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Amandine Beyer, Gli Incogniti - Arcangelo Corelli: The Complete Concerti Grossi (2013)

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Amandine Beyer, Gli Incogniti - Arcangelo Corelli: The Complete Concerti Grossi (2013)

Amandine Beyer, Gli Incogniti - Arcangelo Corelli: The Complete Concerti Grossi (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 829 Mb | Total time: 69:27+75:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Zigzag | # PZZT327 | Recorded: 2012

There is nothing surprising in the fact that Amandine Beyer and her ensemble Gli Incogniti should tackle Arcangelo Corelli's Concerti Grossi, Op. 6. Indeed, the 12 concerti making up this opus represent a form of apogee of this musical genre in the Baroque era and, at the same time, testimony to the great Italian composer's exceptional talent as a violinist and conductor.

Nadja Zwiener, Johannes Lang - 1723: Bach, Bertali, Biber, Corelli, Pisendel (2023)

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Nadja Zwiener, Johannes Lang - 1723: Bach, Bertali, Biber, Corelli, Pisendel (2023)

Nadja Zwiener, Johannes Lang - 1723: Bach, Bertali, Biber, Corelli, Pisendel (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 400 Mb | Total time: 73:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ramée | # RAM 2202 | Recorded: 2022

Johann Sebastian Bach, the newly appointed Cantor of the Thomaskirche, undertook his first official journey from Leipzig to nearby Störmthal in 1723, where he and his Thomanerchor inaugurated the beautiful new organ built by Zacharias Hildebrandt, a pupil of Silbermann. Bach was thrilled by the instrument’s splendid timbres and tonal beauty. A particularly beautiful violin was made by the German luthier David Tecchler in Rome — 1400 km from Störmthal — during that same year. Both instruments have survived and have been excellently restored; now, three hundred years after their creation, they meet for the first time.

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - The Christmas Album Vol.2 (2017)

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Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - The Christmas Album Vol.2 (2017)

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - The Christmas Album Vol.2 (2017)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 373 Mb | Total time: 78:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | #482 8276 | Recorded: 1970, 1972, 1984

This sequel of the highly successful CHRISTMAS ALBUM VOL. 1. Features legendary classic interpretations of baroque music: for the first time one single CD combines all four Christmas concertos from Corelli, Locatelli, Manfredini and Torelli with Vivaldi's Winter, the Bach Air and Pachelbel's Canon. Nothing is more redolent of a Berlin-style Christmas than the timeless sound of Herbert von Karajan with the Berlin Philharmonic, making this the ideal gift to brighten the winter season.

Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Christmas Concertos: Corelli, Manfredini, Torelli, Vivaldi (2007)

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Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Christmas Concertos: Corelli, Manfredini, Torelli, Vivaldi (2007)

Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Christmas Concertos: Corelli, Manfredini, Torelli, Vivaldi (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 320 Mb | Total time: 61:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 2564 69853-6 | Recorded: 1991

The sentimental and idyllic picture generally summoned up by Christmas concerti, especially those of the Baroque period, does not altogether reflect musical reality in Italy. Whereas today’s listener imagines joyful music composed in a pious time, the musical landscape portrayed in the concerti of the Italian Baroque composers was altogether richer and more colourful. This can be seen from the selection of Baroque concerti on this disc, which were either written directly for Christmas celebrations, or — as in the case of the concerto by Pez — could be used as Christmas music.

Paul McCreesh, Trevor Pinnock, Gabrieli Consort & Players, The English Concert & Choir - Christmas in Rome (2007)

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Paul McCreesh, Trevor Pinnock, Gabrieli Consort & Players, The English Concert & Choir - Christmas in Rome (2007)

Paul McCreesh, Trevor Pinnock, Gabrieli Consort & Players, The English Concert & Choir - Christmas in Rome (2007)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Latin (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 102 min | 6,54 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Latin, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Chinese | Recorded: 1992

This package, released on Archiv Laserdisc and VHS in December 1993, was recorded a year earlier at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome in cooperation with a consortium of European television broadcasters. It consists of two distinct but complementary programs, the first under McCreesh followed by another under Pinnock. As the notes point out, the basilica is the perfect site for such a program, since it has claimed to possess the very crib in which the infant lay on the first Christmas. For centuries the papal celebration of the Midnight Mass of Christmas was held “ad praesepe,” at the altar where the crib was venerated. Typically for such concert videos, we see appropriate scenes in the basilica alternating with views of the singers and players.

