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Charles MacKerras - Gluck, Rameau: Orchestral Suites (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Feb. 19, 2021
Charles MacKerras - Gluck, Rameau: Orchestral Suites (2021)

Charles MacKerras - Gluck, Rameau: Orchestral Suites (2021)
FLAC tracks | 1:10:37 | 318 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.

Two first-ever releases from 1965 Philips sessions of 18th-century music for the stage conducted by the supremely versatile Sir Charles Mackerras. Eighteenth-century music had been a passion for Charles Mackerras ever since childhood. 'What I particularly like is the beautiful symmetry of it,' he said in 1977, 'and the extremely florid decoration which you find in the Baroque art of central Europe. I've tried hard not only to be a scholar and a musicologist but to try and interpret old music in the old way, in the way that the composers imagined it. I passionately believe in trying to recreate the sound, the actual noise that is made by an orchestra of Baroque dimensions.
Cappella Coloniensis & August Wenzinger - Handel, Rameau & Muffat (2022)

Cappella Coloniensis & August Wenzinger - Handel, Rameau & Muffat: Music for the Royal Fireworks, Orchestra Suites & Sonata No. 4 (Armonico tributo) (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 341 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 151 Mb | 01:05:41
Classical | Label: Jube Classic

The Music for the Royal Fireworks (HWV 351) is a suite in D major for wind instruments composed by George Frideric Handel in 1749 under contract of George II of Great Britain for the fireworks in London's Green Park on 27 April 1749. The music celebrates the end of the War of the Austrian Succession and the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) in 1748. The work was very popular when first performed and following Handel's death. Mozart called the work a "spectacle of English pride and joy".

Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon - Enfers (2018)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at Feb. 25, 2018
Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon - Enfers (2018)

Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon - Enfers (2018)
Classical, Vocal | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 424 MB
Label: harmonia mundi | Tracks: 23 | Time: 76:17 min

Raphaël Pichon has invited Stéphane Degout to make his recording debut for harmonia mundi in a multifaceted exploration of the Underworld. The French baritone reincarnates the figure of Henri Larrivée, the famous tragedian of Rameau and Gluck. Around a reconstruction of an imaginary Mass of the Dead, sacred and secular merge, revealing some of the most extraordinary pieces from the operatic repertory of the Enlightenment. Music of death and mourning on an epic scale that inspires Pygmalion to overwhelming heights of pathos.
Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon - Enfers (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon - Enfers (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 78:17 minutes | 1.47 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Raphaël Pichon has invited Stéphane Degout to make his recording debut for harmonia mundi in a multifaceted exploration of the Underworld. The French baritone reincarnates the figure of Henri Larrivée, the famous tragedian of Rameau and Gluck. Around a reconstruction of an imaginary Mass of the Dead, sacred and secular merge, revealing some of the most extraordinary pieces from the operatic repertory of the Enlightenment. Music of death and mourning on an epic scale that inspires Pygmalion to overwhelming heights of pathos.

Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon - Enfers (2018)  Music

Posted by delpotro at June 18, 2018
Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon - Enfers (2018)

Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon - Enfers (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 01:18:27 | 416 Mb
Classical, Opera, Sacred | Label: Harmonia Mundi

Raphaël Pichon has invited Stéphane Degout to make his recording debut for harmonia mundi in a multifaceted exploration of the Underworld. The French baritone reincarnates the figure of Henri Larrivée, the famous tragedian of Rameau and Gluck. Around a reconstruction of an imaginary Mass of the Dead, sacred and secular merge, revealing some of the most extraordinary pieces from the operatic repertory of the Enlightenment. Music of death and mourning on an epic scale that inspires Pygmalion to overwhelming heights of pathos.

