Elysium Ensemble

Elysium Ensemble – Johann Joachim Quantz: Sei Duetti, Op. 2 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:05 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
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Previously unrecorded as a complete set using Quantz’s preferred instrumentation, the Sei Duetti, op. 2 (Berlin, 1759), are works of high quality and interest. Quantz presents his musical ideas as a continuously evolving conversation. They embody wonderfully the idea of Dialogue: The Art of Elegant Conversation.

These historically significant works are excellent examples of Quantz’s intermediate position between the Baroque and Classical periods. They deserve to be heard by a wider audience.
The CD was recorded in the crystal clear and resonant acoustic of The Salon at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Australia. The natural acoustic of the space shines through (no artifical reverb has been added). This acoustic is ideal for the performance and recording of Baroque and Classical chamber music.
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Elysium Ensemble – Georg Philipp Telemann: Melodious Canons & Fantasias (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 59:11 minutes | 1,74 GB | Genre: Classical
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Australian early music group the Elysium Ensemble continue their series of recordings of duos on period instruments focussing on the art of elegant conversation in the Baroque with this album of canons and fantasias by Georg Philipp Telemann.

Based around the Melodious Canons composed in 1738 in Paris, Elysium principals Greg Dikmans (flute) and Lucinda Moon (violin) also introduce a selection of Telemann’s solo fantasias for their respective instruments.

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Elysium Ensemble – Boismortier: Six Sonates, Op. 51 (Paris, 1734) (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:22 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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Joseph Bodin de Boismortier did not come from a celebrated family of musicians, as did such notable contemporaries as Jacques Hotteterre (1674–1763) and François Couperin (1668–1733). The son of a merchant confectioner, he held no long-term official post at the French court or other noble or ecclesiastical musical establishment. Acknowledged as being pleasant and good company, clever, original and inventive, he was simply a talented and prolific composer of profitable and popular works that enabled him to live a life of fame and luxury.
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