Ancient Music

Christophe Coin, The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood - Antonio Vivaldi: 6 Cello Concertos (1989)

Antonio Vivaldi: 6 Cello Concertos (1989)
Christophe Coin, cello; The Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 260 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 132 Mb | Scans ~ 47 Mb
Classical, Baroque | Label: Decca, L'Oiseau-Lyre | # 421 732-2 | 00:57:32

Following his attractive performance of six of Vivaldi's cello sonatas, Christophe Coin has recorded six of the composer's 24 or so concertos for the instrument. Five of these, Michael Talbot tells us in an interesting accompanying note, probably belong to the 1720s while the sixth, the Concerto in G minor (RV416), is evidently a much earlier work. Coin has chosen, if I may use the expression somewhat out of its usual context, six of the best and plays them with virtuosity and an affecting awareness of their lyrical content. That quality, furthermore, is not confined to slow movements but occurs frequently in solo passages of faster ones, too. It would be difficult to single out any one work among the six for particular praise. My own favourite has long been the happily spirited Concerto in G major (RV413) with which Coin ends his programme. Strongly recommended. (Gramophone Magazine)
Academy of Ancient Music - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 6-8 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Academy of Ancient Music, Robert Levin, Bojan Čičić, Ya-Fei Chuang & Laurence Cummings - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 6-8 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 60:44 minutes | 1,09 GB
Classical | Label: AAM Records, Official Digital Download

Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) releases the penultimate volume of an acclaimed project to record Mozart’s complete works for keyboard and orchestra. This volume includes Mozart’s Concerto No. 7 for Three Pianos and Orchestra, performed here uniquely on three different types of keyboard instruments: by Robert Levin (tangent piano), Ya-Fei Chuang (fortepiano) and Laurence Cummings (harpsichord). It follows the release of the same concerto in Mozart’s own arrangement for two keyboards (Vol. 11) and is joined on this album by two other Piano Concertos composed in Salzburg in the early months of 1776.
Academy of Ancient Music, Robert Levin, Bojan Čičić, Ya-Fei Chuang, Laurence Cummings - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 6-8 (2024)

Academy of Ancient Music, Robert Levin, Bojan Čičić, Ya-Fei Chuang & Laurence Cummings - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 6-8 (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 287 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 142 Mb | 01:00:44
Classical | Label: AAM Records

Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) releases the penultimate volume of an acclaimed project to record Mozart’s complete works for keyboard and orchestra. This volume includes Mozart’s Concerto No. 7 for Three Pianos and Orchestra, performed here uniquely on three different types of keyboard instruments: by Robert Levin (tangent piano), Ya-Fei Chuang (fortepiano) and Laurence Cummings (harpsichord). It follows the release of the same concerto in Mozart’s own arrangement for two keyboards (Vol. 11) and is joined on this album by two other Piano Concertos composed in Salzburg in the early months of 1776.
Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr - Christopher Gibbons: Motets, Anthems, Fantasias & Voluntaries (2012)

Christopher Gibbons - Motets, Anthems, Fantasias & Voluntaries (2012)
Academy of Ancient Music; Choir of the AAM; Richard Egarr, director & solo organ

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 259 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 149 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi USA | # HMU807551 | Time: 01:02:25

Born into an English musical family, organist and composer Christopher Gibbons (1615-1676) probably received early training from his famous father Orlando Gibbons. He sang in the choir of the Chapel Royal and went on to a distinguished career at Westminster Abbey and in the court of Charles II. With this showcase programme of motets, anthems, fantasias for strings, and organ voluntaries (all of which are receiving their first recording), Richard Egarr, the Academy of Ancient Music and the Choir of the AAM, aim to rescue the composer from unjust obscurity.
Christopher Hogwood, The Academy of Ancient Music - Handel: Messiah, Athalia, Esther, La Resurrezione [8CDs] (2005)

Christopher Hogwood, The Academy of Ancient Music - Handel: Messiah, Athalia, Esther, La Resurrezione (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 2,05 Gb | Total time: 136:34+121:39+96:44+109:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 475 6731 | Recorded: 1979-1985

