Antonello Manacorda, Kammerakademie Potsdam – Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 05:43:44 minutes | 5,93 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Kammerakademie Potsdam (Chamber Academy Potsdam) and its principal conductor Antonello Manacorda complete their Beethoven cycle with the release of all nine symphonies in a special boxset. As the third and final installment in the series, the release will include their new recording of Beethoven’s third, fourth and eighth symphonies as well as the composer’s legendary ‘Ninth Symphony’.
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Golda Schultz, Antonello Manacorda, Kammerakademie Potsdam – Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy! (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:13 minutes | 1007 MB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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‘Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!’ This is the title that the South African soprano Golda Schultz has decided to give to her new album, devoted to the female heroines of Don Giovanni , Così fan tutte and Le nozze di Figaro , roles that have marked her career from Berlin to The Metropolitan Opera: ‘Why does Mozart drive me crazy? First of all, because his music, which sounds so easy when you listen to it, is extremely difficult to perform… And when I immerse myself in the world of Da Ponte and Mozart, I realise that there’s a deep complexity to their female characters: they endure the toughest trials, but they also display great strength. In fact, these operas explore humanity from the feminine perspective: every single one of these women is constantly evolving. They show how human beings transcend trauma and how grief and pain can be overcome.’ The programme is conducted by another eminent Mozartian, Antonello Manacorda, with the Kammerakademie Potsdam.
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Antonello Manacorda, Kammerakademie Potsdam – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:14 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Kammerakademie Potsdam and its musical director Antonello Manacorda have received numerous awards for their complete recordings of the symphonies of Franz Schubert and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Their recording of the last three Mozart symphonies earned them an OPUS Klassik 2022 as “Orchestra of the Year.” Last year they began a new Beethoven cycle with Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 7, which they now continue with the pivotal Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6.
Critics attested to the first album “incredible anticipation and joie de vivre” (Stereoplay) as well as “inner logic and persuasiveness” (FONO FORUM).
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Andreas Ottensamer, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Emmanuel Pahud, Albrecht Mayer – New Era: Stamitz, Danzi, Mozart (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:55 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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Ottensamer presents a dazzling selection of the clarinet’s early repertoire from 18th Century Mannheim, with works by J. and C.P. Stamitz, Mozart and Danzi, together with the Kammerakademie Potsdam.
Featuring duets with Albrecht Mayer and Emmanuel Pahud – two of the great wind soloists of our time and Ottensamer’s friends and colleagues at the Berliner Philharmoniker. It promises to be the chamber recording of the year.
The “Mannheim school” was a melting pot of “revolutionary experimentation” – musicians from all over Europe coming together to develop a new explosive and colourful sound – forming the orchestra as we know it today.
The Mannheim Orchestra was also the first to adopt the recently developed clarinet into the orchestra, and here Mozart heard the instrument for the first time.
“It’s fascinating to think that Mannheim inspired so many composers and musicians, and it was the players themselves who made it happen – it gave them the chance to do their own thing. Every aspect of composition, playing, teaching and conducting was concentrated there, and audiences went wild, blown away by the kind of rock-star ensemble that they heard.” Andreas Ottensamer
Ottensamer’s debut album on Decca Classics – the first clarinettist to sign exclusively to the label in its 89 year history.
Kammerakademie Potsdam & Peter Rainer – Johann Matthias Sperger: String Quartets op. 1 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:49 minutes | 601 MB | Genre: Classical
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Since 1791, the Berlin (State) libraries and the Schwerin State Library have had the String Quartets Op. 1 by Johann Matthias Sperger (1750–1812) in their collections – including an original printed edition. Unfortunately, they went unnoticed until the first modern per- formance in 1990 by the ensemble “Musica Instrumentalis Schwerin” in collaboration with musicologist Stefan Fischer. Since then they have been presented in concert and released on CD by the string quartet of the Kammerakademie Potsdam: Peter Rainer (1st violin), Laura Rajanen (2nd violin), Christoph Starke (viola) and Jan-Peter Kuschel (violoncello). In a stroke of foresight, the proactive publisher Reinhard Wulfhorst of Schwerin has produced beautifully printed parts for the occasion.
