Bach Karl Richter

Munchner Bach Orchester, Karl Richter - J.S.Bach: Brandenburg Concertos; Orchestral Suites; Triple Concerto (2002) 3CDs

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte; Orchestersuiten;
Tripelkonzert für Flöte, Violine, Cembalo und Streicher
Münchener Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter, conductor & harpsichord
Aurèle Nicolet, flute; Gerhart Hetzel, violin

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.13 Gb | Scans included | Time: 3:33:19
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 463 657-2

Very few conductors have recorded as much Bach as Karl Richter and none can lay a stronger claim to a legacy based on championing the master. Richter's reverence for Bach is evinced by the simplicity, splendor, and grandeur with which he consistently imbued his performances exemplified here by these landmark recordings of the Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites. In Archiv's original-image bit-processing remastered transfers as well, the sound is better than ever. This is cornerstone Bach that should not be missed.
Karl Richter, Munchener Bach-Orchester, Munchener Bach-Chor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium (1988)

Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester, Münchener Bach-Chor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium (1988)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 781 Mb | Total time: 58:31+56:31+48:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ARCHIV Produktion | # 427 236-2 | Recorded: 1965

Karl Richter's performance dates from 1965, since when it has seldom been out of the catalogue. It is in an entirely different class… Richter's Munich Bach Choir were at a peak at this time and the results are often quite exciting. Under Richter's direction the ''Ehre sei dir, Gott'' chorus…is appropriately lustig with wonderfully light-hearted singing and orchestral playing… [T]he arias with Gundula Janowitz and Fritz Wunderlich…[are] of a calibre which will always ensure considerable enjoyment…
Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester, Münchener Bach-Chor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1994)

Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester, Münchener Bach-Chor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 900 Mb | Total time: 65:42+63:48+68:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 439 338-2 | Recorded: 1958

The evolving musical climate of the 1950s occasioned a profound shift of culture and attitude in the performance of Bach’s great choral works. By the close of the decade, it was one of Bach’s own successors in the post of Kantor at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche, Karl Richter (who’d become organist there at age 23 in 1947), who’d become torch-bearer for a new generation of Bach interpreters. Richter’s recordings with the Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra (ensembles he founded in 1951 and with which his name has become synonymous) heeded an unbroken Leipzig tradition that could be traced back to the time of Bach himself.
Karl Richter, Munchener Bach-Orchester, Aurele Nicolet - Bach: Orchestral Suites (1961,1973/2021)

Karl Richter, Munchener Bach-Orchester, Aurele Nicolet - Bach: Orchestral Suites (1961,1973/2021)
DSD64 2.0 | 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Time: 01:13:49 | ~ 3.00 GB
or 24-bit/96 kHz | Flac(Tracks) | ~ 1.31 Gb
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric | SACD-R

~ J.S.BACH: Orchestral Suites Nos.2 & 3, Flute Sonata No.1, Harpsichord Concerto No.5 ~
Aurèle Nicolet, Karl Richter - Johann Sebastian Bach: Flöten-Sonaten (1989)

Aurèle Nicolet, Karl Richter - Johann Sebastian Bach: Flöten-Sonaten (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 341 Mb | Total time: 64:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 427 113-2 | Recorded: 1969, 1973

These are carefully considered and precisely executed interprations. Nicolet has a warm tone, his excellent breathing technique creates wonderful phrasing.
Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Chor, Münchener Bach-Orchester - Bach: 75 Cantatas [26CDs] (1993)

Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Chor, Münchener Bach-Orchester - Bach: 75 Cantatas for Sundays and Feast Days of the Church Year (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 7,27 Gb | Total time: 27:16:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 439 368-2 | Recorded: 1959-1978

As one of the most legendary champions of Bach Karl Richter's many (and in some instances multiple) recordings of the composers Cantata's arguably is his greatest achievement. Richter enlisted many of the finest vocalists in their prime during the 1950's through the early 70's for these recordings elevating the neglected form at the time to the level of Grand Opera. His conducting, especially for his day as well remains remarkably animated and fluent yet always respectful of Bach's underlying powerful architectural components. These recordings set the standard and for many today remain the benchmark performances by which all new ones continue to be judged.
Karl Richter, Munchener Bach-Orchester - Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte (2006/1970)

Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester - Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte (2006/1970)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.82 Gb (DVD9) | 99 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon

From the euphoric first to the solemn sixth, the Brandenburg Concertos feature some of Bach's fenrst and most popular orchestral music, interpreted here by legendary Bach specialist Karl Richter and his Münchener Bach-Orchester - for the first time on DVD.
Münchener Bach-Orchester & Karl Richter - J.S. Bach: Cantatas - Sundays After Trinity (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Münchener Bach-Orchester & Karl Richter - J.S. Bach: Cantatas - Sundays After Trinity (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 360:21 minutes | 6,53 GB
Classical, Vocal | Label: Deutsche Grammophon Archiv, Official Digital Download

This section contains cantatas for the Sixth to Seventeenth Sundays after Trinity: a period when no festivals occur. The same is often said of the whole of the second half of the church year but that is not altogether true. There are no major feasts between the Visitation on 2 July and Michaelmas on 29 September but the intervening weeks are far from drab and uneventful. To this day, each single Sunday in the period spotlights an important event in Christ’s ministry on earth, and the cantatas selected for this section almost all refer to that and only exceptionally and less pointedly to the Epistle for the day.
Münchener Bach-Orchester & Karl Richter - J.S. Bach: Cantatas - Sundays After Trinity, Vol.2 (1993/2018) [24/96]

Münchener Bach-Orchester & Karl Richter - J.S. Bach: Cantatas - Sundays After Trinity, Vol.2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 343:21 minutes | 6,58 GB
Classical, Vocal | Label: Deutsche Grammophon Archiv, Official Digital Download

After the dearth of major festivals in the middle of the weeks following Trinity Sunday, the end of the Lutheran church year sees two important ones, the feast of St. Michael and All Angels and Reformation Day. Both fall on fixed dates, so that their position in relation to the numbered Sundays after Trinity varies from year to year. Reformation Day celebrates Martin Luther’s historic nailing of his 95 Theses to the door of the church of Wittenberg Castle, and it is observed on the anniversary of the event, 31 October (except in a few places which chose to do so on the Sunday following that date).
Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester - Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte Nos.1-6, Konzerte BWV 1055, 1060R & 1064 (2009)

Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester - Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte Nos.1-6, Konzerte BWV 1055, 1060R & 1064 (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 768 Mb | Total time: 75:38+68:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 463 011-2 /463 012-2 | Recorded: 1964, 1968, 1981

Very few conductors have recorded as much Bach as Karl Richter, and none can lay a stronger claim to a legacy based on championing the master… Richter's reverence for Bach is evinced by the simplicity, splendor, and grandeur with which he consistently imbued his performances. Richter understood that the profound underlying architecture of Bach's music was critical to its appreciation, enjoyment, and yes, power.