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Jos van Immerseel, L'Archibudelli - Franz Schubert: Trout Quintet; Arpeggione; Notturno (1998)

Jos van Immerseel, L'Archibudelli - Franz Schubert: Trout Quintet; Arpeggione; Notturno (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 342 Mb | Total time: 69:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SK 63361 | Recorded: 1997

Schubert's quintet (which gets its name from his song "The Trout," used for a set of variations at its apex) is as lighthearted as it is melodious, qualities reflected in this excellent performance. The period-instrument balances are ideal; the fortepiano, less resonant than a modern piano, does not overpower the strings. The arpeggione was an odd, newly invented six-stringed instrument when Schubert wrote for it. The lovely sonata is here played on an obsolete five-stringed instrument, the violoncello piccolo–closer to the original than the modern cello or viola usually heard on recordings. The "Notturno" is a haunting movement, probably intended for a larger work.
Claire Chevallier & Jos van Immerseel - Dvořák, Grieg & Brahms: Music for Piano Four Hands (2017)

Claire Chevallier & Jos van Immerseel - Dvořák, Grieg & Brahms: Music for Piano Four Hands (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 217 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 173 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:11:24
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

Jos van Immerseel and Claire Chevallier have enjoyed a close collaboration for many years now. Like Jos van Immerseel, Claire Chevallier loves period pianos; like him, she is a researcher and possesses her own collection of keyboard instruments.
Jos van Immerseel, Octophoros – Mozart, Beethoven: Quintets (1985)

Jos van Immerseel, Octophoros – Mozart, Beethoven: Quintets (1985)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 51:28 | 227 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: ACCENT | Catalog: ACC 58538 D

Authentic and authoritative, these 1985 recordings of Mozart and Beethoven's quintets for piano and winds have almost everything going for them. Performing on a pianoforte modeled on a 1790 Viennese instrument, Jos van Immerseel is an adroit player, while the quartet drawn from the period instrument wind band Octophoros Paul Dombrecht on oboe, Elmar Schmid on clarinet, Piet Dombrecht on horn, and Danny Bond on bassoon are likewise all skillful instrumentalists.

Anima Eterna Brugge & Jos van Immerseel - Gershwin (2017)  Music

Posted by delpotro at July 28, 2022
Anima Eterna Brugge & Jos van Immerseel - Gershwin (2017)

Anima Eterna Brugge & Jos van Immerseel - Gershwin (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 374 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 206 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:26:10
Classical, Vocal | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

George Gershwin composed his Rhapsody in Blue in 1924. In the same year, he launched his collaboration with his brother Ira, which produced countless songs. He never achieved his ambition of studying with Maurice Ravel, but was always enthralled by the symphonic poem and the concerto. His masterpieces, such as An American in Paris and the opera Porgy and Bess, greatly enriched the American musical heritage. Jos van Immerseel has always been fascinated by Gershwin, but it was the appearance of a new edition of the scores that prompted the pianist and conductor to record this extensive homage. Thanks to the very latest research undertaken by the University of Michigan, the Library of Congress and the Gershwin Estate, he and his companions in Anima Eterna have got closer than ever before to the composer’s intentions, making use of the appropriate instruments.
Chouchane Siranossian, Jos van Immerseel - L'Ange et le Diable: Locatelli, Leclair, Forqueray, Tartini (2016)

L’Ange & le Diable: Locatelli, Leclair, Forqueray, Tartini (2016)
Chouchane Siranossian (violin), Jos van Immerseel (harpsichord)

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 368 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 158 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Baroque | Label: Alpha | # ALPHA255 | Time: 01:08:07

After a year of celebrations of his seventieth birthday, including several recordings of orchestral music, Jos Van Immerseel returns to chamber music and the accompaniment of young talents, two absolute priorities for him. In Chouchane Siranossian he has found a worthy partner, as gifted on the modern violin as she is on the Baroque instrument, a pupil of Tibor Varga, then of Zakhar Bron, as well as a disciple of Reinhard Goebel, whose first recording, on the Oehms label, attracted great attention (winning a ‘Diapason Découverte’). Here it is the Baroque violinist who engages in dialogue with the harpsichord of Jos Van Immerseel in a Franco-Italian programme juxtaposing the music of the ‘Angel’ Leclair and the ‘Devil’ Locatelli, not forgetting Tartini’s famous ‘Devil’s Trill’ Sonata . . . Indeed, all this music is ‘devilishly’ difficult to play, but the Franco-Armenian violinist shows perfect mastery of it, combined with great inventiveness.
Midori Seiler, Jos van Immerseel - Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano (2012)

