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Ewa Podles, Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Patrick Peire - Récital: Airs Célèbres (1990)

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Ewa Podles, Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Patrick Peire - Récital: Airs Célèbres (1990)

Ewa Podles, Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Patrick Peire - Récital: Airs Célèbres (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 260 Mb | Total time: 59:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Forlane classique | # UCD 16620 | Recorded: 1990

Ewa Podles is a rarity: a true contralto with thrilling high and low notes, not to mention everything in between. Unlike Horne, whose lower register occasionally sounds baritonal, Podles is feminine throughout her estimable range. This recording of 18th-century arias exploits every aspect of this wonderful artist, including firm, beautiful tone and awesome coloratura. All of the selections, from the familiar Purcell and Gluck to the less recognizable arias from Vivaldi, Handel, and Marcello, are sung with brio and/or firm legato. Excellent period accompaniment by Patrick Peire and the Collegium Instrumental de Bruges.

Wolfgang Riedelbauch, La Banda, Festivalchor Musica Franconia - Martini: Requiem pour Louis XVI et Marie Antoinette (2017)

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Wolfgang Riedelbauch, La Banda, Festivalchor Musica Franconia - Martini: Requiem pour Louis XVI et Marie Antoinette (2017)

Wolfgang Riedelbauch, La Banda, Festivalchor Musica Franconia - Martini: Requiem pour Louis XVI et Marie Antoinette; Gluck: De profundis (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 331 Mb | Total time: 73:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Christophorus | # CHR77413 | Recorded: 2016

Louis XVI was the last king of France (1774-92) in the line of Bourbon monarchs preceding the French Revolution of 1789. Louis and his queen consort, Marie-Antoinette, were guillotined in 1793 on charges of counter-revolution.
Following the abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814, the Bourbons returned to power in France and restored the system of monarchy under Louis XVIII. During this process, they also introduced a number of highly symbolic cultural acts as a public representation of the Bourbon dynasty. In 1815, the new king Louis XVIII had the mortal remains of Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette removed from the Cimetière de la Madeleine in a solemn ceremony, taken to Saint Denis and placed in separate graves in the crypt.

György Vashegyi, Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir - Un Opéra pour trois rois: Works by Lully, Rameau, Gluck et al. (2017)

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György Vashegyi, Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir - Un Opéra pour trois rois: Works by Lully, Rameau, Gluck et al. (2017)

György Vashegyi, Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir - Un Opéra pour trois rois: Works by Lully, Rameau, Gluck et al. (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 504 Mb | Total time: 47:51+43:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 924002 | Recorded: 2016

For approaching a century and a half in France – across the reigns of Louis XIV, XV and XVI – the Palace of Versailles played host, both indoors and outdoors, for an extraordinary sequence of dramatic musical performances. Un Opéra pour trois rois, conducted by György Vashegyi, represents the legacy of that time, a specially constructed operatic entertainment drawn from works by composers from Lully to Gluck, commissioned – and even, on occasion, performed – by kings, their queens and inamoratas.

Mary-Ellen Nesi, George Petrou, Armonia Atenea - Archetypon: Porpora, Hasse, Cherubini, Paisiello, Gluck, Fiore, Handel (2018)

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Mary-Ellen Nesi, George Petrou, Armonia Atenea - Archetypon: Porpora, Hasse, Cherubini, Paisiello, Gluck, Fiore, Handel (2018)

Mary-Ellen Nesi, George Petrou, Armonia Atenea - Archetypon: Arias by Porpora, Hasse, Cherubini, Paisiello, Gluck, Fiorè & Handel (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 310 Mb | Total time: 63:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: MDG | # MDG 909 2064-6 | Recorded: 2017

Acclaimed mezzo-soprano Mary-Ellen Nesi presents thirteen arias most of them recorded here for the first time inspired by ten Greek female archetypes. George Petrou and the brilliant Armonia Atenea add fire to this exciting collection of 18th-century masterpieces. MDG listeners will be familiar with Mary-Ellen Nesi from several outstanding Handel recordings. In her most recent recital the acclaimed mezzo-soprano turns to dramatic roles from Baroque and classical operas.

René Jacobs, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - Christoph Willibald Gluck: Le Cinese (1990)

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René Jacobs, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - Christoph Willibald Gluck: Le Cinese (1990)

René Jacobs, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - Christoph Willibald Gluck: Le Cinese (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 282 Mb | Total time: 56:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 77174-2-RG | Recorded: 1986

Le cinesi (''The Chinese ladies'') is one of numerous pieces of the kind—generally called azione teatrale or something similar—composed during the eighteenth century for court entertainments.