La Stagione, Michael Schneider, Soloists - Alessandro Scarlatti: Cinque Profeti (Christmas Cantata) (1993)

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La Stagione, Michael Schneider, Soloists - Alessandro Scarlatti: Cinque Profeti (Christmas Cantata) (1993)

Alessandro Scarlatti: Cinque Profeti (Christmas Cantata) (1993)
Heike Hallaschka (Soprano), Barbara Schlick (Soprano), Kai Wessel (Alto)
Christoph Prégardien (Tenor), Michael Schopper (Bass)
La Stagione; Michael Schneider, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 280 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 175 Mb | Scans included | 01:05:43
Classical, Choral, Baroque | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 05472-77291-2

Cinque Profeti is a little known Christmas cantata by Alessandro Scarlatti. It has a power and subtlety redolent of Handel coupled with touches of early Monteverdi. Sung here to great effect by the five soloists with sensitive instrumentalists, they play together to bring the gentle and subtle melodies - surely written to confer a sense of the special nature of the Christmas season - to life. It’s a recording which is sure to please. Opera was not performed in Rome for much of Alessandro Scarlatti's lifetime; that's why his vocal church music mostly comprised oratorios and cantatas, of which he wrote three for the Palazzo Apostolico. Only one survives: to a libretto by Silvio Stampiglia. Cinque Profeti takes the inventive form of a conversation between the five old testament prophets, Daniel, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Abraham (the cinque profeti) about the birth of Christ – which was about to be celebrated on the occasion of the cantata’s first performance, in 1705 at the Papal Palace in Rome.

Dorothee Oberlinger - Italian Sonatas: Corelli, Geminiani, Sammartini, Vivaldi, Detri (2007)

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Dorothee Oberlinger - Italian Sonatas: Corelli, Geminiani, Sammartini, Vivaldi, Detri (2007)

Dorothee Oberlinger - Italian Sonatas: Corelli, Geminiani, Sammartini, Vivaldi, Detri (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 353 Mb | Total time: 67:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88697115712 | Recorded: 2007

Wer erkunden möchte, welche Brillanz und Farbenvielfalt das Spiel auf einer Blockflöte ermöglicht, sollte in dieses vielgestaltige Programm mit italienischen Sonaten hineinhören. Dorothee Oberlinger verfügt über eine phänomenale Technik, mit der sie jeden musikalischen Impuls umzusetzen und ihre Spielfreude ungebremst auszuleben vermag. Selbst in den rasantesten Läufen und vertracktesten Verzierungen bleibt die Artikulation glasklar, der Ton wunderbar präsent und konturiert.

I Solisti Italiani - Christmas Concertos: Torelli, Vivaldi, Handel, Manfredini, Tartini, Locatelli, Corelli (1993)

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I Solisti Italiani - Christmas Concertos: Torelli, Vivaldi, Handel, Manfredini, Tartini, Locatelli, Corelli (1993)

I Solisti Italiani - Christmas Concertos (1993) Reissue 2005
Giuseppe Torelli - Antonio Vivaldi - Georg Friedrich Händel - Francesco Manfredini
Giuseppe Tartini - Pietro Antonio Locatelli - Arcangelo Corelli

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 295 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 125 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Baroque | Label: Denon | # COCO-70776 | Time: 00:52:34

The Italian ensemble I Virtuosi di Roma's long tradition of performing classics of the Italian Baroque pioneered in many ways the contemporary revival of early music. When its founder, Renato Fazzano, passed away the group disbanded, but a regrouping of sorts took place in the early 80s with eight members of the original group. The new ensemble, which calls itself I Solisti Italiani, has continued the Fazzano legacy, emphasizing line and grace in presenting particularly the works of Vivaldi.

