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London Baroque - The Trio Sonata in 17th-Century Germany (2008)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Aug. 15, 2019
London Baroque - The Trio Sonata in 17th-Century Germany (2008)

London Baroque - The Trio Sonata in 17th-Century Germany (2008)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | 01:13:06 | 458 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | Catalog: 1545

On two previous discs, London Baroque has explored the genre of the trio sonatas as it unfolded in 17th Century France and England. Both these issues have met with great acclaim: the English volume being described in Goldberg Magazine as ‘A programme of outstanding music … A gem of a disc’, while the French issue received top marks on German website Klassik Heute, with the following words: ‘Everything that one might possibly wish for in a performance of this music is present here: charm, elegance, eloquence, force, flexibility, fire, intimacy, and the most important: soul.’ The ensemble has now arrived in Germany, or more correctly: the German-speaking world of the time, as the programme also features works from the Low Countries and Austria.
Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Biber & Schmelzer: Trumpet Music (1990)

Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Biber & Schmelzer: Trumpet Music (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 318 Mb | Total time: 66:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: L'oiseau Lyre | 425 834-2 | Recorded: 1988

A disc of music by the two most talented composers of seventeenth-century Austria and Bohemia is welcome and doubly so when the performances are as lively as these. Philip Pickett and his New London Consort have chosen a varied programme of pieces by Austrian Schmelzer and Bohemian Biber and while I would not advise anyone to listen uninterrupted to the entire disc, taken in sensible doses it should afford pleasure. Schmelzer was born in the 1620s, eventually attaining a position of the highest importance at the Vienna court. Biber was born in 1644 and in 1670 entered the service of the Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg, with whom he remained until his death in 1704. The programme assembled here is culled from various collections and publications and reflects an assortment of stylistic influences and range of colours and sonorities.
Andrew Manze, The English Concert - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Missa Christi resurgentis (2005)

Andrew Manze, The English Concert - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Missa Christi resurgentis (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 344 Mb | Total time: 77:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMU 907397 | Recorded: 2004

The music on this disc is about sonority, about the brilliance of trumpets and strings in a live, reverberant acoustic such as that of Salzburg cathedral, for which at least some of these works were conceived. And Andrew Manze and his English Concert unequivocally deliver (albeit in the less-opulent confines of London’s Temple Church), from the opening fanfare through the vibrant, tuneful, richly scored sonatas that periodically spice this thoughtfully organized program. The featured work is a Mass, the Missa Christi Resurgentis, likely written for Easter in 1764. It’s a lavish celebration scored for two four-part choirs, an added bass singer, plus two instrumental ensembles, designed to be performed antiphonally in a grand display.
Veronika Skuplik & Jorg Jacobi - Violino 3: Il Ciclo Della Vita (Viennese Violin Music around 1680) (2023)

Veronika Skuplik & Jorg Jacobi - Violino 3: Il Ciclo Della Vita (Viennese Violin Music around 1680) (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 429 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 186 Mb | 01:21:15
Classical | Label: Fra Bernardo

In the third part of her highly acclaimed anthology of virtuoso Austrian violin music, the baroque violinist Veronika Skuplik once again devotes herself to works from a valuable baroque manuscript that today belongs to the rich holdings of the British Library in London, in addition to sonatas by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer. A remarkably high-quality Ciaccona from the pen of the composing Emperor Leopold I forms the framework for this once again immensely discoverable excursion into late 17th century Vienna.
Veronika Skuplik & Jorg Jacobi - Violino 3: Il Ciclo Della Vita (Viennese Violin Music around 1680) (2023) [24/96]

Veronika Skuplik & Jorg Jacobi - Violino 3: Il Ciclo Della Vita (Viennese Violin Music around 1680) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 81:15 minutes | 1,57 GB
Classical | Label: Fra Bernardo, Official Digital Download

In the third part of her highly acclaimed anthology of virtuoso Austrian violin music, the baroque violinist Veronika Skuplik once again devotes herself to works from a valuable baroque manuscript that today belongs to the rich holdings of the British Library in London, in addition to sonatas by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer. A remarkably high-quality Ciaccona from the pen of the composing Emperor Leopold I forms the framework for this once again immensely discoverable excursion into late 17th century Vienna.
Veronika Skuplik & Jorg Jacobi - Violino 2: Catena Bohemica (Viennese Violin Music around 1680) (2022) [24/96]

Veronika Skuplik & Jorg Jacobi - Violino 2: Catena Bohemica (Viennese Violin Music around 1680) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 66:34 minutes | 1,26 GB
Classical | Label: Fra Bernardo, Official Digital Download

The famous British Library in London owes one of it's musical treasures to an English tennis player: A manuscript - probably written on the continent - with violin music around 1680 from faraway Vienna. Virtuoso sonatas by and from the circle of the devil's violinist Johann Heinrich Schmelzer. Veronika Skuplik, "prima donna" in the baroque violin firmament, has worked out some of these musical stories with virtuosity and incomparable sensitivity. Without going with the zeitgeisty fashion of lush continuo, she is accompanied by Jorg Jacobi on the historic organ of the Laurentiuskirche in Langwarden.