Münchener Bach Orchester

Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester - Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte Nos.1-6, Konzerte BWV 1055, 1060R & 1064 (2009)

Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester - Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte Nos.1-6, Konzerte BWV 1055, 1060R & 1064 (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 768 Mb | Total time: 75:38+68:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 463 011-2 /463 012-2 | Recorded: 1964, 1968, 1981

Very few conductors have recorded as much Bach as Karl Richter, and none can lay a stronger claim to a legacy based on championing the master… Richter's reverence for Bach is evinced by the simplicity, splendor, and grandeur with which he consistently imbued his performances. Richter understood that the profound underlying architecture of Bach's music was critical to its appreciation, enjoyment, and yes, power.
Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester - George Frideric Handel: Concerti Grossi Op.3 & 6 (1996)

Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester - George Frideric Handel: Concerti Grossi Op.3 & 6 (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 1.31 Gb | Total time: 66:31+66:27+64:22+59:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 453 2492 | Recorded: 1971

Richter actually made a full set of recordings for Handel's Concerti Grossi. The Munich Bach Orchestra, who almost played exclusively for Richter, maintained its essential baroque flur throughout all the pieces, under the impeccable conducting of Richter. The different string sections played as if they were in a chorus, each minute part played in fully melodious and engaging manner, while the ensemble as a whole displayed all the required congeniality and harmoniousness essential of the baroque style. The rhythms are enlivened while contrasts striking, and you will seldom find Handel's works played in such grand style as did Richter and the Munich Bach Orchestra here.
Karl Richter, Munchner Bach-Orchester, Munchner Bach-Chor - Bach: Matthaus-Passion (2006/1971)

Karl Richter, Münchner Bach-Orchester, Münchner Bach-Chor - Bach: Matthäus-Passion (2006/1971)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 6.67 Gb+7.13 Gb (2xDVD9) | 197 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

Legendary Bach interpreter Karl Richter leads his Münchener Bach-Orchester and choir in a double-DVD version of J. S. Bach's grandest sacred work, a riveting chronicle of the Last Supper and Christ's final hours, with the Gospel text sung by Peter Schreier as the Evangelist.
Munchner Bach Orchester, Karl Richter - J.S.Bach: Brandenburg Concertos; Orchestral Suites; Triple Concerto (2002) 3CDs

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte; Orchestersuiten;
Tripelkonzert für Flöte, Violine, Cembalo und Streicher
Münchener Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter, conductor & harpsichord
Aurèle Nicolet, flute; Gerhart Hetzel, violin

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.13 Gb | Scans included | Time: 3:33:19
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 463 657-2

Very few conductors have recorded as much Bach as Karl Richter and none can lay a stronger claim to a legacy based on championing the master. Richter's reverence for Bach is evinced by the simplicity, splendor, and grandeur with which he consistently imbued his performances exemplified here by these landmark recordings of the Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites. In Archiv's original-image bit-processing remastered transfers as well, the sound is better than ever. This is cornerstone Bach that should not be missed.
Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester und Chor, Regensburger Domspatzen - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1989)

Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester und Chor, Regensburger Domspatzen - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 869 Mb | Total time: 203:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 427 704 | Recorded: 1979

The opening with the opening choir "Kommt, ihr Töchter" immediately sets the tone; not a quick-played waltz, but imposing and wide-set, like the start of a great human drama. Richter exceeds 11 minutes with this tempo. Only the version by Otto Klemperer is even slower. But unlike Klemperer, here in the rest of the MP we are not dealing with a somewhat stately approach, but with a sharply profiled and dramatic one!
Karl Richter, Munchener Bach-Orchester, Munchener Bach-Chor - Bach: Messe in h-moll (2006/1969)

Karl Richter, Münchner Bach-Orchester, Münchner Bach-Chor - Bach: Messe in h-moll (2006/1969)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR | Latin (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.58 Gb (DVD9) | 129 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Latin, Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

Karl Richter leads a star line-up of soloists including Gundula Janowitz and Hermann Prey in Bach's enduring В minor Mass, a majestic work that showcases Bach's supreme craftsmanship and skill as a choral composer.
Karl Richter, Munchener Bach-Orchester - Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte (2006/1970)

Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester - Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte (2006/1970)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.82 Gb (DVD9) | 99 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon

From the euphoric first to the solemn sixth, the Brandenburg Concertos feature some of Bach's fenrst and most popular orchestral music, interpreted here by legendary Bach specialist Karl Richter and his Münchener Bach-Orchester - for the first time on DVD.
Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester - Johann Sebastian Bach: Die 13 Cembalokonzerte (1993)

Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester - Johann Sebastian Bach: Die 13 Cembalokonzerte (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.11 Gb | Total time: 74:31+73:48+59:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | 439 612-2 | Recorded: 1973

As a Bach interpreter, Richter was almost unrivalled worldwide for many years and his Bach interpretations set standards. Karl Richter and his choir became the formative interpreters of the internationally renowned Bach Festival in Ansbach, a meeting place for the musical elite from all over the world. For almost two decades, the Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra has had the musical world from New York to Leningrad, from Tokyo to Paris at its feet, and many of its highly decorated recordings are among the best-selling recordings.
Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester, Münchener Bach-Chor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1994)

Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester, Münchener Bach-Chor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 900 Mb | Total time: 65:42+63:48+68:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 439 338-2 | Recorded: 1958

The evolving musical climate of the 1950s occasioned a profound shift of culture and attitude in the performance of Bach’s great choral works. By the close of the decade, it was one of Bach’s own successors in the post of Kantor at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche, Karl Richter (who’d become organist there at age 23 in 1947), who’d become torch-bearer for a new generation of Bach interpreters. Richter’s recordings with the Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra (ensembles he founded in 1951 and with which his name has become synonymous) heeded an unbroken Leipzig tradition that could be traced back to the time of Bach himself.
Karl Richter, Munchener Bach-Orchester, Munchener Bach-Chor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium (1988)

Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester, Münchener Bach-Chor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium (1988)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 781 Mb | Total time: 58:31+56:31+48:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ARCHIV Produktion | # 427 236-2 | Recorded: 1965

Karl Richter's performance dates from 1965, since when it has seldom been out of the catalogue. It is in an entirely different class… Richter's Munich Bach Choir were at a peak at this time and the results are often quite exciting. Under Richter's direction the ''Ehre sei dir, Gott'' chorus…is appropriately lustig with wonderfully light-hearted singing and orchestral playing… [T]he arias with Gundula Janowitz and Fritz Wunderlich…[are] of a calibre which will always ensure considerable enjoyment…