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John Kitchen - Instruments from the Russell Collection Vol. 1 (2001)

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John Kitchen - Instruments from the Russell Collection Vol. 1 (2001)

John Kitchen - Instruments from the Russell Collection Vol. 1 (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 472 Mb | Total time: 75:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Delphian | # DCD34001 | Recorded: 2000

This disc is intended to introduce a collection of keyboard instruments in Edinburgh, Scotland, but actually it accomplishes much more. The instruments featured here were built all over Europe, with the majority from the British Isles or France. They date from between 1586 and 1810, with the first example being an Italian virginal and the final one a fortepiano. Along the way come harpsichords of various kinds, a clavichord, and a small organ. Brief but relevant and engaging histories are given for each instrument.

Hana Blažíková, Bruce Dickey - Breathtaking: A cornetto and a voice entwined (2016)

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Hana Blažíková, Bruce Dickey - Breathtaking: A cornetto and a voice entwined (2016)

Hana Blažíková, Bruce Dickey - Breathtaking: A cornetto and a voice entwined (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 343 Mb | Total time: 76:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Passacaille | # PAS1020 | Recorded: 2015

In 2014, Bruce began a project together with Czech soprano Hana Blažíková to explore the affinity of the cornetto and the human voice. The project was called Breathtaking: A Cornetto and a Voice Entwined. With the program that evolved from that project, Bruce and Hana recorded a CD for the Passacaille label and toured the world performing the program more than forty times in North America, Europe and Australia. In order to make the touring financially viable, they have paired with backup ensembles in Europe, the USA and Australia.

Daniel Hope, Zürcher Kammerorchester - Dance! (2024)

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Daniel Hope, Zürcher Kammerorchester - Dance! (2024)

Daniel Hope, Zürcher Kammerorchester - Dance! (2024)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 611 Mb | Total time: 01:55:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 028948649945 | Recorded: 2023

Daniel Hope's new album "Dance!" reflects his boundless interest in the most diverse styles and periods of music. The star violinist takes the listeners on a journey through seven centuries of music history and explores the rhythms that have set bodies in motion and lifted hearts since time began.

Emőke Baráth, Francesco Corti, Il Pomo d'Oro - Voglio cantar: Strozzi, Cavalli, Cesti, Marini, Merula (2019)

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Emőke Baráth, Francesco Corti, Il Pomo d'Oro - Voglio cantar: Strozzi, Cavalli, Cesti, Marini, Merula (2019)

Emőke Baráth, Francesco Corti, Il Pomo d'Oro - Voglio cantar: Strozzi, Cavalli, Cesti, Marini, Merula (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 440 Mb | Total time: 80:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 9029563221 | Recorded: 2018

Voglio cantar – ‘I want to sing’ – is Emőke Baráth’s first solo album for Erato. The young Hungarian soprano has built a special reputation in Baroque music and the prime focus here is on Barbara Strozzi, who made her name as a composer in 17th century Venice. “She must have been quite a revolutionary personality,” says Emőke Baráth. “Her music is improvisational, intuitive, even rhapsodic … She was clearly a passionate woman with a strong dramatic sense.” Baráth is joined by Il Pomo d’Oro, conducted by Francesco Corti.

Lodestar Trio - Bach to Folk: Bach, Merula, Mjelva, Lully, Baillie, Couperin, Rydvall (2022)

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Lodestar Trio - Bach to Folk: Bach, Merula, Mjelva, Lully, Baillie, Couperin, Rydvall (2022)

Lodestar Trio - Bach to Folk: Bach, Merula, Mjelva, Lully, Baillie, Couperin, Rydvall (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 311 Mb | Total time: 53:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ARC Music | # NXW76158-2 | Recorded: 2022

Lodestar Trio blaze a trail with their unprecedented ‘baroque meets folk’ repertoire. With renewed interpretations of baroque classics (Bach, Lully, Couperin…), folk tunes and new compositions, they push the boundaries of their mystical and magical Scandinavian string instruments. With Max Baillie on violin, Olav Luksengård Mjelva on Norwegian Hardanger fiddle and Erik Rydvall on Swedish nyckelharpa, they skilfully showcase the dexterity of each instrument, bringing out new qualities, whilst paying tribute to the roots of a much-honoured musical period.

