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Dietrich Buxtehude - Harald Vogel - Complete Organ Works (2007, 7xCD Box ReIssue) Music

Posted by luckburz at Jan. 8, 2013

…Harald Vogel is an authoritative proponent and guide through all aspects of this music, and the quality of his playing, and of the recordings and choice of instruments can hardly be faulted. Already recognised as interpretations and recordings without equal, certainly in a complete edition, this set has to be considered the current Buxtehude standard bearer.

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Dietrich Buxtehude - Harald Vogel - Complete Organ Works (2007, MDG "Gold" # 309 1582-2, 7xCD Box) [RE-UP] Music

Posted by luckburz at Oct. 28, 2015

…Harald Vogel is an authoritative proponent and guide through all aspects of this music, and the quality of his playing, and of the recordings and choice of instruments can hardly be faulted. Already recognised as interpretations and recordings without equal, certainly in a complete edition, this set has to be considered the current Buxtehude standard bearer.

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Bach: Complete Works - Hänssler Edition Bachakademie - Vol. 28 Music

Posted by WellIThink at Sept. 17, 2007

Bach: Complete Works - Hänssler Edition Bachakademie - Vol. 28
Organ Works
Vol. 28: 4 CDs | 2000 | APE + CUE | Booklets: 136 MB | 911 MB

A very different set than Teldec's Bach 2000. The Hanssler Bachakademie, supervised by Helmut Rilling, is not HIP (historic instruments performance). The orchestras are warm and lush (but not huge). The soloists are, in general, extraordinary. The tempos are sane. Hanssler has included fragments of some incomplete BWV's that are not included in the Teldec set; a minor plus but appealing. I found I preferred these traditional instruments and the daring using of forte-piano in place of harpsichord on a few of the recordings (flute sonatas). Highlights for me are The Well-Tempered Clavier Books 1 and 2, Musical Offering, Flute Sonatas, The Motets. I also found I prefer these Cantatas recordings to any other, including the new Koopman, Suzuki and the well-known Leonhart-Harnoncourt. While not the newest recordings, the sound is warmer which I prefer to the new state-of-the-art HIP recordings. Although most of the Cantatas are older recordings, much of the Hanssler Bachakademie edition is newly recorded for this project and the sound is consistent and excellent.
Jan Hanford, J.S. Bach Home Page

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Theatre of Voices, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Paul Hillier - The Christmas Story (2011) [Official Digital Download 24/88] Vinyl & HR

Posted by El Misha at Nov. 5, 2021

Theatre of Voices, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Paul Hillier - The Christmas Story (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88.2 kHz | Time - 01:05:08 | 1.13 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover+digital booklet

This anthology of Christmas carols from the European tradition is not as banal a collection as it may seem. Paul Hillier's intention here is to place himself in the context of history and musicology, his work being similar to that of Arthur Honegger, who at the end of his life composed A Christmas Cantata, which was based on various traditional songs, motets and folk songs.

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