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Christopher Purves, Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - Handel's Finest Arias for Base Voice, Vol. 2 (2018)

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Christopher Purves, Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - Handel's Finest Arias for Base Voice, Vol. 2 (2018)

Christopher Purves, Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - Handel's Finest Arias for Base Voice, Vol. 2 (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 389 Mb | Total time: 77:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68152 | Recorded: 2016

Christopher Purves is renowned for both the powerful sense of dramatic conviction he brings to everything he undertakes, and for a vocal technique which must be heard to be believed. From Handel’s early cantata to selections from Italian opera and English oratorio, this is a recital from a very special singer indeed.

Miloš Karadaglić, Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen - Baroque (2023)

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Miloš Karadaglić, Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen - Baroque (2023)

Miloš Karadaglić, Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen - Baroque (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 265 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 156 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:03:17
Classical | Label: Sony Classical

MILOŠ - the super star musician who led today’s revival in the classical guitar, launches a new era in his exceptional career with his debut album on Sony Classical. Titled “Baroque”, the album presents Miloš’ own take on Baroque works especially arranged for guitar, with period ensemble Arcangelo conducted by Jonathan Cohen joining on 6 pieces. The album will be released on October 13 and is set to enrich the unrivalled legacy of Sony Classical’s recordings of legendary guitarists. At times thrillingly virtuosic, at others deeply meditative, Miloš gives his own unique take on music by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Rameau and more.

Charles Richard-Hamelin, Les Violons du Roy & Jonathan Cohen - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23 (2023)

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Charles Richard-Hamelin, Les Violons du Roy & Jonathan Cohen - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23 (2023)

Charles Richard-Hamelin, Les Violons du Roy & Jonathan Cohen - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 241 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 143 Mb | 01:02:04
Classical | Label: Analekta

Following a fruitful first collaboration for Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 22 and 24, Charles Richard-Hamelin, Les Violons du Roy and Jonathan Cohen return this time with Piano Concertos Nos. 20 and 23. The works on this recording were composed by Mozart between 1783 and 1786, when the musician was approaching an important personal and professional turning point. First, the Concerto in A major, K. 488, was completed on March 2, 1786, two months before the premiere of The Marriage of Figaro, a work that marks Mozart's return to opera. While Concerto K. 466 is, with Concerto No. 24, the only one by Mozart in the minor mode, that also coincides with the arrival of his son Karl. The performance of the soloist and of the orchestra complement each other marvellously in these two masterpieces whose contrasts respond to each other magnificently.

Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres (2018)

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Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres (2018)

Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 359 Mb | Total time: 73:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68171 | Recorded: 2018

Marc-Antoine Charpentier studied in Italy with Giacomo Carissimi, and he was one of the first composers to introduce aspects of Italian styles to France. His big motets lend themselves naturally to operatic singing, and even in liturgical works like the ones collected on this release, the Italian influences are still there. Sample the Magnificat à 3, with its ground bass-like construction and its unusual texture, including three male voices (bass, tenor, and haute-contre). The opening Litanies de la vierge are for a six-voice group, but the bulk of the program consists of the titular Leçons de ténèbres, solo works (two for bass and one for haute-contre) with a small ensemble to which is given a good quantity of expressive writing and contrapuntal clashes.

Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - George Frideric Handel: Brockes-Passion (2021)

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Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - George Frideric Handel: Brockes-Passion (2021)

Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - George Frideric Handel: Brockes-Passion (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 863 Mb | Total time: 160:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha | # ALPHA 644 | Recorded: 2020

Barthold Heinrich Brockes wrote a libretto on the Passion of Christ – based on the account in Matthew’s Gospel – which was set to music by many composers of his time, including Reinhard Keiser, Georg Philip Telemann and George Frideric Handel. It is Handel’s version of the latter that the period-instrument ensemble Arcangelo has chosen to present here. Under the direction of Jonathan Cohen, these specialists in the Baroque repertory are joined by the voices of Sandrine Piau, whose numerous Handel recordings are regarded as a benchmark, the tenor Stuart Jackson and the baritone Konstantin Krimmel, recently revealed in a debut recital for Alpha.

Iestyn Davies, Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - Arias for Guadagni (2012)

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Iestyn Davies, Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - Arias for Guadagni (2012)

Iestyn Davies, Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - Arias for Guadagni (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 385 Mb | Total time: 78:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67924 | Recorded: 2011

British countertenor Iestyn Davies is one of the fastest rising stars on the concert and opera circuit. Following his highly acclaimed recording of Porpora cantatas, he returns for a second solo album with Hyperion, a selection of arias written for Gaetano Guadagni. Italian-born Guadagni was the first ‘modern’ castrato, famed all over Europe for the lyric purity of his voice and his powerful, naturalistic acting style. Not only did he enjoy a close artistic relationship with Handel, who nurtured Guadagni’s voice to fit the alto roles in his English oratorios, but he effectively created the role of Orpheus in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, an opera he thoroughly made his own. Here, Iestyn Davies is joined again by the renowned period-instrument band Arcangelo, directed by Jonathan Cohen.

Charles Richard-Hamelin, Les Violons du Roy & Jonathan Cohen - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 22 & 24 (2020)

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Charles Richard-Hamelin, Les Violons du Roy & Jonathan Cohen - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 22 & 24 (2020)

Charles Richard-Hamelin, Les Violons du Roy & Jonathan Cohen - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 22 & 24 (2020)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 231 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 156 Mb | 01:05:15
Classical | Label: Analekta

In their very first recording together, pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin and the Violons du Roy present Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s piano concertos No. 22 and No. 24 that are replete with passionate outbursts, startling contrasts, rich orchestration and overt emotional fervor. Charles Richard-Hamelin, Silver medalist and winner of the Krystian Zimerman award at the International Chopin Piano Competition in 2015, impresses with his extremely refined playing and the Violons du Roy, under the direction of Jonathan Cohen, offer grandiose performances imbued with dignity and grace.

Iestyn Davies, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen - Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas Nos 54, 82 & 170 (2017)

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Iestyn Davies, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen - Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas Nos 54, 82 & 170 (2017)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas Nos 54, 82 & 170 (2017)
Iestyn Davies, countertenor; Arcangelo; Jonathan Cohen, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 341 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 154 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68111 | Time: 01:04:51

Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - January 2017. Ich habe genug is a timeless, transcendental masterpiece: a profound expression of Christian faith at the very end of life. It demands artistry of a special order, and Iestyn Davies now joins the likes of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson in the work’s distinguished discography. The couplings are equally ravishing performances of two other great solo cantatas, while the two orchestral sinfonias which complete the album will prove refreshingly familiar.

Anna Prohasca, Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - Enchanted Forest: Vivaldi, Handel, Purcell, Cavalli, Monteverdi (2013)

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Anna Prohasca, Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - Enchanted Forest: Vivaldi, Handel, Purcell, Cavalli, Monteverdi (2013)

Anna Prohasca, Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - Enchanted Forest: Vivaldi, Handel, Purcell, Cavalli, Monteverdi (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 280 Mb | Total time: 70:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 479 0077 | Recorded: 2012

Anna Prohaska’s recital takes us into the moss-carpeted dreamworlds of Ariosto, Ovid, Shakespeare and Tasso. The theme is transformation, by love or magic or a combination of the two. Arcangelo’s instrumental playing is reliably interesting, sometimes too interesting (Jonathan Cohen is not a ‘less is more’ director). But the most effective enchantment occurs when Prohaska stops trying to fit her dryish, coolish voice into a Patricia Petitbon-shaped presentation box.

Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen - Buxtehude: Trio Sonatas, Op. 1 (2017)

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Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen - Buxtehude: Trio Sonatas, Op. 1 (2017)

Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen - Buxtehude: Trio Sonatas, Op. 1 (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 346 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 136 Mb | 00:59:16
Classical | Label: Alpha Classcis, Outhere Music

For this recording of music by Buxtehude, Jonathan Cohen, founder of the ensemble Arcangelo, is joined by a distinguished trio, including two regulars on the Alpha label, Sophie Gent and Thomas Dunford, alongside the gambist Jonathan Manson. Although Dietrich Buxtehude is famous above all for his organ music and cantatas, and for the long journey the young Bach undertook to meet him, his chamber music is virtually unknown. In the mid-1690s, at the height of his fame, Buxtehude published two collections in rapid succession, each comprising seven sonatas for violin, viola da gamba and basso continuo. It is the works of the first collection (1694) – designated Opus 1 in the print – that Arcangelo has recorded here. These sonatas are characterised by pronounced experimental features in both the scoring and the handling of the instruments.

