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René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester - Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore (2019)

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René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester - Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore (2019)

René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester - Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 631 Mb | Total time: 2 h 20 min | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 93241415 | Recorded: 2017

The original 1805 version of Beethoven's only opera is a high-adrenaline experience in the hands of the Belgian conductor and his period-instrument band, with Marlis Petersen in the title-role and Maximilian Schmitt as her imprisoned husband. From Leonore (1805) to Fidelio (1814) there were three successive versions of Beethoven’s opera, only the last of which has been in the repertory since the 19th Century. Going against tradition, René Jacobs has chosen to revive the earliest version, reworking the librettos and the spoken dialogue: a genuine tour de force, this still unknown Leonore forms an incomparable musical and dramatic structure requiring exemplary mastery on the part of both orchestra and singers. This landmark recording proves its case in every respect.

René Jacobs, Concerto Köln, RIAS Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Saul (2005)

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René Jacobs, Concerto Köln, RIAS Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Saul (2005)

René Jacobs, Concerto Köln, RIAS Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Saul (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 749 Mb | Total time: 79:06+70:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901877.78 | Recorded: 2004

Saul is one of Handel's most action-filled, fast-moving oratorios; an opera in everything but name only. It has been lucky on disc–both Paul McCreesh (Archiv) and John Eliot Gardiner (Philips) have led superb readings, and Joachim Carlos Martini leads a good performance on Naxos, which is a bargain. Now René Jacobs and his remarkable Concerto Köln come along and offer a truly majestic reading, filled with real drama and beautiful, precise singing and playing. Tenor Jeremy Ovenden sings Jonathan with nobility and faces down Saul in Act II with style and power. David is sung by countertenor Lawrence Zazzo, and he's as good as the best-recorded competition (Andreas Scholl, Derek Lee Ragin). Emma Bell is ravishing as Merab; Rosemary Joshua makes a fine Joshua.

Bejun Mehta, René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester - George Frideric Handel: Opera Arias 'Ombra Cara' (2010)

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Bejun Mehta, René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester - George Frideric Handel: Opera Arias 'Ombra Cara' (2010)

Bejun Mehta, René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester - George Frideric Handel: Opera Arias 'Ombra Cara' (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 365 Mb | Total time: 71:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC902077 | Recorded: 2010

Mehta differs from other countertenors insofar as his dynamic range is concerned. As René Jacobs points, Mehta can sing high softly–very rare for this voice type–and has a rich, full alto range. Furthermore, his phrasing is natural and musical; he can express feelings from rage to ecstasy to yearning by coloring his tone, leaning into a note or phrase. His coloratura is natural and unaspirated; his bottom register takes on a very dark hue without becoming baritonal or chesty. His embellishments are both tasteful and virtuosic–a rare combo–and he has real trills.

Bejun Mehta, René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Che Puro Ciel (2013)

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Bejun Mehta, René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Che Puro Ciel (2013)

Bejun Mehta, René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Che Puro Ciel: Mozart, Gluck, Traetta, Hasse, J.C.Bach (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 322 Mb | Total time: 69:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 902172 | Recorded: 2013

The contents of this album reflect the operatic music Mozart would have known as a teenager. One of the composers, Christoph Willibald Gluck, is known as a founder of the Classical style in opera; others, including Johann Adolf Hasse, Johann Christian Bach, and Tommaso Traetta, are known mostly to specialists, at least in the operatic field. Listeners who have heard the spectacular arias of the late Baroque popularized by Renée Fleming and others will find the pieces here less virtuosic but more dramatically satisfying, as if the composers and librettists had engaged themselves anew with the ancient Greek stories they were retelling. One might object that annotator Denis Morrier gives short shift to the most important of the librettists, Pietro Metastasio, whose writings remained popular up to Beethoven's time.

Judith Nelson, René Jacobs, Concerto Vocale - George Frideric Handel: Duetti e Cantate da Camera (1989)

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Judith Nelson, René Jacobs, Concerto Vocale - George Frideric Handel: Duetti e Cantate da Camera (1989)

Judith Nelson, René Jacobs, Concerto Vocale - George Frideric Handel: Duetti e Cantate da Camera (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 239 Mb | Total time: 46:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 1901004 | Recorded: 1978

There could hardly be any contrast more striking than that of "Messiah" with these delicate miniatures composed by Handel during his stay in Italy before he settled in London. They are vocal chamber music of the highest quality. They give no inkling that the graceful young composer might later produce anything like the "Hallelujah" chorus, though there is a clear pre-echo of "For unto us a child is born."

