Classical Music In Concert

Haydn, L'isola disabitata

Thursday, 30 January 2025

Haydn: L'isola disabitata - György Vashegyi

Franz Joseph HAYDN

(1732 - 1809)

L'isola disabitata

azione teatrale in two acts (H XXVIII,9) (Eszterháza, 1779)

libretto: Pietro Metastasio

Ella Smith, soprano (Silvia)

Marianne Beate Kielland, mezzo-soprano (Costanza)

Márton Komáromi, tenor (Gernando)

Szilveszter Szélpál, baritone (Enrico)

Orfeo Orchestra

DIR.: GYÖRGY VASHEGYI

recorded: August 30, 2024, Eszterházy Castle, Fertöd

period instruments

mp3 (bitrate: 320 kbps)

source: Bartók Rádio (stream)

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(01) act 1 [39'15"]

(02) act 2 [47'50"]

Picture: Engraving for the opera L isola disabitata by Goldoni and Scarlatti (1753)

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libretto

score

Ella Smith

Marianne Beate Kielland

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Francisco Correa de Arauxo

Tuesday, 28 January 2025

L'homme armé: larmes et alarmes - Ensemble Clément Janequin, Les Saqueboutiers

"L'homme armé: larmes et alarmes"

Ensemble Clément Janequin

Les Saqueboutiers

DIR.: DOMINIQUE VISSE

recorded: March 25, 2024, Iglesia de San Miguel, Cuenca

[Semana de la música religiosa de Cuenca 2024]

period instruments

mp3 (bitrate: 256 kbps)

source: RNE Radio Clásica

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Pierre de LA RUE (c1452-1518)

Missa pro fidelibus defunctis (with additional sections by other composers)

Pierre de LA RUE

(01) Requiem aeternam [01'24"]

(02) Te decet hymnus [01'33"]

Jean RICHAFORT (c1480-after 1547)

(03) Requiem aeternam [02'18"]

Antoine DE FÉVIN (c1470-1511/12)

(04) Kyrie eleison [01'18"]

Pierre de LA RUE

(05) Christe eleison [02'47"]

Jean RICHAFORT

(06) Kyrie eleison [03'08"]

Pierre de LA RUE

(07) [Psalmus] Sicut cervus desiderat [03'57"]

(08) Domine Jesu Christe [02'27"]

(09) Sanctus - Benedictus [04'18"]

(10) Agnus Dei I & II [02'16"]

Antoine DE FÉVIN

(11) Agnus Dei III [01'24"]

Pierre de LA RUE

(12) Lux aeterna [02'42"]

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Pierre PHALÈSE (c1505/10-1573/76)

(13) Pavane et Gaillarde de la Guerra [04'37"]

Jean DE BOURNONVILLE (c1585?-1632)

Missa La guerre françoise:

(14) Kyrie eleison [01'11"]

Clément JANEQUIN (c1485-after 1558)

Missa La Bataille:

(15) Christe eleison [01'11"]

Giovanni Pierluigi DA PALESTRINA (1525/26-1594)

Missa Escoutez tous:

(16) Kyrie eleison [01'41"]

Pedro BERMÚDEZ (c1558-1605?)

Missa de Bomba:

(17) Gloria [04'26"]

anon / Jacob OBRECHT (1457/58-1505):

(18) Il sera pour vous combatu/Lome arme - Rompeltier [02'22"]

Pierre de LA RUE

Missa L'homme armé:

(19) Credo [08'01"]

Francisco CORREA DE ARAUXO (1584-1654)

(20) Tiento de sexto tono sobre la primera parte de la Batalla de Morales [06'21"]

Jean DE BOURNONVILLE / Clément JANEQUIN

(21) Missa La guerre françoise: Sanctus/

Missa Missa La bataille: Hosanna [02'32"]

Clément JANEQUIN / Giovanni Pierluigi DA PALESTRINA (attr):

(22) Missa La bataille: Benedictus/

Missa Escoutez tous: Hosanna [02'11"]

Pierre de LA RUE

(23) L'homme armé [01'32"]

Missa L'homme armé:

(24) Agnus Dei I [02'03"]

Pedro BERMÚDEZ

Missa La Bomba:

(25) Agnus Dei II [01'23"]

Giovanni Pierluigi DA PALESTRINA (attr)

Missa Escoutez tous:

(26) Agnus Dei III [02'49"]

[encore]

Jean MOUTON (bef. 1459-1522)

(27) Da pacem Domine [04'07"]

