Galant Court Music

Bernhard Hofstötter, Bozhena Korchynska & Mariya Bil - Baron: Music for Lute Solo & Lute and Recorder (2022) [24/44]

Bernhard Hofstötter, Bozhena Korchynska & Mariya Bil - Baron: Music for Lute Solo & Lute and Recorder (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 68:54 minutes | 641 MB
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics, Official Digital Download

Though the music of Ernst Gottlieb Baron (1696–1760) is scarcely known to the wider public, the complete edition of his surviving compositions presented by Jan W.J. Burgers in 2005 (which forms the basis for the recordings on this CD) offers an excellent opportunity to study and perform the works of this late Baroque master and restore them to the status they deserve.

Enrico Bissolo - Araja: Capricci; Pellegrini: Sonatas (2022)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Jan. 29, 2022
Enrico Bissolo - Araja: Capricci; Pellegrini: Sonatas (2022)

Enrico Bissolo - Araja: Capricci; Pellegrini: Sonatas (2022)
FLAC tracks | 1:07:20 | 443 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Brilliant Classics

This recording provides a comparison of the keyboard music of two composers born in Naples whose careers took them beyond national borders. Francesco Araja was born in 1709 and became "capellmeister" and court composer to Tsarina Anna in St. Petersburg; Ferdinando Pellegrini whose birth probably dates back to 1715, lived and worked in Lyon, London and Paris.
Borbála Dobozy - Gottlieb Muffat: Componimenti musicali per il cembalo (1992)

Borbála Dobozy - Gottlieb Muffat: Componimenti musicali per il cembalo (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 807 Mb | Total time: 61:49+71:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hungaroton | # MDG 0510-2 | Recorded: 1987

Gottlieb Muffat ( 1690-1770) came from a large family of nine children which was not unusual for the time when infantile mortality rate was high. His father Georg Muffat was a composer himself and a Kappellmeister who also served as an organist at the court of the Bishop of Passau. Four of his children were to become musicians including our composer Gottlieb who settled down in Vienna after his father's death.
Pieter-Jan Belder - Dandrieu: Trois Livres de Piecès de Clavecin (2023)

Pieter-Jan Belder - Dandrieu: Trois Livres de Piecès de Clavecin (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1,81 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 633 Mb | Digital booklet | 04:35:16
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics

Jean-François Dandrieu was born in August or September 1682 on rue Saint-Louis, Île de la Cité, Paris. He was the eldest of at least four children and showed such musical precocity that it is reported he played the harpsichord for Louis XIV and his court at the age of five. It can be assumed that his reputation led to great demand for his services as a performer, since he travelled outside Paris as a musician on several occasions. He was not the first musical Dandrieu: his uncle, Pierre, trained as a priest and organist in Angers. It is possible that it was he who organised Jean-François’s studies with the harpsichordist and composer Jean-Baptiste Moreau, a fellow Angevin and near contemporary.
Ludwig Güttler, Virtuosi Saxoniae - Zelenka: Missa Dei Patris; Psalms; Capriccios

Ludwig Güttler, Virtuosi Saxoniae - Zelenka: Missa Dei Patris; Psalms; Capriccios (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 602 Mb | Total time: 69:59+66:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant | # 94691 | Recorded: 1986-1994

Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745) is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of Baroque music. Very little is known of his early years, where he studied and who taught him. Born in a village to the south of Prague, he later travelled to Dresden where he joined the court of the Elector of Saxony, Friedrich August I. His position at the court was a lowly one, but he nonetheless composed many works there and his output of church music was particularly prolific.
Raffaella Milanesi, Romabarocca Ensemble, Renato Criscuolo & Lorenzo Tozzi - Badia: Cantate per soprano e continuo (2024)

Raffaella Milanesi, Romabarocca Ensemble, Renato Criscuolo & Lorenzo Tozzi - Badia: Cantate per soprano e continuo (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 271 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 151 Mb | 01:05:21
Classical, Vocal | Label: Tactus

