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La Stagione - Carl Friedrich Abel: Chamber Music (1994)

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La Stagione - Carl Friedrich Abel: Chamber Music (1994)

La Stagione - Carl Friedrich Abel: Chamber Music (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 280 Mb | Total time: 61:08 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 209-2 | Recorded: 1993

Carl Friedrich Abel is one of a number of highly interesting musicians from the second half of the eighteenth century. Their works were unfortunately soon eclipsed by the fame of Viennese classics, but the German specialist label cpo has been doing a marvelous job of making some of them available again in excellent productions on period instruments. Abel was the son of a member of Johann Sebastian Bach's orchestra at Köthen; as a young man he became viola da gamba player and cellist at Dresden under Hasse; and in the turbulences of the Seven Years War he fled via France to London, where he soon teamed up with Bach's youngest son Johann Christian to organise a series of concerts which became known all over Europe. Abel played viola da gamba, cello and harpsichord at these concerts, and it appears that a good deal of music from his own compositional workshop was performed there (symphonies, flute concertos).

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.

Michael Schneider, La Stagione - Johann Adolf Hasse: Piramo e Tisbe (1994)

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Michael Schneider, La Stagione - Johann Adolf Hasse: Piramo e Tisbe (1994)

Michael Schneider, La Stagione - Johann Adolf Hasse: Piramo e Tisbe (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 602 Mb | Total time: 123:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # 60 043-2 | Recorded: 1993

Charles Burney described Johann Adolf Hasse, his contemporary, as ‘the most natural, elegant and judicious composer of vocal music, as well as the most voluminous now alive…’ His output includes 63 operas, but only two are currently recorded, yet inexplicably this is the second Piramo, albeit markedly livelier and with the bonus of its two ballet suites. Schneider’s perceptive booklet note comments that too readily we find such composers immature – ‘almost like Mozart’, rather than excitingly expressive and individual. Here even the subtitle Intermezzo tragico is novel, implying a fusion of two traditions, comic and serious. The music is equally unconventional. Recitatives slip seamlessly into and out of arias, creating a strong sense of dramatic continuity.

Ruth Ziesak, Michael Schneider, La Stagione - Pergolesi, Mozart, J.C.Bach (1996)

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Ruth Ziesak, Michael Schneider, La Stagione - Pergolesi, Mozart, J.C.Bach (1996)

Ruth Ziesak, Michael Schneider, La Stagione - Mozart: Exsultate, Jubilate & Ergo Interest; Pergolesi: Salve Regina; J.C.Bach: Salve Regina (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 312 Mb | Total time: 57:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 74321 935522 | Recorded: 1994, 1995

Mozart’s Motet Exsultate, Jubilate was originally written in Milan in 1773 for the castrato Venanzio Rauzzini but is now frequently used as a showpiece work for the soprano voice. The motet is considered to be an excellent example of sacred music that is Baroque in structure and mood. Ruth Ziesak’s melting soprano voice sounds impressive throughout this exultant music especially in the brilliant concluding section which is spun elaborately around the single word Alleluia.

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Georg Philipp Telemann: Der neumodische Liebhaber Damon (1997)

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Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Georg Philipp Telemann: Der neumodische Liebhaber Damon (1997)

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Georg Philipp Telemann: Der neumodische Liebhaber Damon (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 955 Mb | Total time: 76:11+43:03+69:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 429-2 | Recorded: 1996

Georg Philipp Telemann - cpo friends have long known - is always good for surprises. He was a diligent and also important opera composer who wrote about 35 operas for the Hamburg Opera between 1721 and 1733, of which unfortunately only nine have survived. These are, without exception, important contributions to German opera history; recent performances have all proved their viability and power, but above all the originality, the music-dramatic sense and the always attractive melody of Telemann revealed.

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Franz Ignaz Beck: Stabat Mater (2000)

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Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Franz Ignaz Beck: Stabat Mater (2000)

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Franz Ignaz Beck: Stabat Mater (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 269 Mb | Total time: 60:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Koch-Schwann | # 3-6583-2 H1 | Recorded: 1999

An exact contemporary of Haydn, Franz Ignaz Beck (1734-1809) was a pupil of Stamitz in Mannheim, but lived and worked mainly in Bordeaux, where he was rated highly. Documented information about Beck is meagre and the 3-page introduction is unable to date this Stabat Mater, which is reckoned his masterpiece. It failed initially at Versailles and caused something of a furore, because of his forward looking harmonic modulations; the orchestra sabotaged his instructions for extreme dynamic contrasts. It points towards Berlioz in its originalty and I fully endorse the commentator's claim that Beck is another neglected composer whose music, once heard, demonstrates, yet again, that the accepted canon of 'great' composers, with most of the others cast into oblivion, is misleading and regrettable.

