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Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert - Ferdinand Ries: Die Könige in Israel (2007)

Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert - Ferdinand Ries: Die Könige in Israel (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 467 Mb | Total time: 109:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 221-2 | Recorded: 2005

Some composers have a strong influence on later generations. Sometimes this influence persists a long time after their death. Beethoven is just one example. It took a while before Brahms dared to write a symphony; he wasn't sure he could live up to the standard Beethoven had set. Another is George Frideric Handel. He was a man of the theatre and preferred to compose operas but it was mainly because of his oratorios that he was admired - and feared. Mozart was so impressed by Handel's oratorios that he arranged several of them and Haydn's oratorio 'Die Schöpfung' is unthinkable without the model of Handel's Messiah. The oratorio 'Die Könige in Israel' by Ferdinand Ries shows how long Handel's influence lasted. It shows the traces of Handel's style and yet for all this Ries feared the standard Handel had set. This explains the story behind the oratorio.
Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (1991)

Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 493 Mb | Total time: 47:00+50:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # 60 023-2 | Recorded: 1990

Außerordent- lich lebendige, dramatisch gespannte Wieder- gabe durch ein kleines, stimmlich tüchtiges Ensemble. Gute Solisten sowohl im vokalen wie instrumentalen Bereich.
Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - Johann Michael Bach: Cantatas  (2000)

Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - Johann Michael Bach: Cantatas (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 316 Mb | Total time: 74:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | 999 671-2 | Recorded: 1997, 1998

Letzten Monat konnte ich Ihnen den letzten komponierenden Enkel Johann Sebastian Bachs vorstellen, und diesen Monat können sie die lohnende – und spannende – Bekanntschaft mit einem seiner Zeitgenossen machen, der ebenfalls aus der weitverzweigten Bach-Dynastie stammt: Johann Michael Bach (1745–1820). Er gehört ebenfalls der Enkelgeneration Johann Sebastians an; der hessische Bach-Zweig, aus dem er stammt, hat sich jedoch so frühzeitig von den thüringischen Hauptlinien getrennt, dass heute das genaue Verwandtschaftsverhältnis zu Johann Sebastian nicht mehr geklärt werden kann.
Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert - Hasse: Messe in d & Heinichen: Requiem (1998)

Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert - Hasse: Messe in d & Heinichen: Requiem (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 304 Mb | Total time: 67:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # 10 570 | Recorded: 1995

Hasse was 52 when he composed the Mass in D minor recorded here, but in every way – in form, affect, and aesthetics – Hasse belongs more to the generation of the much younger Haydn than to that of Bach. His Mass in D minor is thoroughly a work of the Enlightenment: symmetrical, lucidly rational, celebratory rather than penitent, 'public' rather than personal, a concert of elegant music rather than an outpouring of spiritual energy. It's not as great a work as Bach's – let us not be unclear about that – but it's a wonderful composition in its own way. If you have heard and appreciated the Haydn and Mozart masses, you'll find this mass quite as excellent as those. In fact, Hasse's mass sounds very much like Haydn at his best, in the masses that Haydn wrote 40-some years later for Esterhazy occasions.
Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert - Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach: Columbus; Cantatas & Symphonies (2000)

Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert - Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach: Columbus; Cantatas & Symphonies (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 292 Mb | Total time: 64:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 672-2 | Recorded: 1997, 1998

J.S. Bach’s talent seems to flow in his grandson’s blood at least as strongly as in any of his sons. Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach’s two symphonies (as well as the vocal works featured here) inhabit the sound-world of mid- to late Mozart, albeit without the brilliance (in every sense of the word). This Bach’s wind writing is tasteful, and makes good use of the (then) newly-arrived clarinet. The Andante of the C major symphony is quite beautiful, with a dolefully sweet oboe solo throughout the movement. The period strings of Das Kleine Konzert are lively, clean, and in tune, although the violin soloist is not quite up to the rapid passage-work at the end of the G major symphony.
Hermann Max, Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert - Leopold Anton Koželuch: Moisè in Egitto (2003)

Hermann Max, Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert - Leopold Anton Koželuch: Moisè in Egitto (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 456 Mb | Total time: 103:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 948-2 | Recorded: 2002

Leopold Anton Kozeluch, often inaccurately and unjustly portrayed as a scheming opponent of Mozart and Haydn, was actually an extraordinarily popular and successful composer during his own lifetime. Already in 1781 Kozeluch had such an outstanding reputation that the Salzburg archbishop offered him the court organist's post left vacant by Mozart. The Bohemian composer's some 250 works include symphonies, piano music, operas, cantatas, string quartets, and a number of oratorios. Moses in Egypt, an oratorio based on the Book of Exodus from the Old Testament, was premiered in the old Burgtheater in 1787.
Hermann Max, Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert - Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Der Durchzug durchs Rote Meer (2006)

Hermann Max, Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert - Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Der Durchzug durchs Rote Meer (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 271 Mb | Total time: 50:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 220-2 | Recorded: 2004

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837) der als Wunderkind von sieben Jahren Meisterschüler Mozarts, 1804 noch unter Haydn Konzertmeister im Schloß Eszterhazy wurde und sein Leben als Kapellmeister in Weimar beendete, ist heute vor allem durch sein berühmtes Trompetenkonzert bekannt. Sein umfangreiches Schaffen ist leider fast völlig vergessen, auch wenn insbesondere seine damals regelrecht avantgardistischen Klavierkonzerte und Teile seiner Kammermusik seit einiger Zeit wieder vermehrt auf das Interesse von Musikern stoßen. Die Opern und Chorwerke harren noch ihrer Wiederbelebung.
London Choral Sinfonia - The Music of Malcolm Arnold (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

London Choral Sinfonia - The Music of Malcolm Arnold (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:12:53 minutes | 2.67 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Dieses neue Album der London Choral Sinfonia haucht den Werken von Malcolm Arnold neues Leben ein und feiert seine lebendige und meisterhafte Kompositionskunst von Sinfonien bis hin zu Chorstücken und Konzerten.
Matthew Martin-Sur le nom d'Alain Organ Music by Jehan Alain and Maurice Duruflé (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Matthew Martin-Sur le nom d'Alain Organ Music by Jehan Alain and Maurice Duruflé (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:15:13 minutes | 1.27 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Für seine Debütaufnahme mit Ad Fontes hat Matthew Martin ein Konzert zusammengestellt, das zwei der größten Organisten und Komponisten des Frankreichs des 20.
Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - Ferdinand Ries: Der Sieg des Glaubens (2013)

Hermann Max, Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei - Ferdinand Ries: Der Sieg des Glaubens (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 439 Mb | Total time: 75:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 738-2 | Recorded: 2009

Beethoven’s gifted pupil Ferdinand Ries was never entirely forgotten, but it is only in recent years that CPO and Hermann Max have dedicated themselves with great success to the rediscovery of this spirited late classicist and romanticist. Ries’ oratorio Der Sieg des Glaubens (The Triumph of Faith), is heard here for the first time since 1829 where is was written in response to a commission for the Lower Rhine Music Festival in Aachen. The work develops a philosophical discourse dealing with the power of faith and the grace of God.