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Ensemble Clément Janequin

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Handel, Il duello amoroso

Sunday, 26 January 2025

Greber & Handel: Cantatas - Silvia Frigato, Mathilde Ortscheidt, AAM Berlin

Greber & Handel in Innsbruck, 1710

Silvia Frigato, soprano

Mathilde Ortscheidt, contralto

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

recorded: August 26, 2024, Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck

[Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik 2024]

period instruments

mp3 (bitrate: 192 kbps)

source: ORF (Vienna) (stream)

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Johann Christoph PEPUSCH (1667-1752)

(01) Concerto in G, op. 8,2 [04'39"]

Jakob GREBER (?-1731)

(02) Filli, trà il gelo e 'l foco [08'39"]

Gottfried FINGER (c1660-1730

(03) Sonata in G [03'41"]

Jakob GERBER

(04) Quando lungi è il mio Fileno [14'16"]

(05) Tu parti idolo mio [11'48"]

Johann Christoph PEPUSCH

(06) Concerto in F, op. 8,6 [06'30"]

George Frideric HANDEL (1685-1759)

(07) Il duello amoroso (Amarilli vezzosa) (HWV 82) [24'49"]

[encore]

George Frideric HANDEL

Giulio Cesare in Egitto (HWV 16):

(08) Caro, bella [05'31"]

Picture: Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck (Martin Zeiller, 1632)

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Johann Christoph Pepusch

Jakob Greber

Gottfried Finger

Silvia Frigato

Mathilde Ortscheidt

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

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Friday, 24 January 2025

Liszt & Fauré - Vox Luminis & Anima Eterna (Jakob Lehmann)

Franz LISZT & Gabriel FAURÉ

Totentanz & Requiem

Yeree Suh, soprano

Thomas E. Bauer, baritone

Joseph Moog, fortepiano

[Blüthner, 1859]

Vox Luminis

Anima Eterna Brugge

DIR.: JAKOB LEHMANN

recorded: Jan 20, 2025, Musis, Arnhem

period instruments

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source: NPO Klassiek (NL) (digital radio) (stream)

lyrics Fauré included [pdf]

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Franz LISZT (1811-1886)

(01) Les Préludes, symphonic poem (S 97) [16'43"]

(02) Totentanz (S 126) (version 1865) [15'36"]

Gabriel FAURÉ (1845-1924)

Requiem, op. 48 (version 1893) [34'35"]

(03) Introïtus & Kyrie [06'23"]

(04) Offertorium [07'31"]

(05) Sanctus [03'09"]

(06) Pie Jesu [03'26"]

(07) Agnus Dei [05'37"]

(08) Libera me [04'44"]

(09) In paradisum [03'44"]

Picture: Hans Holbein the Younger, Totentanz (1538)

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Liszt, Les Préludes

Liszt, Totentanz

Fauré, Requiem - score

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Gottfried August Homilius

Thursday, 23 January 2025

Motets from Lutheran Germany - Rheinische Kantorei (Hermann Max)

Motets from Lutheran Germany

Rheinische Kantorei

members of Das Kleine Konzert

DIR.: HERMANN MAX

recorded: Sept 23, 2017, Klosterbasilika Knechtsteden, Dormagen

[Festival Alte Musik Knechtsteden 2017]

period instruments

lossless (flac)

source: Deutschlandfunk

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Sethus CALVISIUS (1556-1615)

(01) Unser Leben währet siebenzig Jahr [03'40"]

Johann Hermann SCHEIN (1586-1630)

(02) Unser Leben währet siebenzig Jahr [03'05"]

(03) Siehe, nach Trost war mir sehr bange [03'43"]

(04) Drei schöne Dinge sind [03'43"]

Johann BACH (1604-1673)

(05) Unser Leben ist ein Schatten [06'01"]

Johann Ludwig BACH (1677-1731)

(06) Ich habe dich ein klein Augenblick verlassen [08'16"]

Johann Christoph BACH (1642-1703)

(07) Der Gerechte, ob er gleich zu zeitlich stirbt [03'42"]

(08) Fürchte dich nicht, denn ich hab dich erlöst [03'53"]

Johann KUHNAU (1660-1722)

(09) Tristis est anima mea [03'37"]

Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH (1714-1788)

(10) Oft klagt dein Herz, wie schwer es sey (Wq 208,2 / H 826,2) [03'45"]

Gottfried August HOMILIUS (1714-1785)

(11) Ich freue mich im Herrn (HoWV V.36) [01'48"]

(12) Unser Vater in dem Himmel (HoWV V.27) [03'38"]

Johann Adam HILLER (1728-1804)

(13) Alles Fleisch ist wie Gras [04'40"]

Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)

(14) Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf (BWV 226) [08'33"]

Picture: Leipzig (Anna Maria Thelott, 1708)

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Sethus Calvisius

Johann Hermann Schein

Johann Bach

Johann Ludwig Bach

Johann Christoph Bach

Johann Kuhnau

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Tuesday, 21 January 2025

Rameau: Les fêtes d'Hébé - William Christie

Jean-Philippe RAMEAU

(1683 - 1764)

Les fêtes d'Hébé, ou Les talens lyriques

opéra-ballet in a prologue and three acts (Paris, 1739)

libretto: Antoine Gautier de Montdorge

Emmanuelle de Negri (Hébé, La Naïade), soprano

Ana Vieira Leite (L'Amour, Le Ruisseau, Une Bergère), soprano

Lea Desandre (Églé, Iphise, Sapho), mezzo-soprano

Cyril Auvity (Le Ruisseau; Lycurgue), haute-contre

Antonin Rondepierre (Thélème), tenor

Lisandro Abadie (Alcée, Eurilas), baritone

Marc Mauillon (Mercure, Momus), baritone

Matthieu Walendzik (Le Fleuve), baritone

Renato Dolcini (Hymas; Tyrtée), bass

Les Arts Florissants

DIR.: WILLIAM CHRISTIE

recorded: Dec 19, 2024, Opéra Comique, Paris

period instruments

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source: NPO Klassiek (NL) (digital radio) (stream)

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(01) prologue [30'57"]

(02) act 1 [40'22"]

(03) act 2 [42'34"]

(04) act 3 [39'14"]

Picture: Hebe carrying nectar and ambrosia

(detail of a vase painting; Jatta Museum, Ruvo di Puglia, Italy)

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Schumann, Violin concerto

Sunday, 19 January 2025

Schumann & Brahms - Thomas Zehetmair & Simon Rattle

Robert SCHUMANN

Johannes BRAHMS

Orchestral works

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Thomas Zehetmair. violin

DIR.: SIMON RATTLE

recorded: Dec 7, 2003, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

period instruments

lossless (flac)

source: NPO4 (NL) (digital radio) (stream)

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Robert SCHUMANN (1810-1856)

Concerto for violin and orchestra in d minor [34'29"]

(01) in kräftigem, nicht zu schnellem Tempo [16'09"]

(02) langsam - lebhaft, doch nicht schnell [18'20"]

Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897)

(03) Johannes BRAHMS: Variations on a theme by Haydn, op. 56a [20'03"]

Robert SCHUMANN

Symphony No 4 in d minor, op. 120 (version 1841) [24'48"]

(04) andante con moto - allegro di molto -

romanza. andante [12'31"]

(05) scherzo. presto [05'51"]

(06) largo - finale. allegro vivace [06'26"]

links:

Symphony No. 4

Brahms, Haydn Variations - score

Thomas Zehetmair

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

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Thursday, 16 January 2025

Bach, Telemann & Vivaldi - Gustav Leonhardt

Gustav Leonhardt

† 16 Jan 2012

Johann Sebastian BACH,

Georg Philipp TELEMANN & Antonio VIVALDI

Overture & concertos

Baroque orchestra of the Netherlands Bach Society

Marten Root, transverse flute

Johannes Leertouwer, violin

Lucia Swarts, Viola de Hoog, cello

Siebe Henstra, Menno van Delft, Richard Egarr, harpsichord

DIR: GUSTAV LEONHARDT

recorded: Nov 10, 1996, Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht

period instruments

lossless (flac)

source: NPO4 (NL)

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Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)

Concerto for 3 harpsichords, strings and bc in C (BWV 1064) [16'53"]

(01) allegro [06'26"]

(02) adagio [05'42"]

(03) allegro [04'45"]

Georg Philipp TELEMANN (1681-1767)

Concerto for transverse flute, violin, cello, strings and bc in A (TWV 53,A2) [20'15"]

(04) largo [05'08"]

(05) allegro [05'36"]

(06) grazioso [03'50"]

(07) allegro [05'40"]

Antonio VIVALDI (1678-1741)

Concerto for 2 cellos, strings and bc in g minor (RV 531) [10'54"]

(08) allegro [03'30"]

(09) largo [04'10"]

(10) allegro [03'14"]

Johann Sebastian BACH

Overture in D (BWV 1069) [20'32"]

(11) ouverture [08'48"]

(12) bourrée I/II [02'50"]

(13) gavotte [01'46"]

(14) menuet I/II [03'56"]

(15) réjouissance [03'13"]