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Georg Philipp Telemann: Ich hoffete aufs Licht (2011)

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Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Georg Philipp Telemann: Ich hoffete aufs Licht (2011)

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Georg Philipp Telemann: Ich hoffete aufs Licht - Funeral Music for Emperor Karl VII (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 263 Mb | Total time: 62:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 603-2 | Recorded: 2010

Telemann wrote funeral compositions for many persons. His setting of the Funeral Music for Emperor Charles VII – transmitted solely in the form of a sketch in the composer’s own hand with numerous corrections and writing simplifications and in part without a text – already points to typical features of his late vocal work: a treatment of the vocal parts that is melodically sometimes austere, mostly coloratura-poor, and systematic in its employment of verbal meter, a melodic design sharpened by succinct rhythms and suspensions, and a harmonic structure enriched by pointedly set interdominants. This funerary music is set in the context of the state compositions ordered by the Hamburg city council for the elections, coronations, weddings, and deaths of Holy Roman Emperors of the German Nation.

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Carl Philipp Emanuel & Johann Christian Bach: Magnificat (2002)

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Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Carl Philipp Emanuel & Johann Christian Bach: Magnificat (2002)

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Carl Philipp Emanuel & Johann Christian Bach: Magnificat (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 262 Mb | Total time: 59:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # 67 003 | Recorded: 2000

Michael Schneider ist mit der vorliegenden Produktion des Magnificat von Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach vor allem eine sehr geschmeidige Einspielung gelungen. Der Brückenschlag von der barocken Kontrapunkt-Strenge der Chorfugen zur frühklassischen Kantabilität der Arien gelingt stilsicher - auch die Solisten agieren mit viel Fortune.

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Franz Ignaz Beck: Symphonies, Op. 4 Nos. 1-3 (2006)

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Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Franz Ignaz Beck: Symphonies, Op. 4 Nos. 1-3 (2006)

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Franz Ignaz Beck: Symphonies, Op. 4 Nos. 1-3 (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 300 Mb | Total time: 65:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 033-2 | Recorded: 2005

CPO's Franz Ignaz Beck: Symphonies Op. 4 Nos. 1-3 is the third installation in period-instrument group La Stagione Frankfurt's outstanding series of recordings of the symphonies of Beck. Beck's symphonies are strikingly advanced for their time; he was already utilizing four-movement structures by 1760, and his symphonies are rich with the violent contrasts and explosive effects associated with the Stürm und Drang phase found in Haydn's middle symphonies and those of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Although all three of these symphonies are in major keys, they are no less aggressive and intense than the minor key symphonies that have attracted so much attention to Beck's work since late in the twentieth century. As to the virtues of this particular disc, the performance, led by Michael Schneider, is lively and enthusiastically played.

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Franz Ignaz Beck: Symphonies, Op. 3, Nos. 1, 2, 6 (2004)

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Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Franz Ignaz Beck: Symphonies, Op. 3, Nos. 1, 2, 6 (2004)

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Franz Ignaz Beck: Symphonies, Op. 3, Nos. 1, 2, 6 (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 249 Mb | Total time: 55:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 034-2 | Recorded: 2003

This 2004 CD from CPO completes la Stagione Frankfurt's recordings of Franz Ignaz Beck's Symphonies, Op. 3, begun in 2000 with the Symphonies Nos. 3-5, released on CPO 999 390-2. Led by Michael Schneider and featuring members of Camerata Köln as section leaders and soloists, this fine ensemble performs on period instruments and renders Beck's works in a vivid and believable eighteenth century style, fully attuned to the various influences that shaped his music. These symphonies clearly developed from ideas promulgated by the Mannheim School, but Beck also absorbed Italian and French mannerisms, so the international flavor of these pieces is noteworthy.