Frans Brüggen, Anner Bylsma, Gustav Leonhardt - Arcangelo Corelli: Sonatas Op. 5 Nos. 7-11, No. 12 'La Follia' (1986)

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Frans Brüggen, Anner Bylsma, Gustav Leonhardt - Arcangelo Corelli: Sonatas Op. 5 Nos. 7-11, No. 12 'La Follia' (1986)

Frans Brüggen, Anner Bylsma, Gustav Leonhardt - Arcangelo Corelli: Sonatas Op. 5 Nos. 7-11, No. 12 'La Follia' (1986)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 284 Mb | Total time: 53:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA | # RD 71055 | Recorded: 1980

These dozen sonatas fully constitute one-sixth of Corelli's published output and strongly influenced the form of the violin sonata in the early decades of the eighteenth century. The collection is in many ways a condensation of Corelli's four earlier volumes of trio sonatas; here are solo sonatas (front-and-center violin, accompanied by a continuo section of at least a keyboard and usually cello or gamba, sometimes with the addition of theorbo or some other member of the lute family), with the works divided between six church sonatas (sonate da chiesa, the format of Corelli's Opp. 1 and 3 trio sonatas) and five chamber sonatas (sonate da camera, in the manner of Opp. 2 and 4).

The Parley of Instruments, Mark Caudle - The Noble Bass Viol: From Purcell To Handel (1999)

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The Parley of Instruments, Mark Caudle - The Noble Bass Viol: From Purcell To Handel  (1999)

The Parley of Instruments, Mark Caudle - The Noble Bass Viol (1999)
Purcell, Bocchi, Conti, Corelli, Draghi, Finger, Gorton, Hely, Handel

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 345 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 180 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67088 | Time: 01:17:58

The viol consort was introduced to England in the early sixteenth century and was mainstay of domestic music until the middle of the seventeenth century. After the Restoration of Charles II to the throne in 1660, things rapidly changed with the rise in popularity of the violin amongst court musical lfe and amateurs. Composers soon ceased to contribute to the viol consort repertory, with some of Purcell's contemporaries such as Roger North regretting the change. North acknowledged that the violin was 'very excellent in it's kind', but thought that the 'noble Base Viol' embodied all its 'sublimitys'. As North recognised, the viol was not entirely supplanted by the violin in the Restoration period. The bass viol remained in use as a continuo instrument in chamber music until the early eighteenth century, and the instrument acquired a new repertory of solos, duet and trios with continuo. This recording is a survey of this little-known but rewarding repertory.

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantata per la Notte di Natale (1996)

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Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantata per la Notte di Natale (1996)

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantata per la Notte di Natale (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 338 Mb | Total time: 71:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 | # OPS 30-156 | Recorded: 1996

Extraordinarily, Alessandro Scarlatti (who died in 1725 and forms a strong bridge between the mature Baroque and later classical traditions, according to musicologist Edward Dent) wrote some sixty-four operas, twenty oratorios, hundreds of chamber cantatas, and a host of madrigals, masses, motets, toccatas, concertos, sonatas and symphonies. Very little of this is heard today, sadly, except in specialist circles. Perhaps one of the more popularly performed pieces is 'Abramo, il tuo sembiante' (a Christmas cantata). When Handel visited Italy between 1706 and 1710, he met Scarlatti and may even have studied with him. This performance of said cantata is well within the Italian style - clear lines and intricate ornamentation.

Sophie Yates - Il Cembalo Transalpino: Music from the Fitzwilliam Collection (2019)

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Sophie Yates - Il Cembalo Transalpino: Music from the Fitzwilliam Collection (2019)

Sophie Yates - Il Cembalo Transalpino: Music from the Fitzwilliam Collection (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 404 Mb | Total time: 65:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0819 | Recorded: 2017

All the music in this programme comes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and most of it was collected by its founder, Richard, Seventh Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion (1745 – 1816). A polymath, lover of music, amateur composer and harpsichordist, musically active from about 1760 until his death, Fitzwilliam created a legacy of exceptional importance to English musical culture.

