Bach Harnoncourt

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (2001)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 769 Mb | Total time: 162:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 8573-81036-2 | Recorded: 2000

Nikolaus Harnoncourt war der vielleicht wichtigste Pionier einer Musikauffassung, die hinter der spätromantischen Sichtweise auf die Passionen Johann Sebastian Bachs das originale Klangbild suchte. Dabei ging es ihm keineswegs um Authentizität als Selbstzweck, sondern vielmehr um ein Ausloten der Bach'schen Klangfarben und Ausdrucksmittel, die im Brahms- und Bruckner-Sound der großen Oratorienchöre und Symphonieorchester verloren gegangen waren. Inzwischen ist diese Auffassung etabliert und Harnoncourt weit ins romantische Repertoire eingedrungen. Die Zeit reinen Bach- und Mozart-Spezialistentums scheint vorbei. Mit der Neueinspielung der Matthäus-Passion begibt sich der Dirigent daher wieder zurück zu seinen Wurzeln.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (1995)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 463 Mb | Total time: 35:28+74:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 9031-74862-2 | Recorded: 1993

Harnoncourt hat mit dieser wunderbaren Aufnahme etwas nicht nur Ergreifendes, sondern auch ganz Wunderbares geschaffen. Die Johannes-Passion, die ja viel dramatischer ist als die vier Jahre später entstandene Matthäus-Passion, interpretiert er so packend und mitreißend, dass einem besonders bei den "Turbae"-Chören eine Gänsehaut über den Rücken läuft.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte; Kaffee-Kantate (2009/1982)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte; Kaffee-Kantate (2009/1982)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.67 Gb+7.59 Gb (2xDVD9) | 269 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol

Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, named after their dedicatee the Margrave Christian Ludwig von Brandenburg, have been part of Nikolaus Harnoncourt's permanent repertoire ever since he founded his Concentus musicus ensemble. The ensemble has recorded them and played them on their tours throughout the world.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Tolzer Knabenchor - Bach: Johannes-Passion (2007/1985)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Tölzer Knabenchor - Bach: Johannes-Passion (2007/1985)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.19 Gb (DVD9) | 114 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

Filmed in the architectural splendour of Graz's Gothic-Baroque cathedral, leading Bach authority Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the famed Tölz Boys Choir and his Vienna Concentus Musicus, playing on period instruments, in the most dramatic of all Passion settings. "In this performance we have attempted to realize Bach's wishes in the most authentic manner possible" (Nikolaus Harnoncourt). "A unique occasion" (Kurier).
Nikolaus Harnoncourt & Gustav Leonhardt - Bach: Sacred Cantatas, BWV 1 - 9 (2024)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt & Gustav Leonhardt - Bach: Sacred Cantatas, BWV 1 - 9 (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 873 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 466 Mb | 03:20:38
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: Warner Classics

Written to exalt the glory of God and to facilitate Lutheran worship, Johann Sebastian Bach’s sacred cantatas stand among the highest achievements of Western musical art.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus musicus Wien - Johann Sebastian Bach: 4 Orchestral Suites (2008)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus musicus Wien - Johann Sebastian Bach: 4 Orchestral Suites (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 620 Mb | Total time: 53:58+49:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 2564 69457-5 | Recorded: 1966

This well-documented and handsomely presented set is well worth considering. Harnoncourt led the way in ‘authentic’ Bach performances, and in some respects – the slow minuets and the somewhat portentous introductions, for instance – these Sixties recordings differ from more recent practice. But no matter, since the approach is full of life, and the balance allows details to be heard clearly and naturally. The fugal sections are particularly successful.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Johann Sebastian Bach: Messe in H-moll / Mass in B minor (1986)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Johann Sebastian Bach: Messe in H-moll / Mass in B minor (1986)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 444 Mb | Total time: 55:29+53:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 2292 42676-2 | Recorded: 1986

Harnoncourt is a strongly individualist conductor, and his individualism is much more strongly pronounced in the 1986 B minor Mass than in the 1968 version. That's why quite a few reviewers prefer the earlier version - finding the later one mannered, even eccentric. I understand their views, though I don't share them.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Wiener Sangerknaben - Johann Sebastian Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium (1984)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Wiener Sängerknaben, Chorus Viennensis - Johann Sebastian Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium (1984)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 756 Mb | Total time: 55:58+48:334+49:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 8.35022 ZB | Recorded: 1973

Schlank, beweglich, virtuos im Instrumentalen, überzeugend im Einsatz der historischen Praktiken und Klangwerkzeuge und mit großem Kunstverstand und Formgefühl Bachs Musik realisierend…
Nikolaus Harnoncourt - The Complete Sony Recordings, Part 1 [4CDs] (2016)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt - The Complete Sony Recordings, Part 1 (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,15 Gb | Total time: 04:18:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88875173752 | Recorded: 1991-2015

Nikolaus Harnoncourt The Complete Sony Recordings brings together for the first time Harnoncourt s complete recordings from 2002-2015 with his Concentus Musicus Wien, the Wiener Philharmonike, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Symphonieorchester des Bayrischen Rundfunks. The Sony Classical edition features his famous symphony recordings of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Bruckner, alongside his celebrated performances of great choral works such as the Verdi, Brahms and Mozart Requiems and Haydn's Die Schöpfung, as well as Mozart's opera Zaide, Haydn's Orlando paladino and Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Also included are previously authorized but unreleased recordings of J. S. Bach s Cantatas Nos. 26 & 36, Beethoven's Christus am Ölberge and Dvorák's Stabat Mater.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms... (2024)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms… (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1.6 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 930 MB
6:40:10 | Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Perhaps no single musician ever achieved such high accomplishment across such a broad span of repertory as Nikolaus Harnoncourt. His first professional job was as cellist for the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Almost immediately, however, Harnoncourt sought to specialize in performing music of the past upon historically correct instruments; he was one of the first professional musicians to do so.