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Netherlands Bach Society

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Tuesday, 14 January 2025

That Most Graceful Melody: Music for three queens - Stile Antico

"That Most Graceful Melody:

Music for three queens"

Stile Antico

recorded: April 17, 2019, Kings Place, London

lossless

source: BBC Radio 3 (digital radio) (stream)

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Raffaella ALEOTTI (c1570-after 1646)

(01) Exaudi Deus orationem meam [03'12"]

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[Music for Margaret of Austria]

Pierre de LA RUE (c1452-1518)

(02) Absalon fili mi [04'16"]

anon

(03) Se je souspire/Ecce iterum [04'02"]

Alexander AGRICOLA (1445/46?-1506)

(04) Dulces exuviae [03'27"]

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Maddalena CASULANA (fl 1566-83)

(05) O notte, o ciel, o mar [01'35"]

Sulpitia CESIS (fl 1619)

(06) Ascendo ad patrem [02'05"]

[Music for Queen Mary I]

Thomas TALLIS (c1505-1585)

(07) Loquebantur variis linguis [03'47"]

John SHEPPARD (c1515-1558)

(08) Gaude, gaude, gaude Maria [13'28"]

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LEONORA D'ESTE (1515-1575)

(09) Veni sponsa Christi [01'32"]

(10) Ego sum panis [05'55"]

Maddalena CASULANA

(11) Vagh'amorosi augelli [01'55"]

[Music for Queen Elizabeth I]

William BYRD (c1540-1623)

(12) O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth [02'36"]

John TAVERNER (c1490-1545)

(13) Christe Jesu, pastor bone [02'38"]

John BENNET (fl 1599-1614)

(14) All cre'tures now are merry minded [02'11"]

Richard CARLTON (c1558-1638?)

(15) Calm was the air [02'54"]

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Sulpitia CESIS

(16) Cantemus Domino [02'50"]

Raffaella ALEOTTI

(17) Angelus ad pastores ait [01'08"]

Joanna MARSH (*1970)

(18) Dialogo and Quodlibet [05'34"]

[encore]

John WILBYE (1574-1638)

(19) The Lady Oriana [02'29"]

Picture: Elizabeth I (attr. George Gower, c1588)

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Beethoven, Quartet op. 59,2 - score

Sunday, 12 January 2025

Beethoven & Schubert - Chiaroscuro Quartet & Christian Poltéra

Ludwig VAN BEETHOVEN

Franz Peter SCHUBERT

Chamber music for strings

Chiaroscuro Quartet

Christian Poltéra, cello

recorded: May 5, 2024, Salle de Musique, La Chaux-de-Fonds

period instruments

mp3 (bitrate: 320 kbps)

source: RTBF (Brussels) (digital radio) (stream)

Alina Ibragimova violin

Benjamin Marquise Gilmore, violin

Emilie Hörnlund, viola

Claire Thirion, cello

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Ludwig VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

Quartet for two violins, viola and cello in e minor, op. 59,2 [39'13"]

(01) allegro [14'55"]

(02) molto adagio [11'53"]

(03) allegretto [06'09"]

(04) finale. presto [06'16"]

Franz Peter SCHUBERT (1797-1828)

Quintet for two violins, viola and two cellos in C (D 956) [53'23"]

(05) allegro ma non troppo [19'06"]

(06) adagio [15'00"]

(07) scherzo & trio [09'50"]

(08) allegretto [09'26"]

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Schubert, Quintet - score

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Saturday, 11 January 2025

Paisiello: Annibale in Torino - Ottavio Dantone

Giovanni PAISIELLO

(1740 - 1816)

Annibale in Torino

dramma per musica in 3 acts (Turin, 1771)

libretto: Jacopo Durandi

Emanuela Galli, soprano (Artace)

Roberta Invernizzi, soprano (Adrane)

Maria Grazia Schiavo, soprano (Oscarre)

Romina Basso, contralto (Jasarte)

Sonia Prina, contralto (Edlige)

Makoto Sakurada, tenor (Annibale)

Accademia Bizantina

DIR.: OTTAVIO DANTONE

recorded: Feb 25, 2007, Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Giuseppe Verdi", Turin

period instruments

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libretto included [pdf]

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(01) act 1 [48'57"]

(02) act 2 [53'26"]

(03) act 3 [20'48"]

Picture: The Victorious Hannibal Seeing Italy from the Alps for the First Time

(Francisco Goya, 1770/71)

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Thursday, 9 January 2025

Leclair: Violin concertos - Stéphane-Marie Degand, Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Evgeni Sviridov

Jean-Marie LECLAIR

(1697 - 1764)

