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Ensemble Marsyas with Monica Huggett - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Sonatas (2012) Music

Posted by Designol at May 28, 2024

Ensemble Marsyas’ debut recording on Linn features three of the extraordinary trio sonatas by the Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) for violin, two oboes, bassoon and continuo on period instruments. These sonatas represent the most spectacularly challenging music ever written for wind instruments in terms of their utopian demands on the technique of the players, their musical integrity and their breathtaking scale. This repertoire saw the ensemble awarded both first prize and the audience prize at the 2007 Brugge International Competition. The Edinburgh based chamber group comprises the best of a new generation of musicians specialising in early music from across Europe. Ensemble Marsyas is Peter Whelan - bassoon, Josep Domènech Lafont - oboe, Molly Marsh - oboe, Thomas Dunford - theorbo, Philippe Grisvard - harpsichord/organ, Christine Sticher - violone. They are joined for this recording by Baroque violinist Monica Huggett who is a multiple Gramophone Award winner and Grammy nominee. The members of Ensemble Marsyas have been awarded accolades by both critics and the recording industry alike - the most recent including a 2010 Gramophone Award for a recording featuring Peter Whelan.

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Mathis Stier & Ensemble Reflektor - Sentiment (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/48] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at March 23, 2022

Mathis Stier & Ensemble Reflektor - Sentiment (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 49:14 minutes | 491 MB
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Official Digital Download

Born in 1994, bassoonist Mathis Stier not only won second prize at the 2019 ARD Competition, but was also awarded the coveted Audience Prize. Mathis Stier has a natural affinity with the music of the 18th century and the three works which he has chosen for his ALPHA debut demonstrate its principal characteristics: Baroque, Empfindsamkeit / Sturm und Drang and Viennese Classicism.

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Ensemble MidtVest - Jolivet: Chamber Music (2025) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Dec. 17, 2024

Ensemble MidtVest - Jolivet: Chamber Music (2025)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 68:44 | 285 Mb
Genre: Classical

A fine Danish chamber ensemble brings together a unique compilation of chamber pieces by an overshadowed contemporary of Messiaen.
The music of André Jolivet (1905-1974) is slowly being revived after decades of neglect, enabling us to discover a distinctive voice in the kaleidoscopic variety of 20th-century French music. Jolivet never followed some of his better-known contemporaries – Messiaen among them – down the path of serialism, yet his harmonic technique exercised a hidden influence on them (including the young Pierre Boulez). The Serenade (1945) for wind quintet, opening this collection of chamber music, casts a mystic air in its opening Cantilene before breaking off into wild peals of instrumental laughter in the Caprice. The world of Poulenc and Stravinsky is not so far away, but there is a grounded density to Jolivet’s writing which is entirely individual.

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Ensemble Villa Musica - Janáček: Kammermusik (1995) Music

Posted by tirexiss at June 27, 2021

Ensemble Villa Musica - Janáček: Kammermusik (1995)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 266 MB | 01:07:02
Genre: Classical | Label: MDG

1990 von Dozentinnen und Dozenten der Stiftung Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz gegründet, hat sich das Ensemble Villa Musica einen Namen als führende Kammermusikvereinigung gemacht. Was die Fachpresse immer wieder mit Erstaunen registriert, ist die Vielfalt in Besetzung und Repertoire des Ensembles. Rund 20 der renommiertesten Instrumentalisten Deutschlands haben sich unter dem Spiritus rector Ulf Rodenhäuser zusammengefunden. Sie alle sind heute solistisch, kammermusikalisch und als Professorinnen und Professoren an den großen deutschen Musikhochschulen tätig, nachdem sie lange Jahre an den ersten Pulten der renommiertesten deutschen Orchester wirkten oder noch heute wirken.

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Peter Whelan, Pamela Thorby & Ensemble Marsyas - J.F. Fasch: Quartets and Concertos (2014) [Official 24-bit/192kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Dec. 14, 2024

Peter Whelan, Pamela Thorby & Ensemble Marsyas - JF Fasch: Quartets and Concertos (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 71:16 minutes | 2,96 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 71:16 minutes | 1,47 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Ensemble Marsyas performs music of the Baroque and Classical eras on period instruments at festivals all across Europe. On this recording of Johann Fasch's finest chamber music demonstrates why the man and his music were so appreciated in his own lifetime.

