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Jos Van Veldhoven, Netherlands Bach Society - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion / St. Matthew Passion (2011)

Jos Van Veldhoven, Netherlands Bach Society - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion / St. Matthew Passion (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 721 Mb | Total time: 165:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Channel Classics | 32511 | Recorded: 2010

Bach's St Matthew Passion is almost always described as a double-choir composition for two choirs and two orchestras. Two large ensembles play in dialogue, and the score presents a symmetrical structure. The scoring of the two groups of singers and players is identical, and each ensemble has four soloists for the arias. On the stage one often sees two equal groups of singers, and an orchestra likewise divided exactly into two. The Evangelist and Jesus are often the only exceptions to this impressive symmetry.
Jos Van Veldhoven, Netherlands Bach Society - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion / St. John Passion (2004)

Jos Van Veldhoven, Netherlands Bach Society - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion / St. John Passion (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 593 Mb | Total time: 111:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Channel Classics | 31309 | Recorded: 2004

This issue of the St. John Passion is also a special event in the world of music, because a choice has been made for Bachs very earliest version of this work (1724) in a reconstruction by musicologist Dr. Pieter Dirksen. The Netherlands Bach Society performs the work in a small-scale scoring with ten singers and eleven instrumentalists, no distinction being made between choristers and soloists. According to the most recent research, this scoring constitutes a very close approximation of the ensemble with which Bach gave the first performance of the St. John Passion. Bachs St. John Passion is less well known to some than his St. Matthew Passion: unjustly so, in many peoples opinion. Judge for yourself, as you treat both your ears and eyes to this performance of the Netherlands Bach Society…
Netherlands Bach Society, Jos Van Veldhoven - JS Bach: St. John Passion v.1724 (2005/2009) [DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC]

Netherlands Bach Society, Jos Van Veldhoven - JS Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245 (1st version, 1724) (2005)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time - 111:34 minutes | 2,71 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 111:34 minutes | 2,23 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

The Netherlands Bach Society's recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion was made with similar forces as their recording of Bach's Christmas Oratorio. The group performs Bach's earliest version of this work (1724) in a reconstruction by musicologist Dr. Pieter Dirksen.
Johannette Zomer, Peter Harvey, Jos van Veldhoven, The Netherlands Bach Society - Death & Devotion (2004)

Johannette Zomer, Peter Harvey, Jos van Veldhoven, The Netherlands Bach Society - Death & Devotion: Buxtehude, Tunder, Weckmann, Ritter (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 291 Mb | Total time: 67:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Channel Classics | # CCS SA 20804 | Recorded: 2003

Death and Devotion Cantatas by Tunder, Weckmann, Buxtehude, and Ritter It is a remarkable fact that the most expressive and original vocal church music composed in Northern Germany during the latter half of the seventeenth century was the work not of cantors, but of organists. Some of this is due to the exceptional status which had been achieved by organists in cities like Hamburg and Lbeck in the course of the century; they had become both virtuosi par excellence, and at the same time learned composers.
Jos van Veldhoven, The Netherlands Bach Society - J.S. Bach: Magnificat (2010) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Jos van Veldhoven, The Netherlands Bach Society -
J.S. Bach: Magnificat; Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (2010)

FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 64:21 minutes | 2,03 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 64:21 minutes | 1,19 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

All the music on this release is associated with the festival of Christmas. Bach wrote the cantata Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (BWV 110) for morning service on Christmas Day 1725, and the first version of the Magnificat in E flat major (BWV 243a) for Vespers on Christmas Day 1723, seven months after the Leipzig town council appointed him cantor of the Thomaskirche. It would hardly be exaggerating to say that Bach thus presented his visiting card to his new employer. According to the Bach scholar Christoph Wolff, the work is his "first really large-scale and complex piece of church music".
Jos van Veldhoven, The Netherlands Bach Society - Bach: Christmas Oratorio (2003/2009) [Official Digital Download 24b/192kHz]

Jos van Veldhoven, The Netherlands Bach Society - J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (2003)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 145:07 minutes | 4,62 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 145:07 minutes | 2,69 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

This is one of those occasions where beauty and artistry are reflected not only on the surface but right through to the core. This is a marvelous performance of Bach's six-cantata cycle that offers ravishing choral singing, sharply detailed orchestral playing, and superior contributions from the four solo vocalists, all presented in state-of-the-art sound.
Jos van Veldhoven, The Netherlands Bach Society - Bach: Christmas Oratorio (2003/2009) [Official Digital Download 24b/192kHz]

Jos van Veldhoven, The Netherlands Bach Society - J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (2003)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 145:07 minutes | 4,62 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 145:07 minutes | 2,69 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

This is one of those occasions where beauty and artistry are reflected not only on the surface but right through to the core. This is a marvelous performance of Bach's six-cantata cycle that offers ravishing choral singing, sharply detailed orchestral playing, and superior contributions from the four solo vocalists, all presented in state-of-the-art sound.
Klaartje van Veldhoven & Matthias Havinga - Miroir de Peine by Andriessen, Badings, Wertheim and Van Lier (2022) [24/96]

Klaartje van Veldhoven & Matthias Havinga - Miroir de Peine by Andriessen, Badings, Wertheim and Van Lier (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 78:45 minutes | 1,33 GB
Classical, Vocal | Label: Brilliant Classics, Official Digital Download

Several world-premiere recordings complementing a powerful sacred song-cycle by Hendrik Andriessen.
Jos van Veldhoven, The Netherlands Bach Society - Bach: Christmas Oratorio (2003/2009) [Official Digital Download 24b/192kHz]

Jos van Veldhoven, The Netherlands Bach Society - J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (2003)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 145:07 minutes | 4,62 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 145:07 minutes | 2,69 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

This is one of those occasions where beauty and artistry are reflected not only on the surface but right through to the core. This is a marvelous performance of Bach's six-cantata cycle that offers ravishing choral singing, sharply detailed orchestral playing, and superior contributions from the four solo vocalists, all presented in state-of-the-art sound.
Netherlands Bach Society, Jos Van Veldhoven - J.S. Bach: Mass in B minor (2007) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Netherlands Bach Society, Jos Van Veldhoven - J.S. Bach: Mass in B minor (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 105:21 minutes | 3.24 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Sometimes you come across a performance that may not be exactly to your taste, but is nonetheless so persuasive of its type that it disarms criticism. This is one. It's not quite a "one to a part" interpretation of the work, but with 10 choristers and eight strings, it is intimate, and that always risks minimizing the majesty that Bach built into the Sanctus, the eight-part Osanna, and the choruses with trumpets and drums.