Ricercar Consort

François Fernandez, Ricercar Consort - Violino oder Geige: Farina, Pohle, Furchheim, Löwe, Biber, Schmelzer, Walther (2005)

François Fernandez, Ricercar Consort - Violino oder Geige: Farina, Pohle, Furchheim, Löwe, Biber, Schmelzer, Walther, Kühnel (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 849 Mb | Total time: 148:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ricercar | RIC232 | Recorded: 1988-1990

Italian violinists invaded germanic countries from the beginning of the 17th century, with Farina in Dresden, Marini in Neuburg and Bertali in Vienna. Their influence was considerable, stretching over the entire Empire to the furthest flung towns of Central or Northern Germany. The Italian sonata went hand in hand with the violin, exemplifying a taste for the fantastic and the baroque. Michal Praetorius, despite his knowledge of Italian musical practice, preferred to discuss the instrument under its German name of "Geige", although the term of "violino" soon began to appear in every musical publication In this eagerly awaited, special prized re-release of his remarkable anthology of early violin music, François Fernandez gives a us a masterly and higly seductive lesson of style.
Henri Ledroit, Ricercar Consort - Henry Du Mont: Motets à voix seule (1984)

Henri Ledroit, Ricercar Consort - Henry Du Mont: Motets à voix seule (1984)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 251 Mb | Total time: 53:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ricercar | # RIC 029004 | Recorded: 1984

Après avoir été organiste de l’église Saint-Paul à Paris, le Liégeois Henry Du Mont devient maître de chapelle de Louis XIV. Dès la publication de son premier recueil de motets en 1652, les Cantica Sacra, il s’impose comme l’un des créateurs du motet français et compose les premiers motets à voix seule, genre qui se développera durant les générations suivantes. Cet enregistrement est complété par quelques motets de Léonard Hodemont, maître de chapelle de la cathédrale Saint-Lambert de Liège.
Ricercar Consort - Nicolaus Bruhns: Das Kantatenwerk; Lovies Busbetzky (2010)

Ricercar Consort - Nicolaus Bruhns: Das Kantatenwerk; Lovies Busbetzky (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 669 Mb | Total time: 151:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ricercar | RIC291 | Recorded: 1988-1989

Bruhns was one of Buxtehude’s most talented pupils, impressing his contemporaries with his skills as an organist just as much as with his talents as a violinist and as a singer. He died at the age of 32, leaving five organ pieces (RIC204) and twelve sublime Cantatas that form an evident link between Buxtehude’s religious music and J.S. Bach’s. This programme is rounded off with the cantata Erbarm dich by Lovies Busbetsky, another Buxtehude pupil, which formed the inspiration for one of J.S. Bach’s chorale preludes.
Carlos Mena, Philippe Pierlot, Ricercar Consort - Stabat Mater: Sances, Bertali, Schmelzer, Fux, Ziani, Leopold I (2007)

Carlos Mena, Philippe Pierlot, Ricercar Consort - Stabat Mater: Sances, Bertali, Schmelzer, Fux, Ziani, Leopold I (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 365 Mb | Total time: 67:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Mirare | # MIR 050 | Recorded: 2006

The Stabat Mater Dolorosa is a sequence, not a chant, and no unified melody was established for it until the mid-nineteenth century; it was even banned for a time by the Council of Trent, but restored to liturgical use in the late 1720s by Pope Benedict XIII. Much as Prohibition did not stem the tide of alcohol use, the Council of Trent's ban on the text did not diminish the popularity of the Stabat Mater. It was during the official, 160-year-long period where the Stabat Mater was not heard in churches that Giovanni Felice Sances composed the title work on this Mirare CD Stabat Mater, featuring Carlos Mena, Philippe Pierlot, and the Ricercar Consort.
Arianna Savall, Philippe Pierlot, Ricercar Consort - Sopra la Rosa (2002)

Arianna Savall, Philippe Pierlot, Ricercar Consort - Sopra la Rosa (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 360 Mb | Total time: 52:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Mirare | # MIR 9931 | Recorded: 2002

There’s no way around it. Arianna Savall sounds exactly like a young Emma Kirkby, and if you like that straight-toned, sharply focused soprano quality, with just the bare hint of a vibrato at the very ends of phrases, then you’ll find Savall very satisfying and you’ll easily appreciate her superb interpretations of these rarely heard vocal works from 17th-century Italy. She begins with a magnificent cantata by Marco Marazzoli that sets the tone for the whole program–a “moral canzona” that focuses on the “literary theme of the rose”–and her vocal prowess is evident in her ability to lend enough dramatic force to the work to keep us interested for its entire 13 minutes. She lends a particularly warm and ingratiating quality to the beautifully wrought final minutes of the same composer’s “moral cantata” O mortal, whose text refers to the fate of the Biblical Samson, and repeatedly urges, “Do you desire even greater glories? Then learn how to conquer yourself.”
Philippe Pierlot, Ricercar Consort - Johann Sebastian Bach: Magnificat BWV 243, Missa BWV 235 (2009)

