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Rachel Podger, Holland Baroque Society - Vivaldi: La Cetra 12 Violin Concertos (2012)

Rachel Podger, Holland Baroque Society - Vivaldi: La Cetra 12 Violin Concertos (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:58:29 | 646 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Channel Classics | Catalog: CCSSA33412

After recording Vivaldi's set of Violin Concertos 'La Stravaganza', Opus 4, in 2003, Rachel Podger has been immersed in music by Mozart and Bach on disc. But it has now felt right to come back to the Venetian Maestro, whose sense of drama she adores: “This time I chose his opus 9, the set of 12 Violin concertos entitled 'La Cetra'. There are plenty of jewels in this set, just as in 'La Stravaganza', with even higher technical demands made on the soloist including many, often exotic experimental effects.”
Rachel Podger - Guardian Angel (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Rachel Podger - Guardian Angel (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 80:58 minutes | 2,37 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 80:58 minutes | 1,46 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Rachel Podger is one of the most creative talents to emerge in the field of period performance. This disc of solo violin music is a real mixture of some favourite pieces. This extraordinary beautiful recording is one of the finest solo Baroque violin compilations.
Rachel Podger - Biber: Rosary Sonatas (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Rachel Podger - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Rosary Sonatas (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 133:24 minutes | 4,27 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 133:24 minutes | 2,55 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Biber's Mystery (or Rosary) Sonatas were originally written to be played during Mass in Salzburg. Set to be recorded in early 2015 and released shortly after by Channel Classics, Rachel will tour a programme of half of the sonatas through 2014/2015 and 2015/2016. Depicting the main stories in the life of Christ, the sonatas are extremely evocative and could be performed in a sacred space using the Stations of the Cross, and/ or include suitable lighting to enhance the performance.
Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque - Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (2018)

Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque - Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (2018)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 75:24 | 374 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Channel Classics | Catalog: CCS SA 40318

Among countless interpretations of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, which range from modernized performances for large string orchestra to period-style versions for much leaner ensembles, there are few as pared-down as Rachel Podger's performances with Brecon Baroque. Podger plays the virtuosic solo violin part and directs an ensemble consisting of two violins, one viola, and one cello, supported by a continuo of violone, theorbo, and harpsichord or chamber organ. This might give an impression of extreme austerity or thinness of sound, but the surprising richness of the group's textures suggests that tonal production counts more than the number of players.
Rachel Podger & Kristian Bezuidenhout - C.P.E. Bach: Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Rachel Podger & Kristian Bezuidenhout - C.P.E. Bach: Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 72:59 minutes | 2,5 GB
Classical | Label: Channel Classics Records, Official Digital Download

The Baroque dream team of Rachel Podger and Kristian Bezuidenhout interpret the astonishing music of C.P.E. Bach’s Violin Sonatas in C Minor, B Minor, D Major and G Minor. The two early sonatas here from the 1730s resemble the older style of his father. Listening to these works, you can imagine J.S. Bach glancing over Emanuel's shoulders while he wrote them as a teenager at home in Leipzig. The later sonatas, written 30 to 50 years later, reveal an emancipated composer whose developed musical language embodies the 'Empfindsamer Stil', the directly emotional and rhetorical style characteristic of northern-german music of the time.
Rachel Podger & Kristian Bezuidenhout - C.P.E. Bach: Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin (2023)

Rachel Podger & Kristian Bezuidenhout - C.P.E. Bach: Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 346 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 169 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:12:59
Classical | Label: Channel Classics Records, Outhere Music

The Baroque dream team of Rachel Podger and Kristian Bezuidenhout interpret the astonishing music of C.P.E. Bach’s Violin Sonatas in C Minor, B Minor, D Major and G Minor. The two early sonatas here from the 1730s resemble the older style of his father. Listening to these works, you can imagine J.S. Bach glancing over Emanuel's shoulders while he wrote them as a teenager at home in Leipzig. The later sonatas, written 30 to 50 years later, reveal an emancipated composer whose developed musical language embodies the 'Empfindsamer Stil', the directly emotional and rhetorical style characteristic of northern-german music of the time.
Rachel Podger, Trevor Pinnock - Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Obbligato Harpsichord (2000)

