the Magnificat. In the present case, they are heavily troped, and end with a liturgical motet in a more triumphant mood.
The music itself it thoroughly isorhythmic, and heavily syncopated. The pieces form a true cycle, linked by both a sequence of modality and motivic figures. This is the most elaborate sacred section of the huge Turin manuscript (Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS J. II 9), the one source for the Cypriot repertory.

Franco Fagioli, Zefira Valova, Il Pomo d'Oro - Leonardo Vinci: Veni, Vidi, Vinci (2020)

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Franco Fagioli, Zefira Valova, Il Pomo d'Oro - Leonardo Vinci: Veni, Vidi, Vinci (2020)

Franco Fagioli, Zefira Valova, Il Pomo d'Oro - Leonardo Vinci: Veni, Vidi, Vinci (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 426 Mb | Total time: 71:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | 483 8358 | Recorded: 2019

Franco Fagioli lavishes his "extraordinary agility and richly upholstered voice" (Gramophone) on Leonardo Vinci, the Neapolitan composer who influenced Handel and many later masters of Italian opera. Fagioli is joined again by Il Pomo d'Oro led by Zefira Valova, the superb period-instrument ensemble on his previous album. Veni, Vidi, Vinci features seven world premiere recordings from the Neapolitan composer, unearthed for this great recording.

Ian Bostridge, Antonio Pappano - Ludwig van Beethoven: Songs and Folksongs (2020)

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Ian Bostridge, Antonio Pappano - Ludwig van Beethoven: Songs and Folksongs (2020)

Ian Bostridge, Antonio Pappano - Ludwig van Beethoven: Songs and Folksongs (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 220 Mb | Total time: 62:05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | 9029527643 | Recorded: 2019

At the heart of this programme of Beethoven songs performed by Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano is the song cycle 'An die ferne Geliebte' (to the distant beloved). Bostridge describes it as 'the distillation of Beethoven as a lover'. Among the other items are the rapturously lyrical 'Adelaide', the sombre 'In questa tomba oscura' and a selection of Beethoven's settings of folksongs from the British Isles, which elicit the participation of violinist Vilde Frang and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt. 'When we all play together,' says Pappano, 'it's like a family making music at home.'

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

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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.

Pražák Quartet - Joseph Haydn: Apponyi' Quartets Op. 71 (2012)

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Pražák Quartet - Joseph Haydn: Apponyi' Quartets Op. 71 (2012)

Pražák Quartet - Joseph Haydn: Apponyi' Quartets Op. 71 (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 321 Mb | Total time: 62:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Praga Digitals ‎ | RD/DSD 250 289 | Recorded: 2012

Count Anton George Apponyi was a relative of Haydn's patrons the Esterhazys. Although commissioned by Count Apponyi, the quartets that bear his name were actually inspired by a series of successful public concerts of Haydn's music in London organized by Johann Peter Salomon. These concerts made Haydn an international music superstar and brought about a decided change in the composer's style. The emotional, virtuosic and powerful music found in these quartets presages the spirit of the Romantic period. Following on their decidedly symphonic reading of Haydn's Seven Last Words, the Pražák Quartet is fully in tune with the grand gestures found in these first three of the six Apponyi quartets.

Simon Rattle, Berliner Philharmoniker - Joseph Haydn: Symphonies 88-92, Sinfonia Concertante (2007)

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Simon Rattle, Berliner Philharmoniker - Joseph Haydn: Symphonies 88-92, Sinfonia Concertante (2007)

Simon Rattle, Berliner Philharmoniker - Joseph Haydn: Symphonies 88-92, Sinfonia Concertante (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 606 Mb | Total time: 75:47+69:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | 3 94237 2 | Recorded: 2007

This CD, recorded live, will leave you smiling with delight and amazement. These symphonies are among Haydn's greatest; written in 1788-89, they exhibit every facet of his technical skill, inspired inventiveness, and emotional range. At the height of his mature mastery, he experimented with new forms, daring modulations and key changes, and breathtaking swings of mood and character. One of his fingerprints is the alternation between serene major and somber minor, especially in his variations; but he has surprises in store everywhere, as solemnity gives way to sprightliness, elegance to rusticity, tragedy to mischievous humor.

Vladimir Horowitz, John Barbirolli - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 (1997)

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Vladimir Horowitz, John Barbirolli - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 (1997)

Vladimir Horowitz, John Barbirolli, New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 277 Mb | Total time: 65:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Appian Publications & Recordings | APR 5519 | Recorded: 1940-1941

This is the Rachmaninov Third to end all Rachmaninov Thirds, a performance of such super-human pianistic aplomb, pace and virtuosity that it makes all comparisons, save with Horowitz himself, a study in irrelevance.

