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Cellini Consort - Johann Sebastian Bach: Wo soll ich fliehen hin (2019)

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Cellini Consort - Johann Sebastian Bach: Wo soll ich fliehen hin (2019)

Cellini Consort - Johann Sebastian Bach: Wo soll ich fliehen hin (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 368 Mb | Total time: 65:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ramée | # RAM 1911 | Recorded: 2017

In earlier times, adaptations and rearrangements of their own works or those of others formed an integral part of the daily lives of musicians and composers. So-called ‘historically informed’ performance practice, which has developed out of a strictly historical perspective on past eras of music, long left this way of treating an existing composition almost totally unexplored. Today, however, it is enjoying a renaissance and is part of a musician’s training. The idea of arranging Bach’s works is a natural one, since the composer himself was an inveterate transcriber. Most of the programme recorded here consists of solo keyboard works rescored for a chamber formation – in other words, the performers have chosen an approach that is the contrary of Bach’s usual practice.

Osmo Vänskä, Lahti Symphony Orchestra - Kalevi Aho: Symphony No. 2, Symphony No. 7 (1998)

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Osmo Vänskä, Lahti Symphony Orchestra - Kalevi Aho: Symphony No. 2, Symphony No. 7 (1998)

Osmo Vänskä, Lahti Symphony Orchestra - Kalevi Aho: Symphony No. 2, Symphony No. 7 (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 269 Mb | Total time: 68:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-936 | Recorded: 1998

The recording quality is very good for the year it was recorded. There are brilliant ideas in the composer's emotional and solemn second symphony and the insect symphony, the sixth movement of which is a grotesque fanfare.

Oliphant - Gace Brulé: Trouvère songs (2004)

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Oliphant - Gace Brulé: Trouvère songs (2004)

Oliphant - Gace Brulé: Trouvère songs (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 224 Mb | Total time: 53:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alba Records | # ABCD 182 | Recorded: 2002

Here the Finnish ensemble Oliphant devotes a program to Gace Brulé, one of the most highly esteemed trouvères (medieval poet/musicians who flourished in the north of France) of his day. Like nearly all trouvères during this period, Brulé entertained at various courts, writing verse and composing songs strictly about secular love. More often than not Brulé wantonly celebrates it–such as in soprano Uli Korhonen’s lovely a cappella “Fine Amours est de tel Force Establie” (The Power of Noble Love is so Great). More atypical (and fascinating) is the program’s centerpiece, “L’Autrier Estoie en un Vergier” (One Day in a Garden), where the complexity of the subject becomes more ambiguous.

Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra - Gioacchino Rossini: La Cenerentola (2006)

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Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra - Gioacchino Rossini: La Cenerentola (2006)

Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra - Gioacchino Rossini: La Cenerentola (2006)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | 187 min | 6,93+5,70 Gb (2xDVD9)
Classical | Label: Opus Arte | Sub: English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol, Italiano | Recorded: 2005

This is a truly marvellous performance on all counts - staging, conducting and singing. Sir Peter Hall… manages to breathe new life into the routines without ever slipping over into farce, while exploring each character in some depth. The sense of an ensemble on top form is underlined by Vladimir Jurowski's exacting, pellucid and vivid interpretation, so that the music, like the libretto, is presented afresh. The superb cast has no weaknesses and many strengths, Ruxandra Donose may not have the idiomatic Italian timbre of Cecilia Bartoli… but she is the more consistent singer, using her wide range and rich tone to startling effect. Her youthful (24-year-old) partner, Russian tenor Maxim Mironov, proves an ideal Ramiro, fluent in every aspect of his role and delivering its appreciable demands in a light, pliant voice of delicate beauty.

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantata per la Notte di Natale (1996)

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Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantata per la Notte di Natale (1996)

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantata per la Notte di Natale (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 338 Mb | Total time: 71:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 | # OPS 30-156 | Recorded: 1996

Extraordinarily, Alessandro Scarlatti (who died in 1725 and forms a strong bridge between the mature Baroque and later classical traditions, according to musicologist Edward Dent) wrote some sixty-four operas, twenty oratorios, hundreds of chamber cantatas, and a host of madrigals, masses, motets, toccatas, concertos, sonatas and symphonies. Very little of this is heard today, sadly, except in specialist circles. Perhaps one of the more popularly performed pieces is 'Abramo, il tuo sembiante' (a Christmas cantata). When Handel visited Italy between 1706 and 1710, he met Scarlatti and may even have studied with him. This performance of said cantata is well within the Italian style - clear lines and intricate ornamentation.

