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2020-04-21 07:48:26
Le Banquet Céleste's new recording of Alessandro Stradella's late 17th century oratorio San Giovanni Battista reveals a form in transition, looking back to Cavalli & forward to High Baroque
Alessandro Stradella San Giovanni Battista; Le Banquet Céleste, Damien Guillon; Alpha Classics Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 19 April 2020 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) Highly dramatic 17th century Italian oratorio which strikingly demonstrates the genres debt to Italian operaIf you say 17th century Italian oratorio, then the chances are people will think of Giacomo Carissimi's Jephte (from 1648) and Jonas both of which were premiered in Rome. And during this period Rome had a significant amount of oratorio going on, so that the Latin texted works such as those of Carissimi were succeeded by works with Italian texts, with characters and dialogue. That some might approach sacred opera is not surprising, one of the reasons why such oratorios were popular in Rome is that quite often the Pope had banned opera!On this new disc from Alpha Classics, the French group, Le Banquet Céleste director Damien Guillon perform Alessandro Stradella's […]
2020-04-08 23:00:00
Passion Music 2020 [16 CDS]
[…] 777 601-2 (Flacs & scans) Download 1fichier uptobox zippy Christoph Graupner (1683-1760) Das Leiden Jesu. Passion Cantatas III (1741) Solistenensemble Ex Tempore Barockorchester Mannheimer Hofkapelle Florian Heyerick - direction Label: CPO 555 230-2 Recorded february 2016 & february 2018 Thanks to ripper zood! (Flacs & scans) Download 1fichier uptobox zippy Lamentationes Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Cantatas BWV 46 & 102 Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745): Lamentationes I & II Damien Guillon (alto), Marcus Ullmann (tenor), Lieven Termont (baritone) Il Gardellino/Marcel Ponseele recorded november 2010 Label: Passacaille 977 (Flacs & scans) Download 1fichier uptobox zippy Johann Sebastian Bach Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 Netherlands Bach Society Jos van Velthoven - direction Label: Channel Classics CCS 11397 [3CD] Live recording March 1997 (Flacs & scans) Download 1fichier uptobox zippy1 zippy2 Johann Sebastian Bach Easter Cantatas Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir Ton Koopman - […]
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2020-02-16 20:44:00
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata BWV 29, “Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir” – Maria Keohane, Damien Guillon, Valerio Contaldo, Lionel Meunier, Netherlands Bach Society, Jos van Veldhoven (HD 1080p)
Under Jos van Veldhoven's baton, the Netherlands Bach Society, the oldest ensemble for Baroque music in the Netherlands, and possibly in the world, and the soloists Maria Keohane (soprano), Damien Guillon (alto), Valerio Contaldo (tenor) and Lionel Meunier (bass) perform the church cantata of Johann Sebastian Bach "Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir", BWV 29. Recorded for the project All of Bach, at the St Martin's Church, Groningen, Netherlands, on March 15, 2014.✻BWV 29 ("We thank thee, O God, we thank thee") is one of a number of cantatas J.S. Bach composed for the ceremonies attending the installation of new members of the Leipzig city council (other examples are cantatas Nos. 119 and 120). An important part of these ceremonies, which traditionally took place at the end of August, was the church service held at St Nicholas'.The present work was composed for the event in 1731, the service taking place […]
2018-08-06 23:00:00
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