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Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - Carl Heinrich Graun: Grosse Passion (2009)

Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - Carl Heinrich Graun: Große Passion (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 600 Mb | Total time: 122:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 452-2 | Recorded: 2008

Graun was in his mid-twenties when he composed this Grand Passion . It is a surprisingly mature work, full of subtle gems. When first listening to this two-CD album, I wrote: “The music is very pleasant. Although it is quite tuneful, little of it is memorable and at two hours tends to wear out its welcome. There is almost a monotonous similarity of one number to the next. It needs something rousing like the ‘Hallelujah’ chorus.” Repeated hearings of this album have increased my appreciation considerably. Even Handel liked this Passion , and quoted some of its music in his own works.
Hermann Max,  Das Kleine Konzert - Johann Christian Bach: Gioas, Re di Giuda (2002)

Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert - Johann Christian Bach: Gioas, Rè di Giuda (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 652 Mb | Total time: 134:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 895-2 | Recorded: 2001

Written for London audiences in 1770, Johann Christian Bach’s only extant oratorio, Gioas, Re di Guida, is a proverbial curate’s egg. Attempting to please both those weaned on Handel and those hoping to hear the oratorio genre given a rococo makeover, it failed to please either. Such was London’s veneration for the spirit of Handel that Bach was booed when he dared play an organ interlude between acts; and despite George III’s patronage, the work was soon neglected. Audiences of the time simply did not want to hear Italian operatic conventions in their oratorios.
Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert - Johann Christian Bach: La Clemenza di Scipione (2002)

Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert - Johann Christian Bach: La Clemenza di Scipione (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 586 Mb | Total time: 131:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 791-2 | Recorded: 2000

Composed in 1778, J.C. Bach's La Clemenza di Scipione is a nice, direct, fat-free work. The arias tend to be short (not one of them is a da capo), the recitatives are to the point and likewise brief, and the action moves swiftly. Roman Scipio (tenor) has taken Cartagena and Spanish soprano princess Arsinda (and her soprano pal, Idalba) prisoner. Male soprano, fellow non-Roman Lucieo, is betrothed to Arsinda, while the Roman general Marzio (tenor) is in love with Idalba and vice-versa. The whole plot revolves around the heroic Lucieo's attempts to rescue Arsinda, et al., his being taken prisoner, and his being threatened by death if he refuses to pledge allegiance to Rome.
Hermann Dechant, Jugendorchester Bamberg - Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann: Aurora (1995)

Hermann Dechant, Jugendorchester Bamberg - Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann: Aurora (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 689 Mb | Total time: 64:05+48:32+41:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Bayer Records | # BR 100 276-78 | Recorded: 1990

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (Königsberg, January 24, 1776 – Berlin, June 25, 1822), who changed his third name to Amadeus in honour to Mozart, is one of the best-known representatives of German Romanticism, and a pioneer of the fantasy genre, with a taste for the macabre. He was also a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist.
As a musician, he composed about 80 works, including several operas, among them Aurora (1811-12), after Franz von Holbein, and Undine (1814), after Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's tale, one symphony, sacred and chamber music, as well as instrumental pieces.
Hermann Max, Rheinische Kantorei - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Gesù al Calvario (2001)

Hermann Max, Rheinische Kantorei - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Gesù al Calvario (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 499 Mb | Total time: 110:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # 10 887 | Recorded: 1999

In an age of artistic conformity, Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) had a refreshingly individual voice. In his own time he was described as 'a reserved, bigoted Catholic, but also a respectable, quiet, unassuming man, deserving of the greatest respect'. His music earned Bach's respect for its serious contrapuntal procedures; today's listeners, though, are more immediately charmed by Zelenka's quirky turns of phrase and flashes of original genius. There are plenty of these in the Passion oratorio Gesù al Calvario (1735), one of the composer's three late oratorios.
Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - J.S. Bach: Johannes-Passion (arr. Robert Schumann) (2007)

Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (arr. Robert Schumann) (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 507 Mb | Total time: 103:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | 777 091-2 | Recorded: 2006

When Schumann was offered the post of music director in Düsseldorf in 1850, his first main project was to perform the St. John Passion, which had never been presented there, in April 1851: “It is much bolder, more powerful, and more poetic than the St. Matthew. This one seems to me not to be free of diffuseness and to be exceedingly long, but the other – how compact, how thoroughly genial, and of what art!” Robert Schumann

Hermann Göring  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by eBookRat at April 4, 2024
Hermann Göring

Hermann Göring: Echoes of Evil and the Moral Failings of the Nazi Era (Hitler's Henchmen Book 4)
by Alex Conrad

English | March 31, 2024 | ASIN: B0CWVW3XPL | 184 pages | PDF | 86 Mb
Hermann Bäumer, Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra - Josef Bohuslav Foerster: Symphony No. 5, In den Bergen (2010)

Hermann Bäumer, Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra - Josef Bohuslav Foerster: Symphony No. 5, In den Bergen (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 239 Mb | Total time: 68:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: MDG | # MDG 632 1493-2 | Recorded: 2009

Josef Bohuslav Foerster's life spanned almost an entire century. In the year of his birth, Wagner laid the axe to the roots of tonality with "Tristan"; shortly after his death, Boulez did the rest… Hermann Bäumer and the Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra have documented Foerster's symphonic output on three albums. This commendable edition shows a master who was highly respected during his lifetime and who remained true to himself through all the upheavals. Raised in Prague, Foerster spent many years in Hamburg and Vienna and only returned to his homeland after the founding of Czechoslovakia in 1918. Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, and Grieg encouraged him in his younger years, and later Gustav Mahler sought his advice.
Hermann Bäumer, Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra - Josef Bohuslav Foerster: Symphonies Nos.3 & 4 (2009)

Hermann Bäumer, Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra - Josef Bohuslav Foerster: Symphonies Nos.3 & 4 (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 301 Mb | Total time: 78:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: MDG | # MDG 632 1492-2 | Recorded: 2008

Neither Josef Bohuslav Foerster's Third Symphony of 1894 nor his Fourth Symphony of 1924 could be considered ahead of their time. Indeed, they are barely of their time. His Third has much of heroic middle period Dvorák and Brahms in it while his Fourth, the "Easter Eve" symphony, mixes the weight of late Bruckner with the expressivity of middle period Mahler. But whatever their time, they could and should be considered as vital works in their own right written by a talented, sincere, and distinctive composer.
Hermann Bäumer, Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra - Josef Bohuslav Foerster: Symphonies Nos.1 & 2 (2008)

Hermann Bäumer, Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra - Josef Bohuslav Foerster: Symphonies Nos.1 & 2 (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 290 Mb | Total time: 74:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: MDG | # MDG 632 1491-2 | Recorded: 2007

When he is remembered at all, Josef Bohuslav Foerster is remembered for one of two things: that he was the first person Mahler confided in when he finally figured out how to end his "Resurrection" Symphony in C minor or that he was the composer who wrote the conspicuously Mahlerian "Easter Eve" Symphony in C minor. As this Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm disc demonstrates, however, there was more to Foerster than that. These world-premiere recordings of the Czech composer's First Symphony in D minor and Second Symphony in F major with Hermann Bäumer leading the Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra show that before he was writing like Mahler, Foerster was writing like Wagner.