Simon Standage, Collegium Musicum 90 - Georg Philipp Telemann: La Changeante, Vol.1 (1991)

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Simon Standage, Collegium Musicum 90 - Georg Philipp Telemann: La Changeante, Vol.1 (1991)

Simon Standage, Collegium Musicum 90 - Georg Philipp Telemann: La Changeante, Vol.1 (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 314 Mb | Total time: 63:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0519 | Recorded: 1990

Recorded in 1990 at Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead (London), this beautifully produced CD contains six lesser-known works for violin(s) by Germany’s most prolific 18th century composer, Georg Philipp Telemann, who was, during his lifetime, considerably more famous (and more in demand) than any of the Bach dynasty. But as Nicholas Anderson points out in his rather brief introduction to this music, “Telemann did not altogether avoid in his own music those features which he criticised in others; sometimes his harmonies seem sparse, his passagework perfunctory.” Telemann was a great musician, but the violin “seems to have been that in which he was least fluent”. It is also well-known that Telemann’s facility in composing has gained him a reputation for producing quantity rather than quality – a reputation which, on the whole, is undeserved.

Christoph Spering, Das Neue Orchester - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Die Israeliten in der Wüste (2015)

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Christoph Spering, Das Neue Orchester - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Die Israeliten in der Wüste (2015)

Christoph Spering, Das Neue Orchester - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Die Israeliten in der Wüste (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 304 Mb | Total time: 75:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88875016302 | Recorded: 2014

Einer der Höhepunkte des Bachfestes Leipzig 2014 im 300. Geburtsjahr Carl Philip Emanuel Bachs war die Aufführung und Einspielung seines Oratoriums "Die Israeliten in der Wüste" mit den Experten für historische Aufführungspraxis des Neuen Orchesters & Chorus Musicus Köln unter der Leitung von Christoph Spering.

Øystein Baadsvik, Mats Rondin, Lewis Lipnick, Andrew Litton - Kalevi Aho: Tuba and Contrabassoon Concertos (2007)

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Øystein Baadsvik, Mats Rondin, Lewis Lipnick, Andrew Litton - Kalevi Aho: Tuba and Contrabassoon Concertos (2007)

Øystein Baadsvik, Mats Rondin, Lewis Lipnick, Andrew Litton - Kalevi Aho: Tuba and Contrabassoon Concertos (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 238 Mb | Total time: 63:42 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-1574 | Recorded: 2006

Recent BIS issues of Kalevi Aho’s concertos for flute and clarinet – entrancingly beautiful and elementally energetic works, respectively – have confirmed him as one of the foremost composers of concertos in our day. The two concertos on this new disc for the bassi profundi of the orchestra strike me as less instantly rewarding, but that may be just that their rewards are more of the slow-release kind.

Mark Simpson - Simpson: Geysir; Mozart: Gran Partita (2020)

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Mark Simpson - Simpson: Geysir; Mozart: Gran Partita (2020)

Mark Simpson - Simpson: Geysir; Mozart: Gran Partita (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 243 Mb | Total time: 57:32 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Orchid Classics | # ORC100150 | Recorded: 2020

A stunning pairing of Mozart’s glorious ‘Gran Partita’ Serenade with a work written specifically to be performed alongside it, Geysir by the exceptional clarinettist-composer, Mark Simpson. Mark Simpson’s simmering, volcanic Geysir was inspired by the rich opening chord of Mozart’s ‘Gran Partita’, and by its bubbling clarinet writing, which develop into what Simpson describes as a “flurry of colour and harmonic shifts”.

George Szell - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4; Beethoven: Music from 'Egmont' (1990)

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George Szell - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4; Beethoven: Music from 'Egmont' (1990)

George Szell - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4; Beethoven: Music from 'Egmont' (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 323 Mb | Total time: 64:05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 425 972-2 | Recorded: 1962, 1969

Szell's performance is again of quite a different order, one of the very finest ever put on disc, white hot even beyond Bernstein's. The late John Culshaw, producer at the sessions in Walthamstow Assembly Hall in 1962, used to enjoy telling the story of winding up an already angry George Szell. That inspired tyrant of a conductor was furious at the start of the session to find that many players were not the same as those who had just given the concert performance with him. When he came back to listen to the first playback Culshaw deliberately kept the controls rather low, making the result seem dull. That prompted Szell, back on the podium, to unleash a force in the subsequent takes that has to be heard to be believed.

