Haydn's Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze (The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross) is unique in his output. Commissioned in 1785 as an orchestral work for Good Friday by a church in Cádiz, Spain, it posed Haydn considerable problems as he tried to reconcile the general structural principles of the Classical era with a ...
Upon beholding Harmonia Mundi's release Ouvertüren für die Hamburger Oper (Music for the Hamburg Opera) and its front cover illustration of neatly periwigged nobles seated in boxes at the opera house, one might think -- "it's all Telemann, right?" However, one would be wrong; after all, this is the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin one of the world's ...
This disc by the ever-outstanding Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin, features "alternate universe" Johann Sebastian Bach concertos and includes a wholly new reconstruction of the Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052R, by the Akademie's concertmaster Midori Seiler. Whereas earlier reconstructions, of which there are several, used Bach's own ...
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, founded as an East German cooperative just before the reunification of Germany, brings a strong athleticism to the performances of these two concertos by J.S. Bach and one by Johann Gottfried Müthel. The ensemble takes the fast movements at breakneck speed, which makes for a thrilling ride. There's nothing rigid or ...
With more than 500 concertos to choose from, it is easy to select an attractive program of Vivaldi's orchestral music. Indeed, some would argue that with such depth of repertoire, it would be hard not to assemble such a program. But one way or another, one would have to agree that the six works on this 2007 Harmonia Mundi disc make up a singularly ...
With this disc, Harmonia Mundi's Century: A History of Music series moves onto what sports fans might call its home field: the Harmonia Mundi catalog is heavily stocked with discs by artists who have brought the music of the seventeenth century to life, and several of them, notably Les Arts Florissants and its Buffalo-to-Paris-transplanted leader ...
Even 20 years ago, shelf space devoted to Bach's Christmas Oratorio was decidedly limited. The work was regarded as minor in comparison with Bach's Passion settings and other large choral pieces. For one thing, it isn't a "work" as today's listeners understand the term, but a linked set of six pieces intended for performance on six nights over the ...
This is the first authoritative recording of Alessandro Scarlatti's Griselda, rendered with exquisite beauty by René Jacobs, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and an outstanding cast led by Dorothea Röschmann in the title role. Warming to the story of Griselda (originally by Boccaccio) -- the low-born woman who endures a string of indignities as ...
Once in awhile, a very great while, a classical disc comes along that is so good it moves you to the brink of tears. This new recording by the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Johann Christian Bach: Symphonies & Concertos, is just that sort of disc. It is the first recording in history to do a full measure of justice to the orchestral music of the ...
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