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Orsino Ensemble & Pavel Kolesnikov - Belle époque: French Music for Wind (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at March 30, 2021

Orsino Ensemble & Pavel Kolesnikov - Belle époque: French Music for Wind (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 79:20 minutes | 1.25 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Under the leadership of its Artistic Director, Adam Walker, the Orsino Ensemble is a chamber group of flexible formation with five outstanding wind players at its core. Each is a leader in his or her field, the group’s members committed to showcasing the depth and versatility of the wind chamber repertoire. They expand and reduce the Ensemble’s format as needed across their different programmes. This flexible approach is clearly demonstrated on this their début recording for Chandos, programming works for solo instrument through to the full wind quintet and piano needed for Albert Roussel’s Divertissement.

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Magnard Ensemble - Dodgson: Chamber Music, Vol. 5 (2020) Music

Posted by varrock at Feb. 4, 2020

Magnard Ensemble - Dodgson: Chamber Music, Vol. 5 (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 355 MB | Tracks: 24 | 79:59 min
Style: Classical | Label: Toccata Classics

This fourth album in the Toccata Classics survey of the chamber music of London-born Stephen Dodgson (1924–2013) offers a first installment of his many works for woodwinds. Much of it brings Dodgson’s sense of fun to the fore, often through rhythmic mischief or an insouciance that recalls Poulenc, but it also has that particularly English strain of lyricism that suggests the impermanence of beauty. British composer and broadcaster Stephen Dodgson’s prolific musical output covered most genres, ranging from opera and large-scale orchestral music to chamber and instrumental music, as well as choral works and song. He wrote in a tonal, though sometimes unconventional, idiom. Paul Griffiths, in The Oxford Companion to Music, writes that Dodgson “proved adept at producing likable, well-crafted music to order, often for unusual chamber ensembles.”

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The Galliard Ensemble & Sam Haywood - From the Beginning: Music for Winds and piano by Mozart, Thuille & Poulenc (2024) [24/96 Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 22, 2024

The Galliard Ensemble & Sam Haywood - From the Beginning: Music for Winds and piano by Mozart, Thuille and Poulenc (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 68:33 minutes | 1,11 GB
Classical | Label: Deux-Elles, Official Digital Download

This is the Galliard Ensemble's 5th recording for Deux- Elles. To celebrate their 30th anniversary, they are joined by pianist Sam Haywood in an epic programme bookended by two pillars of the repertoire, Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Winds and Poulenc's Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano. Featured prominently in the middle is the marvellously expansive and much less recorded Sextet for Piano and Winds by Ludwig Thuille, a close colleague of Richard Strauss. This album is a melting pot of colours, textures and timbres, beautifully captured and balanced by sound engineer Matthew Wadsworth.

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Enrico Gatti & Ensemble Aurora - Mille consiglie: 17th Century Italian Violin Sonatas (2020) Music

Posted by delpotro at June 5, 2020

Enrico Gatti & Ensemble Aurora - Mille consiglie: 17th Century Italian Violin Sonatas (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 395 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 181 Mb | 01:18:52
Classical | Label: Glossa

There is always poetry as well as virtuosity coursing through Enrico Gatti’s violin playing, and nowhere more so than when he turns to Italian early Baroque music, as here in Mille consigli with his Ensemble Aurora: the album title reflecting the multiplicity of emotional ideas and colours possible in violin music from this time (Gatti’s earlier recordings of similar music have recently been re-released by Glossa as L’arte del violino in Italia).

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The Galliard Ensemble & Sam Haywood - From the Beginning: Music for Winds and piano by Mozart, Thuille & Poulenc (2024) Music

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 23, 2024

The Galliard Ensemble & Sam Haywood - From the Beginning: Music for Winds and piano by Mozart, Thuille and Poulenc (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 225 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 159 Mb | 01:08:33
Classical | Label: Deux-Elles

This is the Galliard Ensemble's 5th recording for Deux- Elles. To celebrate their 30th anniversary, they are joined by pianist Sam Haywood in an epic programme bookended by two pillars of the repertoire, Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Winds and Poulenc's Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano. Featured prominently in the middle is the marvellously expansive and much less recorded Sextet for Piano and Winds by Ludwig Thuille, a close colleague of Richard Strauss. This album is a melting pot of colours, textures and timbres, beautifully captured and balanced by sound engineer Matthew Wadsworth.

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