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Telemann: Christmas Cantatas, Vol. 3

Mirko Ludwig

Classical - Released January 4, 2019 | CPO

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Between 1717 and 1765 Georg Philipp Telemann composed more than 1 700 cantatas for performance on all the Sundays of the church year. Some dozen annual cycles from his period as music director in Frankfurt am Main and above all those from his Hamburg years have come down to us. In quantitative terms, the four Sundays of Advent and the three days of Christmas are the most strongly represented – with almost about two hundred cantatas. Apart from the cantatas for solo voice and solo instrument with basso continuo from his anthology Harmonischer Gottesdienst of 1725, only a few compositions for larger ensembles from this treasure trove have been edited and recorded. This album features four cantatas by Telemann that may be regarded as world-premiere recordings. They are musical gems that impress us with their melodic originality and musical character and even after more than 250 years are very much worth being performed again! © CPO
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3 min 29 sec

hitorie

Rock - Released June 2, 2021 | Sony Music Labels Inc.

Sainte-Colombe le fils: Tombeau pour Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe le père - 5 suites pour viole seule

Jonathan Dunford

Classical - Released January 1, 2004 | Universal Music Division Decca Records France

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Prokofiev: Pierre et le loup et autre pièces russes

Valérie Lemercier

Classical - Released January 1, 2007 | naïve classique

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Tres Tres Fort

Staff Benda Bilili

Africa - Released January 1, 2007 | Crammed Discs

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3 min 29 sec (N3WPORT Remix) - SACRA BEATS Singles

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Dance - Released October 8, 2021 | Sony Music Labels Inc.

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Il suffit d'y croire, mais très très fort

MAB

French Music - Released March 29, 2024 | Moins C Plus

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Rock - Released May 1, 2021 | Sony Music Labels Inc.

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My Three Cents

Complete

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released January 30, 2018 | Fort Nox 3 Music

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Très très fort

MAB

Pop - Released November 16, 2023 | Riptide Records

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très fort, très beau

Princesse

French Music - Released May 12, 2021 | Princesse

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Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6

Accademia Bizantina

Classical - Released November 11, 2022 | Hdb Sonus

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The vigour and richness of the Concerto grossi, Op. 6, which Handel based on Corelli’s model, seems to have dictated this full-bodied and highly structured performance by the Accademia Bizantina (directed by Ottavio Dantone). Their vision isn’t some long, quiet road; rather, the listener is taken on a journey, discovering varied landscapes as they travel an often arid and meandering path.The Italian baroque conductor and harpsichordist has been delighting musicophiles during his time as head of the Accademia Bizantina, founded in Ravenna, for over thirty years. Alongside a number of others, he’s contributed to many musical discoveries and to a standard of interpretation which today’s music lovers have become accustomed to. Always looking to uncover new scores, Ottavio Dantone maintains contact with European libraries through his appointed musicologist, Bernardo Ticci, whom he claims is ‘a real truffle hunter’.His in-depth knowledge of Handel’s operas led him to examine the Concerto grossi, Op. 6, in great detail. He says that these ‘extraordinary pages are dear to my heart, and I have approached them with all the meticulousness I’m known for’. This diligence is perceptible throughout the twelve Concerti grossi, which display a skilful blend of Nordic earnestness and Mediterranean joy. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV 54

Apollo's Fire

Classical - Released October 6, 2023 | Avie Records

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Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt, HWV 54, bombed at its first performance in 1739 and was heavily revised by Handel. The revisions go even further here, in what is marked as an adaptation by Apollo's Fire director Jeannette Sorrell. She makes wholesale cuts, removing numerous arias, consolidating others, and leaving only a few recitatives. Sorrell retains, however, the three-part structure of Handel's first attempt (the librettist was probably Charles Jennens of Messiah), consisting of the "Lamentations by the Israelites for the Death of Joseph," "Exodus," and "Moses' Song." She also keeps the chorus-heavy quality of Handel's originals. The nearly three-hour oratorio usually heard is sliced to just over 74 minutes. All this might seem an unwarranted intrusion, but Handel himself obviously struggled with the material of this oratorio, which isn't one of his more commonly heard works. And lo, Sorrell's reworking succeeds solidly, creating convincing dramatic arcs where they previously existed only in outline. The ten plagues are shortened considerably but make more of an impact in their abbreviated form. The greatest strength here is the choral writing, in many places the equal of anything in Messiah. Apollo's Fire is a rather underrated choral-orchestral group from the U.S. Midwest that offers a satisfyingly good-sized choir with clear text articulation and a fine sense of expressing what they are singing about. A strong offering that will be appreciated by Handel lovers during the 2023 holiday season and beyond.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

