The Trio Sonata in 17th Century Germany

London Baroque - The Trio Sonata in 17th-Century Germany (2008)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Aug. 15, 2019
London Baroque - The Trio Sonata in 17th-Century Germany (2008)

London Baroque - The Trio Sonata in 17th-Century Germany (2008)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | 01:13:06 | 458 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | Catalog: 1545

On two previous discs, London Baroque has explored the genre of the trio sonatas as it unfolded in 17th Century France and England. Both these issues have met with great acclaim: the English volume being described in Goldberg Magazine as ‘A programme of outstanding music … A gem of a disc’, while the French issue received top marks on German website Klassik Heute, with the following words: ‘Everything that one might possibly wish for in a performance of this music is present here: charm, elegance, eloquence, force, flexibility, fire, intimacy, and the most important: soul.’ The ensemble has now arrived in Germany, or more correctly: the German-speaking world of the time, as the programme also features works from the Low Countries and Austria.

London Baroque - The Trio Sonata in 17th-Century Italy (2012)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at July 25, 2021
London Baroque - The Trio Sonata in 17th-Century Italy (2012)

London Baroque - The Trio Sonata in 17th-Century Italy (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 391 Mb | Total time: 68:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-1795 | Recorded: 2010

This release is part of an eight-disc series by the small historical-instrument ensemble London Baroque, covering the entire history of the trio sonata in four countries (Italy, Germany, France, and England) over two centuries (17th and 18th). The series is more aimed at those with a strong interest in Baroque instrumental music than at general listeners, but several of them have been attractive for anyone, and this album falls into that group. It might well have come first in a chronological series, for it includes the very first works that might be called trio sonatas, the Sonata a tre of Giovanni Cima, published in 1610, and the Sonata a tre secuondo tono, from 1621.

London Baroque - The Trio Sonata in 18th-Century Italy (2012)  Music

Posted by Designol at April 9, 2023
London Baroque - The Trio Sonata in 18th-Century Italy (2012)

London Baroque - The Trio Sonata in 18th-Century Italy (2012)
Albinoni, Bonporti, Vivaldi, Bononcini, Porpora, Sammartini, Locatelli, Gallo, Tartini

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 464 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 185 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-2015 | Time: 01:17:14

London Baroque offers another installment in its ongoing European Trio Sonata series, this time devoted to 18th-century Italy; as with the ensemble’s previous efforts the program features generally excellent performances of lesser-known repertoire. Ten years ago I reviewed a similar 18th-century Italian program by this same group titled “Stravaganze Napoletane”, also on BIS, and was generally impressed with the performances–except for one piece: Domenico Gallo’s Sonata No. 1 in G major.
Ensemble Meridien; Laia Frigole, Juan de la Rubia - A German Soul: Devotional Music from 17th-century Hamburg (2014)

A German Soul - Devotional Music from 17th-century Hamburg (2014)
Ensemble Méridien; Laia Frigolé, soprano; Juan de la Rubia, organ

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 340 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 154 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 94717 | Time: 01:04:06

This stylishly devised programme juxtaposes cantatas by Rosenmüller, Krieger and Buxtehude with instrumental chorales and sonatas by Scheidemann, Praetorius, Tunder and Weckmann; most of these now known, if at all widely, as forerunners to Bach rather than as fine musicians in their own right as they deserve to be. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Hamburg became a leading commercial port where material and cultural goods circulated freely. Ensemble Méridien has chosen this city as the focal point of a fascinating musical journey through northern Germany, a journey that reveals different aspects of this artistic power. The port of Hamburg was also the driving force behind the north German organ school of the time. Churches were overflowing with magnificent organs, and their building and playing techniques reached extremely high standards, as is evident from the organ music included here. Though most of the music in this recital has been recorded before, it has only appeared on relatively obscure labels, and not in this imaginative context where one may more fully appreciate its dramatic as well as musical merits.
Stephan MacLeod, Concerto Palatino, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra - 17th Century Sacred Music in Wrocław (2018)

Stephan MacLeod, Concerto Palatino, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra - 17th Century Sacred Music in Wrocław (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 378 Mb | Total time: 77:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Claves | # CD1805 | Recorded: 2016

