Concerto Köln

Patricia Petibon, Daniel Harding, Concerto Köln - Amoureuses: Mozart, Haydn, Gluck (2008)

Patricia Petibon, Daniel Harding, Concerto Köln - Amoureuses: Mozart, Haydn, Gluck (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 321 Mb | Total time: 68:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon| 477 7468 | Recorded: 2008

Petibon has established herself as one of the most interesting and versatile sopranos of our day and has been widely acclaimed for her outstanding acting abilities that make her merge completely with whatever role she sings and represents on stage.
Valer Sabadus, Concerto Köln - Caro Gemello: Farinelli and Metastasio (2018)

Valer Sabadus, Concerto Köln - Caro Gemello: Farinelli and Metastasio (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 285 Mb | Total time: 71:50| Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | 88985305382 | Recorded: 2017

Concerto Köln – the silver-toned Rolls-Royce of period ensembles – handles this journey with suave style and flawless control…Valer Sabadus makes for a refined Farinelli, and where his smoky voice lacks in power, it gains in agility. He breezes through the coloratura arias, with their virtuoso roulades and vertiginous leaps…He really shines, though, in the more intimate arias.
René Jacobs, Concerto Köln - Francisco António de Almeida: La Giuditta (1992)

René Jacobs, Concerto Köln - Francisco António de Almeida: La Giuditta (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 580 Mb | Total time: 68:35+52:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMC 901411.12 | Recorded: 1990

Just before returning home at the end of his years of musical apprenticeship in Rome, the Portuguese composer Almeida composed this unusual oratorio based on one of the most bloddy episodes in the Old Testament, the decapitation of the Assyrian general Holofernes by Judith, a crucial episode in the struggle of the Jewis people against Nebuchadnezzar (588 B.C.). When it was revived in 1990 this powerful, at times sensual work was greeted as a 'revelation of Portuguese music'.
Pablo Heras-Casado, Concerto Köln - El Maestro Farinelli (2014)

Pablo Heras-Casado, Concerto Köln, Bejun Mehta - El Maestro Farinelli (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 348 Mb | Total time: 68:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 479 2050 | Recorded: 2013

The versatile Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado, whose international profile has been rising in leaps and bounds in the past couple of years, seems to tackle all genres with alacrity, but Baroque period-instrument performance is his main calling card. He's a great choice, then, for the re-launch of Deutsche Grammophon’s Archiv Produktion imprint, with this disc of orchestral music associated with Farinelli’s long tenure at the Spanish court -much of it dug out of archives and recorded for the first time.
Mahan Esfahani, Concerto Köln - Time Present and Time Past (2015)

Mahan Esfahani, Concerto Köln - Time Present and Time Past (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 481 Mb | Total time: 73:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 479 4481 | Recorded: 2014

Mahan Esfahani veröffentlicht sein Debütalbum “Time Present and Time Past”, und damit erscheint auch die erste Cembalo Veröffentlichung bei Deutsche Grammophon seit über 30 Jahren! Sein Album, das maßgeblich durch Gedichte von T.S. Elliot inspiriert wurde, vereint Barockmusik von Bach und Corelli mit minimalistischen Klängen von Komponisten wie Reich und Gorecki. Mit seinen eingängigen Interpretationen begeistert Esfahani nicht nur seine Zuhörer für das historische Tasteninstrument, durch die Begleitung des “Concerto Köln”, einem auf historische Aufführungspraxis spezialisierten Orchester, gelingt es ihm, die Musik besonders authentisch wirken zu lassen.
Mahan Esfahani, Concerto Köln - Time Present and Time Past (2015)

Mahan Esfahani, Concerto Köln - Time Present and Time Past (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 481 Mb | Total time: 73:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 479 4481 | Recorded: 2014

Mahan Esfahani veröffentlicht sein Debütalbum “Time Present and Time Past”, und damit erscheint auch die erste Cembalo Veröffentlichung bei Deutsche Grammophon seit über 30 Jahren! Sein Album, das maßgeblich durch Gedichte von T.S. Elliot inspiriert wurde, vereint Barockmusik von Bach und Corelli mit minimalistischen Klängen von Komponisten wie Reich und Gorecki. Mit seinen eingängigen Interpretationen begeistert Esfahani nicht nur seine Zuhörer für das historische Tasteninstrument, durch die Begleitung des “Concerto Köln”, einem auf historische Aufführungspraxis spezialisierten Orchester, gelingt es ihm, die Musik besonders authentisch wirken zu lassen.
Natalie Dessay, Evelino Pidò, Concerto Köln - Italian Opera Arias: Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi (2008)

Natalie Dessay, Evelino Pidò, Concerto Köln - Italian Opera Arias: Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 472 Mb | Total time: 73:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | 5 14365 2 | Recorded: 2007

This selection of scenes and arias, all very familiar items, is distinguished by the imaginative accompaniments under Evelino Pidò. …here we have one of the great opera personalities of our time - it's a lovely voice, used with a formidable technique.
Nicholas McGegan, Concerto Köln - George Frideric Handel: Rinaldo (2004)

Nicholas McGegan, Concerto Köln - George Frideric Handel: Rinaldo (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 806 Mb | Total time: 74:54+51:20+40:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: NDR Kultur | Recorded: 2004

Diana Moore lends her youth and tight vibrato to Rinaldo; a greater vocal presence should come with the experience. Cyndia Sieden is an ideal Almirena, as well as Dominique Labelle in the often poorly served and yet essential role of the magician Armida. Andnew Foster-Williams and Cecile van de Sant excel and carry Argante and Goffredo to a rare level of emotion for one and dramatic consistency for the other. The counter-tenor Chnistophe Dumaux is a perfect Eustazio. Finally, under the lively, dramatic and witty direction of Nicholas McGegan, the Concerto Köln is simply phenomenal.
Peter Dijkstra, Concerto Koln, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks - George Frideric Handel: Israel in Egypt (2010)

Peter Dijkstra, Concerto Köln, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks - George Frideric Handel: Israel in Egypt (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 562 Mb | Total time: 65:52+40:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BR-KLASSIK | # 900501 | Recorded: 2008

Georg Friedrich Händels großes Chor-Oratorium "Israel in Egypt" ist das wertvollste Geschenk, das der Komponist der Chormusik machen konnte: Der Chor fungiert als Protagonist in diesem klangmächtigen Werk, das in bildhafter Dramatik vom alttestamentarischen Exodus erzählt. Viel zu lange war das Oratorium nach seiner wenig erfolgreichen Uraufführung im Londoner King’s Theatre in Vergessenheit geraten, bis es im Zuge der Barock-Renaissance unter Felix Mendelssohn im 19. Jahrhundert wiederentdeckt wurde.
Andreas Staier, Concerto Köln - Jan Ladislav Dussek: Piano Concertos op.49, 22 & Tableau “Marie Antoinette” (1995)

Andreas Staier, Concerto Köln - Jan Ladislav Dussek: Piano Concertos op.49, 22 & Tableau “Marie Antoinette” (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 272 Mb | Total time: 66:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # C 10 444 | Recorded: 1992

Haydn described Dussek as "the most honest, politest and most excellent man among all composers". Dussek worked as a composer and performer in London and wrote many works for the piano. He was a friend of the piano maker John Broadwood and persuaded him to add another octave to the instrument. Staier performs on such an instrument from 1806.