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L'Orfeo Barockorchester & Michi Gaigg - Mendelssohn: String Symphonies, Vol. 2 (2017) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Nov. 7, 2017

The LOrfeo Baroque Orchestra led by Michi Gaigg created a sensation with its first Mendelssohn recording. The Hessian Radio, for instance, stated that the string symphonies have been produced countless times, recorded and released on CD.

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Gaigg, Michi - Mendelssohn: String Symphonies, Vol. 1 (2015) Music

Posted by varrock at April 18, 2019

Gaigg, Michi - Mendelssohn: String Symphonies, Vol. 1 (2015)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 406 MB | Tracks: 18 | 64:10 min
Style: Classical | Label: CPO

The String Symphonies are among Mendelssohns very early works begun at the astonishing age of twelve years old. By then, he was already prodigious in his output along with regularly presenting in public parlor recitals in his home. The sterling LOrfeo Barockorchester led by conductor and founder Michi Gaigg present a captivatingly dynamic and vibrant reading of the first six of these preternaturally mature works.

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Margot Oitzinger - F. Mendelssohn: String Symphonies, Vol. 3 (Arr. for Strings & Piano) (2019) Music

Posted by varrock at June 20, 2019

Margot Oitzinger - F. Mendelssohn: String Symphonies, Vol. 3 (Arr. for Strings & Piano) (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 349 MB | Tracks: 9 | 59:55 min
Style: Classical | Label: CPO

The LOrfeo Baroque Orchestra under its conductor Michi Gaigg created a sensational stir with its first two Mendelsohn recordings. klassik-heute declared: ""This music absolutely sparkles with élan and joie de vivre. And the realization sends sparks of enthusiasm flying."" Most of the first six symphonies from Felix Mendelssohns youth do seem to owe a lot to the music of Bachs sons Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel, but the two symphonies on Vol. 3 of the present complete recording of his early symphonic oeuvre already breathe the spirit of a Haydn or Mozart. A dramatic scene for alto and string orchestra modeled on the dramatic structure of recitative, cavatina, and concluding cabaletta from Beethovens famous »Ah! Perfido« op. 65 and other works rounds off the album. These component elements depict the dilemma of a heart oscillating between fervor and horror, and in the musical interpretation the string part mostly contrasts with such profound despair and wild passion, thereby opposing the emotional states rendered in song.

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Sylvia Pozzer, William Matteuzzi, Sara Mingardo, Angela Bucci, Sergio Vartolo - Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2012) Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 29, 2023

Reissue in the Brilliant Classics Opera Collection of this excellent “HIP” performance of Monteverdi’s ever popular L’Orfeo, history’s first real opera. Soloists include the crème of Baroque Voices: the great Sara Mingardo, Sylvia Pozzer, Gabriella Martellacci, Gianpaolo Fagotto and the inspiring and historically based direction of Sergio Vartolo. Narrating the famous tale of the Thracian singer Orpheus and his quest to the underworld to bring his wife, Euridice, back to the land of the living, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo is one of the most enduringly popular of all operatic works.

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Dorothee Mields, Michi Gaigg, L'Orpheo Barockorchester - Johann Sebastian Bach: Kantaten für Solo-Sopran (2015) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at March 1, 2023

In the depth of its expression and richness of form Johann Sebastian Bach's music has no equal. This becomes especially clear in the famous cantatas for solo soprano, as can be heard in this recording, featuring Ich bin in mir vergnügt BWV 204 and Mein Herze schwimmt in Blut BWV 199 (Weimar version, 1714). The recording is rounded off by a performance of the famous soprano aria Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn BWV 1127. Once again Dorothee Mields shows that she is one of the leading interpreters of our time for the music of the 17th and 18th centuries. Performed with LOrfeo Barockorchester, under the direction of Michi Gaigg, this is an exemplary interpretation of these seldom heard solo cantatas.

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