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RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Justin Doyle - Handel: Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Nisi Dominus (2024)

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RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Justin Doyle - Handel: Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Nisi Dominus (2024)

RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Justin Doyle - Handel: Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Nisi Dominus (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 288 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 141 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:01:04
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: harmonia mundi

It was in Rome, where he resided between 1707 and 1710, that the young Handel composed these three dazzling sacred works. The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the RIAS Kammerchor give us an extremely lively and colourful reading of these pieces in which the composer showcased his talent: allegiance to the forms of the past, total mastery of counterpoint and, already, a unique feeling for storytelling. Everything here announces musical genius.

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - C.P.E. Bach: Symphonies - From Berlin to Hamburg (2024)

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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - C.P.E. Bach: Symphonies - From Berlin to Hamburg (2024)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - C.P.E. Bach: Symphonies - From Berlin to Hamburg (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 366 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 167 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:11:42
Classical | Label: harmonia mundi

This new album rounds off the complete recording of the symphonies of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach that the musicians of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin began over two decades ago. The final batch offers the quintessence of his art, revealing the full originality of Johann Sebastian’s inspired son, whose freedom and inventiveness paved the way for Haydn and Mozart.

Christina Landshamer, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Bernhard Forck - Telemann: Ino & Late Works (2024)

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Christina Landshamer, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Bernhard Forck - Telemann: Ino & Late Works (2024)

Christina Landshamer, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Bernhard Forck - Telemann: Ino & Late Works (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 354 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 168 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:11:06
Classical, Vocal | Label: Pentatone

The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and soprano Christina Landshamer present a Telemann monography, consisting of his cantata Ino and instrumental works composed in the same period. Despite, or perhaps actually thanks to, Telemann’s use of just one singer, Ino is highly dramatic, depicting a desperate woman trying to save herself and her son from her husband turned mad, eventually throwing herself off a cliff and then transformed into a goddess. Telemann composed it two years before his death, and the score is exceptionally rich and colourful. The cantata is combined with his Overture in D Major, Divertimento in E-flat Major and Sinfonia melodica, each underlining the exceptional liveliness of this composer well into the ninth decade of his prolific life.

Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin - George Frideric Handel: Water Music (2016)

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Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin - George Frideric Handel: Water Music (2016)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - George Frideric Handel: Water Music (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 248 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 118 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Baroque | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC902216 | Time: 00:48:34

You might think that Handel's Water Music, HWV 348-350, arguably the most familiar piece of Baroque music (the Four Seasons of Vivaldi can give it a run for its money, but its popularity is more recent), has received every possible interpretation. And you would be wrong, as the musicians of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin have shown in this Harmonia Mundi release, precisely recorded in Berlin's Teldex studio. You get a steady parade of innovations here, marked overall by, but not in the least restricted to, blisteringly fast tempos that turn the horn-dominated movements into tests of virtuosity. Unexpected dynamic contrasts and the unusual rhythmic treatment of the "Overture" to the Suite No. 1 (sample track one) are other novelties, but this veteran group is not out for shock value. The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin operate without a conductor, and their coordination in these crisp prestos is worth the price of admission in itself. Their ability to act as one in really unusual shapings of each individual movement is remarkable, and the treacherous horn parts are near perfection in the hands of Erwin Wieringa and Miroslav Rovenský.

VA - Handel: Famous Pieces (2023)

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VA - Handel: Famous Pieces (2023)

VA - Handel: Famous Pieces (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 896 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 411 Mb | 02:59:06
Classical | Label: Pentatone

Georg Friedrich Händel was one of the greatest composers of the Baroque period. Opera dominated Handel’s career, yet he was better known for his oratorios and instrumental works for several centuries. He forged a personal idiom by taking Italian traditions and adding elements of German counterpoint and dance forms from France. The result was a uniquely cosmopolitan style which, when Handel took it to London, would expand to embrace the musical legacy of the English Restoration composer Henry Purcell. Discover a compilation of famous Handel works featuring masterpieces by the great composer and wonderful musicians.

RIAS Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - J.S. Bach: The Motets (2023)

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RIAS Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - J.S. Bach: The Motets (2023)

RIAS Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - J.S. Bach: The Motets (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 373 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 198 Mb | 01:25:24
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: EuroArts Music

Under the baton of the new chief conductor Hans-Christoph Rademann, the RIAS Kammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin are performing famous Motets by Johann Sebastian Bach, interspersed with some fine instrumental works of the composer. Founded in 1948, the choir enjoys today a worldwide reputation as one of the best ensembles of its kind.

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Xenia Löffler & Bernhard Forck - Mozart: Paris; Haffner: Symphonies, Oboe Concerto (2023)

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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Xenia Löffler & Bernhard Forck - Mozart: Paris; Haffner: Symphonies, Oboe Concerto (2023)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Xenia Löffler & Bernhard Forck - Mozart: Paris & Haffner: Symphonies & Oboe Concerto (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 281 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 149 Mb | 01:04:48
Classical | Label: Pentatone

The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin launches a series of Mozart symphonies to appear on Pentatone, starting with the composer’s “Paris” and “Haffner” symphonies. On this first album, the works are coupled with his enchanting Oboe Concerto – performed by the ensemble’s first oboeist Xenia Löffler – and the bold overture to Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Mozart’s own woodwind arrangement. Taken together, these pieces demon-strate the rich palette and expressive power of Mozart’s music in the period between 1777 and 1783, during which he finally managed to spread his wings and leave his hometown of Salzburg.

RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Justin Doyle - Handel: Coronation Anthems (2023)

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RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Justin Doyle - Handel: Coronation Anthems (2023)

RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Justin Doyle - Handel: Coronation Anthems (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 280 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 137 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:59:17
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: harmonia mundi

In 1727, having just become a naturalised British subject, Handel was commissioned to write a set of anthems for the coronation of George II. Since he could hardly have expected ever to see a more majestic occasion, the composer took full advantage of it to put on a musical firework display of unprecedented splendour. The RIAS Kammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin give thrilling accounts of these flamboyant works – some of which are still used today at each new coronation!

Christina Landshamer, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Bernhard Forck - La passione (2022)

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Christina Landshamer, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Bernhard Forck - La passione (2022)

Christina Landshamer, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Bernhard Forck - La passione (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 319 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 166 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:11:51
Classical, Vocal | Label: Pentatone

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin returns to Pentatone together with soprano Christina Landshamer, presenting La Passione, a collection of dazzling concert arias on love, longing and loss by Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn, paired with the latter’s “La Passione” Symphony. Ranging from pastoral simplicity to exuberant outrage, the programme offers some of the finest vocal writing around 1800, including some of Beethoven’s rare and little-known excursions to Italian bravura opera, as well as one of the most dramatic and expressive symphonies of the eighteenth-century.

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Concerto for 2 Keyboards, Overture (2005)

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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Concerto for 2 Keyboards, Overture (2005)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Concerto for 2 Keyboards, Bwv 1061, Overture (Suite) No. 2 (2005)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 338 MB | 56:59
Genre: Classical | Label: Capriccio

Many fine recordings over the years have taught me that they know Bach in Leipzig, so I expected a lot from this recording, and wasn’t disappointed. These are possibly the best, or at least equal to the best, performances of these frequently performed works I’ve ever heard. They are very fast, but there is no sense of the music being rushed; it simply erupts at this tempo as if it couldn’t help itself, as if this were the only way it could possibly be played. Having just finished reading and reviewing a book on the origins of our ideas of original performance practice, this recording is a perfect example of what it was all about, Bach’s music pretty much the way he played it and heard it himself.

René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Septem Verba a Christo (2013)

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René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Septem Verba a Christo (2013)

René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Septem Verba a Christo (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 349 Mb | Total time: 80:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 902155 | Recorded: 2013

This Septem verba a Christo in cruce moriente proloata (The Seven Words of the Dying Christ on the Cross) was rediscovered nearly a century ago, and scholars down through the years have reached differing conclusions as to whether or not the work was really by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, as one manuscript claimed. More and more copies surfaced, and finally the discovery by musicologist Reinhard Fehling of a new set of parts at an Austrian monastery in 2009 showed that the work was at the very least popular over a good part of Europe, and the forces represented here gave the work its modern-day premiere performance and first recording.

Jean-Guihen Queyras, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit - Vivaldi: Cello Concertos (2011)

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Jean-Guihen Queyras, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit - Vivaldi: Cello Concertos (2011)

Jean-Guihen Queyras, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit - Vivaldi: Cello Concertos (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 360 Mb | Total time: 68:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMC902095 | Recorded: 2010

Alongside the famous Quattro Stagioni, La Notte, and so on, Vivaldi wrote no fewer than 27 concertos for the cello – an instrument which at the time was generally limited to playing basso continuo. With the genuine virtuosi he had available to him at the Ospedale della Pietà, the Red Priest played a key role in the emancipation of the cello, which so readily inspired him to invent varied figuration. The musicians of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin have chosen to add highly expressive pieces by Caldara to punctuate the sumptuous feast of sound offered by maestro Queyras.

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Xenia Löffler - C.P.E. Bach: Oboe Concertos (2020)

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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Xenia Löffler - C.P.E. Bach: Oboe Concertos (2020)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Xenia Löffler - C.P.E. Bach: Oboe Concertos (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 301 MB | Tracks: 12 | 63:05 min
Style: Classical | Label: harmonia mundi

The Berlin public of the mid-Eighteenth Century was fascinated by the ‘original genius’ of C. P. E. Bach and never tired of listening to his concertos. These works call for a talented soloist capable of mastering the multiple facets of an original and finely worked musical texture: a challenge taken up with panache (and on a period instrument) by the oboist Xenia Löffler, surrounded by her distinguished colleagues of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.

Harmonia Mundi - Opera Baroque - Italia: Vecchi, Rore, Monteverdi, Cavalli, A.Scarlatti [10cd] (2013)

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Harmonia Mundi - Opera Baroque - Italia: Vecchi, Rore, Monteverdi, Cavalli, A.Scarlatti [10cd] (2013)

Harmonia Mundi - Opéra Baroque - Italia: Vecchi, Rore, Monteverdi, Cavalli, A.Scarlatti [10cd] (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 2,61 Gb | Total time: 625:14 | Digital booklet (PDF)
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMX2908658.99 | Recorded: 1982, 1990, 1992, 2002

This luxurious set containing 39 CDs, 3 DVDs, 1 CD-Rom and four detailed booklets will tell you the full story of Baroque opera in Italy, France, England, and Germany. No fewer than 17 complete operas (including two on DVD) and two supplementary CDs (the dawn of opera, Overtures for the Hamburg Opera) provide the most comprehensive overview of the genre ever attempted! The finest performers are assembled here under the direction of René Jacobs and William Christie to offer you 47 hours of music. An opportunity to discover or to hear again the masterpieces of Baroque opera, some of which have been unavailable on CD for many years.