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Sophie Dervaux & La Folia Barockorchester – Vivaldi: Bassoon Concertos (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:00 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Berlin Classics
Sophie Dervaux’ new album “Vivaldi Bassoon Concertos” is part of her larger project to record all of 39 of Vivaldis bassoon concerts. This album presents the first 6 concertos of this journey; RV 474, RV 497, RV 481, RV 501, RV 484 and RV 473. Apart from the violin, Vivaldi wrote as many concertos for no other instrument than the bassoon, knowing expertly how to write for this instrument to highlight its unique qualities.
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La Folia Barockorchester – Rediscovered Treasures from Dresden (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:07 minutes | 933 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music
Sony Classical is delighted to bring you the world premiere recording of Baroque concertos by anonymous composers associated with the legendary Dresdner Hofkapelle. The concertos are part of the infamous “Schrank II” (Cabinet II) archive in the Dresdner Court Church destroyed in World War II. This collection includes instrumental works that have survived in manuscript form and that belonged for the most part to the Court Orchestra’s leader, Johann Georg Pisendel (1687–1755). Robin Peter Müller has singled out six of the finest violin concertos from Schrank II’s collection, some of which he has reconstructed for the purposes of the present recording with his period-instrument ensemble. One of the concertos – in D major – reveals striking similarities to Vivaldi’s violin concertos, featuring, as it does, solo passages lifted straight from Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto RV 208 (“Grosso Mogul”). The result is a remarkable recording notable for its dynamism, virtuosity and musical variety.
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La Folia Barockorchester, Robin Peter Müller – Vivaldi, Brescianello: Violin Concertos (2016)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 01:01:32 minutes | 2,37 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:32 minutes | 1,02 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover | Genre: Classical | © Stockfisch Records
This venturesome, sometimes sharp-edged, but in any case, expressive new recording of the “Quattro stagioni” by La Folia Barockorchester offers perhaps a chance to see Vivaldi’s masterpiece in a new, somewhat contemporary light. It gives us something to think about, makes us examine the relation between humans and nature: Europe suffered from a Little Ice Age between the 15th and the 18th centuries, whose economic, political, and cultural consequences still remain to be examined. Among other things it brought extreme cold spells to usually mild climatic zones. Thus, the lagoon in Venice froze over, for example in the winter of 1708–09. It was probably this particular event that Vivaldi referenced in his concerto known as “Winter”.
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Anna Prohaska, La Folia Barockorchester, Robin Peter Müller – Celebration of Life in Death (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:11:27 minutes | 736 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
Constantly in search of eclectic and meaningful programmes, the soprano Anna Prohaska here celebrates “life in death”. An ambitious programme, conceived with Robin Peter Müller and his ensemble La Folia, which takes us on a journey across the centuries and through many different countries, with French chansons of the Middle Ages (including one by Guillaume de Machaut), seventeenth-century Italian pieces by Luigi Rossi, Francesco Cavalli and Barbara Strozzi, German composers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Dietrich Buxtehude, Christoph Graupner, Franz Tunder) and the English luminaries Henry Purcell… plus John Lennon and Paul McCartney. A musical and spiritual quest that even takes in a detour to North America with a universally known song by Leonard Cohen.
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