Philippe Pierlot, Ricercar Consort - Johann Sebastian Bach: Magnificat BWV 243, Missa BWV 235 (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 352 Mb | Total time: 64:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Mirare | # MIR 129 | Recorded: 2008

Philippe Pierlot and the Ricercar Consort's 2006 recording of Bach's Magnificat brings back the glory days of historically informed performances, those halcyon days in the 1980s when musicians, empowered by scholarship and energized by virtuosity, were recording the Baroque repertoire with the zeal of the newly converted. Though Pierlot and his musicians are of a younger generation, they bring a missionary fervor to the music, a program of Bach's Magnificat, BWV 243, and Missa Brevis, BWV 235, interspersed with two well-chosen organ works, the Fuga sopra il Magnificat, BWV 733, and the Präludium und Fuga, BWV 541. Pierlot's textures are clean, his rhythms buoyant, his colors bright, and tempos brisk, but not rushed in the fast movements, and contemplative but not moribund in the slow movements.
Ricercar Consort & Philippe Pierlot - Buxtehude: Salvator Mundi (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Ricercar Consort & Philippe Pierlot - Buxtehude: Salvator Mundi (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 72:26 minutes | 1,4 GB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: Mirare, Official Digital Download

Four years after the superb ‘Membra Jesu nostri’, the Ricercar Consort once again turns to Buxtehude.The majority of the cantatas in this recording are centred on Christ’s Passion and Resurrection. With the both dramatic and comforting sounds of his cantatas, Buxtehude succeeded in shifting the focus from human suffering to divine help, thus giving people a foretaste of heavenly harmony and perfection.
Philippe Pierlot, Ricercar Consort, Collegium Vocale Gent - Johann Sebastian Bach: Soli Deo Gloria (2020)

Philippe Pierlot, Ricercar Consort, Collegium Vocale Gent - Johann Sebastian Bach: Soli Deo Gloria (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 438 Mb | Total time: 83:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Mirare | # MIR490 | Recorded: 2018, 2020

There is no shortage of performances of the two Bach cantatas on this release by the Ricercar Consort and the Collegium Vocale Gent, under the direction of gambist Philippe Perlot. They are two of the most imposing among Bach's examples of the form, with two large sections, a variety of movement types and elaborate orchestration, and Bach strove to impress with both. Good readings are available in cycles by conductors John Eliot Gardiner, Masaaki Suzuki, and others, but there's a lot to be said for Perlot's approach, which has been developed over a deliberate set of recordings of cantatas that have something to say to each other.

Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot - Distracted Tymes (2024)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 19, 2024
Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot - Distracted Tymes (2024)

Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot - Distracted Tymes (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:13:12 | 385 Mb
Genre: Classical

The repertory for viol consort of the Stuart age in England consists of fantasias and miscellaneous pieces whose dense, continuous polyphony conveys a sonic and social ideal of concord and harmony. It also expresses the confusion of a period of disorder and anxiety (‘distracted tymes’) traversed by political, religious and philosophical upheavals that heralded the end of an era. This programme offers resonances for our own times, with their transformations and uncertainties.
Philippe Pierlot, Carlos Mena, Ricercar Consort - Antonio Vivaldi: Stabat Mater (2004)

Philippe Pierlot, Carlos Mena, Ricercar Consort - Antonio Vivaldi: Stabat Mater (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 331 Mb | Total time: 70:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Mirare | # MIR 9968 | Recorded: 2003

Spanish countertenor Carlos Mena is not one of those who evoke the powerful castrati who might have sung these sacred arias in Vivaldi's day; his voice is smooth and precise, with a tendency toward emotional restraint. This isn't blood-and-guts Vivaldi, but it's quite lovely. Even the final Nisi dominus, RV 608, with its virtuoso arias and sharp contrasts, is kept under control at all times rather than being treated as a set of operatic numbers. Mena is technically flawless in this work (listen to the rather chilling long notes in the "Cum dederit dilectis," track 22), which stands somewhat apart from the rest of the program – the intent is to close the proceedings with a burst of energy after two sad pieces that offer refined tragedy in Mena's readings.