Bach Biondi

Fabio Biondi, Rinaldo Alessandrini - Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (1996)

Fabio Biondi, Rinaldo Alessandrini - Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 569 Mb | Total time: 90:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 | # OPS 30-127/128 | Recorded: 1995

Even in a field overcrowded with noteworthy editions of the Bach Sonatas for violin and harpsichord, these 1995 recordings maintain permanent status on my shelves. Fabio Biondi's fiddling is thoroughly steeped in the grammar of period performance yet avoids the exaggerated agogics, metronomic facelessness, and wimpy tonal qualities we often put up with in the name of authenticity. Abetted by Rinaldo Alessandrini's imaginative partnering, Biondi's characterful, singing sonority puts a fresh spin on every phrase. His improvised embellishments, no matter how audacious they sound at first, always arise out of an organic response to the music's spirit.

Ian Bostridge - J.S. Bach: Cantatas & Arias (2000)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at June 5, 2023
Ian Bostridge - J.S. Bach: Cantatas & Arias (2000)

Ian Bostridge - J.S. Bach: Cantatas & Arias (2000)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:07:42 | 341 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Virgin | Catalog: 45420

The marvelous voice of tenor Ian Bostridge could not be more perfect for this program of Bach cantatas and arias. Like Hans Hotter before him, Bostridge's voice has a unique ethereal quality, a hollow distance that identifies less with the character and more the spirit of the subject. His singing clearly captures the "disembodied presence", as Michel Roubinet aptly puts it in the booklet's notes, of the mortal somewhere between resignation of the world and the ultimate union with Christ–the theme that links every selection here.
Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Antonio Vivaldi: L'estro armonico (1998)

Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Antonio Vivaldi: L'estro armonico (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 539 Mb | Total time: 46:20+53:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin | # 5 45315 2 | Recorded: 1997-98

This was the great collection of 12 varied and exciting violin concertos that turned Bach on to concerto writing. In fact, he transcribed several of these works for solo harpsichord, organ–even for harpsichords and orchestra. What fascinated him most was the balanced, three-movement form, the brilliance of the solo passages, the tunefulness of the music generally, and Vivaldi's seemingly inexhaustible storehouse of invention. When a composer ventured to publish a collection such as this, he was making a major statement. This is one of the really big ones in Baroque music, and it's performed with splendid authority and an unrivaled sense of sheer joy.
Fabio Biondi, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Francesco Feo: San Francesco di Sales (2018)

Fabio Biondi, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester - Francesco Feo: San Francesco di Sales (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 587 Mb | Total time: 75:11+62:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 923409 | Recorded: 2017

Fabio Biondi’s immense curiosity for characterful music – especially of forgotten scores from the Baroque – yields another fabulous surprise with Francesco Feo’s oratorio San Francesco di Sales. Feo’s reputation is at last starting to wax after having waned dramatically in the nineteenth century and thenceforward: in his own age he was compared very highly with Bach and Handel, and Charles Burney was moved to describe his vocal music as being “full of fire and invention and force in the melody and expression of the words”; Feo was also a boon companion of Pergolesi.

VA - The Best of Bach (2022)  Music

Posted by Rtax at March 10, 2022
VA - The Best of Bach (2022)

VA - The Best of Bach (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 502 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 245 MB
1:42:05 | Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Johann Sebastian Bach was better known as a virtuoso organist than as a composer in his day. His sacred music, organ and choral works, and other instrumental music had an enthusiasm and seeming freedom that concealed immense rigor. Bach's use of counterpoint was brilliant and innovative, and the immense complexities of his compositional style – which often included religious and numerological symbols that seem to fit perfectly together in a profound puzzle of special codes – still amaze musicians today.
Fabio Biondi - Georg Philipp Telemann: 12 Fantasias for solo violin (2016)

Fabio Biondi - Georg Philipp Telemann: 12 Fantasias for solo violin (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 337 Mb | Total time: 62:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 923406 | Recorded: 2015

Alongside his success directing Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi's sixth CD for Glossa is the first to showcase his talents as a solo violinist.
Fabio Biondi, L'Europa Galante - Alessandro Scarlatti: La Maddalena (1993)

Fabio Biondi, L'Europa Galante - Alessandro Scarlatti: La Maddalena (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 388 Mb | Total time: 76:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 | # OPS 30-96 | Recorded: 1993

Alessandro Scarlatti was only 24 and had just begun his enormously successful operatic career when he set a libretto by that great Roman patron of the arts, Cardinal Pamphili, on the subject of repentance and divine grace. It was performed before a distinguished audience by a small group of leading singers and instrumentalists of the day in March 1685—the year of the birth of Alessandro's son Domenico (in fact, as a matter of interest, three days before the birth of J. S. Bach). This simple little morality (oratorio is too grandiose a term for it) shows Magdalen torn between youthful pleasures and repentance for hedonistic living: the subject is treated in a sequence of extremely brief arias (and a few duets) and recitatives, which add up to a rather bitty effect, all the more because of seemingly haphazard key-sequences.
Giuliano Carmignola, Andrea Marcon - Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord (2002)

Giuliano Carmignola, Andrea Marcon - Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 617 Mb | Total time: 93:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony | # S2K 89469 | Recorded: 2000

Bach's Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord hardly lack for excellent recorded versions in the period instrument department, including these sensitive and musicianly collaborations between Giuliano Carmignola and Andrea Marcon. Tempos rarely move faster than the music can sing, and cultivated vocalism characterizes Carmignola's sweet, silvery timbre, which differs from Andrew Manze's grittier approach. Indeed, you hardly notice Carmignola's bow arm at all in the way his long, sustained notes seem to materialize from within the harpsichord. A genuine give and take prevails as the musicians effortlessly adjust to each other's foreground and background roles.
Jordi Savall - Johann Sebastian Bach: Les Quatre Ouvertures (2012) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Jordi Savall - Johann Sebastian Bach: Les Quatre Ouvertures (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88.2 kHz | Time - 01:45:14 | 1.78 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover+digital booklet

There’s very little to say about this recording save throwing yet more encomiums Jordi Savall’s way: as with his other Bach recordings, this is a success. The warmly dark, coppery sound for which these forces are renowned is here in its full glory; Savall’s pacing is neither frenzied nor laborious; the audio clarity is stunning. Because Savall is such a renowned gamba player who has recruited great fellow string players to his projects (note one Fabio Biondi on violin), you might overlook stellar playing elsewhere in the ensemble. But there’s no way to ignore the wind section in the opening movement in the first suite: the exquisite phrasing and pitch-perfect tones demand to be heard (and heard repeatedly, at that), and the masterful playing becomes even more delightfully apparent in the extended oboe and bassoon solo in the same suite’s Bourée.
Fabio Biondi - Bach Sonatas & Partitas (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Fabio Biondi - Bach Sonatas & Partitas (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/88]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88.2 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 02:18:58 minutes | 2,45 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Newly signed to the naïve label, violinist Fabio Biondi, the celebrated founder and director of Europa Galante, here presents his interpretation of one of the major peaks of the solo violin repertoire: the Sonatas and Partitas of J. S. Bach.