Leila Schayegh, La Centifolia - Ciaccona! (2023)

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Leila Schayegh, La Centifolia - Ciaccona! (2023)

Leila Schayegh, La Centifolia - Ciaccona! (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 455 Mb | Total time: 66:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GSD 924207 | Recorded: 2022

Who doesn't like the ciaccona, ciacona or chaconne - the exuberant dance in which the upper voices fantasize over a bass scheme, imitating and inspiring each other. The ciaconna, which may have come to Spain from South America, quickly spread throughout Europe and even found it's way into popular music. Leila Shayegh and her musician friends from La Centifolia play a whole round of chaconnas, some famous, some unknown, by Bertali, Purcell, Schmelzer Matteis, Corelli or anonymous composers from the famous collection from the "Schrank no. 2" in Dresden. The climax and conclusion is the famous "Canon" (with "Gigue", which is usually neglected) by Johann Pachelbel, played with a liveliness and transparency that is rarely heard in this frequently played piece!

Carlo Vistoli, Filippo Pantieri, Sezione Aurea - Amor Tiranno: Broken-Hearted Lovers in Seventeenth-Century Venice (2020)

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Carlo Vistoli, Filippo Pantieri, Sezione Aurea - Amor Tiranno: Broken-Hearted Lovers in Seventeenth-Century Venice (2020)

Carlo Vistoli, Filippo Pantieri, Sezione Aurea - Amor Tiranno: Broken-Hearted Lovers in Seventeenth-Century Venice (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 352 Mb | Total time: 70:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Arcana | # A474 | Recorded: 2018

Following the success of ‘Arias for Nicolino’, a musical portrait of the celebrated castrato of Handel’s era (A427), Carlo Vistoli turns his attention to Venetian opera of the seventeenth century. The Italian countertenor – ‘a voice […] intrinsically beautiful, strong and powerful’ (Opera Magazine) – has been delving into this repertory since the beginning of his international career with specialists such as Leonardo García Alarcón, William Christie and John Eliot Gardiner. In this anthology accompanied by the ensemble Sezione Aurea, the focus is on operatic scenes and chamber music by the leading composers of the time, such as Francesco Cavalli and Claudio Monteverdi, whose famous aria ‘Sì dolce è ’l tormento’ exemplifies the linking thread of the arias in this recording: disappointed lovers.

Enrico Onofri, Ensemble Imaginarium - Into Nature: Vivaldi Seasons (2019)

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Enrico Onofri, Ensemble Imaginarium - Into Nature: Vivaldi Seasons (2019)

Enrico Onofri, Ensemble Imaginarium - Into Nature: Vivaldi Seasons (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 351 Mb | Total time: 62:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Passacaille | # PAS1062 | Recorded: 2018

25 years after the revolutionary recording with Il Giardino Armonico, Enrico Onofri presents a new exciting version of Vivaldi's Le quattro Stagioni on PASSACAILLE, in which he has put all his artistic maturity and knowledge into practice. The focus of the recording is not only on Vivaldi. Onofri also wanted to pay tribute to Mother Nature, who has inspired artists of all genres with her sounds, images, smells and wonders. The selected pieces that accompany the Evergreen come from the Italian repertoire of the 17th century.

Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini: Bach, Biber, Corelli, Locke, Monteverdi, Rossi, Vivaldi [11CDs] (2006)

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Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini: Bach, Biber, Corelli, Locke, Monteverdi, Rossi, Vivaldi [11CDs] (2006)

Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini: Bach, Biber, Corelli, Locke, Monteverdi, Rossi, Vivaldi [11CDs] (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 3.26 Gb | Total time: 11:17:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 2564 63264-2 | Recorded: 1991-2000

For fans of Il Giardino Armonico's flamboyant flourishes and exuberant expressiveness, it's like having all your birthdays at once, being presented with this great Warner Classics 11 CD set. My own feeling is that this "free" approach to Baroque music is at its best when applied to the theatrical music of disc 8 or the seventeenth century Italian music on disc 1. The showmanship and playfulness is an absolute joy in many of those pieces. I'm less satisfied with the interpretations of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, (on discs 10 and 11), which require a different approach, I feel. I like my Bach to be a little more measured and subtle, I suppose. It has no need of the Il Giardino Armonico treatment. On the whole, though, I do love this set and wouldn't be without it.

Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris - Passions: Venezia 1600-1750 (2019)

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Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris - Passions: Venezia 1600-1750 (2019)

Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris - Passions: Venezia 1600-1750 (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 336 Mb | Total time: 75:33 | Scans included
Classical | Harmonia Mundi | HMM 902632 | Recorded: 2018

The transition between the Renaissance and the Baroque eras did not mark one sudden change of forms or styles, nor did it signal the end of what Claudio Monteverdi called the prima pratica, or the primary practice of Renaissance polyphony. However, a new emphasis on powerful emotional expressions became a central feature of what he dubbed the seconda pratica, which came to the fore with the development of opera, most notably in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1607. Composers paid special attention to the innovations in the music of Venice, which eventually spread throughout Europe in the 17th and early 18th centuries, and such figures as Monteverdi, Antonio Lotti, and Antonio Caldara, long associated with the city, became exemplars of the new Venetian style, in both secular and sacred music.

Stephan MacLeod, Concerto Palatino, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra - 17th Century Sacred Music in Wrocław (2018)

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Stephan MacLeod, Concerto Palatino, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra - 17th Century Sacred Music in Wrocław (2018)

Stephan MacLeod, Concerto Palatino, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra - 17th Century Sacred Music in Wrocław (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 378 Mb | Total time: 77:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Claves | # CD1805 | Recorded: 2016

17th Century Wrocław (then Breslau) was one of Europe’s important musical centres. Its three main Protestant churches – St. Elisabeth, St. Mary Magdalene and St. Bernardine – collected extensive music libraries. Their repertoire was shaped both by prints imported from Italy and Germany, and by works composed by local cantors and organists employed in church ensembles. A separate collection of nearly 400 prints from 1610–55 remained in private hands. During World War II, however, they were taken away from the city and dispersed after 1945. Some items have not been found until now. The majority of the prints returned to Wrocław. Numerous manusripts were considered lost until the late 1980s, when they reappeared in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek. They found their way there from Moscow, where some items of the former Breslau library still remain.

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - 1600: Bononcini, Castello, dall'Abaco, Frescobaldi, Gabrieli, Legrenzi (2011)

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Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - 1600: Bononcini, Castello, dall'Abaco, Frescobaldi, Gabrieli, Legrenzi (2011)

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - 1600: Bononcini, Castello, dall'Abaco, Frescobaldi, Gabrieli, Legrenzi, de Macque, Marini (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 359 Mb | Total time: 66:58 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP30531 | Recorded: 2011

The programme chosen for this CD by the eminent early music specialist Rinaldo Alessandrini and performed by members of his hand-picked ensemble Concerto Italiano illustrate most of the forms that instrumental music adopted in the course of the seventeenth century. Amongst the composers featured are Giovanni Gabrieli, Frescobaldi, Zanetti, and Torelli, as well as lesser known figures of the period including Giovanni de Macque, Evaristo dall’Abaco, and Giovanni Bononcini.

Bois de Cologne - Early Music for Recorders and Harp (2001)

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Bois de Cologne - Early Music for Recorders and Harp (2001)

Bois de Cologne - Early Music for Recorders and Harp (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 341 Mb | Total time: 56:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Marc Aurel edition | MA 20005 | Recorded: 1998

Historical harps, recorders, serpent, portative, fiddle and violin, not a common instrumentation - and a very vital one. Old-time music is not mimicked here, but lived: atmosphere, density without fuss. In the center the music itself: Music from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Early Baroque.