17th Century Wrocław (then Breslau) was one of Europe’s important musical centres. Its three main Protestant churches – St. Elisabeth, St. Mary Magdalene and St. Bernardine – collected extensive music libraries. Their repertoire was shaped both by prints imported from Italy and Germany, and by works composed by local cantors and organists employed in church ensembles. A separate collection of nearly 400 prints from 1610–55 remained in private hands. During World War II, however, they were taken away from the city and dispersed after 1945. Some items have not been found until now. The majority of the prints returned to Wrocław. Numerous manusripts were considered lost until the late 1980s, when they reappeared in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek. They found their way there from Moscow, where some items of the former Breslau library still remain.
Giulia Nuti - Les Sauvages - Harpsichords in Pre-Revolutionary Paris (2014) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Giulia Nuti - Les Sauvages - Harpsichords in Pre-Revolutionary Paris (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88.2 kHz | Time - 67:25 minutes | 1.30 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Towards the end of the 18th century, Paris enjoyed a musical tradition that granted the harpsichord a central place in its repertoire. Instrument makers had responded to the demands of composers for all kinds of technical capacities from the harpsichord; thus the late French harpsichord was a keyboard instrument not unto itself but very different from the harpsichords of Italy, Southern Germany, and the rest of Europe. The music performed on this recording spans from the final years of the 1760s to the late 1770s, and was written, or published, in Paris.
Stefano Molardi - Platti: Complete Harpsichord & Organ Music (2018)

Stefano Molardi - Platti: Complete Harpsichord & Organ Music (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 1,3 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 569 Mb | Covers included | 03:55:53
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics

18 keyboard sonatas from a little-known yet individual voice in the rapidly developing era between Bach and Mozart: music on the cusp of revolution.

Ton Koopman - Buxtehude: Opera Omnia XIII (Chamber Music 2) (2011)  Music

Posted by Domestos at March 12, 2018
Ton Koopman - Buxtehude: Opera Omnia XIII (Chamber Music 2) (2011)

Ton Koopman - Buxtehude: Opera Omnia XIII (Chamber Music 2) (2011)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue, log) ~ 300.97 Mb + 25.92 Mb (Scans) | 59:53
Classical chamber | Label: Challenge Classics - CC 72252

In the last decade of the 17th century, Dieterich Buxtehude published within a period of two years a group of fourteen instrumental chamber sonatas in two sets of seven each. Thereby, he contributed in a major way to a new and fashionable repertoire of trio sonatas that had originated in Italy after the middle of the century. Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690), the Venetian composer, had played the main influence in spreading a new type of instrumental music north of the Alps. His works published in the 1660s and 70s were well known in the Hanseatic cities around the Baltic Sea.

Ton Koopman - Buxtehude: Opera Omnia XV (Chamber Music 3) (2012)  Music

Posted by Domestos at March 13, 2018
Ton Koopman - Buxtehude: Opera Omnia XV (Chamber Music 3) (2012)

Ton Koopman - Buxtehude: Opera Omnia XV (Chamber Music 3) (2012)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue, log) ~ 373.35 Mb + 24.48 Mb (Scans) | 73:27
Classical chamber | Label: Challenge Classics - CC 72254

The first Buxtehude Opera Omnia recording is steadily approaching completion. The harpsichord and organworks are finished and this is the final volume of the chamber music. All that remains are a number of vocal challenges! Buxtehude’s trio sonatas form a unique repertoire. Due to their formidable technical and musical demands, they have rarely been recorded. Stylus phantasticus, an unprecedented inventiveness, superb lines, improvisation, the list goes on… Buxtehude once again proves himself to be a great master. Although there are occasional touches of Corelli to be heard, the music is above all quintessentially Buxtehudian. It was a phenomenal experience to record these sonatas.

Simone Eckert, Hamburger Ratsmusik - Haydn & Friends (2020)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at June 22, 2020
Simone Eckert, Hamburger Ratsmusik - Haydn & Friends (2020)

Simone Eckert, Hamburger Ratsmusik - Haydn & Friends (2020)
FLAC tracks | 01:06:37 | 297 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: haenssler CLASSIC

Hamburger Ratsmusik: an ensemble with a 500-year-old history. This contrast prompts a creative dialogue between tradition and the present day, about Early Music and vivid interpretation. The origins of Hamburg‘s “municipal music” go back to the 16th century. Under the motto “in praise of God and for the pleasure, delight and edification of Hamburg”, the city created an elite ensemble of eight city musicians, which was to be the equal of the princely court ensembles (Hofkapellen) to be found elsewhere. The Ratsmusik attained early excellence in the 17th and 18th centuries under such eminent musicians as William Brade, Johann Schop, Georg Philipp Telemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Revived in 1991 by gambist Simone Eckert, the ensemble now performs in Germany, many European countries, the USA and China. More than 30 albums (largely with world premiere recordings of Early Music) and recordings for all German public radio stations and Austrian broadcaster ORF document its rediscoveries of music from the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras. The ensemble received the Echo Klassik award in 2006 and 2010, and was awarded the 2016 RITTER Prize by the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation in Hamburg. The musicians will be responding to renewed invitations to China in 2021. Hamburger Ratsmusik is the Ensemble in Residence in the Komponisten-Quartier museum complex in Hamburg.