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Ronald Brautigam, Michael Alexander Willens, Kölner Akademie - Beethoven: The Piano Concertos (2019)

Ronald Brautigam, Michael Alexander Willens, Kölner Akademie - Beethoven: The Piano Concertos (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 652 Mb | Total time: 157:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-2274 SACD | Recorded: 2017, 2018

As one of the finest pianists of his era and an improviser of genius, Ludwig van Beethoven’s preferred vehicle for musical exploration was the piano. His earliest composition, from 1782, was a set of piano variations and he continued to compose for solo piano until the last years of his life. His interest in the concerto form diminished as his deafness forced him to retire from performing. Nonetheless, with his five piano concertos composed between 1788 and 1809, Beethoven not only achieved a brilliant conclusion to the Classical piano concerto, but also established a new model for the Romantic era: a sort of symphony with obbligato piano which remained a reference point well into the beginning of the twentieth.
René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (2010)

René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Track (Cue & Log) ~ 733 Mb | Total time: 167:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 902068.70 | Recorded: 2009

With the belief that “No opera loses so much as Die Zauberflöte if one strips it of its drama and that means, above all, the spoken dialogue,” René Jacobs’ agenda in Die Zauberflöte is to rehabilitate the reputation of Schikaneder’s libretto. At the heart of his reassesment is the idea that Schikaneder and Mozart’s Masonic message is deeper and more carefully presented than we have thought. He suggests that seemingly silly or inconsistent aspects of the story are put there as intentional false paths as the audience, not only the prince and the bird catcher, undergoes its own trials of initiation. The opera’s symbolism and structure are explained in convincing detail in an essay in the booklet by the Egyptologist and Mozart researcher Jan Assman.

Andreas Staier - Mozart: Piano Sonatas (2012)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Sept. 9, 2022
Andreas Staier - Mozart: Piano Sonatas (2012)

Andreas Staier - Mozart: Piano Sonatas (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:12:23 | 423 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | Catalog: HMG508388/89

Behind every Mozart solo piano composition is the human voice, and many interpreters understandably build their interpretations from the melody line down. By contrast, fortepianist Andreas Staier generates rhythmic and dramatic momentum by letting his left hand lead, so to speak. His firm, sharply delineated bass lines in the C minor sonata's outer movements and the E-flat sonata's Allegro finale evoke a symphonic rather than operatic aura that proves far more stimulating than Paul Badura-Skoda's equally rigorous yet less vibrant fortepiano traversals.
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (1996)

John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 618 Mb | Total time: 78:50+79:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 449 166-2 | Recorded: 1995

JOHN ELIOT GARDINER und ein junges Sängerensemble bezaubern den Hörer: Christiane Oelze ist eine betörend sympatische Pamina. So gestochen scharfe und dabei klangvolle Koloraturen wie von Cyndia Sieden habe ich so noch nicht gehört; eine Königin der Extraklasse! Auch Michael Schade als Tamino und Gerald Finley als Papageno bestechen mit ihren wohlkingenden und ausdrucksfähigen Stimmen.
Arnold Ostman, The Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra and Chorus - Mozart: Die Zauberflote (2001)

Arnold Östman, The Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra and Chorus - Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 609 Mb | Total time: 78:57+76:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 470 056-2 | Recorded: 1992

There's magic in these musical hills, as conductor Arnold Östman leads an exemplary performance of Die Zauberflöte on original instruments.Sumi Jo's breathtaking Queen of the Night is the queen of intonation, while Barbara Bonny's Pamina is a phrasing angel, from her pianissimo B flats to her gentle, yet heartfelt, "Ach ich fühl's." Singing as comfortably as a folk singer, Kurt Streit's lyrical, yet dramatic, Tamino is manly and heroic. Gilles Cachemaille is an appropriately charming Papageno, and all supporting performances are stellar. This crystal-clear interpretation must be as close to perfection as Mozart probably dreamed. A true treasure.
VA - Mozart 225: The New Complete Edition (2016) [200 CD Box Set] RE-POST

