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Jan Lehtola - Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccatas and Preludes & Fugues, arrangements by Max Reger (2021)

Jan Lehtola - Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccatas and Preludes & Fugues, arrangements by Max Reger (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 309 Mb | Total time: 77:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pilfink Records | # JJVCD-235 | Recorded: 2020

Johann Sebastian Bachin (1685–1750) musiikki tunnettiin hänen kuolemansa jälkeen pitkään lähinnä alan harrastajien keskuudessa. Felix Mendelssohnin (1809–1847) johtamasta Matteus-passion esityksestä Berliinissä 1829 alkoi Bach-renessanssi, joka nosti barokin mestarin suuren yleisön tietoisuuteen. Samalla Bachin teokset saivat alistua sovituksille, jotka olivat suosittuja aina 1900-luvulle saakka. Sovittaminen oli osa ajan esittämiskäytäntöä, sillä ennen autenttisuuskäsitteen syntyä kaikki musiikki sovitettiin vallitsevan tyylin mukaiseksi, ja niinpä myös Mendelssohnin johtama Matteus-passio oli mukautettu vastaamaan ajan musiikillis-esteettisiä haasteita.
Pieter-Jan Belder, Musica Amphion, Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam - Bach In Context: Vater Unser (2014)

Pieter-Jan Belder, Musica Amphion, Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam - Bach In Context: Vater Unser (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 382 Mb | Total time: 69:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Etcetera | # KTC1488 | Recorded: 2013

Actus Tragicus The words ‘art of dying’ sound strange to modern ears, perhaps. Although there are related philosophical, religious and ‘end of life’ health care, and much-debated legal concerns today surrounding the subject of dying, we moderns probably rarely, if ever, think of preparing for death as an art form. A central topic in sermons, hymns and contemplative literature, death and dying was a chief pastoral concern of the church of Johann Sebastian Bach’s day. Finding consolation and facing fears and anxieties near the time of death, and also as a part of everyday living, are arguably at the heart of the sacred vocal works of Bach, who is regarded by many as a kind of theologian in music.
Jan Garbarek Group - Dresden: In Concert (2009) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jan Garbarek Group - Dresden: In Concert (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 122:24 minutes | 4,07 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

This one is very eagerly-awaited: it has been six years since Jan Garbarek’s last album as a leader. And, moreover, this double-album - recorded in Dresden’s Alter Schlachthof in October 2007 - is also the first-ever live set from the highly-popular Garbarek Group. The band, now including Brazilian bassist Yuri Daniel, powers through repertoire old and new, and the Norwegian saxophonist is in top form, his exchanges with Manu Katche’s bold, emphatic drums particularly exciting. Material includes “12 Moons”, “There Were Swallows”, “Voy Cantando”, an ecstatic version of “Paper Nut” (last heard on Shankar’s “Song for Everyone”) and much more. Released in time for Jan’s extensive autumn tour.

Jan Kisjes - The Nymphs, Part One: Language of the Nymphs (2003)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Sept. 19, 2023
Jan Kisjes - The Nymphs, Part One: Language of the Nymphs (2003)

Jan Kisjes - The Nymphs, Part One: Language of the Nymphs (2003)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 420 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 214 MB | Covers - 120 MB
Genre: New Age | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Oreade Music (ORM 62382)

"The Nymphs" tells the story of a wandering mortal who ends up in the realm of the Queen of the Nymphs. The late Scottish entertainer Jimmy Logan narrates the story, interwoven with hauntingly beautiful music composed by Jan Kisjes and magical poems recited by Bryan Maguire. The combination of story, music and poems results in a fairytale decor. The package also contains a second music-only CD.
Pieter-Jan Belder, Musica Amphion, Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam - Bach In Context: Bach & Luther (2012)

Pieter-Jan Belder, Musica Amphion, Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam - Bach In Context: Bach & Luther (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 418 Mb | Total time: 77:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Etcetera | # KTC 1442 | Recorded: 2012