La Serenissima; Adrian Chandler - The Italian Job: Caldara, Corelli, Tartini, Vivaldi, Albinoni, Torelli (2017)

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La Serenissima; Adrian Chandler - The Italian Job: Caldara, Corelli, Tartini, Vivaldi, Albinoni, Torelli (2017)

The Italian Job: Caldara, Corelli, Tartini, Vivaldi, Albinoni, Torelli (2017)
La Serenissima; Adrian Chandler, violin & direction

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 397 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 184 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Baroque | Label: Avie Records | # AV2371 | Time: 01:16:22

The English, historical-instrument, Baroque ensemble La Serenissima (the term was a nickname for the city of Venice) has specialized in somewhat scholarly recordings that nevertheless retain considerable general appeal, and the group does it again with this release. The program offers some lesser-known composers, and some lesser-known pieces by famous composers like the tiny and fascinating Concerto alla rustica for two oboes, bassoon, strings, and continuo, RV 151. What ties the program together formally is that it covers a range of Italian cities that were becoming cultural centers as they declined in political power: not only Venice (Vivaldi, Albinoni, Caldara), but also Padua (Tartini), Bologna (Torelli), and Rome (Corelli). There are several works by composers known only for one or two big hits, and these are especially rewarding. Sample the opening movement of Tartini's Violin Concerto E major, DS 51, with its unusual phrase construction and daringly chromatic cadenza passage: it has the exotic quality for which Tartini became famous, but it does not rely on sheer virtuosity. That work is played by leader Adrian Chandler himself, but he also chooses pieces for a large variety of other solo instruments: the Italian Baroque was about more than the violin. Each work on the album has something to recommend it, and collectively the performances may make up the best album of 2017 whose booklet includes footnotes.

The Avison Ensemble - Arcangelo Corelli: Opus 5 - Violin Sonatas (2013) 2CDs

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The Avison Ensemble - Arcangelo Corelli: Opus 5 - Violin Sonatas (2013) 2CDs

The Avison Ensemble - Arcangelo Corelli: Opus 5 - Violin Sonatas (2013) 2CD
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 713 Mb | Scans included | Time: 02:13:26
Genre: Classical | Label: Linn Records | # CKD 412

This disc in the Avison Ensemble’s project to record the complete Corelli chamber music is devoted to his Op. 5 collection of violin sonatas – works that swept Europe by storm when they were first published in 1700. Recent recordings include Accademia Bizantina, Purcell Quartet, Trio Corelli, Trio Sonnerie, and a particularly charismatic version from Andrew Manze with harpsichordist Richard Egarr. One of the most immediate differences between these versions is their approach to the continuo, the Avison Ensemble favouring the varied timbres and textures of an ensemble (variously harpsichord or organ, archlute, Baroque guitar and cello) rather than solo harpsichord.

Chiara Banchini, Ensemble 415 - Arcangelo Corelli: Concerti Grossi Op.6 (2003)

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Chiara Banchini, Ensemble 415 - Arcangelo Corelli: Concerti Grossi Op.6 (2003)

Chiara Banchini, Ensemble 415 - Arcangelo Corelli: Concerti Grossi Op.6 (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 767 Mb | Total time: 146:42 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMG 501406.07 | Recorded: 1991

Immensely popular during his time and maintaining their appeal today, Corelli's 12 Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, are among the gold standard for the form. They are divided into two sections, one being six concerti da camera and the other being six concerti da chiesa. The informatively written liner notes for this Harmonia Mundi album describe the potentially immense orchestra (for the time) that Corelli may have employed for his performances; this recording, however, uses more modest numbers, taking into account the different needs for the "da Camera" and "da Chiesa" concerti. French-based Ensemble 415 (which takes its name from a common Baroque tuning frequency) is led by its founder, violinist Chiara Banchini.