Rachel Podger

Rachel Podger, Christopher Glynn - Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Op.12 No.1, Op.24 & Op.96 (2022)

Rachel Podger, Christopher Glynn - Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Op.12 No.1, Op.24 & Op.96 (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 272 Mb | Total time: 67:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Channel Classics | # CCS SA 44222 | Recorded: 2021

Rachel Podger, “the unsurpassed British glory of the baroque violin” (The Times), and Grammy award-winning pianist Christopher Glynn recorded Beethoven’s Sonatas for Violin and Piano nos. 1, 5 and 10. Following the critically acclaimed Mozart/Jones Sonatas Fragment Completions (2021), this Beethoven album marks Podger and Glynn’s second release together.
Rachel Podger - Tutta sola: Bach, Matteis, Vilsmayr, Westhoff, Tartini (2022)

Rachel Podger - Tutta sola: Bach, Matteis, Vilsmayr, Westhoff, Tartini (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 333 Mb | Total time: 67:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Channel Classics | # CCSSA44422 | Recorded: 2022

On her new album entitled Tutta Sola, violinist Rachel Podger plays solo repertoire from five European composers who all lived to celebrate new year’s eve in 1700. It is a wonderful baroque programme of selected solo violin pieces, preludes, dances and fugal movements. One person, at least with regards to the repertoire for Baroque violin, springs immediately to mind: Johann Sebastian Bach. But the German composer was not the only composer to experiment with ‘senza basso’ – music without accompanying bass –, and neither was he the first.
Rachel Podger & Gary Cooper - Mozart: Complete Sonatas For Keyboard And Violin, Vol.7 & 8 (2009) PS3 ISO

Rachel Podger & Gary Cooper - Mozart: Complete Sonatas For Keyboard And Violin, Vol.7 & 8 (2009)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & DST64 5.1 >1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Booklet included | 01:59:48 min | 6,22 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics

This issue completes Cooper’s and Podger’s collected recordings of Mozart’s music for keyboard and violin. At first sight, Volumes 7 and 8 might seem to consist of leftovers – Vol 8 devoted to a set of six sonatas (K10-15) written in London when Mozart was eight, and Vol 7, apart from the two variation sets composed shortly after he settled in Vienna, containing a sonata dating from his 1766 stay in The Hague, plus two fragments, completed after Mozart’s death by Maximilian Stadler. In the event, however, both CDs are full of interest.
Rachel Podger, Christopher Glynn - Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op. 12 No. 1, Op. 24 & Op. 96 (2022)

Rachel Podger, Christopher Glynn - Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op. 12 No. 1, Op. 24 & Op. 96 (2022)
FLAC (Tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Official Digital Download | Time: 001:07:11
Classical | Channel Classics Records | ~ 2.35 Gb

Rachel Podger, “the unsurpassed British glory of the baroque violin” (The Times), and Grammy award-winning pianist Christopher Glynn recorded Beethoven’s Sonatas for Violin and Piano Nos. 1, 5 and 10. Following the critically acclaimed Mozart/Jones Sonatas "Fragment Completions" (2021), this Beethoven album marks Podger & Glynn’s second release together…
Rachel Podger - Perla Barocca: Early Italian Masterpieces (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Rachel Podger, Marcin Świątkiewicz, Daniele Caminiti - Perla Barocca: Early Italian Masterpieces (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 69:53 minutes | 3,08 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 69:53 minutes | 1,45 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

After winning the Instrumental category in the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2014 for Guardian Angel, Rachel and her record label Channel Classics are back with a new CD, Perla Barocca. Including works by Frescobaldi, Gabrieli, Pandolfi & Fontana amongst others, this beautiful collection of masterpieces showcases sublime examples of the early Italian Baroque. Some composers dominate the repertory; others have left behind only a handful of works. Here, they come together to convey the diverse musical landscape of such an excitingly rich and creative era, Perla Barocca.
Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque - Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (2018) [DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque - Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (2018)
DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time - 75:29 minutes | 3,32 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 75:29 minutes | 1,28 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

After the volumes dedicated to Vivaldi's great instrumental cycles, La Stravaganza (2004), La Cetra (2012) and L’Estro armonico (2015), English violinist Rachel Podger continues her work with her Brecon Baroque ensemble to bring out this version of the Four Seasons, which is rounded off with three violin concertos. A passionate fan of the music of Vivaldi and Biber, Rachel Podger, who studied in Germany, demonstrates through her performances just how much the Red Priest's music (and her herself, following Biber) can cloak itself in the mysterious and bizarre, to the point that Vivaldi appears here as a distant descendant of the mannerists from the late Renaissance and early Baroque period. This is a particularly interesting and successful take.
Rachel Podger, Kristian Bezuidenhout - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin (2023)

Rachel Podger, Kristian Bezuidenhout - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 340 Mb | Total time: 73:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Channel Classics | # CCSSA41523 | Recorded: 2022

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 & Arte Dei Suonatori - Antonio Vivaldi: La Stravaganza - 12 Violin Concertos (2003) [Official 24bit/96kHz]

Rachel Podger, Arte Dei Suonatori - Vivaldi: La Stravaganza - 12 Violin Concertos (2003)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 103:53 minutes | 1,74 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Gramophone's Best Baroque Recording of 2003. These performances of Vivaldi's La Stravaganza - a collection of 12 violin concertos - are truly extravagant. They're not designed to be listened to in one sitting and shouldn't be: it's not the sameness of the orchestration which might get in the way, it's the intensity with which Vivaldi composed them and the manner in which the remarkable Rachel Podger plays them. Fans of Andrew Manze will love Podger for similar reasons.
Andrew Manze, Rachel Podger, The Academy of Ancient Music - Bach: Solo & Double Violin Concertos (1997)

Andrew Manze, Rachel Podger, The Academy of Ancient Music - Bach: Solo & Double Violin Concertos (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 325 Mb | Total time: 56:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMU 907155 | Recorded: 1996

It's well known that most of Bach's harpsichord concertos began their lives as violin concertos. Since only three violin originals survive–the ones designated as BWV 1041-43–and since these are among his greatest instrumental works, musical scholars and performers have been reversing the process, turning the harpsichord concertos back into violin originals. BWV 1060 is one such case, a concerto for two harpsichords, which sounds much less clangy and bangy in this reconstructed version for two violins.
Rachel Podger, Jonathan Manson, Trevor Pinnock – Rameau: Pieces de Clavecin en Concerts (2003)

Rachel Podger, Jonathan Manson, Trevor Pinnock – Rameau: Pieces de Clavecin en Concerts (2003)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 66:53 | 465 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Channel Classics | Catalog: CCS SA 19002

The authority on Rameau in the Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians spent a lot of words on these pieces. All YOU have to know is that the usual "continuo" situation of the bass instrument playing the same notes as those found under the harpsichordist's left hand is not present here. This is not a suite with violin on top and bass viol for continuo - but "concerted" harpsichord pieces with the help of a violin and a bass viol. The first and last suites are my favorites, but if you think you like French baroque music, you will thoroughly enjoy the whole disc.