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Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: Tito Manlio (2005)

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Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: Tito Manlio (2005)

Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina - Antonio Vivaldi: Tito Manlio (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 0,99 Gb | Total time: 184:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | OP 30413 | Recorded: 2005

Most of Vivaldi's operas were composed for Venice, but between 1718 and 1720, he was in the employ the Austrian governor of Mantua, and he composed Tito Manlio for the governor's wedding celebration. The wedding never took place, but the opera was performed in 1719. The Mantuan court was very wealthy, and this is clear from the lavish scoring of Manlio: in addition to the usual strings, Vivaldi uses horns, trumpets, oboes, bassoon, two different registers of flutes, timpani and viola d'amore.

Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d'Oro - George Frideric Handel: Partenope (2015)

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Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d'Oro - George Frideric Handel: Partenope (2015)

Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d'Oro - George Frideric Handel: Partenope (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,07 Gb | Total time: 74:31+62:48+66:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 0825646090075 | Recorded: 2015

Handel’s sparkling opera Partenope reunites countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and soprano Karina Gauvin, who both made such an impact in the recording of Steffani’s rediscovered Niobe – released by Erato in early 2015 and welcomed by Gramophone as “a landmark event”. Every moment of Partenope’s comedy, romance and drama is captured by the dynamic conductor Riccardo Minasi and his ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro.

Noel Edison, Choir of St John's, Elora - Hear My Prayer: Hymns and Anthems (2006)

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Noel Edison, Choir of St John's, Elora - Hear My Prayer: Hymns and Anthems (2006)

Noel Edison, Choir of St John's, Elora - Hear My Prayer: Hymns and Anthems (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 243 Mb | Total time: 69:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.557493 | Recorded: 2004

You might accurately describe this program as a compilation of "great hits of Christian church music", including as it does Franck's Panis angelicus, Finzi's God is gone up, Mozart's Laudate Dominum, Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine, Lotti's Crucifixus, Howells' Magnificat, and the overrated, overwrought, overlong (and usually excruciatingly-sung) Hear my prayer by Mendelssohn. We also get a couple of Purcell anthems, O God, Thou art my God and Remember not, O Lord, Stanford's glorious motet Justorum animae, Duruflé's tiny masterpiece Ubi caritas et amor, and the choral setting of Elgar's "Nimrod" orchestral variation (Lux aeterna).

Jeremie Rhorer, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie - Gaspare Spontini: Olimpie [Version 1826] (2019)

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Jeremie Rhorer, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie - Gaspare Spontini: Olimpie [Version 1826] (2019)

Jérémie Rhorer, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie - Gaspare Spontini: Olimpie [Version 1826] (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 641 Mb | Total time: 58:24+76:08 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Bru Zane | # BZ1035 | Recorded: 2016

According to Berlioz, Spontini was – after Gluck – the greatest genius of French music to pave the way for the Romantic era. And it may well be that the little-known Olympie, premiered in 1819 and subsequently revived in 1826 under the modified title Olimpie, had a greater influence than we have hitherto imagined on the massive upheaval that was to set French opera on the path of the modern ‘grand opéra’. From start to finish, this finely polished score, with its astonishing orchestration, is full of spectacular effects that clearly look forward to Les Troyens of Berlioz.

Markellos Chryssicos, Venice Baroque Orchestra - L' Olimpiade: The Opera (2012)

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Markellos Chryssicos, Venice Baroque Orchestra - L' Olimpiade: The Opera (2012)

Markellos Chryssicos, Venice Baroque Orchestra - L' Olimpiade: The Opera (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 540 Mb | Total time: 65:55+57:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # V 5295 | Recorded: 2011

The Venice Baroque Orchestra and a fine line-up of singers present a pasticcio setting of a libretto by Metastasio, with contributions from composers including Caldara, Vivaldi, Galuppi, Hasse and Paisiello. In the eighteenth century, 1,300 years after the last Olympic Games in ancient times, the Olympic theme was highly fashionable. Many composers based operas on the libretto L'Olimpiade by Metastasio. This recording has been structured to contain all of Metastasio’s original arias; it is a pasticcio in the sense that the music is by 16 different composers amongst the many that set the libretto between 1733 and the end of the century.

