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Bejun Mehta, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs – Che Puro Ciel: The Rise of Classical Opera (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:48 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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Arias & scenes from l’Orféo et Euridice, Ascanio in Alba, Antigona et Ifigenia in Tauride (Traetta), Il trionfo di Clelia (Hasse), Artaserse (Bach), Ezio (Gluck), Mitridate (Mozart)
In the famous Preface to Alceste (1767), Christoph Willibald Gluck and his librettist Ranieri de’ Calzabigi posited a new direction for opera. They spoke of moving beyond Baroque forms, of striving for a new naturalism in opera. They wanted, in Calzabigi’s lovely phrase, to liberate the language of the heart. Taken from the height of this Reform period, the arias on this disc reveal composers exploring and experimenting, at struggle and at play, as they create the new forms that bring to opera the noble simplicity of the Classical era. Bejun Mehta returns to the Wigmore Hall and Covent Garden in 2014 [Mitridate].
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs – Bach, J.S.: St John Passion, BWV 245 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:46:33 minutes | 1,88 GB | Genre: Classical
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The two faces of a monument :: Bach revised his Johannes-Passion regularly: he returned to it over a period of twenty-six years, from 1724 to his death. It is the version hallowed by tradition, established by the Kantor a year before his death, that is presented on these albums.
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs – Pergolesi: Septem verba a Christo (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:28 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
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Now attributed to Pergolesi on the basis of recent research, the ‘Seven Words of Christ’ has been regarded as ‘one of the most heartfelt works of art, full of profound tenderness and an all-conquering sense of beauty’ [Hermann Scherchen, on its discovery in 1930]. However, his judgment has remained unheeded and only the discovery of two more manuscripts in the abbeys of Kremsmünster and Aldersbach, by the musicologist Reinhard Fehling, prompted the firm of Breitkopf & Härtel to publish a critical edition.
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