Robert Scandrett, Western Washington University Concert Choir Bellingham - Domenico Scarlatti: Geistliche Chorwerke (2012)

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Robert Scandrett, Western Washington University Concert Choir Bellingham - Domenico Scarlatti: Geistliche Chorwerke (2012)

Robert Scandrett, Western Washington University Concert Choir Bellingham - Domenico Scarlatti: Geistliche Chorwerke (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 283 Mb | Total time: 65:42 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Carus Classics | 83.320 | Recorded: 1991

You can't help but get the idea that Domenico Scarlatti rather lived under the shadow of his father Alessandro. It is only with his move to the Iberian peninsula that his career seems to liven up. Very few of his surviving choral and vocal works live up to the imagination at play in the keyboard sonatas. His vocal works were highly regarded by his contemporaries and Charles Burney was admiring indeed. Remarkably, as recently as 1941, only his Stabat Mater had appeared in a modern edition. It was during the centenary in 1985 that new music was discovered and made available.

Sakari Oramo, BBC Symphony Orchestra - William Alwyn: Miss Julie (2020)

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Sakari Oramo, BBC Symphony Orchestra - William Alwyn: Miss Julie (2020)

Sakari Oramo, BBC Symphony Orchestra - William Alwyn: Miss Julie (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 474 Mb | Total time: 115:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | CHSA5253(2) | Recorded: 2019

‘Why has this intense, brilliantly orchestrated, claustrophobically gripping masterpiece been so neglected since its 1977 premiere?’ asked Richard Morrison in The Times of the concert performance in the Barbican that preceded this recording. Miss Julie is Alwyn’s last large-scale work, written in 1973-76. Alwyn set his own libretto, based on Strindberg’s 1888 play of that title. The naturalistic drama and lifelike characters of that play appealed to Alwyn from an early age – in fact, he previously attempted to compose an opera on Miss Julie in the 1950s. That attempt failed, because of differences with his then librettist, Christopher Hassall.

Werner Ehrhardt, L’arte del mondo - Assisi: Christmas Cantatas (2008)

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Werner Ehrhardt, L’arte del mondo - Assisi: Christmas Cantatas (2008)

Werner Ehrhardt, L’arte del mondo - Assisi: Christmas Cantatas (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 305 Mb | Total time: 67:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Phoenix Edition | 149 | Recorded: 2008

The convent of St Francis in Assisi is a place of pilgrimage and the founding location of the Franciscan order. In the baroque period novices hoping to enter the order were trained in music, and there is a long musical tradition there. Most of the performances here are world premiere recordings of baroque vocal compositions from the library of the convent of St Francis in Assisi. All the vocal pieces are for soprano solo (combined with solo alto in Finale's `Oh Quam Jubilat'), and it is thought that the solos may have been sung by young men. Here they are taken by very fine female singers, and the accompanying ensemble is made up of top players.

Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Roland (2004)

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Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Roland (2004)

Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Jean-Baptiste Lully: Roland (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 917 Mb | Total time: 47:45+60:25+52:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ambroisie | AMB 9949 | Recorded: 2004

Lully's 1685 Roland, on a subject apparently chosen by Louis XIV–its message is that loyalty to one's country and fighting battles is more important and noble than earthly love–was a great hit and played on-and-off in France and other European countries until 1750. The plot involves Angelique's vacillating love for Médor. She vacillates due to the fact that Médor is of "obscure lineage" and therefore beneath her station. He has undying, wild love for her. Roland adores Angelique also, but while she admires his knightliness, she is otherwise not interested. After Médor threatens suicide, Angelique gives in; they marry to great festivity at the close of Act 3.

Gidon Kremer, Kim Kashkashian, Yo-Yo Ma - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento K. 563 (1990)

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Gidon Kremer, Kim Kashkashian, Yo-Yo Ma - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento K. 563 (1990)

Gidon Kremer, Kim Kashkashian, Yo-Yo Ma - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento K. 563 (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 239 Mb | Total time: 49:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | SK 39561 | Recorded: 1984

This piece, a divertimento for string trio (violin, viola, and cello, was composed in 1788, the same year as the E-flat, G-minor, and Jupiter symphonies and the little C-major piano sonata, four of Mozart's best-known and greatest pieces. This divertimento is relatively little-known, yet it is the equal of those far-better-known pieces. Mozart was at the absolute height of his powers as a composer.