Karina Gauvin, Luc Beausejour, Sergei Istomin - Little Notebook for Anna-Magdalena Bach (2008)

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Karina Gauvin, Luc Beausejour, Sergei Istomin - Little Notebook for Anna-Magdalena Bach (2008)

Karina Gauvin, Luc Beauséjour, Sergei Istomin - Little Notebook for Anna-Magdalena Bach (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 341 Mb | Total time: 66:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Analekta | # 22012 | Recorded: 1995

The Notenbuchlein (or “Little Music Book”) for Anna Magdalena Bach is one of the most affectionate and tangible means by which we can glimpse an aspect of the Bach family ‘off duty’, so-to-speak. Bach began this anthology devoted mainly to the keyboard for his second wife in 1722, having three years earlier done the same for his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann. Musically speaking, the most important contents are five suites which, with some additional material and a sixth suite, were to become the French Suites (BWV812-7). But it is the remaining pieces which convey such warm intimacy to us, looking, as it were, through the window.

Karina Gauvin, Les Chambristes de Ville-Marie - Antonio Vivaldi: Motets for Soprano (1998)

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Karina Gauvin, Les Chambristes de Ville-Marie - Antonio Vivaldi: Motets for Soprano (1998)

Karina Gauvin, Les Chambristes de Ville-Marie - Antonio Vivaldi: Motets for Soprano (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 276 Mb | Total time: 58:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Analecta | # FL 2 3099 | Recorded: 1997

Karina Gauvin…is comfortably able to get the better of Vivaldi's coloratura, athletic intervals and ornaments….Gauvin offers…[an] affecting performance of two motets, one of them, 'Sum in medio tempestatum' a real rarity in performance.

Karina Gauvin, Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Nicola Porpora Arias (2009)

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Karina Gauvin, Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Nicola Porpora Arias (2009)

Karina Gauvin, Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Nicola Porpora Arias (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 354 Mb | Total time: 79:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ATMA Classique | # ACD2 2590 | Recorded: 2008

With her enchanting voice, profound musicality and extraordinary vocal range, the Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin has been seducing audiences and critics around the world. Following the immense success of her CD Handel Arias, she returns with a new recording of arias, most never recorded, from the operas of Nicola Porpora (1686-1768).

Karina Gauvin, Bernard Labadie, Les Violons du Roy - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Opera & Concert Arias (2014)

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Karina Gauvin, Bernard Labadie, Les Violons du Roy - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Opera & Concert Arias (2014)

Karina Gauvin, Bernard Labadie, Les Violons du Roy - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Opera & Concert Arias (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 254 Mb | Total time: 63:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ATMA Classique | # ACD22636 | Recorded: 2012

An album of Mozart overtures, operatic and concert arias, from Die Zauberflote and Le Nozze di Figaro, amongst others. Soprano Karina Gauvin's recordings on ATMA and other labels and other other discs have won numerous prizes, including a Juno, a Felix and several Opus prizes and Grammy nominations. Bernard Labadie founded Les Violons du Roy and La Chapelle de Quebec in 1984 and 1985 respectively, and continues to direct their regular seasons in Quebec City and Montreal and on tours worldwide.

Karina Gauvin, Alexander Weimann, Arion Orchestre Baroque - Prima Donna: Handel, Vinci, Vivaldi (2012)

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Karina Gauvin, Alexander Weimann, Arion Orchestre Baroque - Prima Donna: Handel, Vinci, Vivaldi (2012)

Karina Gauvin, Alexander Weimann, Arion Orchestre Baroque - Prima Donna: Handel, Vinci, Vivaldi (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 74:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Atma Classique | # ACD2 2648 | Recorded: 2012

Canadian superstar soprano Karina Gauvin pays tribute to baroque diva Anna Maria Strada del Pò, singing rarities by Vinci, Vivaldi and some of the greatest Handel arie di bravura. Like Strada del Pò in her prime, Miss Gauvin sings this repertoire with powerful expression and brilliant technique, in particular, the trills for which Strada del Pò was renowned. More than thirteen opera roles were created by Handel for Strada del Pò (including Sosarme, Orlando, and Alcina). Strada del Pò’s talent and style may have influenced the composer’s work as much as he contributed to the vocal and dramatic development of the prima donna in the first decades of the 18th century.

