Capella Cracoviensis, Vincent Dumestre, Le Poeme Harmonique – Charpentier & Lully: Te Deum (Live Recording at La Chapelle Royale du Château de Versailles) (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Capella Cracoviensis, Vincent Dumestre, Le Poeme Harmonique – Charpentier & Lully: Te Deum (Live Recording at La Chapelle Royale du Château de Versailles) (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 55:32 minutes | 993 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

This recording of the Poème Harmonique revitalizes Charpentier’s and Lully’s Te Deum, two magnificent pieces of sacred music celebrating the Sun King’s victory and recovery. Lully, who was of Italian origin, found the essence and style of French art, while Charpentier gave the emotion and composition methods he had learned from the Italians to the music of his country. This is the story of two musicians, two countries, two aesthetics, and two fundamental stakes. Lully became a lauded composer, outshining Charpentier and relegating him to an undeserved subpar position.

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Capella Cracoviensis & Jan Tomasz Adamus – Stanislaw Moniuszko: Halka (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Capella Cracoviensis & Jan Tomasz Adamus – Stanislaw Moniuszko: Halka (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:39 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © deutsche harmonia mundi

To celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Stanisław Moniuszko (1819-1872), organist, conductor and composer considered in Poland as the father of Polish opera, we pay tribute to him by inviting you to discover the 1848 version of the opera Halka, in its Vilnius version of 1848, during a concert performed by Capella Cracoviensis, soloists, choir and orchestra on historical instruments conducted by Jan Tomasz Adamus.

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Capella Cracoviensis, Fabio Bonizzoni – Bach, J.S.: Motets (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Capella Cracoviensis, Fabio Bonizzoni – Bach, J.S.: Motets (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:06:24 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France

Capella Cracoviensis, recently discovered on the Alpha release Te Deum, returns here under the direction of Fabio Bonizzoni. Together they present a highly vigorous reading of these monumental works – Their virtuosity brings out to the full the magnificent counterpoint while never neglecting the text, so vital in the motet genre.
Each of the motets on this programme –most of which for double chorus – was intended for highly reduced forces, most likely made up solely of soloists. The writing is indeed complex, woven in an extremely skilful counterpoint that requires great transparency in order for the interlacing to be experienced fully.
The ensemble and soloists of La Capella Cracoviensis give a reading of considerable vitality, both informed and removed from too exclusively a religious approach.
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