VA - Music Of The Enlightenment (2011)  Music

Posted by Discograf_man at March 4, 2015
VA - Music Of The Enlightenment (2011)

VA - Music Of The Enlightenment (2011)
Classical | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 4,54 Gb
Label: Harmonia Mundi | Release Year: 2011

The unprecedented expansion of music in the age of enlightenment
The eighteenth century is probably the most extraordinary period of transformation Europe has known since antiquity. Political upheavals kept pace with the innumerable inventions and discoveries of the age; every sector of the arts and of intellectual and material life was turned upside down.
Mathias Vidal, Gaétan Jarry, Ensemble Marguerite Louise - Rameau Triomphant (2021)

Mathias Vidal, Gaétan Jarry, Ensemble Marguerite Louise - Rameau Triomphant (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 448 Mb | Total time: 77:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS039 | Recorded: 2020

Master of 18th-century French opera, Rameau wrote for the stage for three decades (1733-1764). His thirty or so operatic works give considerable space to the haute-contre voice, the quintessence of most of the title roles: Platée, Dardanus, Hippolyte, Pygmalion… Mathias Vidal, a brilliant representative of this haute-contre tessitura, is one of its foremost specialists. Having sung the majority of Rameau’s operas on stage, he is an obvious paradigm for their characters. Together with Gaétan Jarry, he has conceived a programme of the most dazzling and expressive arias, to which have been added scenes accompanied by a chorus.
Reinoud Van Mechelen, A Nocte Temporis - Jéliote, haute-contre de Rameau (2021)

Reinoud Van Mechelen, A Nocte Temporis - Jéliote, haute-contre de Rameau (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 396 Mb | Total time: 78:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA753 | Recorded: 2020

Reinoud Van Mechelen and his ensemble A Nocte Temporis continue their ‘Haute-Contre Trilogy’ with Rameau’s favourite singer, Pierre de Jéliote, probably the finest haute-contre in history. (Reminder: this is a high tenor voice, not to be confused with the countertenor!) Rameau wrote an enormous amount of music for Jéliote, who was not only a singer but also a guitarist, a cellist and even a composer. The album pays tribute to this native of the Béarn region, who was born in 1713 and died at the ripe old age of eighty-four, with a selection of airs by Rameau (from Hippolyte et Aricie, Les Fêtes d’Hébé, Platée, Castor et Pollux, Les Boréades) but also by Dauvergne, Colin de Blamont, Mondonville, Rebel and Francoeur. Though some are well known, others are much more rarely performed today.
Reinoud Van Mechelen & A Nocte Temporis - Jéliote, haute-contre de Rameau (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Reinoud Van Mechelen & A Nocte Temporis - Jéliote, haute-contre de Rameau (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 89:27 minutes | 1,67 GB
Classical, Vocal | Label: Alpha Classics, Official Digital Download

Reinoud Van Mechelen and his ensemble A Nocte Temporis continue their ‘Haute-Contre Trilogy’ with Rameau’s favourite singer, Pierre de Jéliote, probably the finest haute-contre in history. (Reminder: this is a high tenor voice, not to be confused with the countertenor!) Rameau wrote an enormous amount of music for Jéliote, who was not only a singer but also a guitarist, a cellist and even a composer.
Reinoud Van Mechelen & A Nocte Temporis - Jéliote, haute-contre de Rameau (2021)

Reinoud Van Mechelen & A Nocte Temporis - Jéliote, haute-contre de Rameau (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 448 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 205 Mb | 01:29:27
Classical, Vocal | Label: Alpha Classica, Outhere Music

Reinoud Van Mechelen and his ensemble A Nocte Temporis continue their ‘Haute-Contre Trilogy’ with Rameau’s favourite singer, Pierre de Jéliote, probably the finest haute-contre in history. (Reminder: this is a high tenor voice, not to be confused with the countertenor!) Rameau wrote an enormous amount of music for Jéliote, who was not only a singer but also a guitarist, a cellist and even a composer. The album pays tribute to this native of the Béarn region, who was born in 1713 and died at the ripe old age of eighty-four, with a selection of airs by Rameau (from Hippolyte et Aricie, Les Fêtes d’Hébé, Platée, Castor et Pollux, Les Boréades) but also by Dauvergne, Colin de Blamont, Mondonville, Rebel and Francoeur. Though some are well known, others are much more rarely performed today.