Bernard Labadie, Les Violons du Roy - Johann Sebastian Bach: Psaume 51, Cantate 82 (2005)

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Bernard Labadie, Les Violons du Roy - Johann Sebastian Bach: Psaume 51, Cantate 82 (2005)

Bernard Labadie, Les Violons du Roy - Johann Sebastian Bach: Psaume 51, Cantate 82 (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 230 Mb | Total time: 56:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ATMA Classique | # ACD22343 | Recorded: 2004

The glorious voices of Karina Gauvin and Daniel Taylor and the refined playing of Les Violons du Roy will resound wonderfully thanks to this hybrid SACD–Surround/Stereo recording, bringing to life Bach’s little-known homage to Pergolesi: the motet “Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden” after the Italian composer’s famed Stabat Mater. As always with Bach the transcriber, he didn’t simply copy the original work wholesale, but carefully adapted it to its new German and Lutheran text (Psalm 51), enriching for example the basso-continuo and adding an independent viola part.

Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs, Boston Early Music Festival - Johann Georg Conradi: Ariadne (2005)

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Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs, Boston Early Music Festival - Johann Georg Conradi: Ariadne (2005)

Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs, Boston Early Music Festival - Johann Georg Conradi: Ariadne (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 897 Mb | Total time: 175:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777073-2 | Recorded: 2004

This CPO issue of Johann Georg Conradi's 1691 opera Ariadne is based out of a revival of this obscure work produced in 2003 as part of the Boston Early Music Festival. One might be surprised to see the name of Conradi above the title of such a large opera set – has anybody really heard of this guy? What is up with this opera?
German Baroque opera has spent centuries in the shadows. At one time this entire historical genre was considered of only marginal value when held up to the shining example of George Frideric Handel. Closer examination of the topic reveals that this was one man's opinion, namely that of nineteenth century musicologist Friedrich Chrysander.

Karina Gauvin, Francis Colpron, Les Boreades de Montreal - Purcell (2006)

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Karina Gauvin, Francis Colpron, Les Boreades de Montreal - Purcell (2006)

Karina Gauvin, Francis Colpron, Les Boréades de Montréal - Purcell (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 291 Mb | Total time: 63:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ATMA Classique | # ACD2 2398 | Recorded: 2006

This collection puts some of the best Purcell on display–and it couldn't have a more musical or vocally accomplished advocate than Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin. Her voice is pretty for sure, but it also has richness and substance, not to mention a most endearing vibrato that adds an earnestness and enlivening tension to everything she sings.

Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik, Karina Gauvin - George Frideric Handel: Arias and Dances - Excerpts from Agrippina and Alcina (1999)

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Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik, Karina Gauvin - George Frideric Handel: Arias and Dances - Excerpts from Agrippina and Alcina (1999)

Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik, Karina Gauvin - George Frideric Handel: Arias and Dances - Excerpts from Agrippina and Alcina (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 390 Mb | Total time: 76:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Analekta | # FL 2 3137 | Recorded: 1999

Handel was first and foremost a composer of opera. It was his passion for opera which first led him away from his homeland to Italy. Handel soon became the darling of Italian opera lovers, and ended his three-year sojourn with a triumphant production of his opera Agrippina in Venice in 1709. It ran for an unprecedented 27 nights.

Bernard Labadie, Les Violons du Roy, La Chapelle de Quebec - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem (2015)

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Bernard Labadie, Les Violons du Roy, La Chapelle de Quebec - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem (2015)

Bernard Labadie, Les Violons du Roy, La Chapelle de Québec - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 230 Mb | Total time: 52:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ATMA Classique | # ACD2 2722 | Recorded: 2001

This is an ATMA Classique reissue of one of Les Violons du Roy’s seminal discs: the orchestra’s 2002 Dorian label recording of Mozart’s Requiem as revised and completed by Robert D. Levin. The recording won the JUNO® Award for Best Classical Album of the year in the Vocal or Choral Performance category. Founding conductor Bernard Labadie brought Les Violons du Roy and its the fifteen member core together in 1984. The ensemble specializes in the vast repertoire of music for chamber orchestra, performed on modern instruments but in a stylistic manner most appropriate to the work’s era.