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Kammerakademie Potsdam & Antonello Manacorda – Mozart Symphonies Nos. 39, 40, 41 (2021)
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In the summer of 1788 Wolfgang Amad’e Mozart (1756-91) wrote what from any standpoint is an extraordinary set of three symphonies – as Jarno says in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, people “do extraordinary things without respecting orderliness”. It was presumably not Mozart’s intention that this group of symphonies should remain his final word on the subject, and a weighty one at that. Despite every setback, it tells of a time of new departures, not of valediction. Only three years later, during which time he had written many other masterpieces, death snatched the pen from his hand. He was only thirty-five…
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Kammerakademie Potsdam, Antonello Manacorda – Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5 (2017)
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The Kammerakademie Potsdam, headed by Antonello Manacorda, received an Echo Klassik Award as the year’s best orchestra for its complete recording of the Schubert symphonies. Now it is turning to a Mendelssohn cycle and has already received high praise for its recording of Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4: “sparkling and vivacious”, wrote the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, “a sentient being with heartbeat that breathes and never stops moving”. Now these works are followed by Symphonies Nos. 3 and 5, which occupy a special place in Mendelssohn’s oeuvre. The atmospheric and popular “Scottish” Symphony (No. 3) has an autobiographical aspect in the form of the composer’s 1829 journey to Scotland, a place of longing much frequented by Central Europeans for its rugged landscapes, fog-bound seacoasts and legends of witches and sorcerers, all of which find their way into the music. Symphony No. 5, often called the “Reformation” Symphony, was written in 1830 for the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession. In the event, its performance had to be postponed owing to the pan-European revolutions of 1830, and the work did not receive its première until two years later. An x8 trak piece of work.
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Kammerakademie Potsdam – Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2, “Lobgesang” (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:05:23 minutes | 633 MB | Genre: Classical
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Die Kammerakademie Potsdam unter der Leitung von Antonello Manacorda wurde für ihre herausragende Einspielung der Schubertsinfonien Nr. 2 und 4 mit einem ECHO Klassik als Ensemble des Jahres ausgezeichnet. Als zweites großes Aufnahmeprojekt starteten sie einen Zyklus mit Werken von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Die beiden hierbei bereits erschienen Einspielungen der Sinfonien Nr. 1 und 4 sowie 3 und 5 wurden von der Fachpresse ebenfalls euphorisch gelobt.
Als dritte Aufnahme dieses großen Zyklus folgt nun die Sinfonie Nr. 2 „Lobgesang“, die eigentlich als Sinfoniekantate für Soli (Sopran und Tenor) sowie Chor und Orchester 1840 von Mendelssohn komponiert wurde. Die Sinfonie, die bereits zu Lebzeiten des Komponisten riesige Erfolge feierte und zu einem der meistaufgeführten Werke Mendelssohns wurde, ist vor allem durch die Mischung aus Sinfonie und Kantate interessant, bei der Mendelssohn nicht etwa einen instrumentalen und gesanglich / textlichen Teil (Bibelzitate) gegenüberstellt, sondern diese musikalisch miteinander verbindet und zu einer großen Sinfonie vereint.
Die Solisten dieser auch klangtechnisch herausragenden Aufnahmen sind die Sopranistinnen Maria Bengtsson und Johanna Winkel und der Tenor Pavol Breslik, als Chor konnte der renommierte NDR Chor gewonnen werden.
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Evgeni Koroliov, Anna Vinnitskaya, Ljupka Hadzi Georgieva & Kammerakademie Potsdam – Bach: Concertos for Pianos (2019)
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Over the past five years, pianist Anna Vinnitskaya has made three Alpha recordings dedicated to Shostakovitch, Brahms et Rachmaninov.
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Antonello Manacorda, Kammerakademie Potsdam – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 7 (2022)
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Italian conductor and violinist Antonello Manacorda first appeared on the conducting scene in a 2000 production of La Clemenza di Tito. At the time he had virtually no conducting experience, but influential figures accurately spotted his talent, and he has emerged as a versatile and innovative figure. Manacorda was born in 1970 in Turin, Italy. His father was an accountant, but both his parents were amateur music enthusiasts, and when Manacorda, as a child, expressed a desire to become a conductor, they encouraged his instincts. In school at the Turin Conservatory, however, Manacorda studied violin.
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Emmanuel Pahud, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Trevor Pinnock – Bach, C.P.E.: Flute Concertos (2016)
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Emmanuel Pahud returns to music written for The Flute King with these three concertos by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (1714-88), who spent nearly 30 years on the musical staff at the court of Frederick the Great, a powerful monarch and a highly accomplished flautist. Pahud, the long-standing principal flautist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, is joined by Kammerakademie Potsdam, directed from the harpsichord by Trevor Pinnock.
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Albrecht Mayer, Kammerakademie Potsdam – Lost And Found (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:06 minutes | 654 MB | Genre: Classical
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Deutsche Grammophon are very pleased to present Albrecht Mayer’s new album ‘Lost and Found’ in which he delivers a rare and sublime oboe concerti from the 18th century which he discovered in ancient music archives in Thuringia and Saxony.
Widely considered the world’s greatest oboist, Mayer with his unmistakable cantabile sound, breathes new life into these long-lost jewels of German high classicism .
The four, classically proportioned concerti are direct predecessors to Mozart – there is even evidence Mozart knew and studied these works, and may even have had a hand in the composition of the work of Kozeluch.
The music on this album is beautiful and very lyrical, and thus ideal for classical radio stations such as Klassik Radio, Classic FM etc and since his previous albums have consistently ranked in the German pop charts – the only oboist in history to have achieved such prominence and popularity- ‘Lost and Found’ will be the continuation of an incredible career of recorded success.
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