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Benjamin Lyko, Alex Potter – David Pohle: Liebesgesänge (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:15 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical
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“David Pohle created his Zwolf Liebesgesange in the early seventeenth century, crucially advancing the emerging genre of the German song. The settings of the 26-year-old Pohle are valuable testimonials to the development of this genre. The poems by Paul Fleming, on which these settings are based, bear autobiographical features, mirrored by David Pohle in his compositions by the use of two equal voices. In a varied manner, the music and text tell of love, loss and pain, of happiness, determination and abstinence. Audite presents this premiere recording with a top-class cast of soloists and instrumentalists.
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Alex Potter & la festa musicale – ANTONIO: Lotti – Caldara – Vivaldi (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:11 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: Classical
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Three Venetian contemporaries named Antonio – one, Vivaldi, achieved world fame with his concerti. But who has heard of Antonio Lotti and Caldara today? In their time, they were famous composers beyond the borders of Venice, and yet some of their music has lain dormant in archives for over three hundred years. Now selected alto cantatas by Lotti as well as oratorio introductions and an “Ave Regina” by Caldara may reawaken attention: paired with the “Nisi Dominus”, RV 608, and two rousing concerti by Vivaldi, the baroque orchestra la festa musicale and the internationally acclaimed countertenor Alex Potter present an album full of virtuoso and touching musical treasures by the three Antonios from the Canal Grande.
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Leo van Doeselaar, Alex Potter, Il Gardellino – Bach: Cantatas, BWV 35 & 169 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:22 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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Alex Potter and Il Gardellino present two sacred cantatas by Bach from 1726: Geist und Seele wird verwirret BWV 35 and Gott soll allein mein Herze haben BWV 169. In these two works, the thoroughly secular origins of the genre are evident. The expressive recitatives and virtuoso arias bear witness to the influence of Italian opera rather than Bach’s Lutheran roots. Moreover, concertante instrumental music plays a prominent role in these cantatas, which are preceded by independent introductory symphonies with obbligato organ.
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Alex Potter, Ensemble La Fontaine – Fede e Amor (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:19:37 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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This recording explores some of the lesser-known music from eighteenth-century Vienna that combines solo voice with virtuoso trombones. During the first half of that century, the city’s musical life experienced an unprecedented blossoming. The Habsburg Emperors aimed to turn Vienna into a truly magnificent capital for the Holy Roman Empire and used visual art, architecture, liturgy, court ceremony and, above all, music to help achieve this. The Habsburg rulers Leopold I (1658-1705), Joseph I 1705-1711) and Charles VI (1711-1740) took the “Holy” part of their title very seriously and paid for a huge amount of elaborate sacred music to be performed on a regular basis by court musicians, a major element of which was the performance of large-scale Oratorios in the Imperial Chapel.
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