Michael Gläser, Rundfunkchor Berlin - Louis Spohr: Mass Op. 54, Psalms Op. 85 (1993)

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Michael Gläser, Rundfunkchor Berlin - Louis Spohr: Mass Op. 54, Psalms Op. 85 (1993)

Michael Gläser, Rundfunkchor Berlin - Louis Spohr: Mass Op. 54, Psalms Op. 85 (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 199 Mb | Total time: 48:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 149-2 | Recorded: 1991

With the Mass op. 54 for five solo voices and two five-part choirs and the Three Psalms op. 85, we present Spohr's sacred a cappella choral music. Spohr has also achieved something new and extraordinary in this field In the 1821 mass, for example, there are echoes of the Russian Orthodox liturgy which Spohr had become acquainted with during an early trip to Russia. Nothing academic adheres to the works collected here; it is rather expressive music of the highest content, and only Mendelssohn and Brahms were later to write choral music of similar perfection It is sung by the Rundfunkchor Berlin under the direction of Michael Glaeser and Dietrich Knothe.

Joseph Li, Inscape Chamber Orchestra - Philip Glass: The Fall of the House of Usher (2019)

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Joseph Li, Inscape Chamber Orchestra - Philip Glass: The Fall of the House of Usher (2019)

Joseph Li, Inscape Chamber Orchestra - Philip Glass: The Fall of the House of Usher (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 375 Mb | Total time: 83:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Orange Mountain | # OMM0138 | Recorded: 2017

Orange Mountain Music presents the premiere recording of Philip Glasss 1988 opera based on Edgar Allen Poes THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER with a libretto by Arthur Yorinks. Premiered in 1988, the opera has been one of Glasss most popular yet has never received a recording until now performed by Wolf Trap Opera Artists, Inscape Chamber Orchestra under conductor Joseph Li. The performance features a stellar cast including Jonas Hacker as Roderick Usher, Ben Edquist as William, Matthew Adam Fleisher as the Servant, Nicholas Nestorak as the Physician, and Madison Leonard as Madeline Usher. Glass's gothic opera, part of a trilogy of dark operas including Kafka's The Trial and In the Penal Colony, receives a stunning studio recording produced by Soundmirror. The package includes two booklets including a full libretto, and photos of the 2017 production.

John Storgårds, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Sebastian Fagerlund: Terral; Strings to the Bone; Chamber Symphony (2023)

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John Storgårds, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Sebastian Fagerlund: Terral; Strings to the Bone; Chamber Symphony (2023)

John Storgårds, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Sebastian Fagerlund: Terral; Strings to the Bone; Chamber Symphony (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 293 Mb | Total time: 68:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2639 | Recorded: 2022

Influenced by the great classics of the 20th century as well as by other musical genres such as world music and rock, Sebastian Fagerlund's orchestral music, which has held a central position in his work, is known for it's pounding rhythmic energy and the quiet, gripping intensity of the more static passages. The flute concerto 'Terral' was written in close collaboration with Sharon Bezaly. Referring to a land breeze in Spain, 'Terral' is like a constant variation in a transparent and airy soundscape reminiscent of the soil taking on a new appearance when blown by the wind.

Fabio Biondi, L'Europa Galante - Alessandro Scarlatti: La Maddalena (1993)

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Fabio Biondi, L'Europa Galante - Alessandro Scarlatti: La Maddalena (1993)

Fabio Biondi, L'Europa Galante - Alessandro Scarlatti: La Maddalena (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 388 Mb | Total time: 76:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 | # OPS 30-96 | Recorded: 1993

Alessandro Scarlatti was only 24 and had just begun his enormously successful operatic career when he set a libretto by that great Roman patron of the arts, Cardinal Pamphili, on the subject of repentance and divine grace. It was performed before a distinguished audience by a small group of leading singers and instrumentalists of the day in March 1685—the year of the birth of Alessandro's son Domenico (in fact, as a matter of interest, three days before the birth of J. S. Bach). This simple little morality (oratorio is too grandiose a term for it) shows Magdalen torn between youthful pleasures and repentance for hedonistic living: the subject is treated in a sequence of extremely brief arias (and a few duets) and recitatives, which add up to a rather bitty effect, all the more because of seemingly haphazard key-sequences.

Anthony Lewis, The English Chamber Orchestra, Janet Baker - George Frideric Handel: Tamerlano (2008)

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Anthony Lewis, The English Chamber Orchestra, Janet Baker - George Frideric Handel: Tamerlano (2008)

Anthony Lewis, The English Chamber Orchestra, Janet Baker - George Frideric Handel: Tamerlano (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,14 Gb | Total time: 79:34+76:51+69:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ponto | # PO-1058 | Recorded: 1972

The first pleasant surprise here is the brightness and clarity of the radio broadcast sound; indeed, it is a bit too bright and harsh but better that than muddiness. There is evidently an audience who applaud at the end but otherwise there is no extraneous noise throughout. Secondly, there is the spring and bounce of the English Chamber Orchestra, alertly directed by Baroque specialist Sir Anthony Lewis. Thirdly we hear a first rate cast of splendid voices headed by Janet Baker, an array of voices unequalled in any of the other nine extant recordings.