Rachel Podger

Rachel Podger - Mozart/Jones: Violin Sonatas Fragment Completions (2021) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 26, 2021

Rachel Podger - Mozart/Jones: Violin Sonatas Fragment Completions (2021)
FLAC tracks/ MP3 320 kbps | 55:42 | 228 / 125 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics Records

Think of the uncompleted fragments Mozart left behind at his premature death in 1791, and the Requiem is probably the one that springs most easily to mind. However Mozart also left a significant body of unfinished concerti, chamber and piano solo music, and it's four violin and piano fragments that form the basis of this programme from Baroque violinist Rachel Podger with Christopher Glynn: three sonata Allegros in B-flat major, A major and G major, plus a Fantasia in C minor, all dating from Mozart's final decade in Vienna (that's to say, when the violin sonata had developed from its beginnings as what was effectively a piano sonata with violin colour, to a true partnership of equals) and now completed by Royal Academy of Music Deputy Principal Timothy Jones.

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Rachel Podger - Tutta sola (2022) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Oct. 27, 2022

Rachel Podger - Tutta sola (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 67:30 | 329 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics Records

On this album entitled "Tutta sola", violinist Rachel Podger plays solo repertoire from five European composers who all lived to celebrate new year’s eve in 1700. It is a wonderful baroque programme of selected solo violin pieces, preludes, dances and fugal movements. One person, at least with regards to the repertoire for Baroque violin, springs immediately to mind: Johann Sebastian Bach. But the german composer was not the only composer to experiment with "senza basso" – music without accompanying bass –, and neither was he the first. In addition to Johann Sebastian Bach, this recording features solo violin music from Johann Joseph Vilsmayr, Nicola Matteis Jr., Johann Paul von Westhoff, and Giuseppe Tartini.

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Rachel Podger & Gary Cooper - Mozart: Complete Sonatas For Keyboard And Violin, Vol. 1 (2004/2019) [24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at April 22, 2019

Rachel Podger & Gary Cooper - Mozart: Complete Sonatas For Keyboard And Violin, Vol. 1 (2004/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 76:56 minutes | 2.70 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

In recording these Mozart Sonatas, a paradox quickly became apparent. I feel Mozart’s music is aimed at the heart. Approaching his music instinctively comes mostnaturally to me: it seems so effortlessly composed, and communicates to us directly. After all, why do children react so positively to this music of the heart? And yet I alsofound my experience of performing Baroque music helped me find a way of understanding and appreciating Mozart’s style.

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Rachel Podger & Gary Cooper - Mozart: Complete Sonatas For Keyboard And Violin, Vol. 2 (2008/2019) [24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at April 23, 2019

Rachel Podger & Gary Cooper - Mozart: Complete Sonatas For Keyboard And Violin, Vol. 2 (2008/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 73:14 minutes | 2.17 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Rachel & I feel that, by using a fortepiano throughout, we present a sort of musical ‘level playing field’ with regard to our choice of Mozart’s sonatas included on this disc – spanning as it does such a huge portion of the composer’s life & musical development. While K.6 may at first appear to the listener as amiable juvenilia, sitting as it does alongside a sonata of such undoubted breadth & maturity as K.481, we firmly believe that allowing Mozart’s early – and outstanding – ventures into this genre to speak for themselves by using using the same instruments throughout, we hope to draw attention to his early work in the best way – in a way that is not only so suggestive of what would in time follow, but also seeks to demonstrate the eight year old’s already fecund imagination and uncanny sense of musical line. Gary Cooper

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Mozart & Haydn - Violin Concertos - Rachel Podger - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Music

Posted by Ros at Feb. 23, 2010

Mozart/Haydn - Concerti - Rachel Podger - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Classical | EAC, Flac-Img, Cue, Log | 1 CD, Covers | 356 MB
CD Date: 2009 | Channel Classics (CCS SA 29309)

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Rachel Podger, Arte Dei Suonatori - Vivaldi: La Stravaganza (2003) [SACD-R][OF] Vinyl & HR

Posted by Discograf_man at Dec. 14, 2016

Rachel Podger, Arte Dei Suonatori - Vivaldi: La Stravaganza (2003) [SACD-R][OF]
Classical, Orchestral, Violin | SACD ISO: DST64 5.0; 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz
Scans 43.2 Mb | 5.91 GB + 5% Recovery
Label: Channel Classics Records | Release Year: 2003

This is a welcome addition to my collection. These little gems sparkle and make me want to look at other Vivaldi pieces. It's time to go beyond the Four Seasons. These pieces show compositional variety, the playing is nuanced and exciting, and the SACD recording is superb.

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Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque - J.S. Bach: The Art of Fugue (2016) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by Pisulik at Oct. 25, 2017

Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque - J.S. Bach: The Art of Fugue (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 70:10 minutes | 2,04 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Fugue and the art of counterpoint are often almost bywords for Bach the composer. Certainly, from the viewpoint of many later generations, he was the first composer to make fugue the basis for a whole and complete piece of music, one that often seemed to serve no purpose beyond the ‘purely musical’. In a sense, this must surely be right: while there are countless fugal compositions before Bach, very few share the same relentless, yet expressive, cohesion, and most that were written outside the keyboard sphere were associated with a text and liturgical function. There is something about Bach’s fugal composition that immediately places it at the service of composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Schoenberg. For them, earlier counterpoint in the Renaissance tradition provided more a model for refined technique than for an overriding nexus of musically cohering ideas.

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Podger, Brecon Baroque - Vivaldi: L'Estro Armonico (2015) Music

Posted by newskl at March 15, 2015

Vivaldi augmented his reputation as ‘The Red Priest’ with ‘L'Estro Armonico’, Op. 3, a collection of twelve concertos for one, two and four violins. The title of the collection encapsulates the qualities that so entranced Vivaldi’s contemporaries. ‘L’Estro Armonico’, which might be translated as ‘musical rapture’, reflects the vitality and freshness of Vivaldi’s invention: its rhythmic energy, melodic and harmonic intensity, textural sensuousness, performative brilliance and dramatic flair.

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Solo & Double Violin Concertos - A. Manze & R. Podger -AAM Music

Posted by generale79 at Nov. 26, 2008

Bach J. S. - Solo & Double Violin Concertos - A. Manze & R. Podger - The Academy of Ancient Music
Classical | APE + Cue | 1 CD, covers, booklet | 308 MB RS
Harmonia Mundi 1997

Amazon.com essential recording
It's well known that most of Bach's harpsichord concertos began their lives as violin concertos. Since only three violin originals survive–the ones designated as BWV 1041-43–and since these are among his greatest instrumental works, musical scholars and performers have been reversing the process, turning the harpsichord concertos back into violin originals. BWV 1060 is one such case, a concerto for two harpsichords, which sounds much less clangy and bangy in this reconstructed version for two violins. Now Andrew Manze is simply the finest baroque violinist alive, and so this recording is self-recommending on that count alone. It's just about perfect. - David Hurwitz

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Perla Barocca: Early Italian Masterpieces (2014) Music

Posted by peotuvave at June 29, 2015

Fresh from winning the Instrumental category in the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2014 for “Guardian Angel” (CCSSA35513) Rachel Podger is back with this beautiful collection of masterpieces of the early Italian Baroque. By the mid-seventeenth century, musical composition had reached a point where invention had converged with technical mastery. Composers embraced a bass line lively with linearity, often entering into dialogue with the upper voices. Exploratory harmonic schemes were encompassed within larger unified tonalities. Through rhetorical structures, such as motive, imitation and sequence, composers instilled logic into their musical arguments.

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