Jacobs/Akademie Fur Alte Musik
Telemann: Cantatas & Odes [ Profil / CD - released 28/Feb/2011 ] |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Cello Concertos / Four Seasons / Venice - The Golden Age Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Midori Seiler (violin) Xenia Loffler (baroque oboe) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit [ Harmonia Mundi Key Artist & Ensemble Sets / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2015 ] For the first time in 3 CD sets, discover these major recording projects matured over many years by ensembles and musicians of harmonia mundi including Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin's Vivaldi recordings. |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Cello Concertos Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Christian Beuse (bassoon) Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 3/Nov/2011 ] Alongside the famous Quattro Stagioni, La Notte, and so on, Vivaldi wrote no fewer than 27 concertos for the cello - an instrument which at the time was generally limited to playing basso continuo. With the genuine virtuosi he had available to him at... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Jephtha - oratorio in three acts John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Michael George (bass) Catherine Denley (mezzo-soprano) RIA Kammerchor . Akademie fer Alte Musik Berlin. Marcus Creed [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "this new recording, at super budget price, allows us to appreciate a new team of soloists. And for those who do not know this moving work, this new recording is a good place to start exploring." (MusicWeb July 2003) |
ROSSINI
Stabat Mater Krassimira Stoyanova / Petra Lang / Bruce Fowler / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin / Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] "Marcus Creed favours period instruments and a chamber choir, and with sound that is lucid and spacious the results are highly appealing." Five Stars BBC Music Magazine |
JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Missa da Requiem / Miserere Lenneke Ruiten / Ruth Sandhoff / Colin Balzer / Thomas Bauer / RIAS Kammerchor / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin / Hans-Christoph Rademann [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Nov/2011 ] "The Miserere is conceived on a grand, imposing scale, with carefully plotted tonal architecture and, as Hans-Christoph Rademann's performance shows, an orchestral accompaniment of great imagination and variety." (The Guardian) |
EMILIO de CAVALIERI
Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo Marie-Claude Chappuis, Johannes Weisser, Gyula Orendt, Mark Milhofer / Staatsopernchor, Concerto vocale, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2015 ] "Typically Jacobs make the orchestral realisation of the score sumptuous within its turn-of-the-17th-century constraints; no one could mistake this for anything but a grandly ceremonial piece." (Guardian) |
VIVALDI
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons Midori Seiler (solo violin), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Following the stage production in which the orchestra joined forces with a dancer. Encouraged by the outstanding success of these performances, the Akademie für Alte Musik was keen to rerecord the works in the studio... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Four Seasons (with Rebel - Les Elements) [with FREE Harmonia Mundi catalogue] Midori Seiler (violin) / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi / CD/Book - released 15/Jan/2015 ] "Berlin's Akademie delivers an elegant performance with piquant avian effects." The Independent, 31st January 2010 |
W.F. BACH
Symphonies; Concerto for piano (Cembalo) Raphael Alpermann, cemb. Akademie fAr Alte Musik Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 30/Jul/2005 ] "The Berlin period orchestra gives typically earthy, upfront readings of this intriguing music, bringing a crackling energy to the fast movements and relishing every disconcerting twist and turn in Bach's arguments." Richard Wigmore The Daily... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Secular Cantatas [BWV201, 205, 213] RIAS Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 16/Jun/2014 ] "immensely persuasive performances" (International Record Review) |
J. S. BACH
St Matthew Passion, BWV244 Werner Güra, Johannes Weisser, Sunhae Im, Bernarda Fink, Christina Roterberg, Topi Lehtipuu / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2013 ] "the novelty lies in Jacobs' games with acoustics and space in his studio location in Berlin...this spatial separation keeps you listening intently and listening afresh. Jacobs's Passion is intimate, dramatic, conducted with audible love." (Times) |
TELEMANN
Orpheus. (Complete opera) Roman Trekel / Dorothea Raschmann / Ruth Ziesak / Werner Gara / RIAS-Kammerchor / Akademie far Alte Musik Berlin / Rena Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 12/Apr/2003 ] "Strongly recommended...No opera lover should miss it." (Gramophone) |
CARL ZELLER
Der Obersteiger (The Overman) Complete operetta Santiago Bürgi, Cornelia Zink, Wolfgang Müller-Lorenz, Donna Ellen / Orchester des Musik Theater Schoenbrunn, Herbert Mogg [ CPO / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2010 ] |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Solomon (complete oratorio) Sarah Connolly (alto) Susan Gritton (sop) Carolyn Sampson (sop) Mark Padmore (ten) / Akademie fAr Alte Musik Berlin / Daniel Reuss (dir) [ Harmonia Mundi HMHeritage / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] Handel was 63 years old when he composed Solomon, one of his final masterpieces. This monumental oratorio depicts the three highpoints of the biblical king's life: the building of the temple, the famous judgment, and the visit of the Queen of Sheba.... |
Mozart, Wo
Kirchensonate Es-Dur KV 67, Grabmusik KV 42, Requiem d-moll KV 626 Seebach-Ziegler, Braun-Fernwald, Gallos, Mayr, Salzburger Domchor; Orchester d. Dom-Musik-Vereins, Messner [ ORFEO / CD - released 28/Jun/1995 ] |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: King Arthur (complete opera recorded in 2017, Sung in English with German dialogue) BLU-RAY Staatsoper unter den Linden / Anett Fritsch, Robin Johannsen, Benno Schachtner / Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik, René Jacobs [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2020 ] The collaboration of the poet John Dryden and Henry Purcell marked a conspicuous leap forward for English opera. Their greatest project, King Arthur, is a five-act dramatick opera, the text of which had its origins in a patriotic musical play Dryden... |
PORPORA / HASSE / BROSCHI / GIACOMELLI / GALUPPI
Vivica Genau - Arias for Farinelli Vivica Genau (mezzo-soprano) / Akademie fAr Alte Musik Berlin, RenAC Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Nov/2003 ] ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music Magazine (July 2002) |
CARL MICHAEL ZIEHRER
Die drei Wuensche (The Three Wishes) Complete operetta Volker Vogel, Donna Ellen, Valeriy Serkin, Lorena Espina, Klemens Slowioczek / Orchester des Musik Theater Schoenbronn / Herbert Mogg [ CPO / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2009 ] Carl Michael Ziehrer's career shared many similarities to that of Johann Strauss II. His waltzes, marches and polkas were extremely popular in Vienna and he was one of Strauss's biggest rivals. His legacy includes nearly 600 dance pieces and marches... |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Christmas Oratorio (Weihnachts Oratorium) Werner Gura, Klaus Hager, Dorothea Roschmann, Andreas Scholl / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Rene Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD Box Set - released 14/Feb/2006 ] "A handsome package matched by a lively interpretation" (BBC Music) |