Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Isabelle Faust, Antoine Tamestit – J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:27:35 minutes | 3,38 GB | Genre: Classical
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Johann Sebastian Bach and the Akademie f”ur Alte Musik Berlin go back a long way together! This recording, made with the welcome participation of Isabelle Faust and Antoine Tamestit, follows the complete violin concertos (2019), which left a lasting impression. Returning regularly to the inexhaustible source of the Brandenburgs ever since a memorable first recording in the late 1990s, the Berlin musicians have achieved a sovereign mastery of what is not a single work, but six, which, under their fingers, are successive episodes of a piece of musical theatre in love with dance, transparent sound and freedom. An exhilarating experience!
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Xenia Löffler – C.P.E. Bach: Oboe Concertos (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:10 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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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.
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Bernhard Forck – Händel: 12 Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Nos. 7-12 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:13 minutes | 1,50 GB | Genre: Classical
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This second volume of Handel’s Concerti grossi from Opus 6 was recorded by the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin under the direction of Bernhard Frock, completing the first part published in July 2019. Once again, the sound recording is magnificently natural, brilliantly capturing the venue’s spatiality and the instruments’ full-bodied timbres.
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Sophie Karthäuser – Bach: Dialogkantaten, BWV 32, 49 & 57 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:36 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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Exquisite dialogue The church cantata very quickly came to occupy a privileged place in Bach’s output, but it was in his Leipzig period that he explored new stylistic possibilities for the genre in several cycles. The third of these, mostly scored for relatively small forces, features in these Dialogkantaten three fine examples of the ‘madrigalian’ type: in their arias, recitatives and chorales, the composer deploys a poetry that does not exclude audacity and an eloquence worthy of opera. These fervent musical conversations are here conducted con brio thanks to the rapport between two singers as moving as they are inspired.
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