Rene Jacobs Bach

Rene Jacobs, Akademie fur Alte Musik, Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Weihnachts-Oratorium (1997)

René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Weihnachts-Oratorium (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 698 Mb | Total time: 2h 32'23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901630.31 | Recorded: 1997

The recording of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, conducted by René Jacobs, was one of the discographic highlights of the year at its 1997 release. Critics around the world praised the "sophisticated interpretation", the "splendid cast", the "expressiveness of the evangelist" as well as the "compelling acting performance of the singers".
René Jacobs & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, Robin Johannsen, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Helena Rasker, Sebastian Kohlhepp & Christian Immler - Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 103:56 minutes | 1,72 GB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

A composition as brilliant as it is protean – the earliest sections date back to 1724, others were written in 1733 in the hope of obtaining a post in Dresden – the Mass in B minor occupied Bach until the end of his life. The work, which is more ecumenical than strictly Catholic, offers a digest of his art at its expressive peak: a world in itself. It is an understatement to say that the performers on this recording were eager to revisit it, following their acclaimed interpretations of the two Passions and the Christmas Oratorio.
René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (2016)

René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,29 Gb | Total time: 135:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMC 802236.37 | Recorded: 2015

Bach revised his Johannes-Passion regularly: he returned to it over a period of twenty-six years, from 1724 to his death. It is the version hallowed by tradition, established by the Kantor a year before his death, that is presented on these CDs. But the 1725 version, equally outstanding musically, has also been recorded complete and can be downloaded as a bonus in high-resolution sound. Comparison of the two versions reveals the underlying meaning of this matchless Passion.
René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS-Kammerchor - Bach: Messe in H-moll (2006)

René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS-Kammerchor - Bach: Messe in H-moll (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 490 Mb | Total time: 55:50+54:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Berlin Classics | # 0184012BC | Recorded: 1992

Das erstklassige Solistenensemble, der RIAS-Kammerchor und die Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin und nicht zuletzt Jacobs selbst sind Garanten für lebendige historische Aufführungspraxis, so dass diese Interpretation der h-Moll Messe von der Fachpresse entsprechend enthusiastisch aufgenommen und den wenigen Referenzeinspielungen an die Seite gestellt wurde.
Rene Jacobs, Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini - J.S. Bach: Cantates pour alto BWV 35, 53 & 82 (2003)

Rene Jacobs, Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini - J.S. Bach: Cantates pour alto BWV 35, 53 & 82 (2003)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 58:58 | 319 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Harmonia Mundi | Catalog: HMA 1951273

René Jacobs began his career as a countertenor and quickly earned the reputation as one of the finest of his time. But he gradually turned to conducting and since the turn of the new century has rarely sung in concert. As a countertenor Jacobs championed a string of forgotten Baroque composers on his recordings: Antonio Cesti, Sigismondo d'India, Luca Marenzio, Pierre Guédron, Michel Lambert, and others.

René Jacobs - J.S. Bach: St. Matthäus-Passion (2013)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at May 6, 2021
René Jacobs - J.S. Bach: St. Matthäus-Passion (2013)

René Jacobs - J.S. Bach: St. Matthäus-Passion (2013)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 802 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 414 MB | 02:38:30
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi

The appetite for evolving performance practices in Bach’s St Matthew Passion appears undiminished as we have gradually shifted, over the generations, from larger to smaller ensembles and also towards a greater dramatic understanding of the implications of Bach’s ambitious ‘stereophonic’ double choir and orchestra choreography. René Jacobs has never been shy of a new hunch and taking it as far as (and sometimes beyond) what is either reasonable or defining.
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & René Jacobs - Bach: St John Passion, BWV 245 (Johannes-Passion) (2016) [TR24][OF]

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & René Jacobs - Bach: St John Passion, BWV 245 (Johannes-Passion)
Classical | FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | 106:12 min | 1.88 GB | Digital booklet
Label: Harmonia Mundi | Tracks: 40 | Rls.date: 2016

Bach revised his 'Johannes-Passion' regularly: he returned to it over a period of 26 years, from 1724 until his death. It is the version hallowed by tradition, established by the Kantor a year before his death, that is presented on these CDs. However, the 1725 version, equally outstanding musically, has also been recorded complete and can be downloaded as a bonus in high-resolution sound. Comparison of the two versions reveals the underlying meaning of this matchless 'Passion'.
Bejun Mehta, René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Che Puro Ciel (2013)

Bejun Mehta, René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Che Puro Ciel: Mozart, Gluck, Traetta, Hasse, J.C.Bach (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 322 Mb | Total time: 69:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 902172 | Recorded: 2013

The contents of this album reflect the operatic music Mozart would have known as a teenager. One of the composers, Christoph Willibald Gluck, is known as a founder of the Classical style in opera; others, including Johann Adolf Hasse, Johann Christian Bach, and Tommaso Traetta, are known mostly to specialists, at least in the operatic field. Listeners who have heard the spectacular arias of the late Baroque popularized by Renée Fleming and others will find the pieces here less virtuosic but more dramatically satisfying, as if the composers and librettists had engaged themselves anew with the ancient Greek stories they were retelling. One might object that annotator Denis Morrier gives short shift to the most important of the librettists, Pietro Metastasio, whose writings remained popular up to Beethoven's time.
René Jacobs, The Kuijken Consort, The Parnassus Ensemble - German Church Cantatas and Arias (2006)

René Jacobs, The Kuijken Consort, The Parnassus Ensemble - German Church Cantatas and Arias (2006)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 55:11 | 257 MB
Genre: Classical, Sacred | Label: Accent | Catalog: ACC 10012

Amongst several delightful examples of mid- and late-baroque German solo cantatas included here, one stands out as a little masterpiece. It's a lamentation by Johann Christoph Bach, the leading composer of the Bach dynasty before Johann Sebastian. I cannot imagine any listener to be capable of hearing this music without in some way being affected by its poignancy.
Rene Jacobs, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor - Georg Philipp Telemann: Brockes-Passion (2009)

René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor - Georg Philipp Telemann: Brockes-Passion (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 766 Mb | Total time: 139:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 902013.14 | Recorded: 2008

The narrative of Christ’s Passion as retold by Barthold Brockes (a dominant figure in early 18th-century German literature) is of such dramatic power that it was set to music by 13 different composers (including Handel, Keiser, and Mattheson)! Telemann’s version, premiered on 2 April 1716, became so famous that J. S. Bach, no immature youngster at the time, copied it out in full 23 years later . . . René Jacobs has striven to restore this quite extraordinary score to life in all its rich complexity.