René Jacobs, Concerto Köln - Carl Heinrich Graun: Cleopatra e Cesare (1996)

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René Jacobs, Concerto Köln - Carl Heinrich Graun: Cleopatra e Cesare (1996)

René Jacobs, Concerto Köln - Carl Heinrich Graun: Cleopatra e Cesare (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 939 Mb | Total time: 79:01+57:12+62:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # 901561.63 | Recorded: 1995

Carl Heinrich Graun was court composer to Frederick the Great of Prussia, and this opera was chosen to open the new opera house in Berlin in 1742. It was a great success, but Handel's opera on the same subject had appeared less than two decades before, and had anyone been familiar with that one, Graun's might have come as a disappointment. Handel gets under his characters' skins–Cleopatra's eight arias tell us everything we have to know about her, for instance–while Graun (merely) offers some beautiful, well-orchestrated, at-times exciting music. Any composer would have been proud to compose Cesare's heart-stoppingly vengeful last-act aria "Voglio strage", and any Read more mezzo (or castrato or countertenor) would be happy to sing it. Here, Iris Vermillion is spectacular, and elsewhere in the opera she's as heroic, romantic, and colorful as our hero ought to be.

Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Rene Jacobs - Kittel: Arias & Cantatas (2010)

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Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Rene Jacobs - Kittel: Arias & Cantatas (2010)

Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Rene Jacobs - Kittel: Arias & Cantatas (2010)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 72:01 | 376 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Harmonia Mundi | Catalog: HMG 505247

The glittering city of Dresden, whose painstaking reconstruction after it was reduced to rubble in World War II is one of the great success stories of architecture preservation, is a hot topic in the Baroque music field, and this 2000 recording, reissued in budget form in 2010, offers a taste of the excitement. As the seat of the Holy Roman Empire's Elector of Saxony, the city was musically significant even before the rise to power of the man who really made its cultural reputation, August the Strong.

Lumieres - La musique du XVIIIeme siecle (29 CD): Part 06 [2011]

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Lumieres - La musique du XVIIIeme siecle (29 CD): Part 06 [2011]

Lumières - La musique du XVIIIème siècle (29 CD), Part 06 - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro [2011]
EAC (flac, image, cue, log) | TT: 45.16+57.05+69.48 | Scans | 718 Mb
Classical | Harmonia Mundi | 2908601.30 | Rec: 2003

The eighteenth century is probably the most extraordinary period of transformation Europe has known since antiquity. Political upheavals kept pace with the innumerable inventions and discoveries of the age; every sector of the arts and of intellectual and material life was turned upside down. Between the end of the reign of Louis XIV and the revolution of 1789, music in its turn underwent a radical mutation that struck at the very heart of a well-established musical language. In this domain too, we are all children of the Age of Enlightenment: our conception of music and the way we ‘consume’ it still follows in many respects the agenda set by the eighteenth century. And it is not entirely by chance that harmonia mundi has chosen to offer you in 2011 a survey of this musical revolution which, without claiming to be exhaustive, will enable you to grasp the principal outlines of musical creation between the twilight of the Baroque and the dawn of Romanticism.

Renée Jacobs, Concerto Köln - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (2006)

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Renée Jacobs, Concerto Köln - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (2006)

René Jacobs, Concerto Köln - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (2006)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 182 min | 6.80+5.80 Gb (2xDVD9)
Classical | Label: BelAir | Sub: Italiano, Francais, English, Deutsch, Espanol | Recorded: 2004

Recorded at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in June 2004, le Nozze de Figaro was unanimously acclaimed by public and critics alike as a Mozart opera landmark. Director Jean-Louis Martinoty brings an elegantly intelligent narrative sense to an interpretation in which the protagonists, against a backdrop of magnificent canvases of 18th- century inspiration, are dressed by Sylvie de Segonzac in a palette in which every shade is perfect.

René Jacobs, Concerto Vocale - Francesco Cavalli: Giasone (2000)

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René Jacobs, Concerto Vocale - Francesco Cavalli: Giasone (2000)

René Jacobs, Concerto Vocale - Francesco Cavalli: Giasone (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.02 Gb | Total time: 79:20+76:06+78:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMX 901282.84 | Recorded: 1988

Cavalli's Giasone debuted in 1649 in Vienna, and quickly became the most frequently performed of all 17th Century Italian operas. In addition to being highly acclaimed in its day, it was revived no fewer than twenty times over the following forty years throughout Italy. Almost Wagnerian in its length and scope, the work recreates the tale of Jason and the capture of the Golden Fleece. This edition features Rene Jacobs leading Concerto Vocale.

