Reincken

Stylus Phantasticus - in North-German instrumental music of the 17th century
Buxtehude - Schop - Strungk - Baltzar - Weckmann -
Reincken - Vierdanck - Becker - Sidon - Förster
Classical, Baroque | 1 CD | EAC | FLAC, CUE, LOG | scans | 409 MB
Recorded: 17-19/6 2009, Siemensvilla, Berlin | TT: 67:29 | RS
Released: Nov. 2009 | Label: Berlin Classics 0016572BC
Bell’Arte Salzburg, Annegret Siedel

Stylus Phantasticus is a style of opposites: freely flowing expressive melodies in which garish dissonances can charge the order of Baroque forms with extreme tension, opening up fascinating worlds of sound that one would hardly expect in the North German Baroque. Ornamentation and phrasing with great momentum are demanded here and that is where this ensemble is in its element. (album cover)

The group are consummate period stylists and the sequencing makes this disc a delight to listen to straight through. It is in every way a great CD […] (Peter Grahame Woolf, musicalpointers.co.uk)

Holland Baroque offers a colourful sonic ride through the microcosmos on this soundtrack for Pim Zwier’s Metamorphosis, a film portraying the extraordinary seventeenth-century natural science artist Maria Sibylla Merian and the fascinating life of the insects she studied. Judith Steenbrink composed new music, combining nature sounds, Baroque-inspired dances and groovy melodies. Together with the sound design by Paul Gies this results in a sound world as iridescent, enticing and original as Zwier’s film.

Holland Baroque offers a colourful sonic ride through the microcosmos on this soundtrack for Pim Zwier’s Metamorphosis, a film portraying the extraordinary seventeenth-century natural science artist Maria Sibylla Merian and the fascinating life of the insects she studied. Judith Steenbrink composed new music, combining nature sounds, Baroque-inspired dances and groovy melodies. Together with the sound design by Paul Gies this results in a sound world as iridescent, enticing and original as Zwier’s film.

From the beginning of time songs of mourning, sorrow and lamentation have been a part of Western music. Aristotle had written that nothing was more powerful than rhythm and song for imitating all the turmoil of the soul. Composers of the Baroque Period strove to deal with nothingness and eternity by exploring the utter depths of the heart. And this is what these songs are all about.

75 CD box set (with original jackets) is the first complete collection comprising all of Reinhard Goebel's recordings on Archiv Produktion. It shows Reinhard Goebel as a violinist, conductor, music scholar, and founder of his celebrated ensemble Musica Antiqua Koln. Featuring almost 30 years of recording history from the Neapolitan Recorder Concertos from 1978 to Telemann's Flute Quartets recorded in 2005.

75 CD box set (with original jackets) is the first complete collection comprising all of Reinhard Goebel's recordings on Archiv Produktion. It shows Reinhard Goebel as a violinist, conductor, music scholar, and founder of his celebrated ensemble Musica Antiqua Koln. Featuring almost 30 years of recording history from the Neapolitan Recorder Concertos from 1978 to Telemann's Flute Quartets recorded in 2005.