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Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner - Handel: Messiah (1976/2024) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner - Handel: Messiah (1976/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 140:19 minutes | 1,45 GB
Classical, Sacred, Oratorio | Label: Decca Records, Official Digital Download

Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel. The text was compiled from the King James Bible and the Coverdale Psalter by Charles Jennens. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 and received its London premiere a year later. After an initially modest public reception, the oratorio gained in popularity, eventually becoming one of the best-known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music.
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner - Handel: Jephtha (1979/2024) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner - Handel: Jephtha (1979/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 171:53 minutes | 1,74 GB
Classical, Sacred, Oratorio | Label: Decca Records, Official Digital Download

Jephtha (HWV 70) is an oratorio (1751) by George Frideric Handel with an English language libretto by the Rev. Thomas Morell, based on the story of Jephtha in Judges (Chapter 11) and Jephthes, sive Votum (Jeptha, or the Vow) (1554) by George Buchanan. Whilst writing Jephtha, Handel was increasingly troubled by his gradual loss of sight, and this proved to be his last oratorio. In the autograph score, at the end of the chorus "How dark, O Lord, are thy decrees" he wrote "Reached here on 13 February 1751, unable to go on owing to weakening of the sight of my left eye."
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner - Gordon Getty: Orchestral Works (2010) MCH SACD + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin In The Fields - Gordon Getty: Orchestral Works (2010)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 60:17 minutes | Front + PDF Booklet | 3,02 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front + PDF Booklet | 1,45 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front + PDF Booklet | 1,24 GB
DSD Recording | Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Label: Pentatone # PTC 5186356

Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields present these highly acclaimed world premiere recordings of orchestral works by Gordon Getty. Although most of Getty’s output is vocal music, he has also written for orchestra, chamber ensembles and solo piano and this programme showcases six orchestral pieces, including the overture from his first opera, "Plump Jack".
Mahler Academy Orchestra & Philipp von Steinaecker - Mahler: Symphony No. 9 on Period Instruments (2024) [24/96]

Mahler Academy Orchestra & Philipp von Steinaecker - Mahler: Symphony No. 9 on Period Instruments (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 82:10 minutes | 1,45 GB
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Official Digital Download

This recording of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony is an event, because it was made with period instruments of the kind the composer used in Vienna. The Mahler Academy Orchestra set itself the task of reconstructing this instrumentarium and researching how musicians of the time played it: ‘We were struck during our rehearsals by the incredibly distinctive characterisation of the woodwinds, the shattering blare of the brass, the perfect balance between the instruments, and the pure and warm sound of the strings.
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner - Handel: Acis and Galatea (1978/2024) [Digital Download 24/48]

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner - Handel: Acis and Galatea (1978/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 116:45 minutes | 1,19 GB
Classical, Oratorio | Label: Decca Records, Official Digital Download

Acis and Galatea (HWV 49) is a musical work by George Frideric Handel with an English text by John Gay. The work has been variously described as a serenata, a masque, a pastoral or pastoral opera, a "little opera" (in a letter by the composer while it was being written), an entertainment and by the New Grove Dictionary of Music as an oratorio. The work was originally devised as a one-act masque which premiered in 1718.
Neville Marriner & Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Fantasia on 'Greensleeves' (1997) 2CDs

Neville Marriner & Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Fantasia on 'Greensleeves' (1997) 2CD
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Peter Warlock - George Butterworth - Frederick Delius - Edward Elgar

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 630 Mb | Scans ~ 15 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | # 452 707-2 | Time: 02:29:40

This is not strictly a compilation of what the British would term "light music," for there is music of substantial weight on these two discs: e.g., Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending, Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad, and Elgar's Introduction and Allegro, but for the most part, Marriner and his charges offer less weighty fare that is familiar to many classical music-lovers and certainly dear to the heart of Anglophiles like this writer. From Vaughan Williams's perennial favorites, Fantasia on Greensleeves and the English Folk Song Suite, and George Butterworth's nigh-ubiquitous The Banks of Green Willow to less familiar fare like Delius's Serenade (composed to honor the 70th birthday of Frederick Delius) and the suite from Elgar's incomplete opera The Spanish Lady, this compilation of recordings–originally made in 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1979–embodies the spirit of England and does so faultlessly. This is a well chosen and exemplarily executed collection of English orchestral miniatures proffered by a conductor and orchestra whose names have become synonymous with the repertoire.
Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, Jeremy Denk, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - For the Love of Johannes Brahms (2016)

Johannes Brahms: Double Concerto in A Minor & Piano Trio in B Major (2016)
Robert Schumann: Violin Concerto in D Minor (coda by Benjamin Britten)
Joshua Bell, violin & music director; Steven Isserlis, cello
Academy of St Martin in the Fields; Jeremy Denk, piano

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 341 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 184 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88985321792 | Time: 01:16:35

Violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis are joined by two acclaimed musical forces - pianist Jeremy Denk and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, of which Bell is Music Director – in a landmark joint recording, For the Love of Brahms (Sony Classical). Available September 30, 2016, the new album is a unique project that features works of Brahms and Schumann that Bell calls “music about love and friendship.” Bell, Isserlis and Denk unite here in Brahms’s first published chamber work, the Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8 in its rarely performed original 1854 version. Isserlis also joins Bell – as violin soloist and director – and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in Brahms’s last orchestral work, the celebrated Double Concerto (for Violin and Cello) in A Minor, Op. 102. Bell, Isserlis and members of the Academy also offer the first recording of an unusual coupling: the slow movement of Schumann’s rarely heard Violin Concerto, in a version for string orchestra made by Benjamin Britten, who also added a short coda.
Colin Davis, Academy Of Saint Martin In The Fields - Purcell: Dido & Aeneas (1970) [Reissue 2016] MCH PS3 ISO + DSD64 + FLAC

Sir Colin Davis, Academy Of Saint Martin In The Fields - Purcell: Dido & Aeneas (1970) [Reissue 2016]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 58:15 minutes | Front/Rear Cover | 2,57 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front/Rear Cover | 1,36 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front/Rear Cover | 1,24 GB
Features Stereo and Quadrophonic Surround Sound | Label: PentaTone # PTC 5186230

When Henry Purcell wrote his one and only opera "Dido and Aeneas" in the second half of the seventeenth century, there was no existing opera tradition in England. With a libretto based on Virgil’s Aeneid and its music stylistically close to and derived from the typically English ‘Masque’ form, Purcell created a monumental baroque opera. On this 1970 multi-channel Philips Classics recording, Dido is interpreted by soprano Josephine Veasey. The Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the John Alldis choir are conducted by Sir Colin Davis. The recording has been remastered in 2015 and is now re-released in Pentatones’s Remastered Classics series, which finally gives it the chance to expose its magnificent sound quality.
The Berlin Academy of American Music & Garrett Keast - Transatlantic (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The Berlin Academy of American Music & Garrett Keast - Transatlantic (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 82:07 minutes | 1,46 GB
Classical | Label: PM Classics, Official Digital Download

Music, as we know, has no borders, and no limits to where it travels. This album features composers who, crossing the Atlantic Ocean, made America their home. Composers who were inspired by great American literature, or composers who were born in America and whose music captures the very essence of that great country.
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.