Lumieres - La musique du XVIIIeme siecle (29 CD), Part 05 [2011]

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Lumieres - La musique du XVIIIeme siecle (29 CD), Part 05 [2011]

Lumières - La musique du XVIIIème siècle (29 CD), Part 05 - Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice [2011]
EAC (flac, image, cue, log) | TT: 40.10+50.34 | Scans | 363 Mb
Classical | Harmonia Mundi | 2908601.30 | Rec: 2001

The eighteenth century is probably the most extraordinary period of transformation Europe has known since antiquity. Political upheavals kept pace with the innumerable inventions and discoveries of the age; every sector of the arts and of intellectual and material life was turned upside down. Between the end of the reign of Louis XIV and the revolution of 1789, music in its turn underwent a radical mutation that struck at the very heart of a well-established musical language. In this domain too, we are all children of the Age of Enlightenment: our conception of music and the way we ‘consume’ it still follows in many respects the agenda set by the eighteenth century. And it is not entirely by chance that harmonia mundi has chosen to offer you in 2011 a survey of this musical revolution which, without claiming to be exhaustive, will enable you to grasp the principal outlines of musical creation between the twilight of the Baroque and the dawn of Romanticism.

Rene Jacobs, Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - Antonio Caldara: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo (2002)

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Rene Jacobs, Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - Antonio Caldara: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo (2002)

René Jacobs, Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - Antonio Caldara: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 607 Mb | Total time: 126:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # 905221.22 | Recorded: 1995

The oratorio as a musical form emerged toward the end of the seventeenth century as a kind of "spiritual exercise" encouraged by the Congregazione dell'Oratorio in Rome. The performances took place in oratories (prayer halls) constructed above church naves and were intended to be attractive but edifying entertainments. Then as later, oratorios generally reflected the popular forms and styles of secular music – and in late Renaissance and Baroque Italy, this meant opera, though based on religious rather than mythological and heroic themes. The most prolific composer in this genre was Antonio Caldara (c1670-1736); New Grove lists 43 oratorios (in addition to many operas) and there are probably more that have been lost, written for patrons in his native Venice, Rome, Florence, Mantua, and Vienna.

Judith Nelson, René Jacobs, Wieland Kuijken, Konrad Junghänel, William Christie - Pietro Antonio Cesti: "Pasticcio" (2006)

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Judith Nelson, René Jacobs, Wieland Kuijken, Konrad Junghänel, William Christie - Pietro Antonio Cesti: "Pasticcio" (2006)

Judith Nelson, René Jacobs, Wieland Kuijken, Konrad Junghänel, William Christie - Pietro Antonio Cesti: "Pasticcio" (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 578 Mb | Total time: 109:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ORF | # ORF - CD-451 | Recorded: 1980

The Italian opera of the 17th century is a part of music history which is still hardly explored. Of course, Claudio Monteverdi's operas are regularly performed and recorded, and some of the stage works by his pupil Francesco Cavalli, the main composer of operas in Venice after Monteverdi's death has been given attention to, but many other works written in Italy in the 17th century are still to be rediscovered. One of the composers of that time whose works are hardly explored is Pietro Antonio Cesti. From the tracklist one may conclude that he was a prolific composer of operas. René Jacobs has been an avid advocate of Cesti's oeuvre, and in 1982 he made a recording of L'Orontea, arias from which he also performed at the concert in 1980 recorded and only recently released by ORF. He also gave performances of L'Argia, but so far that hasn't been recorded on disc.

Fritz Näf, Die Basler Madrigalisten - Alessandro Scarlatti: Passio Secundum Joannem (2010)

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Fritz Näf, Die Basler Madrigalisten - Alessandro Scarlatti: Passio Secundum Joannem (2010)

Fritz Näf, Die Basler Madrigalisten - Alessandro Scarlatti: Passio Secundum Joannem (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 223 Mb | Total time: 54:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88697 57617 2 | Recorded: 1981

Alessandro Scarlatti’s St John Passion was the first Passion setting written in seventeenth-century Italy. Scarlatti treats the role of the Evangelist (composed in the mezzo-soprano register) in highly unusual fashion, giving his narrative numerous emotional passages. The Voice of Christ (bass) is invariably haloed by a string accompaniment.

B'Rock Orchestra & René Jacobs - Schubert: Symphonies "Unfinished" & "Great" (2022)

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B'Rock Orchestra & René Jacobs - Schubert: Symphonies "Unfinished" & "Great" (2022)

B'Rock Orchestra & René Jacobs - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished" & Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944 "The Great" (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 405 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 220 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:27:45
Classical | Label: Pentatone

Multiple prize-winning conductor René Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra complete their Schubert cycle on Pentatone with the composer’s two most famous symphonies, the Unfinished and Great. In his extensive liner notes, Jacobs develops a theory that the B Minor Symphony did not remain “unfinished”, but was deliberately left unfinished, because Schubert shaped its two movements in analogy to Mein Traum (My Dream), an autobiographical narration in two parts, written in 1822, simultaneous to the creation of the symphony. While the first half of Mein Traum tells about his mother’s decease and his problematic relationship to his father, the second part enters a magical, Romantic realm, and eventually brings a reconciliation with his father.