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Theresia Orchestra, Alessandro De Marchi, Rocco Cavalluzzi, Angela Schisano - Domenico Cimarosa: Le Astuzie Femminili (2024)

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Theresia Orchestra, Alessandro De Marchi, Rocco Cavalluzzi, Angela Schisano - Domenico Cimarosa: Le Astuzie Femminili (2024)

Theresia Orchestra, Alessandro De Marchi, Rocco Cavalluzzi, Angela Schisano - Domenico Cimarosa: Le Astuzie Femminili (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 2:38:37 | 816 Mb
Genre: Classical

Theresia Orchestra The international youth orchestra Theresia is devoted specifically to the performance of Classical-era music on period instruments. Ensemble members undergo training from senior musicians but also perform as a group and have made several recordings.

Radio-Sinfonieorchester Basel, Alun Francis - Darius Milhaud: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 (2000)

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Radio-Sinfonieorchester Basel, Alun Francis - Darius Milhaud: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 (2000)

Radio-Sinfonieorchester Basel, Alun Francis - Darius Milhaud: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 (2000)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 62:59 | 326 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 999 066-2

The symphonies date from a more mature period of Darius Milhaud compositional life and confronts the listener with music he or she probably didn't expect if one is familiar with the more bizarre, witty, early music with its many influences by light music, like Le Boeuf sur le Toit and La Creation du Monde. The sixth symphony of Milhaud is definitively his greatest. It contains two slow and two fast movements. The slow movements (2/3rd of the music) are of an astonishing beauty! This music of wide open spaces is full of calmness, austerity, clarity, with beautiful changing harmonies and slowly spiralling melodies. The fast movements make a lively contrast to this.

Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Antony Hermus - Wagenaar: Summer Of Life, Symphonic Poems (2009)

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Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Antony Hermus - Wagenaar: Summer Of Life, Symphonic Poems (2009)

Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Antony Hermus - Wagenaar: Summer Of Life, Symphonic Poems (2009)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 50:16 | 270 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 777 479-2

Dutch composer Johan Wagenaar is considered post-romantic, but this designation is appropriate only insofar as it applies to the time period in which he lived. Otherwise, Wagenaar's music was just straight up romantic, sounding largely like Richard Wagner but with not as dense a scoring palette. In this respect, his music is more like Brahms or Berlioz. Sometimes Wagenaar is compared to Richard Strauss, but this projection can be a little confusing as the ingredients in Wagenaar's dish are often part Wagner and even part Dvorák; the most significant thing about his fare, though, is that it doesn't taste quite like anything else.

Alexandra Oehler - Ferdinand Ries: Piano Sonatas (2006)

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Alexandra Oehler - Ferdinand Ries: Piano Sonatas (2006)

Alexandra Oehler - Ferdinand Ries: Piano Sonatas (2006)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 60:26 | 210 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 777 136-2

The two long works are very much worth hearing, and the whole recording is a treat. The pianist is very good, and more power to her in bringing out the works of Ries and other composers, many recognized in their day but since fallen into obscurity. There is much neglected 19th century music that deserves to be heard. Ries is fully comparable to Mendelssohn, Grieg, and others in the "standard" repertoire.

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Ole Schmidt - Børresen: Symphony No. 1 (1999)

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Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Ole Schmidt - Børresen: Symphony No. 1 (1999)

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Ole Schmidt - Børresen: Symphony No. 1 (1999)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 74:04 | 356 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 999 578-2

As is evident in these works, Børresen was a highly talented Danish composer. His first symphony bears some resemblance to Tchaikovsky's Sixth, in particular in the last movement that ends quietly like Tchaikovsky's. However, it is an independent, assured symphony that is well worth hearing. Indeed, after listening to it several times, it is difficult to understand why this tuneful and highly likeable work is not played regularly in concerts anymore. Ole Schmidt and the Saarbrücken orchestra certainly make a strong case for the music.

Valentina Igoshina, Lavard Skou-Larsen - Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Hamlet Overture (2012)

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Valentina Igoshina, Lavard Skou-Larsen - Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Hamlet Overture (2012)

Valentina Igoshina, Lavard Skou-Larsen - Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Hamlet Overture (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:09:56 | 312 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 7777502

The two piano concertos of Dmitry Shostakovich may be treated as rare examples of light humor in Shostakovich's output, which requires connecting the mordant Concerto for piano, trumpet, and orchestra in C minor, Op. 35, to the more genuinely humorous Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102. Many performers, naturally enough, connect the two in some way, but Russian pianist Valentina Igoshina takes a different approach: she divorces the two concertos quite thoroughly. In the Concerto No. 1 she emphasizes the manic quality of the music.

Daniel Raiskin - Brahms arr. Schoenberg: Piano Quartet; Brahms arr. Berio: Clarinet Sonata (2008)

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Daniel Raiskin - Brahms arr. Schoenberg: Piano Quartet; Brahms arr. Berio: Clarinet Sonata (2008)

Daniel Raiskin - Brahms arr. Schoenberg: Piano Quartet; Brahms arr. Berio: Clarinet Sonata (2008)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 61:46 | 311 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 777356-2

"The main attraction on this disc is the Berio orchestral arrangement of the Clarinet Sonata op.120/1. Like Schoenberg, it’s a harmonically and melodically “straight” transcription, not a modern re-imagining of the work. Berio, no stranger to orchestrations and adaptations - Puccini’s Turandot, works by Schubert, Mahler, and Verdi - tackled this last major work of Brahms’ for reasons we don’t know. Iosif Raiskin speculates that the tinges of Mahler in late Brahms may have been a reason for the Mahler-loving Berio. Be that as it may, the result is a wonderfully graceful Brahms Clarinet Concerto.