Concerto Köln

Classical - Released October 7, 2016 | Berlin Classics

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C.P.E. Bach: Magnificat, Auf, schicke dich recht feierlich & Spiega Hammonia fortunata

Die Kölner Akademie

Classical - Released November 8, 2023 | CPO

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Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni

Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini

Classical - Released January 14, 2003 | naïve

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Bizet: Djamileh

Münchner Rundfunkorchester

Opera - Released January 1, 2016 | Orfeo

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The Four Seasons:The Vivaldi Album

Anne Akiko Meyers

Classical - Released February 4, 2014 | eOne Music

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American violinist Anne Akiko Meyers has charted out an independent career by dint of unusual programming, an intensely lyrical style, and connections that have allowed her to play a really striking group of violins. Here the programming is adventurous only in the inclusion of Arvo Pärt's Passacaglia in an album devoted to Vivaldi, and indeed the Pärt work seems to come out of left field. Vivaldi's Four Seasons violin concertos are perhaps the most common item in the entire classical repertory, and the accompaniment here by the English Chamber Orchestra, which must have played these pieces hundreds or thousands of times, is standard. But the other arrows in Meyers' quiver don't fail her. The star of the show here is perhaps the violin, an instrument by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù that, Meyers notes, is considered one of the finest in existence, and it's never been heard on recordings before. It was owned by Romantic-era violinist-composer Henri Vieuxtemps, and legend has it that Eugène Ysaÿe carried it behind Vieuxtemps' casket on its own silk cusion at Vieuxtemps' funeral. For the purposes of this recording, though, the relevant information is that Guarneri was nearly an exact contemporary of Vivaldi, and that Meyers draws from it a rather eerie meeting of instrumental sound and composition. The ultra-famous middle movement of the "Winter" concerto (track 11) is well worth hearing one more time here; it simply has very rarely had such a combination of soaring songfulness and sheer instrumental power. The recording of the album was apparently a complex process, taking place at Henry Wood Hall in London with "additional recording done September 6, 2013," in Purchase, New York. Whatever this is supposed to mean, the engineers did their job of getting a really spectacular violin to communicate some of its riches through the digital haze. And that's the main attraction here. © TiVo
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Orff: Carmina Burana (Édition StudioMasters)

Sir Simon Rattle

Choral Music (Choirs) - Released January 5, 2005 | Warner Classics International

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Despite being a live recording -- or, more accurately, one assembled from several concerts -- this 2005 CD of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana is almost as polished and well-produced as a studio recording. Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic are incredibly tight and coordinated with the choirs and vocal soloists, and everything holds together quite well, without embarrassing mishaps, sloppy playing, or extraneous audience noises; obviously, using the best takes from several tapes prevents this. Even better, the performance really goes at a sprint; if anyone has ever felt that Carmina needed a good, swift kick to retain interest, then this galloping rendition ought to satisfy, at least in terms of tempi. However, the sound covers a wide dynamic range and it is often terribly soft and remote in the most subdued movements; yet the rousers have more than enough power to be heard, so a lot of experimentation with levels is required. The percussion is featured prominently in the big numbers -- Rattle takes great pains to emphasize Orff's spectacular writing for the section -- so the volume setting also depends on how well one appreciates (or tolerates) loud cymbal crashes and pugnacious drumming. So this fine recording is worth a hearing, though it is somewhat labor intensive for home listening.© TiVo
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Orff: Carmina Burana

Riccardo Muti

Classical - Released January 1, 1980 | Warner Classics