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Antonio Casimir Cartellieri - Concertos for Clarinet and Orchestra B flat major / E flat major
Dieter Klöcker, clarinet / Prague Chamber Orchestra
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 220 MB | Full Artwork: 131 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG "Gold" # 301 0527-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1996
Genre: Classical | Style: Classical Period

“This disc represents a major expansion in repertoire … excellently played and recorded“ (Fanfare)

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - 24 Caprichos de Goya OP. 195
Frank Bungarten, guitar
EAC+LOG+CUE | 2xFLAC: 300 MB | Full Artwork: 168 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG "Gold" # 305 0725-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1996
Genre: Classical | Style: Contemporary, Classical Guitar

“… these Caprichos are an exhaustive workout for guitar. Frank Bungarten was awarded the first prize in the International Guitar Competition in Granada, Spain, by Segovia himself. His playing is very clean and clear … One must remark, too, upon the quality of the recording.“ (Fanfare)

Various Composers - Sächsische Orgelmusik / Saxon Organ Music
Joachim Dorfmüller auf Silbermann-Orgeln im Elsaß / on Alsace Silbermann organs
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 296 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG L 3330 | Country/Year: Germany 1989
Genre: Classical | Style: Organ

Andreas Silbermann (16 May 1678 - 16 March 1734) was a German organ builder, who was involved in the construction of 35 organs, mostly in Alsace. Andreas also established the Silbermann family tradition of organ building, training his brother Gottfried and his son Johann Andreas in the profession.

Charles Ives - Complete Music For String Quartet
Leipziger Streichquartett / Steffen Schleiermacher / Yeon-Hee Kwak / Ingo Goritzki
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 291 MB | Full Artwork: 122 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG "Gold" # 307 1143-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2002
Genre: Classical | Style: Early 20th Century

Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though his music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, he came to be regarded as an "American original". Ives combined the American popular and church-music traditions of his youth with European art music, and was among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric elements, and quarter tones, foreshadowing many musical innovations of the 20th century…

Various Composers - Sächsische Orgelmusik / Saxon Organ Music
Joachim Dorfmüller auf Silbermann-Orgeln im Elsaß / on Alsace Silbermann organs
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 296 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG L 3330 | Country/Year: Germany 1989
Genre: Classical | Style: Organ

Andreas Silbermann (16 May 1678 - 16 March 1734) was a German organ builder, who was involved in the construction of 35 organs, mostly in Alsace. Andreas also established the Silbermann family tradition of organ building, training his brother Gottfried and his son Johann Andreas in the profession.

Friedrich Kiel - Works for Violoncello and Piano Vol. 2
Hans Zentgraf, Violoncello / Christoph Ullrich, Piano
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 260 MB | Full Artwork: 107 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG "Scene" # 612 1161-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2003
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

…Writing of the chamber music of Friedrich Kiel, the famous scholar and critic Wilhelm Altmann notes that it was Kiel’s extreme modesty which kept him and his exceptional works from receiving the consideration they deserved. After mentioning Johannes Brahms and others, Altmann writes, “He produced a number of chamber works, which . . . need fear no comparison.”…

Benjamin Godard - Trio Parnassus - Complete Piano Trios
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 235 MB | Full Artwork: 83 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG "Gold" # 303 1615-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2010
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Piano Trio

"…The pianist, Chia Chou, deserves particular praise for his wide dynamic and tonal range: the arpeggiated patterns suggest reserves of tonal weight; elsewhere he articulates individual notes with a delicate, crystalline ping. Clear, warm, and appealing sound reproduction further enhances the proceedings. Enthusiastically recommended, particularly to devotees of the French Romantics." ~musicweb-international

Christoph Willibald Gluck - Il trionfo di Clelia, opera in 3 acts, Wq. 31 (1763)
Armonia Atenea / Giuseppe Sigismondi de Risio / Hélène Le Corre
3xCD | EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 977 MB | Partial Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG "Scene" # 609 1733-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2012
Genre: Classical | Style: Opera, Classical Period

"Die Sängerinnen und Sänger haben allesamt sehr intensiv an den Koloraturen gearbeitet und sind den teils horrenden Schwierigkeiten der Arien gut gewachsen … Außerdem sind die Rezitative mit hohem Konversationstempo und fantasievoller Generalbass-Improvisation umgesetzt." ~FonoForum