Violin concertos

Stéphane-Marie Degand, violin

Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin

Evegeni Sviridov, violin

La Diane française

DIR.: STÉPHANE-MARIE DEGAND

recorded: August 23, 2018, Église Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul, Brûlon

period instruments

flac

source: Culturebox

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(01) Ouverture Scylla et Glaucus [04'23"]

(02-04) Concerto for violin, strings and bc in a minor, op. 7,5 [12'56"]

[Stéphanie-Marie Degand]

(05-07) Concerto for violin, strings and bc in d minor, op. 7,1 [13'43"]

[Théotime Langlois de Swarte]

(08-10) Concerto for violin, strings and bc in e minor, op. 7,2 [15'13"]

[Evgeni Sviridov]

(11-13) Concerto for violin, strings and bc in D, op. 10,3 [16'04"]

[Théotime Langlois de Swarte]

(14-16) Concerto for violin, strings and bc in e minor, op. 10,5 [15'23"]

[Evgeni Sviridov]

(17-19) Concerto for violin, strings and bc in g minor, op. 10,6 [18'06"]

[Stéphanie-Marie Degand]

[encore]

Antonio VIVALDI (1678-1741)

Concerto for four violins, cello, strings and bc in b minor, op. 3,10 (RV 580):

(20) allegro [04'02"]

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Théotime Langlois de Swarte

Stéphane-Marie Degand

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Tuesday, 7 January 2025

Handel: Chandos Anthems - Michael Alexander Willens

George Frideric HANDEL

(1685 - 1759)

Chandos Anthems

(original versions)

Elena Harsanyî, soprano

Bettina Schaeffer, contralto

Georg Poplutz, tenor

Thomas Bonni, bass

Kölner Akademie

DIR.: MICHAEL ALEXANDER WILLENS

recorded: July 7, 2024, Église du Collège Saint-Michel

[Festival International de Musiques Sacrées 2024]

period instruments

mp3 (bitrate: 320 kbps)

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(01) O sing unto the Lord (HWV 249b) [15'12"]

(02) Have mercy on me (HWV 248) [20'21"]

(03) O praise the Lord with one consent (HWV 254) [25'01"]

Picture: James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (Michael Dahl, 1719)

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Beethoven, Piano concerto No. 4

Sunday, 5 January 2025

Beethoven double bill - Philippe Herreweghe

Ludwig VAN BEETHOVEN

(1770 - 1827)

Piano concerto, symphony & mass

Sunhae Im, soprano

Sophie Harmsen, mezzo-soprano

Benjamin Hulett, tenor

Samuel Hasselhorn, bass

Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano

Collegium Vocale Gent

Orchestre des Champs-Elysées

DIR.: PHILIPPE HERREWEGHE

recorded: Nov 26, 2024, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Budapest

period instruments

mp3 (bitrate: 320 kbps)

source: Bartók Rádio (Budapest) (digital radio) (stream)

Concerto for pianoforte and orchestra No. 4 in G, op. 58 [33'23"]

(01) allegro moderato [18'27"]

(02) andante con moto - rondo. vivace [14'56"]

Mass in C, op. 86 [42'05"]

(03) Kyrie [04'57"]

(04) Gloria [09'35"]

(05) Credo [10'15"]

(06) Sanctus [02'53"]

(07) Benedictus [06'53"]

(08) Agnus Dei [07'31"]

N.B. I am posting this performance because of its musical qualities, despite the

annoying noises from the stage and the audience

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Eleanor Lyons, soprano

Sophie Harmsen, mezzo-soprano

Ilker Arcayürek, tenor

Jarrett Ott, baritone

Collegium Vocale Gent

Orchestre des Champs-Elysées

DIR.: PHILIPPE HERREWEGHE

recorded: Dec 5, 2024, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

period instruments

mp3 (bitrate: 320 kbps)

source: RTBF (Brussels) (digital radio) (stream)

Hanns EISLER (1898-1962)

(01) Gegen den Krieg, op. 55 [12'51"]

Ludwig VAN BEETHOVEN

Symphony No. 9 in d minor, op. 125 [60'07"]

(02) allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso [14'09"]

(03) molto vivace [11'34"]

(04) adagio molto e cantabile [11'52"]

(05) presto - allegro ma non troppo - vivace - adagio cantabile [22'31"]

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Beethoven, Mass op. 86

Beethoven, Symphony No. 9

Eisler, Gegen den Krieg - score

Hanns Eisler

Kristian Bezuidenhout

Collegium Vocale Gent

Orchestre des Champs-Elysées

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