Carlo Agostino Badia was one of the many Italian musicians making his fortune at the court of Vienna where he was hired as a composer in 1694. We have no news about his education, but the musical historiography is mentioning about his great compositional period lasting forty-four years at the service of the emperors Leopold i and Joseph i, in which he produced in large quantities cantatas, melodramas and oratorios greatly appreciated at the Austrian court. From his musical writing it is clear how he was a “ferryer” of that late Baroque (followed by Antonio Caldara who succeeded him at the Viennese court) anticipating the forms of the imminent galant style. In this recording the attention is directed to the profane cantatas, from the collection Tributi Armonici – published in Nuremberg in 1699 – which represent precisely the transition from the traditional style (in particular the Venetian one) to the new eighteenth-century style. The great variety of writing that distinguishes the cantatas is well rendered by the ductile voice of the soprano Raffaella Milanesi accompanied by RomaBarocca Ensemble, under the direction of Lorenzo Tozzi.

Luca Scandali - C.P.E. Bach: Complete Organ Music (2014)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 4, 2023
Luca Scandali - C.P.E. Bach: Complete Organ Music (2014)

Luca Scandali - C.P.E. Bach: Complete Organ Music (2014)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:06:12 | 639 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | Catalog: 94812

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bachs interest in the organ would seem to be fairly limited, at least judging by the number of pieces he composed for the instrument. The reasons for this attitude could be personal and professional, but could also reflect the changing affections and the new sensibility of the period, since during his lifetime the organ underwent a phase of relative decline. Indeed, following the acme reached by Johann Sebastian Bach, the instrument sank into a phase of neglect in Germany during the second half of the 1700s.
Verena Fischer, Klaus-Dieter Brandt, Léon Berben - Johan Helmich Roman: Twelve Flute Sonatas (2008)

Verena Fischer, Klaus-Dieter Brandt, Léon Berben - Johan Helmich Roman: Twelve Flute Sonatas (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 796 Mb | Total time: 75:11+70:42 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.570492-93 | Recorded: 2007, 2008

Foremost among Swedish Baroque composers, Johan Helmich Roman travelled to England (1716-21) then to France, Italy, Austria and Germany (1735-37), gaining valuable firsthand knowledge of European music. At home in Stockholm he conducted the court orchestra, introduced Handel’s music, and was active in developing public concert life. His rich output includes these twelve charming and highly accomplished Flute Sonatas, the first such published in Sweden, whose galant character combines the baroque and emerging pre-classical styles.
Main-Barockorchester Frankfurt, Georg Poplutz, Franz Vitzthum - Der Herr ist auferstanden: Arias & Duets for Eastertide (2022)

Main-Barockorchester Frankfurt, Georg Poplutz, Franz Vitzthum - Der Herr ist auferstanden: Arias & Duets for Eastertide (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:17:20 | 324 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Accent

Christoph Graupner was one of the most important composers in Germany during his lifetime. In the competition for the position of Leipzig's Thomaskantor, he was second only to Telemann and ahead of Bach. However, his employer, Landgrave Ernst Ludwig, did not let him go. So he remained as court kapellmeister in Darmstadt and in the end held the position for over 50 years! Time enough to create an enormous oeuvre, at the center of which are over 1400 cantatas.

Marcel Worms - Graupner meets Bach (2023)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Sept. 1, 2023
Marcel Worms - Graupner meets Bach (2023)

Marcel Worms - Graupner meets Bach (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:20:23 | 446 / 322 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Zefir Records

These partita’s have been composed more or less at the same time. However the difference in style can be clearly heard: Bach sticks to the older polyfonic way of composing while Graupner is more inclined to the galant style which is lighter and more elegant. Graupner has unjustly nearly fallen into oblivion while Bach is considered as the patriarch of Western classical music. During their lifetime however both composers were equally famous in Germany. Graupner has been in the service of the court of Darmstadt for about half a century. Because the counts of Darmstadt considered all of Graupners’ compositions as their property his works weren’t published and were not performed outside the walls of the palace. By the time Graupners compositions had become public property his name was almost completely forgotten. Time for a rehabilitation!