Christopher Purves, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen - George Frideric Handel: Finest Arias for Base Voice (2013)

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Christopher Purves, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen - George Frideric Handel: Finest Arias for Base Voice (2013)

George Frideric Handel - Finest Arias for Base Voice (2013)
Christopher Purves, bass; Arcangelo, conducted by Jonathan Cohen

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 338 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 166 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67842 | Time: 01:10:53

The magnificent Christopher Purves performs a recital of Handel’s bass arias. This unique collection demonstrates the range and brilliance of Handel’s writing for this voice, featuring a selection from Italian and English operas, English classical drama, Biblical oratorios, literary odes and a masque. Handel’s endlessly imaginative gift for characterization is fully explored here, with Purves commanding an extraordinary emotional and technical range from the buffo blustering of Polyphemus in Acis and Gatalea to the loving musings of Abinoam in ‘Tears, such as tender fathers shed’ from the oratorio Deborah.

Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen - Buxtehude: Trio Sonatas Op. 2 (2021)

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Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen - Buxtehude: Trio Sonatas Op. 2 (2021)

Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen - Buxtehude: Trio Sonatas Op. 2 (2021)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 01:11:23 | 164 Mb
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

The sonata concertata form is perfectly illustrated in these trios by Dietrich Buxtehude which, according to Peter Wollny constitute ‘a landmark in the history of the sonata’. They provide a better understanding of a composer who has owed his fame chiefly associated to his cantatas and organ works, and to the admiration of the young Johann Sebastian Bach, who walked 400 kilometres to hear him play. After recording Buxtehude’s first set of chamber sonatas (ALPHA367), the musicians of Arcangelo (Sophie Gent, Jonathan Manson, Thomas Dunford and Jonathan Cohen) now revive the pieces from the second collection, published in 1696. It shows the multiple European influences (Baltic, Italian, German, French) that flourished in Lübeck, the north German city where Buxtehude worked as organist of the Marienkirche, but also in Hamburg, where the music was type set.

Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - François Couperin: L'Apothéose de Lully & Leçons de ténèbres (2017)

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Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - François Couperin: L'Apothéose de Lully & Leçons de ténèbres (2017)

Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - François Couperin: L'Apothéose de Lully & Leçons de ténèbres (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 314 Mb | Total time: 70:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68093 | Recorded: 2013, 2014

The delightful scenario of L'Apothéose de Lully imagines the composer Lully, one of François Couperin s forebears at the court of Louis XIV, being wafted up to Mount Parnassus by Apollo. There, he meets the Italian muses, and the music becomes that synthesis of the French and Italian styles which Couperin so admired. All of this is captured with grace in Arcangelo's playing under its founder, Jonathan Cohen. The other work on the disc is the sacred Leçons de ténèbres, sung with purity by sopranos Katherine Watson and Anna Dennis and revealing another side to Couperin's art.

Kate Lindsey, Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen - Tiranno (2021)

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Kate Lindsey, Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen - Tiranno (2021)

Kate Lindsey, Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen - Tiranno (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 369 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 174 Mb | 01:15:32
Classical, Vocal | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

Corruption? Betrayal? Persecution? Tyranny? These subjects resonate with the current events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They also provide the subject matter of many seventeenth-century musical works. Kate Lindsey has chosen to devote this second Baroque recital with the English ensemble Arcangelo directed by Jonathan Cohen (following Arianna in 2020, ALPHA576) to the figure of Nero. Scarlatti, Handel and Monteverdi wrote works focusing on this tragic protagonist and his entourage, including his mother Agrippina and his wives (Poppaea and Octavia). Interpreted with incredible intensity by the American mezzo-soprano, the programme features world premiere recordings of two cantatas: Alessandro Scarlatti’s La morte di Nerone (c.1690) and Bartolomeo Monari’s La Poppea (1685). Tenor Andrew Staples and soprano Nardus Williams join Kate Lindsey for duets from L’incoronazione di Poppea, including the sensual ‘Pur ti miro’.

Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen - Handel: Brockes-Passion (2021)

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Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen - Handel: Brockes-Passion (2021)

Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen - Handel: Brockes-Passion (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 884 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 371 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:40:44
Classical, Opera | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

Barthold Heinrich Brockes wrote a libretto on the Passion of Christ – based on the account in Matthew’s Gospel – which was set to music by many composers of his time, including Reinhard Keiser, Georg Philip Telemann and George Frideric Handel. It is Handel’s version of the latter that the period-instrument ensemble Arcangelo has chosen to present here. Under the direction of Jonathan Cohen, these specialists in the Baroque repertory are joined by the voices of Sandrine Piau, whose numerous Handel recordings are regarded as a benchmark, the tenor Stuart Jackson and the baritone Konstantin Krimmel, recently revealed in a debut recital for Alpha (Saga, ALPHA549). Together they resurrect the operatic splendour of a work that was first performed in 1719 and is thought to have influenced numerous passages of J. S. Bach’s St John Passion, written a few years later.