Max Emanuel Cencic - Fantastic Cencic [3CDs] (2016)

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Max Emanuel Cencic - Fantastic Cencic [3CDs] (2016)

Max Emanuel Cencic - Fantastic Cencic (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 0.97 Gb | Total time: 75:31+78:36+80:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 0190295904722 | Recorded: 1992, 1993, 2007-2012

Even in an age of thrilling countertenors, Max Emanuel Cencic stands out for the heroic scale and brilliance of his voice, his expansive lyricism, and his imagination and enterprise in choice of repertoire. Cencic has excelled as both a soprano and a mezzo-soprano, and Fantastic Cencic showcases his extraordinary interpretative range – from the great and lesser-known masters of the Baroque to the bel canto of Rossini and composers of the Romantic era from Schubert to Strauss. The third of these three CDs comprises recordings from the early 1990s, shortly after Cencic left the Wiener Sängerknaben, which are released here for the first time.

Xavier de Maistre, William Chritie, Les Arts Florissants - La Harpe Reine: Musique à la Cour de Marie-Antoinette (2016)

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Xavier de Maistre, William Chritie, Les Arts Florissants - La Harpe Reine: Musique à la Cour de Marie-Antoinette (2016)

Xavier de Maistre, William Chritie, Les Arts Florissants - La Harpe Reine: Musique à la Cour de Marie-Antoinette (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log ~ 459 Mb | Total time: 70:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HAF 8902276 | Recorded: 2016

When the young Archduchess of Austria, Marie-Antoinette, arrived at the French court in 1770, amongst her luggage was a harp. Contrary to the instrument’s heralded decline, the harp was about to enjoy an unprecedented popularity and to inspire a rich and prolific repertoire, quite distinct from the concertos being composed for the keyboard. Xavier de Maistre and Les Arts Florissants take us on a voyage of discovery through these magnificent compositions, from the lesser known Concerto for harp & orchestra by Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz to Haydn’s “La Reine” Symphony, bringing them to life using period instruments in a programme that is as accomplished as it is captivating.

The Art of Cecilia Bartoli (2002)

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The Art of Cecilia Bartoli (2002)

The Art of Cecilia Bartoli (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 353 Mb | Total time: 73:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 473 380-2 | Recorded: 1992-2002

Ein Rückblick auf zehn Jahre Cecilia Bartoli: Die Arie "Non piú mesto" aus der 1992 entstandenen Gesamtaufnahme von Rossinis La Cenerentola ist das älteste Tondokument dieser Anthologie, und mancher, der wie der Rezensent diese Cenerentola damals erworben hat, wird sich gut erinnern an die unbeschreiblich elektrisierende Wirkung, die die junge Italienerin mit ihrem vollblütigen Stimmmaterial, ihrem Temperament und ihrer faszinierenden Virtuosität auf ihn ausübte. Das Besondere: Die Geschwindigkeit der rasend schnellen Koloraturen geht niemals zu Lasten des Ausdrucks oder der Intensität.

John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Chor - Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste (2002)

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John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Chor - Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste (2002)

John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Chor - Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 607 Mb | Total time: 65:13+69:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 470 293-2 | Recorded: 1999

Gardiner illuminates Alceste's subtle colors and inflections, assisted by von Otter, whose perceptive performance as Alceste is one of emotional sincerity and spot-on vocal accuracy. Despite being a watershed between baroque and classical opera - and a major influence on Mozart, Berlioz and even Wagner -Gluck (1714-87) is still best known today for one opera. Orfeo ed Euridice might be a masterpiece but it's one that has tended to overshadow his other fine achievements.

Michi Gaigg, L'Orfeo Barockorchester - Christoph Willibald Gluck: Five Symphonies (2011)

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Michi Gaigg, L'Orfeo Barockorchester - Christoph Willibald Gluck: Five Symphonies (2011)

Michi Gaigg, L'Orfeo Barockorchester - Christoph Willibald Gluck: Five Symphonies (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 235 Mb | Total time: 57:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 411-2 | Recorded: 2007

Famous for his innovative operas – Orfeo ed Euridice, Alceste, and Armide – Christoph Willibald Gluck is virtually unknown as a composer of instrumental music, and his attributed symphonies and overtures are among his most obscure works. Indeed, this 2011 release on CPO by Michi Gaigg and L'Orfeo Barockorchester almost stands alone in introducing these early symphonies, which show the fluidity of symphonic form as it developed out of the Baroque opera overture into the familiar Classical shape. With as few as two and as many as four movements,

Arthur Grumiaux, István Hajdu - Favourite Violin Encores (1995)

