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Rameau - Une symphonie imaginaire / Les Musiciens du Louvre, Minkowski

from: Archiv Produktion

Release Date June 14, 2005
I recentlty heard a couple tracks from this cd on Xm and was blown away. I am the traditional Mozart lover along with the other great masters. I bought the CD and have listened to it alot. It is a very wonderfully done piece. I especially like that it was put together from various collections of the composer Rameau.

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Venetian Vespers (Monteverdi * Rigatti * Grandi * Cavalli) /Gabrieli Consort & Players * McCreesh

by: Research Composer, Giovanni Antonio Rigatti, Alessandro Grandi, Claudio Monteverdi, Adriano Banchieri, Giacomo Finetti, Pietro Francesco Cavalli, Anonymous, Gregorian Chant, Biagio Marini, Gabrieli Consort, Charles Daniels, Paul McCreesh, Alison Wray, Jonathan Best, Tessa Bonner, Angus Smith, Peter Harvey, Robert Horn, Paula Chateauneuf, Timothy Roberts, Susan Hemington Jones, Fred Jacobs, Celia Harper, Charles Pott, Florian Deuter, Gabrieli Players

Release Date May 11, 1993
This really a fine recording. I bought my copy one sunny Saturday morning in Melbourne in around 1993. I saw it on the shelf and I got my wallet out. I was completely blown away by the music on this disc. Rigatti was a real discovery for me.

The use of high falsettists in the chorus and solos is particularly effective and gives us a real insight into the sounds of music in Venice in the early 17th century.

I cannot recommend this marvellous recording too highly, it is clearly one of the best made by the Gabrieli Consort, Choir & Players.

Great playing from the strings, cornetti and tromboni.

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Handel - Giulio Cesare / Mijanovic · Kozená · von Otter · Hellekant · B. Mehta · A. Ewing · Bertin · Les Musiciens du Louvre · Minkowski

by: Alan Ewing

Release Date August 12, 2003
Minkowski se corona con este registro, consiguiendo la version mas redonda hasta la fecha de 'Giulio Cesare' (muy superior a la tan laureada version de Rene Jacobs). La direccion de Minkowski es mas chispeante e imaginativa, y sus Mousiciens du Louvre suenan a las mil maravillas. El cast vocal es de gran altura: La casi desconocida Marijana Millanovic interpreta un Cesare sobresaliente, seguro en toda la tesitura, y de acentos contratenoriles. Magdalena Kozena consigue la mejor version de Cleopatra hasta la fecha: fantastica. Charlotte Hellekart, es una Cornelia muy interesante, aunque no llegue a superar la creacion absoluta que de este personaje hizo Bernarda Fink con Jacobs. Anne Sofie Von Otter deja constancia de uno de los mejores Sestos ... Read More:

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Roi Danse

from: Deutsche Grammophon

Release Date August 10, 2004
This is a thrilling CD. Somehow I thought I was buying the DVD a part of which I found on Youtube. Helas non. But worth the purchase. Anyone know where I can get the film?

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Vivaldi: Concerti per Violino

from: Eloquentia

Release Date January 01, 2008
This is a thrilling CD. Somehow I thought I was buying the DVD a part of which I found on Youtube. Helas non. But worth the purchase. Anyone know where I can get the film?

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18th Century Flute Concerti

from: Brilliant Classics

Release Date September 27, 2005
This is a thrilling CD. Somehow I thought I was buying the DVD a part of which I found on Youtube. Helas non. But worth the purchase. Anyone know where I can get the film?

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Quantz: Concerti from Dresden & Berlin

by: Quantz, Jed Wentz, Deuter, Musica & Rhenum

Release Date May 06, 2003
Quantz is hard to qualify as either Baroque or Classical; the instrumentation and ornamentation is clearly Baroque, but the musical ideas and their expression strongly point towards the Classical. I tend to discount music by those born after 1685, but in breaking through the time-hono(u)red boundaries of Baroque forms, Quantz composed music full of energy and inventiveness. This recording--as are all of Wentz'--is fantastic.

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Telemann: Tafelmusik (Musique de Table partagée en Trois Productions)

by: Reinhard Goebel, Friedemann Immer, Laura Johnson, Andrew Joy, Andras Keller, Manfred Kramer, Musica Antiqua Köln

Release Date July 17, 1989
Telemann was one of the most prolific composers in terms of inherited works. He was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach and also a friend of G F Handel. Even thought Bach and Handel are better know nowadays, Telemann was a reknown musician in his own lifetime.

The Tafelmusik (meaning Table Music to be played in theb ackground at banquets)by Telemann is probably his most celebrated collection of music. Composed in 1733 it demonstrates his supreme skill in handling a diversity of musical genres from German, to French to Italian fashions.
and a variety of instruments. The work was used as a guideline by many other composers to familiarise themselves with the new styles.

Many famous names can be seen on the subscription ... Read More:

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Handel: Water Music

from: Elektra / Wea

Release Date October 19, 1993
Telemann was one of the most prolific composers in terms of inherited works. He was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach and also a friend of G F Handel. Even thought Bach and Handel are better know nowadays, Telemann was a reknown musician in his own lifetime.

The Tafelmusik (meaning Table Music to be played in theb ackground at banquets)by Telemann is probably his most celebrated collection of music. Composed in 1733 it demonstrates his supreme skill in handling a diversity of musical genres from German, to French to Italian fashions.
and a variety of instruments. The work was used as a guideline by many other composers to familiarise themselves with the new styles.

Many famous names can be seen on the subscription ... Read More:

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18th Century Flute Concerti

from: Brilliant

Release Date
Telemann was one of the most prolific composers in terms of inherited works. He was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach and also a friend of G F Handel. Even thought Bach and Handel are better know nowadays, Telemann was a reknown musician in his own lifetime.

The Tafelmusik (meaning Table Music to be played in theb ackground at banquets)by Telemann is probably his most celebrated collection of music. Composed in 1733 it demonstrates his supreme skill in handling a diversity of musical genres from German, to French to Italian fashions.
and a variety of instruments. The work was used as a guideline by many other composers to familiarise themselves with the new styles.

Many famous names can be seen on the subscription ... Read More: