Simone Eckert

Hamburger Ratsmusik, Simone Eckert, Genevieve Tschumi, Klaus Mertens - Georg Philipp Telemann Inauguration Cantatas 1721 (2024)

Hamburger Ratsmusik, Simone Eckert, Genevieve Tschumi, Klaus Mertens - Georg Philipp Telemann Inauguration Cantatas 1721 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:13:55 | 171 / 333 Mb
Genre: Classical

The Hamburger Ratsmusik was the name, in German, for the Hamburg city government musical establishment of Hamburg during the baroque period. Ratsmusik was a generic term to distinguish from Hausmusik, domestic music making, during the Hanseatic period.
Benno Schachtner, Hamburger Ratsmusik & Simone Eckert - Telemann: Moralische Cantaten (2018)

Benno Schachtner, Hamburger Ratsmusik & Simone Eckert - Telemann: Moralische Cantaten (2018)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 417 MB | Digital Booklet | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 259 MB | 01:13:29
Classical | Label: CPO

The Hamburger Ratsmusik – an ensemble looking back on a five-hundred-year history – teams up with the young countertenor Benno Schachtner on this recording of Georg Philipp Telemann's Six Moral Cantatas. Moral lessons from Telemann? Not at all! During the decades between 1720 and 1750 the middle class of the early Enlightenment sought moral education and ethical improvement deriving from human nature and reason as part of its never-ending quest for earthly happiness. It was with wit and charm that in his Moral Cantatas of 1735 Telemann set to music a poetic document conveying the spirit of this Enlightenment period.
Simone Eckert, Hamburger Ratsmusik - Becker: Sacred Concertos & Sonatas (2023)

Simone Eckert, Hamburger Ratsmusik - Becker: Sacred Concertos & Sonatas (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:14:03 | 169 / 325 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: CPO

Probably born in Hamburg in 1623, Dietrich Becker not only mastered organ playing, but also developed into an outstanding violinist and composer. His music-historical importance lies primarily in the field of instrumental music, but his contribution to sacred music also shows him to be a distinguished composer: five sacred concertos from his pen have survived in their entirety; they are united as first recordings on this release. The form and style of the sacred concertos show typical similarities: As instrumental parts, Becker preferred a full-voiced string instrumentation; the singing parts are not conducted virtuosically, but predominantly syllabically, and serve primarily a clear reproduction of the text and follow the effect of the text. Singing voices and instruments frequently confront each other in dialogue.
Simone Eckert - Telemann: Cantatas & Fantasies for Viola da gamba (2021)

Simone Eckert - Telemann: Cantatas & Fantasies for Viola da gamba (2021)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 01:19:22 | 377 / 182 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: CPO

The Musicalisches Lob Gottes in der Gemeine des Herrn may be regarded as the impressive high point of Telemann’s printed annual cycles. The present recording of three cantatas from this annual cycle tends more to chamber musical design. It interprets the compositions as intimate sacred music for which an ensemble with eight members completely suffices in performance respects – something corresponding to the reality in performance practice in most German church music ensembles in the eighteenth century. In view of the intimate interpretation of these cantatas, the intermezzi interspersed in them from the Twelve Fantasies for Viola da Gamba Solo have the effect of a meditative deepening of the religious subject matter. The four fantasies selected are elaborated with fine art and are just as richly arrayed musically as are the church compositions.
Hamburger Ratsmusik - Georg Philipp Telemann: Inauguration Cantatas 1721 (2024) [Official Digital Download]

Hamburger Ratsmusik, Simone Eckert, Hanna Zumsande, Geneviève Tschumi, Mirko Ludwig & Klaus Mertens - Georg Philipp Telemann: Inauguration Cantatas 1721 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 73:56 minutes | 708 MB
Classical, Vocal | Label: CPO, Official Digital Download

Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually settled on a career in music. He held important positions in Leipzig, Sorau, Eisenach, and Frankfurt before settling in Hamburg in 1721, where he became musical director of that city's five main churches.
Lübeck Virtuosos: Music of Dietrich Buxtehude and His Colleagues - Hamburger Ratsmusik

Lübeck Virtuosos: Music of Dietrich Buxtehude and His Colleagues - Hamburger Ratsmusik
Buxtehude - G. Schütz - Grecke - Baudinger - Radeck

Classical, Baroque | 1 CD | EAC | FLAC, CUE, LOG | Scans | 357 MB | RS
Recorded: 3-5/1 2005, Schloß Salzau, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Released: 2005 | Label: Thorofon CTH 2474 | TT: 70:59

Hamburger Ratsmusik, Simone Eckert - viola da gamba

Echo Classic Award 2006

The people of Lübeck had a decided preference for music for strings. Important violinists and viola da gamba players worked there even at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and their teaching abilities ensured a continuous supply of successors. Initially influenced by the English music for viols, there developed a string style in Lübeck which combined English polyphony with a new degree of virtuosity. Johann Heinrich Schmelzer's trio sonatas for violin, viola da gamba and basso continuo were in the possession of the Marienkirche, and they caused South-German and Italian ideas to be incorporated as well. The music for strings was additionally influenced by the North-German organists' preference for the stylus phantasticus; often several hundred bars in length, the North-German chorale fantasias feature fascinatingly colourful and often abrupt changes in technique, tone colour, improvisatory quality and virtuosity. (Simone Eckert, CD-booklet)

Jan Kobow - John Dowland & His Contemporaries: Come Again (2013)  Music

Posted by varrock at April 19, 2019
Jan Kobow - John Dowland & His Contemporaries: Come Again (2013)

Jan Kobow - John Dowland & His Contemporaries: Come Again (2013)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 374 MB | Tracks: 29 | 70:39 min
Style: Classical | Label: CPO

There is a fine selection of performances of John Dowland's music by English musicians available, and it may be that few listeners outside Germany will be attracted to this recording of his music by German viol group Hamburger Ratsmusik and its leader, Simone Eckert, with tenor Jan Kobow. That would be a shame, for there is plenty to distinguish this album from other Dowland releases on the market. The program is unique: the "contemporaries" mentioned in the title are not the usual English suspects, but a group of mostly German (or Danish) instrumental composers. Some such as Michael Praetorius, are well known, but others like Dane Melchior Borchgrevinck are obscure.

Franz Xaver Hammer - The Last Gambist  Music

Posted by alekhno at Dec. 13, 2008
Franz Xaver Hammer - The Last Gambist

Franz Xaver Hammer (1741 - 1817) - The Last Gambist - 5 Sonatas for viola da gamba
Classical | FLAC | 1 CD | Covers | 410 Mb | 2008
Hamburger Ratsmusik, Simone Eckert
Anke Dennert - The Hitchcock Spinet: Works by Burney Telemann & Others (2020)

Anke Dennert - The Hitchcock Spinet: Works by Burney Telemann & Others (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 382 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 156 Mb | 01:08:04
Classical | Label: Genuin

The name Hitchcock not only stands for the most famous of all British film directors, but for an important family of English instrument makers from England as well. Only a few of these sonorous and extravagant keyboard instruments have survived. The multi-stringed spinet No. 1379 from the Telemann Museum in Hamburg, with its black keys elaborately set in white ivory, can now be heard for the first time in a recording. The Hitchcock Trio invites you to a typical middle-class salon concert as was customary throughout Europe at the end of the 18th century.

Johann Schop - Hamburger Ratsmusicus - Hamburger Ratsmusik  Music

Posted by zamorna at Jan. 2, 2010
Johann Schop - Hamburger Ratsmusicus - Hamburger Ratsmusik

Johann Schop - Hamburger Ratsmusicus - Hamburger Ratsmusik
(Erster Theil newer Paduanen, Galliarden […] - 1633)

Classical, Baroque | 1 CD | EAC | FLAC, CUE, LOG | Scans | 307 MB | RS
Recorded: 3-5/1 2006, Schloss Salzau, Schleswig-Holstein | TT: 55:58
Released: 2006 | Label: Thorofon CTH 2464

Hamburger Ratsmusik - Simone Eckert

Johann Schop [c. 1590-1667] was director of town music in Hamburg for much of the period overshadowed by the Thirty Years War (1618-48). After the war, he worked in the city until 1665, and died two years later. He was a virtuoso violinist and it is no surprise that he seems to have been highly regarded by the other town musicians […] Despite this apparent fame in his own time, Schop's music remains almost unknown. […]

[…] the individual lines as played here are admirably clear. The recorded balance between the parts is also excellent. The players perform the music very well indeed, and with a great deal of sensivity […] the commitment and musicianship that Hamburger Ratsmusik bring to their performances […] you cannot fail to be drawn to this music. (Michael Robertson, Early Music, Feb. 2007)