Midori Seiler, Jos van Immerseel - Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 03:53:58 | 1,11 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Zig-Zag Territoires | Catalog: ZZT307

Period-instrument performances of Beethoven's violin sonatas aren't too common; they pose thorny problems of balance even beyond the question of whether Beethoven wouldn't have preferred modern instruments if he could have had them. But this superbly musical set by violinist Midori Seiler, playing an Italian Baroque violin of unknown manufacture, and fortepianist Jos van Immerseel, on a copy of an entirely appropriate Viennese Walter piano, may well redefine the standard for these works.
Jos van Immerseel, Anima Eterna Brugge - Franz Schubert: The Complete Symphonies (2012)

Jos van Immerseel, Anima Eterna Brugge - Franz Schubert: The Complete Symphonies (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.07 Gb | Total time: 04:12:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Zig-Zag Territoires | ZZT 308 | Recorded: 1996, 1997

In the course of the 1996-97 season, Anima Eterna played and recorded Schubert's complete symphonies in the particularly innovative interpretation of their conductor, Jos van Immerseel. This interpretation, based on the study of Schubert's manuscripts and on the instruments used at the time of their first performance, allows us to discover sound colours that combine freshness and profundity.
Jos van Immerseel, Anima Eterna - Joseph Haydn: Missa Cellensis (2009)

Jos van Immerseel, Anima Eterna - Joseph Haydn: Missa Cellensis (2009)
dBpoweramp | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 354 Mb | Total time: 67:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Carus | # 83.247 | Recorded: 2008

As with most of Haydn’s masses, the Missa Cellensis is more well known by its alias,“Cäcilienmesse” (Cecilia Mass), rather than by its original name. Joseph Haydn began work on the mass in 1766, when he assumed the position as Music Director for the princely Court of Esterházy. With its unusually large orchestra and a duration of almost one hour, this composition is the longest and most extensive of Haydn’s masses. Haydn followed the traditional structure by setting the parts of the Ordinary in individual movements, in which the text is interpreted through the use of variety and contrast in scoring and compositional technique. For quite some time now, Jos van Immerseel and his Ensemble Anima Eterna have enjoyed an outstanding reputation for presenting their unique and special type of historical performance practice: For the present recording they employed Vienna wind instruments and the string instruments are modeled on instruments from the Viennese classical period.
Anima Eterna, Jos van Immerseel - Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade, Borodine (2005)

Anima Eterna, Jos van Immerseel - Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade, Borodine (2005)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:16:12 | 367 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Zig Zag Territoires | Catalog: 50502

I wouldn’t have thought the world was anxiously waiting for a historically informed performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade . Written in 1888 and a masterpiece of orchestration, it would seem that this was one work that really cries out for the full resources of a modern symphony orchestra. So I was surprised when I saw a listing for this new recording with the Bruges-based period-instrument ensemble, Anima Eterna. Despite all the heat generated in some quarters, I remain fairly neutral regarding H.I.P., seeing it neither as the salvation of music from 20th-century excesses nor as the death of music through formalism. At their best, H.I.P. performances throw a different light on the overly familiar.
Jos van Immerseel - Le clavecin à Paris au XVIIIe siècle (2023)

Jos van Immerseel - Le clavecin à Paris au XVIIIe siècle (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1.1 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 462 MB
2:42:42 | Classical | Label: Channel Classics

On this collection of three albums, Jos van Immerseel performs the music by seven masters of 18th century Paris on three historical harpsichords - some of the finest jewels in the Musée de la musique of Philharmonie de Paris: Jean-Henri Hemsch harpsichord, 1761; Ruckers-Taskin harpsichord, 1646/1780; Goujon harpsichord, 1749, restored by Swanen in 1784. Jos van Immerseel, who reappears on Channel Classics Records where he released his first recordings in the 1990s, pays homage to some of the composers who have accompanied him since the beginning of his prestigious career as a harpsichordist. The composers featured on these albums are often mentioned in the same breath, yet each has their own and completely unique style. In Jos van Immerseel's words: "Louis Marchand has whimsical and surprising turns, François Couperin is known for musical regality, Jean-Philippe Rameau portrays theatrical and folk influences, Antoine Forqueray speaks a daring language of the devil's gamba, Jacques Duphly makes the harpsichord sing, Claude Balbastre is a revolutionary challenger, and Armand-Louis Couperin wavers between brilliance and parting pain".