This offering from the combined forces of Musica Amphion and the Gesualdo Consort is presented as a hardback book with a CD tucked into the back cover. It is the second in the Bach in Context series. The aim of the project is to present Bach’s works in a liturgical format. The book goes to considerable lengths to explain Lutheran liturgy and how Bach’s compositions would have fitted into a Sunday morning service, thus presenting a prelude, cantata, choral, motet, choral and postlude - in this case the fugue. The performers also give concerts using this format.
Pieter-Jan Belder, Musica Amphion, Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam - Bach in context: Jesu meine Freude (2013)

Pieter-Jan Belder, Musica Amphion, Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam - Bach in context: Jesu meine Freude (2013)
dBpoweramp | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 383 Mb | Total time: 72:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Et'cetera | # KTC 1440 | Recorded: 2012

The Prelude and Fugue in E Minor forms a frame, as it did in Bach’s time, around this program, designed to fit the liturgical format that gave Bach’s music its purpose; the Fantasia precedes the motet on which it is based and follows Cantata BWV 64, which quotes the fifth stanza of Johann Franck’s poem “Jesu, meine Freude.” The recording was made in the Arnstadt church where Bach served from 1703 to 1707 (the 1699 organ has recently been restored), but the two cantatas and the motet date from his first year in Leipzig. This impressive presentation, the first in a series called Bach in Context, is a hardbound book of 84 pages. The notes favor Joshua Rifkin’s understanding of one voice to a part in Bach’s vocal/choral music, the use of a harpsichord as well as the church organ (not the more versatile chest organ), and the liturgical context in which the music was originally sung.

Jan Skovgaard Petersen - Natural Harmonies (2003)  Music

Posted by gribovar at June 13, 2024
Jan Skovgaard Petersen - Natural Harmonies (2003)

Jan Skovgaard Petersen - Natural Harmonies (2003)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 274 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 116 MB | Covers - 65 MB
Genre: New Age | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Fønix Musik (FMF CD 1205)

Beautiful music inspired by the magical moments in life when you are in harmony and life unfolds before your eyes in it's uttermost beauty.
Jan Lehtola - William Humphreys Dayas: Complete Organ Music (2016)

Jan Lehtola - William Humphreys Dayas: Complete Organ Music (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 261 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 153 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Toccata | # TOCC0285 | Time: 01:05:46

At the beginning of the twentieth century the American William Humphreys Dayas (1864-1903) was the leading professor of piano at the Royal Manchester College of Music. He was an important figure: he studied with Liszt, was friends with Busoni and became a major pedagogue, holding teaching posts in Helsinki, Wiesbaden and Cologne before he came to Manchester in 1895. Although Dayas left only a handful of compositions, two of them are major organ sonatas - passionate, Lisztian works that have remained completely unknown until now. Dayas also arranged for organ the Thème varié for piano four hands by another forgotten American composer, Arthur H. Bird (1856-1923), a further important addition to the late-Romantic organ repertoire. Dr Jan Lehtola is one the most successful and progressive Finnish organists of his generation. He has appeared with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Lahti Symphony, Tampere Philharmonic and Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestras and the St Michael Strings.
The Stockholm Sinfonietta, Jan-Olaw Wedin - A Swedish Pastorale (1988)

The Stockholm Sinfonietta, Jan-Olaw Wedin - A Swedish Pastorale (1988)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:04:25 | 398 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | Catalog: 165

Gold buried deep in the BIS back-catalog since 1980 (but readily available), this CD adds a couple of apt fillers from 1981 to the program of the original analog LP. Larsson’s Pastoral Suite is the best-known music here, and makes a fine overture in its most sprightly recorded chamber performance. The Romance has live intensity, helped by the sound, a classic piece of minimalist work by Bis proprietor, Robert von Bar: just a small Revox half-track reel-to-reel machine, and a couple of mikes above and in front of the conductor. T
Jan Vogler, La Folia Barockorchester - Concerti di Venezia (2014)

Jan Vogler, La Folia Barockorchester - Concerti di Venezia (2014)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 399 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 175 MB | 01:08:34
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical

Recorded at the Palais in the Großer Garten Dresden, Concerti di Venezia was released on October 24 on SONY Classical. The CD focuses on Venetian cello concertos and includes the Vivaldi double concerto with violinist Giuliano Carmignola and a world premiere recording of Vandini’s cello concerto in D major.