Rachel Podger, Trevor Pinnock - Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Obbligato Harpsichord (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 868 Mb | Total time: 71:30+67:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Channel Classics | # CCS 14798 | Recorded: 2000

Rachel Podger's growing reputation among early-music enthusiasts is buttressed by this set of Bach's sonatas for violin and continuo. Her intonation is always on target, her tone sweet but not cloying. While she shares the understated interpretive stance of so many historically informed performers, she allows the emotions to shine through in, for example, the opening Largo of Sonata No. 5. And where the dancelike elements are to the fore, as in the Allegro of No. 6, she shows she can swing with the best.
Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque, Modestas Pitrenas - Bach: Goldberg Variations Reimagined (2023)

Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque, Modestas Pitrenas - Bach: Goldberg Variations Reimagined (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks, digital booklet) - 389 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 190 MB
1:21:13 | Classical | Label: Channel Classics

Imagining how Bach himself might have transformed the Goldbergs Variations for a chamber group, Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque present a pioneering new arrangement of the Goldberg Variations by Chad Kelly. Employing a variety of instrumental combinations from a typical Bach ensemble of single strings, oboe, flute, bassoon and harpsichord, these newly-crafted Goldbergs illuminate exquisite responses to the various historical genres inherent in Bach’s scores. This beloved masterpiece was composed through a period of personal tumult for Bach; two unsuccessful job applications, the premature death of his son Gottfried, and criticism of his music in a prominent Hamburg publication. Bach’s outpouring of beauty in the Goldberg Variations has long captured audience’s imaginations - Chad Kelly, Rachel Podger and her fleet Brecon Baroque preserve the work’s exquisite intricacy whilst adding breadth, texture and colour to its emotional backdrop. This revisioning of Bach’s Goldberg Variations is a perfect transformation of the work for the modern era.
Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque, Modestas Pitrenas - Bach: Goldberg Variations Reimagined (2023) (Hi-Res)

Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque, Modestas Pitrenas - Bach: Goldberg Variations Reimagined (2023) (Hi-Res)
FLAC (tracks, digital booklet) 24bit-192kHz - 2.7 GB
1:21:13 | Classical | Label: Channel Classics

Imagining how Bach himself might have transformed the Goldbergs Variations for a chamber group, Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque present a pioneering new arrangement of the Goldberg Variations by Chad Kelly. Employing a variety of instrumental combinations from a typical Bach ensemble of single strings, oboe, flute, bassoon and harpsichord, these newly-crafted Goldbergs illuminate exquisite responses to the various historical genres inherent in Bach’s scores. This beloved masterpiece was composed through a period of personal tumult for Bach; two unsuccessful job applications, the premature death of his son Gottfried, and criticism of his music in a prominent Hamburg publication. Bach’s outpouring of beauty in the Goldberg Variations has long captured audience’s imaginations - Chad Kelly, Rachel Podger and her fleet Brecon Baroque preserve the work’s exquisite intricacy whilst adding breadth, texture and colour to its emotional backdrop. This revisioning of Bach’s Goldberg Variations is a perfect transformation of the work for the modern era.
Rachel Podger & Gary Cooper - Mozart: Complete Sonatas For Keyboard And Violin, Vol.4 (2007) PS3 ISO

Rachel Podger & Gary Cooper - Mozart: Complete Sonatas For Keyboard And Violin, Vol.4 (2007)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & DST64 5.1 >1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Booklet included | 01:16:12 min | 3,86 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics

The duo partnership Gary Cooper & Rachel Podger has taken them worldwide. These recordings of Mozart’s Complete Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin have received countless awards & accolades, including multiple Diapason d’Or awards & Gramophone Editor’s Choices, & hailed as ‘benchmark’ recordings.