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Franz Ignaz Beck: Symphonies, Op. 3, Nos. 3-5 (1996)

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Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Franz Ignaz Beck: Symphonies, Op. 3, Nos. 3-5 (1996)

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Franz Ignaz Beck: Symphonies, Op. 3, Nos. 3-5 (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 269 Mb | Total time: 54:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 390-2 | Recorded: 1995

Faszinierende stilistische Fundgrube Noch immer bietet die Musikgeschichte Überraschungen und Entdeckungen, die einen bisher fast vergessenen Komponisten plötzlich in den Mittelpunkt rücken: Franz Ignaz Beck ist solch ein Fall. Die Sinfonien dieses „Berlioz des 18. Jahrhunderts“ sind dermaßen verrückt unkonventionell und kühn, dass man auch heute nur noch staunen kann über die „Modernität“ des zeitgenössischen Pariser Publikums, das ihm geradezu zu Füßen lag. Beck entpuppt sich als im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes fortschrittlicher und individueller „Stürmer und Dränger“, der die Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten seiner Zeit weit in die Zukunft öffnet. Von Mannheim aus über Italien fand Beck seinen Weg nach Marseille, wo seine Sinfonien sich zu wahren Zugstücken der berühmten Pariser "Concerts spirituels“ entwickelten und zahlreiche Druckauflagen erlebten.

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Carl Friedrich Abel: Symphonies Op. 10 Nos. 1-6 (1993)

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Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Carl Friedrich Abel: Symphonies Op. 10 Nos. 1-6  (1993)

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Carl Friedrich Abel: Symphonies Op. 10 Nos. 1-6 (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 314 Mb | Total time: 61:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | 999 207-2 | Recorded: 1993

Friedrich Abel, geboren 1723 in Köthen, gestorben 1787 in London hat seinen Platz der Musikgeschichte bisher stets als in zweiter Linie genannte Persönlichkeit gefunden. Er wirkt als »Ergänzungskraft«, wenn es gilt, das Bild in Bach- oder Mozart-Biographien abzurunden. Dabei gehört er zu Gruppe der ganz wichtigen Übergangsmusiker vom Barock zu Klassik, denen cpo schon seit geraumer Zeit große Aufmerksamkeit widmet und ohne deren »Pionierarbeit« so manche spätere klassische Großtat kaum möglich gewesen wäre.

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Georg Anton Benda: Romeo und Julie (1998)

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Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Georg Anton Benda: Romeo und Julie (1998)

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Georg Anton Benda: Romeo und Julie (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 369 Mb | Total time: 91:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | 999 496-2 | Recorded: 1997

Charles Burney, the great English music traveller of the 18th century, was extremely positive about "Herr Kapellmeister Benda". His compositions his "new, masterly, and learned." Mozart, too, never made a secret of his high regard for Georg Anton Benda; he was well aware of how much he was indebted to the creator of the German Singspiel - right up to the "Magic Flute".

Michael Schneider - The Baroque Recorder Concerto [6CDs] (2017)

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Michael Schneider - The Baroque Recorder Concerto [6CDs] (2017)

Michael Schneider - The Baroque Recorder Concerto [6CDs] (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 2,06 Gb | Total time: 401:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 555 183-2 | Recorded: 1998, 2005, 2007, 2009-13

This unique anthology of Baroque flute concertos on six CDs contains not only sensational collections featuring virtuoso recorder concertos of the German, Italian, and English Baroque but also the complete solo recorder concertos of Scarlatti, Vivaldi, and Georg Philipp Telemann. Telemanns two very different Concertos in F major and C major, for example, number among the most outstanding Baroque compositions of all for the recorder in a concerto role. Michael Schneider currently has no real rivals worldwide on his instrument. In his hands the recorder loses what so often limits its expressive capacity and gains a voice articulating all the musical facets. The complete eighteenth-century repertoire of recorder concertos or most of it is now available in performances by Schneider.

Michael Schneider, Cappella Academica Frankfurt - The Virtuoso Recorder III: Concertos of the English Baroque (2015)

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Michael Schneider, Cappella Academica Frankfurt - The Virtuoso Recorder III: Concertos of the English Baroque (2015)

Michael Schneider, Cappella Academica Frankfurt - The Virtuoso Recorder III: Concertos of the English Baroque (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 480 Mb | Total time: 73:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 885-2 | Recorded: 2013

Following collections of virtuosic German and Italian Baroque recorder concertos Michael Schneider now turns to Baroque England. In respect to number and quality of performers and superior instrument construction, London can be termed the world capital of the recorder in this epoch. Mr. Schneider endeavors for the greatest possible tonal variety and highest quality of the individual pieces within this repertoire. The concertos, based on anthologies by William Babell, Robert Woodcock, and John Baston, have in common the use of ‘small flutes’, that is, recorders in the descant register.