VA - Mozart 225: The New Complete Edition
Classical | FLAC (tracks)+cue, artwork, books, bonus materials | 240:57:55 | 62 GB
Label: Decca / DG | Tracks: 3335 | Rls.date: 2016

To mark the 225th anniversary of Mozart’s death, Decca and Deutsche Grammophon are releasing the most authoritative, complete and scholarly box set ever devoted to the work of a single composer. The 200CD Complete Edition was created in partnership with the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation and Mozart expert Professor Cliff Eisen of King’s College London, and will be released worldwide on 28 October 2016.
Ronald Brautigam - Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Ronald Brautigam, Die Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 74:02 minutes | 1.22 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

This is the ninth installment in Ronald Brautigam's series of the complete piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As on previous discs, Brautigam whose 'muscular yet sensitively nuanced command of Mozartian discourse' (BBC Music Magazine) is supported by Die Kölner Akademie under Michael Alexander Willens.
Ronald Brautigam, Die Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos (2019)

Ronald Brautigam, Die Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) | Tracks: 10 | 74:08 min | 290 MB
Style: Classical | Label: BIS

This is the ninth installment in Ronald Brautigam's series of the complete piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As on previous discs, Brautigam whose 'muscular yet sensitively nuanced command of Mozartian discourse' (BBC Music Magazine) is supported by Die Kölner Akademie under Michael Alexander Willens. The opening work on this installment is the C major concerto, K 415, which was first performed on 23rd March 1783 in the presence of Emperor Joseph II. K 415 was composed in conjunction with the Concerto No. 11 in F major, K 413, which in contrast is a more intimate creation, especially in its Larghetto middle movement, in which Mozart achieves some of his most memorable writing, with the various textures of the orchestra providing a cushion of sound for a delicious cantabile aria for the piano a model that was to become almost a trademark of his later concerto slow movements. The disc closes with Concerto No. 8 in C major, K 246, composed some six years earlier. Mozart wrote it for Countess Antonia Lützow, one of his father's pupils, and in terms of technical difficulty, it is among the least demanding of his piano concertos which nevertheless didn't stop Mozart from performing it himself on several occasions.
Michael Alexander Willens - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-4 "Pasticcio Concertos" (2016)

Michael Alexander Willens - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-4 "Pasticcio Concertos"
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 58:28 min | 249 MB
Label: BIS | Tracks: 12 | Rls.date: 2016

Final disc in Ronald Brautigam's traversal of Mozart's piano concertos. Throughout the ten previous discs in their series of Mozart's complete piano concertos, Ronald Brautigam and Die Kölner Akademie have offered up fresh, sometimes bracing readings of these perennial favourites. 'An ideal mixture of clarity and stylish effervescence' (International Record Review), 'as near as dammit what Mozart's audiences would have heard' (Classic FM Magazine) and 'a completely new, crisp 'Mozart-feel' for the 21st century' (Stereoplay) are just some of the responses from the international music press.
Ronald Brautigam, Die Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos (2019)

Ronald Brautigam, Die Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos (2019)
FLAC (tracks) | 01:14:02 | 290 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: BIS

This is the ninth installment in Ronald Brautigam's series of the complete piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As on previous discs, Brautigam whose 'muscular yet sensitively nuanced command of Mozartian discourse' (BBC Music Magazine) is supported by Die Kölner Akademie under Michael Alexander Willens. The opening work on this installment is the C major concerto, K 415, which was first performed on 23rd March 1783 in the presence of Emperor Joseph II. K 415 was composed in conjunction with the Concerto No. 11 in F major, K 413, which in contrast is a more intimate creation, especially in its Larghetto middle movement, in which Mozart achieves some of his most memorable writing, with the various textures of the orchestra providing a cushion of sound for a delicious cantabile aria for the piano a model that was to become almost a trademark of his later concerto slow movements.