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Arthur Grumiaux, István Hajdu - Favourite Violin Encores (1995)

Arthur Grumiaux, István Hajdu - Favourite Violin Encores (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 765 Mb | Total time: 76:45+75:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips Classics | # 446 560-2 | Recorded: 1962, 1973

Arthur Grumiaux (1921-1986) was never a technical daredevil and his playing has been described as being "for conoisseurs only." Indeed, his style was quite refined and his repertoire tended towards pieces that which suited his musical gifts. His Beethoven Concerto and Sonata recordings and performances are most definitely among the best ever done of those works. This large set of 30+ smaller pieces (with a couple larger ones thrown in) focuses on Grumiaux's ability to touch the listener and indeed there is a thread of imperturbable calmness that runs through this recording upon a casual listening. This discing on Philips came out around 1996, presumably to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his death. I'll just touch on a few of the highlights of this 2 CD set. In all of them, we hear Grumiaux at his best - polished and radiant, with Istvan Hajdu as the competent piano partner for all of the numbers.

Bejun Mehta, René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Che Puro Ciel (2013)

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Bejun Mehta, René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Che Puro Ciel (2013)

Bejun Mehta, René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Che Puro Ciel: Mozart, Gluck, Traetta, Hasse, J.C.Bach (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 322 Mb | Total time: 69:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 902172 | Recorded: 2013

The contents of this album reflect the operatic music Mozart would have known as a teenager. One of the composers, Christoph Willibald Gluck, is known as a founder of the Classical style in opera; others, including Johann Adolf Hasse, Johann Christian Bach, and Tommaso Traetta, are known mostly to specialists, at least in the operatic field. Listeners who have heard the spectacular arias of the late Baroque popularized by Renée Fleming and others will find the pieces here less virtuosic but more dramatically satisfying, as if the composers and librettists had engaged themselves anew with the ancient Greek stories they were retelling. One might object that annotator Denis Morrier gives short shift to the most important of the librettists, Pietro Metastasio, whose writings remained popular up to Beethoven's time.

David Daniels, Martin Katz - Serenade (2000)

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David Daniels, Martin Katz - Serenade (2000)

David Daniels, Martin Katz - Serenade: Beethoven, Schubert, Caldara, Gluck, Cesti, Lotti, Gounod, Williams, Poulenc, Purcell (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 273 Mb | Total time: 70:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin | # 5 45400 2 8 | Recorded: 1999

It's a truism by now that countertenors have made a notable comeback in our time, but David Daniels isn't about to rest on his laurels. As if his recent successes weren't enough to set him apart, on this recital album Daniels forays beyond the countertenor's stereotypical domain of the baroque to interpret lieder of Beethoven and Schubert, as well as French mélodies and Vaughan Williams. A stunningly beautiful disc.

John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique - Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orphee et Eurydice (2008)

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John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique - Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orphee et Eurydice (2008)

John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir - Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice (2008)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Français (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | 100 min | 6,94 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Sub: English, Français, Deutsch | Recorded: 1999

When the historic Theatre du Chatelet in Paris re-opened after a period of extensive refurbishment, the first two productions mounted in the theatre were Gluck’s Alceste and Orphée et Eurydice. Both operas were sung in their French versions and were mounted and designed by Robert Wilson and conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. This was the first time Wilson and Gardiner had collaborated and their individual credentials combined to produce an exceptional result.

Lumieres - La musique du XVIIIeme siecle (29 CD), Part 05 [2011]

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Lumieres - La musique du XVIIIeme siecle (29 CD), Part 05 [2011]

Lumières - La musique du XVIIIème siècle (29 CD), Part 05 - Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice [2011]
EAC (flac, image, cue, log) | TT: 40.10+50.34 | Scans | 363 Mb
Classical | Harmonia Mundi | 2908601.30 | Rec: 2001

The eighteenth century is probably the most extraordinary period of transformation Europe has known since antiquity. Political upheavals kept pace with the innumerable inventions and discoveries of the age; every sector of the arts and of intellectual and material life was turned upside down. Between the end of the reign of Louis XIV and the revolution of 1789, music in its turn underwent a radical mutation that struck at the very heart of a well-established musical language. In this domain too, we are all children of the Age of Enlightenment: our conception of music and the way we ‘consume’ it still follows in many respects the agenda set by the eighteenth century. And it is not entirely by chance that harmonia mundi has chosen to offer you in 2011 a survey of this musical revolution which, without claiming to be exhaustive, will enable you to grasp the principal outlines of musical creation between the twilight of the Baroque and the dawn of Romanticism.