Wolf Harden - Franz Lehár: Piano Sonatas (2000)

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Wolf Harden - Franz Lehár: Piano Sonatas (2000)

Wolf Harden - Franz Lehár: Piano Sonatas (2000)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:13:45 | 250 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 999 715-2

Musical institutions have their funny ideas, and the quirk of the Prague Conservatoire in the 1880s was that if you were an instrumentalist you couldn't be a composer, too (evidently no one had told them about Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin et al). At his father's insistence Léhar was enrolled as a violinist, but his real interest lay in composition. He took a few secret lessons from Fibich and had the opportunity to play his D minor sonata to Dvorak, who urged him to give up the violin and switch to the composition classes. But Léhar senior was adamant and Lèhar is to be considered as practically a self-taught composer.

Manfred Cordes, Europäisches Hanse-Ensemble - Musik der Hansestädte, Vol.2: Musik aus dem alten Danzig (2024)

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Manfred Cordes, Europäisches Hanse-Ensemble - Musik der Hansestädte, Vol.2: Musik aus dem alten Danzig (2024)

Manfred Cordes, Europäisches Hanse-Ensemble - Musik der Hansestädte, Vol.2: Musik aus dem alten Danzig (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet| 1:10:38 | 343 Mb
Genre: Classical

Manfred Cordes (born 1953) is a German conductor of early music, musicologist and teacher. He is professor at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen and was its rector from 2007 to 2012.

Sachsisches Vocalensemble, Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Felix Schwandtke - Johann David Heinichen: German sacred Cantatas (2024)

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Sachsisches Vocalensemble, Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Felix Schwandtke - Johann David Heinichen: German sacred Cantatas (2024)

Sachsisches Vocalensemble, Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Felix Schwandtke - Johann David Heinichen: German sacred Cantatas (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 56:32 | 305 Mb
Genre: Classical

2011 war das Ensemble im Rahmen der Eröffnungsfeierlichkeiten der 3. Sächsischen Landesausstellung Via Regia in der Französischen Friedrichstadtkirche in Berlin zu hören, ebenso zum 20. MDR-Musiksommer in Leipzig. Im selben Jahr war das Sächsische Vocalensemble erneut zu Konzerten in Japan zu erleben.

Ari Rasilainen - Kurt Atterberg: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6 (1999)

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Ari Rasilainen - Kurt Atterberg: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6 (1999)

Ari Rasilainen - Kurt Atterberg: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6 (1999)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 68:18 | 341 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 999 640-2

10/10 Kurt Atterberg's richly romantic, colorful orchestral vistas require excellent recorded sound and a no-holds-barred performance to make their best effect, and both of these symphonies previously have been well served in this regard, the Third by Sixten Ehrling on Caprice, and the Sixth by Jun'Ichi Hirokami on BIS (earlier versions of this latter work by Beecham and Toscanini remain mere historical curiosities). This new recording, though, sets a new sonic and interpretive standard in both works.

Epoca Barocca - Schickhardt 6 Sonatas Op.22 (2024)

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Epoca Barocca - Schickhardt 6 Sonatas Op.22 (2024)

Epoca Barocca - Schickhardt 6 Sonatas Op.22 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:12:34 | 167 / 370 Mb
Genre: Classical

The members of the chamber music ensemble EPOCA BAROCCA are united in the shared passion for the representation of Baroque music on original instruments. The main focus of the repertoire is the trio and quadrosonate with concertante bass, about the time from Caldara to Zelenka.

Weser-Renaissance Bremen, Manfred Cordes - Johann Grabbe: Madrigals & Instrumental Works (2012)

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Weser-Renaissance Bremen, Manfred Cordes - Johann Grabbe: Madrigals & Instrumental Works (2012)

Weser-Renaissance Bremen, Manfred Cordes - Johann Grabbe: Madrigals & Instrumental Works (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 77:34 | 370 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: CPO | Catalog: cpo777662-2

Comparable to Heinrich Schütz as a composer but not as well known, Grabbe is regarded as an important mediator of Italian vocal artistry in the north-western region of Germany. Since he was influenced by Franco-Flemish polyphony and the English compositional style, he embodied the leading musical trends of his time. This release continues CPO's new series in musicians and music of the Weser-Rennaisance in northern Germany.

Albert-Schweitzer-Ensemble - Anton Reicha: Chamber Music (2024)

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Albert-Schweitzer-Ensemble - Anton Reicha: Chamber Music (2024)

Albert-Schweitzer-Ensemble - Anton Reicha: Chamber Music (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:09:30 | 514 / 295 Mb
Genre: Classical

Antonín Rejcha Czech-born, naturalized French composer, musical theorist and teacher.
Born February 26, 1770 in Prague, Bohemia (presently Czech Republic), died May 28, 1836 in Paris, France. French resident since 1808, French citizen since 1829. Also known as Antoine Reicha. Nephew of Josef Rejcha.

Hamburger Ratsmusik, Simone Eckert, Genevieve Tschumi, Klaus Mertens - Georg Philipp Telemann Inauguration Cantatas 1721 (2024)

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Hamburger Ratsmusik, Simone Eckert, Genevieve Tschumi, Klaus Mertens - Georg Philipp Telemann Inauguration Cantatas 1721 (2024)

Hamburger Ratsmusik, Simone Eckert, Genevieve Tschumi, Klaus Mertens - Georg Philipp Telemann Inauguration Cantatas 1721 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:13:55 | 171 / 333 Mb
Genre: Classical

The Hamburger Ratsmusik was the name, in German, for the Hamburg city government musical establishment of Hamburg during the baroque period. Ratsmusik was a generic term to distinguish from Hausmusik, domestic music making, during the Hanseatic period.