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Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (1990)

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Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (1990)

Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 928 Mb | Total time: 69:39+62:17+72:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 425 701-2 | Recorded: 1974, 1979

Jephtha was the last full-length composition that Handel wrote. (The Triumph of Time and Truth of 1757 was almost entirely made up of pre-existing music.) Given this fact, and also that the actual writing of it was an inordinately laborious task for Handel as he fought with rapidly failing eyesight, it's incomparable depth of expression and personal commitment make the whole work a profound and magnificent conclusion to his life's output. Based on a story from Judges XI, it tells of Jephtha leading the Israelites against the Ammonites and his ultimate sacrifice.

Neville Marriner, Academy and Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor (1986)

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Neville Marriner, Academy and Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor (1986)

Neville Marriner, Academy and Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor (1986)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 562 Mb | Total time: 118:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 416 415-2 | Recorded: 1977

This Mass in B Minor led by Sir Neville Marriner is an excellent choice for those looking for modern orchestral instruments, lively, full adult choruses, and a solid lineup of soloists. Marriner’s performance lacks the ponderously stodgy tempos of those older recordings, but he does not bypass the beauty, spirituality, or grandiosity inherent in the music in favour of speed.

George Guest, Stephen Cleobury, Philip Ledger - Antonio Vivaldi: Glorias, Dixit Dominus, Magnificat, Beatus Vir (1994)

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George Guest, Stephen Cleobury, Philip Ledger - Antonio Vivaldi: Glorias, Dixit Dominus, Magnificat, Beatus Vir (1994)

George Guest, Stephen Cleobury, Philip Ledger, Wren Orchestra, Choir of St. John's College Cambridge, The Choir of King's College Cambridge - Antonio Vivaldi: Glorias, Dixit Dominus, Magnificat, Beatus Vir (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 595 Mb | Total time: 57:44+68:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 443 455-2 | Recorded: 1976, 1981, 1986

Vivaldi's sacred music is not so famous as that of his contemporaries Bach and Handel, so this is a bargain opportunity to catch up. You might think Vivaldi's playful, virtuoso Italianate character and Catholic context would produce radically different music, but in George Guest's urgent readings, the mixture of restrainedly exultant choruses and austerely beautiful arias are near-identical to Bach.

Krzysztof Meisinger - Heitor Villa-Lobos: Melodia Sentimental; Guitar Concerto; Five Preludes (2012)

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Krzysztof Meisinger - Heitor Villa-Lobos: Melodia Sentimental; Guitar Concerto; Five Preludes (2012)

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Melodia Sentimental; Guitar Concerto; Five Preludes (2012)
Krzysztof Meisinger, guitar; Academy of St Martin in the Fields; José Maria Florêncio, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 194 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 117 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Guitar | Label: Fuga Libera | # FUG599 | Time: 00:50:36

The young Polish musician Krzysztof Meisinger (b. 1984) is one of the most fascinating and charismatic guitarists of his generation. With the legendary Academy of St Martin in the Fields under the direction of the Brazilian conductor José Maria Florêncio, he has recorded the famous Guitar Concerto of Heitor Villa-Lobos. In this work of 1951, Villa-Lobos paid eloquent homage to the guitar’s qualities as a concert instrument. The recording also includes the Five Preludes for solo guitar, and an arrangement of Melodia Sentimental for guitar, violin, and string orchestra. This programme – recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London! – ideally displays the flexibility of a young soloist ready to conquer the world with his bewitching playing.

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, Orchestral Suites (2007)

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Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, Orchestral Suites (2007)

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, Orchestral Suites (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 914 Mb | Total time: 191:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 5 00955 2 | Recorded: 1984, 1985

While most serious listeners already have their favorite sets of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and the Orchestral Suites, newcomers searching for respectable recordings at a reasonable price would do well to start with this triple-CD set by Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. These recordings were made in 1984 and 1985, and still offer fine sound for early digital recording and exceptional musical value. Marriner's performances may not be as exacting and scrupulous about Baroque performance practice as those of Gustav Leonhardt or Trevor Pinnock, but they are informed by serious scholarship and have sufficient appeal to make the finer points debatable.

Jan Lisiecki, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos (2020) [Blu-Ray]

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Jan Lisiecki, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos (2020) [Blu-Ray]

Jan Lisiecki, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos (2020) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 24963 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps | 188 min | 43,0 Gb
Audio1: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3679 kbps / 24-bit
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BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1280x720 / 2735 kbps / 29,97 fps | 188 min | 5,57 Gb
Audio: DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24-bits
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon

In anticipation of Beethoven's 250th birthday in 2020, Jan LIsiecki presents a full cycle of Beethoven's five piano concertos, accompanied by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 has particularly played a significant role in Lisiecki's career. In 2013, he performed the work with Orchestra Mozart under Claudio Abbado in Bologna, an indisposed Martha Argerich at short notice, and he performed the same work at his Carnegie Hall debut.

Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Mozart: Symphonies No. 38 "Prague" & No. 39 (1986)

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Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Mozart: Symphonies No. 38 "Prague" & No. 39 (1986)

Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Mozart: Symphonies No. 38 "Prague" & No. 39 (1986)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 255 Mb | Total time: 59:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI | # CDC 7 47334 2 | Recorded: 1985

These distinguished, if not perfect, recordings made in 1984. They should be amongst everyone’s preferred renditions. They are brisk but not tense, dramatic and even playful when need be. Occasionally, but only at rare moments, such as the beginning of the “Prague” Symphony, I would like something a little fiercer. Mostly Marriner is right on, as in the transition between the darkish introduction to the first movement of the Symphony No. 39 and its exuberant main theme.

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields - Charles Avison: 12 Concerti Grossi After Domenico Scarlatti (1993)

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Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields - Charles Avison: 12 Concerti Grossi After Domenico Scarlatti (1993)

Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Charles Avison: 12 Concerti Grossi After Domenico Scarlatti (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 724 Mb | Total time: 71:51+71:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips Classics | 438 806-2 | Recorded: 1978

Newcastle-born and -based, Charles Avison issued his string arrangements of harpsichord sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti in 1744. Forty-two of Scarlatti's sonatas had been published by Roseingrave in London five years earlier and it was these which, by and large, provided Avison with his material. 'By and large', since, as Stephen Roe remarks in his note, the sonatas included only two slow movements and Avison, planning 12 concertos in the slow-fast-slow-fast scheme favoured by his teacher, Geminiani, required 24.

Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble - Schubert: Octet in F major, D. 803 (1988)

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Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble - Schubert: Octet in F major, D. 803 (1988)

Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble - Schubert: Octet in F major, D. 803 (1988)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 239 Mb | Total time: 59:42 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | CHAN 8585 | Recorded: 1987

The Octet in F major, D. 803 was composed by Franz Schubert in March 1824. It was commissioned by the renowned clarinetist Ferdinand Troyer and came from the same period as two of Schubert's other major chamber works, the 'Rosamunde' and 'Death and the Maiden'.The Octet boasts the largest scale for any chamber work by Schubert. It is scored for a clarinet, bassoon, horn, two violins, viola, cello, and a double bass. This instrumentation is similar to that of the Beethoven Septet, differing only by the addition of a second violin.

Dieter Klöcker, Consortium Classicum, Iona Brown, The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Symphonies Concertantes (2004)

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Dieter Klöcker, Consortium Classicum, Iona Brown, The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Symphonies Concertantes (2004)

Dieter Klöcker, Consortium Classicum, Iona Brown, The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Symphonies Concertantes (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 966 Mb | Total time: 216:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 009-2 | Recorded: 1977

This collection of ten Classical symphonies concertantes was recorded (quadraphonically!) in 1977 and issued as a five-record set by EMI Electrola. Now it has been licensed by CPO and reissued economically on just three CDs.

Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks; Water Music (1986)

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Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks; Water Music (1986)

Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks; Water Music (1986)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 314 Mb | Total time: 63:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Argo ‎| 414 596-2 | Recorded: 1971

Sir Neville Marriner thins out the usual ASMF textures and leads vigorous, stately accounts of both the Water Music Suites and the Music for the Royal Fireworks. The playing is snappy, the feeling of dance-inspired animation just right. This is the ideal compilation, presenting both scores complete; and the sound is open, well balanced, and extremely well defined.

John Harle, Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner - Saxophone Concertos (2007)

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John Harle, Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner - Saxophone Concertos (2007)

John Harle, Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner - Saxophone Concertos (2007)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 71:00 | 296 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 54301

Things that don't fit neatly into pigeonholes have always had a hard time, and so it has been with the saxophone; Hoffnung's string-tuba would have had very big problems. Sax was a tireless inventor: his plans for a monster canon, and a device for playing loud music from Parisian high ground never bore fruit, but the former anticipated Saddam Hussein and the latter, scaled down, is with us as Muzak. Though the saxophone has never found a regular place in the orchestra it has nevertheless captured the interest of a long line of composers; a square peg doesn't need to fit into any orchestral round hole when it is centre-stage.