Led by Christopher Hogwood, the Academy of Ancient Music has made many renowned recordings of Handel's music-particularly the oratorios. The beloved Messiah heads up this 8-CD set, followed by Esther; La Resurezzione , and, making its return to the international catalog after an absence of several years, the 1985 recording of Athalia -with none other than Joan Sutherland in the title role! Recorded in London, 1979-85.
Stephen Cleobury, Academy of Ancient Music & Choir of King’s College, Cambridge - Henry Purcell: Music for Queen Mary (2006)

Stephen Cleobury, Academy of Ancient Music & Choir of King’s College, Cambridge - Henry Purcell: Music for Queen Mary (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 307 Mb | Total time: 70:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 3 44438 2 | Recorded: 2005

In the repertoire on this new disc… Cleobury, King's College, and the AAM prove currently unbeatable. King's College Chapel provides a glorious acoustic, splendidly recorded, bathing the music in resonance but retaining every detail.
Christopher Hogwood, The Academy of Ancient Music - Henry Purcell: The Indian Queen (1995)

Christopher Hogwood, The Academy of Ancient Music - Henry Purcell: The Indian Queen (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 351 Mb | Total time: 73:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 444 339-2 | Recorded: 1994

Purcell’s fourth and last full-scale semi-opera, The Indian Queen, is often passed over in favour of its longer and more rounded predecessors, especially King Arthur and The Fairy Queen. The reasons are plentiful: Thomas Betterton, with whom Purcell collaborated, never finished his reworking of an early Restoration tragedy and even if he had torn himself away from his business interests in 1695, Purcell would not have been alive to set the remaining music for Act 5. As it happened, Henry’s brother Daniel set the masque from the final act after Betterton had hired an anonymous writer to finish his adaptation. No one can deny that neither verse nor music achieved the heights imagined in the original collaboration; given the quality of the masques in Purcell’s large ‘dramatick’ operas (including Dioclesian, of course), there is an undoubted sense of anticlimax.
Simon Standage, Academy of Ancient Music - J.C. Bach: Overture, Adriano in Siria; Symphonies; Sinfonia Concertante (1994)

Simon Standage, Academy of Ancient Music - Johann Christian Bach: Overture, Adriano in Siria; Symphonies; Sinfonia Concertante in C major (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 305 Mb | Total time: 65:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos ‎| CHAN 0540 | Recorded: 1993

Chandos Chaconne's J.C. Bach: Overture "Adriano in Siria" features the Academy of Ancient Music under Simon Standage in four symphonies (one is an overture; for Bach there was no difference between the structure and function of these two forms) and the Sinfonia Concertante in C major, T. 289/4. The last-named work is the best music here; a loving realization featuring soloists Rachel Brown (flute), Frank de Bruine (oboe), and conductor Standage (violin) combining in pleasing harmony while managing to shine individually. This is exactly what Bach had in mind when he wrote the music, and this performance is to be preferred over the only other recording of the work on Capriccio.
Stephen Layton, Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music - Handel: Chandos Anthems Nos. 7, 9 & 11a (2009)

Stephen Layton, Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music - George Frideric Handel: Chandos Anthems Nos. 7, 9 & 11a (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 312 Mb | Total time: 66:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67737 | Recorded: 2008

In a year of Handel celebration and many new recordings, this is a welcome addition to the discography. Stephen Layton, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a stellar group of soloists—in fact, the best in solo Handel singing that this country has to offer—present a disc of three of the Chandos anthems which is sure to achieve the same critical and public acclaim as the recent Dettingen Te Deum from Trinity.
The Choir of Keble College, Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music & Matthew Martin - Valls: Missa Regalis (2020) [24/96]

The Choir of Keble College, Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music & Matthew Martin - Valls: Missa Regalis (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 40:52 minutes | 728 MB
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Academy of Ancient Music, Official Digital Download

AAM Records’ newest release features the Academy of Ancient Music joining forces with The Choir of Keble College and director Matthew Martin in a landmark recording of Francisco Vall’s ‘forgotten’ Missa Regalis [1740]. Performed from a new edition by Simon Heighes, Valls’ fascinating (and frequently confusticating) juxtaposition of ancient and ‘modern’ compositional styles provides a intriguing glimpse into the treasure-trove of Spanish baroque music, much of which remains relatively unknown to the wider world.