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Andreas Staier, Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans – C. P. E. Bach: Concertos pour clavier, Wq. 43 (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:34:35 minutes | 959 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Sei concerti per il cembalo concertato were the outcome of a period of intensive work between 1770 and 1772 shortly after Carl Philipp Emanuel arrived in Hamburg. Introducing one of his most exciting recording ventures, Andreas Staier explains the incredible diversity in unity of these works, whose arrangement is not linear, but concentric. One has the impression that Bach wanted to set a series of musical riddles which constantly force the audience to take a critical distance from its own listening. Staier is joined by the Freiburger Barockorchester in this fascinating disc of keyboard concertos.
Staier is unquestionably one of the most probing and thoughtful of musicians around today. –Gramophone
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Kristian Bezuidenhout & Freiburger Barockorchester – Mozart Piano Concertos K. 271 & 456 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:08 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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The origins of these concertos, performed here by Kristian Bezuidenhout, may each be traced to a woman. The so-called “Jeunehomme” Concerto, K. 271, a vehicle for rather unexpected musical daring, could instead take its nickname from the work’s dedicatee: the piano virtuoso Louise Victoire Jenamy, daughter of Mozart’s old friend, the dancer Noverre. As for K. 456, cast in a more traditional mould yet so elaborate and seductive, it was apparently composed for Maria Theresia von Paradis, a blind pianist acclaimed throughout Europe. Two works distinctly different in character, while somehow being aptly complementary…
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Isabelle Faust, Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado – Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto – Symphony No. 5 & The Hebrides (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:37 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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After the mystical Hebrides Overture and the masterly ‘Reformation’ Symphony, Mendelssohn embarked on his second violin concerto. After a long gestation in which he polished the orchestration and meticulously revised the solo part, the work was finally premiered in Leipzig in 1845. From David to Joachim, several virtuosos honed the violin part with the composer over successive revivals, leaving posterity traces of their playing style: fingerings, bowings, performance marks. This precious heritage has been scrutinised here for previously unexploited expressive resources. Isabelle Faust, accompanied by the Freiburger Barockorchester in top form under the direction of Pablo Heras-Casado, offers us a miracle of purity and lyricism in this freshly minted interpretation that fulfills Mendelssohn’s promise of ‘a concerto to make the angels rejoice in heaven’!
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Andreas Staier, Freiburger Barockorchester – J. S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos, BWV 1052-1058 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:52:04 minutes | 2,31 GB | Genre: Classical
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An exhilarating collectionThe seven fabulously inventive concertos for solo harpsichord and orchestra mark a key stage in the history of the concertante form. The set was compiled during Bach’s Leipzig years, when he directed the city’s Collegium Musicum, and requires unfailing virtuosity and imagination of its performers. The contagious pleasure one feels in the interpretations of Andreas Staier and the Freiburger Barockorchester restores the full range of meanings to the word ‘play’!
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Freiburger Barockorchester – J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:30:01 minutes | 1,71 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Brandenburg Concertos need no introduction – doubtless because they owe their fame to a systematic exploration of a genre recently inherited from the Italians, with a still youthful Bach devising as many different scorings as there are concertos. When he received the manuscript of the six works, Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg, must have been terrified by their demands, and his musicians even more so! Three centuries later, the cycle is as open as ever to new ‘historically informed’ interpretations, as this set demonstrates. The CD cover represents the importance of numbers in these works eg Concerto No 3 which is scored for three instruments, in 3 time, 3 sections etc. The trumpeter is particularly impressive. Freiburg are recording and touring Bach throughout 2014.
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestra/Ensemble: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
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Philippe Jaroussky, Freiburger Barockorchester – Bach & Telemann: Sacred Cantatas (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:56 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
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For her first recording on Erato as a newly-signed exclusive artist, Nathalie Stutzmann conducts her superb Orfeo 55 musicians playing on Baroque instruments, while singing some of Handel’s most virtuosic arias, all with a rare mastery of both arts – neither one in the shadow of the other.
Heroes from the Shadows makes stars of the unfairly overlooked roles – from Arsamene to Zenobia – who sing Handel’s hidden operatic jewels: Cornelia from Giulio Cesare (‘Son nata’ in duet with star countertenor Philippe Jaroussky as her guest), Dardano’s stately ‘Pena tiranna’ from Amadigi di Gaula, and the sublime, intimate ‘Senti, bell’idol mio’ sung by Claudio in Silla. Nathalie Stutzmann also relinquishes vocal duties to conduct Orfeo 55 in ravishing instrumental music: sinfonias from Poro, Partenope, Scipione and Serse.
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Kristian Bezuidenhout, Freiburger Barockorchester and Petra Müllejans – Mozart – Piano Concertos nos. 17 K.453 & 22 K.482 (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:39 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
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Mozart places melody at the very heart of his concertos. Introverted and sometimes uncertain at the start of K453, it is subsequently transmuted into birdsong – foreshadowing Papageno – and leads to a finale worthy of an opera buffa. Imbued with majesty in K482 (contemporary with Le nozze di Figaro), it takes on a tinge of bitterness in the work’s slow movement, before returning to more joyful melodic motifs, one of which will recur in Cosi fan tutte. Never have opera and concerto been so close. Partnering with the Freiburger Barockorchester, acclaimed fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout brings out all of the singing lines and sparkling bravura of these two great concertos.
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