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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Joseph Haydn: Orlando Paladino (2006)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Joseph Haydn: Orlando Paladino (2006)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Joseph Haydn: Orlando Paladino (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 689 Mb | Total time: 69:44+71:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 82876 73370 2 | Recorded: 2005

This delightful "dramma eroicomico" ("heroic-comic drama"–-a made-up phrase brimming with irony) tells the story of the noble knight Orlando, who goes mad being torn between duty and love, his love, Angelica, who actually wants Medoro, and Alcina, an evil sorceress out to get Orlando, and turns it into a type of farce, with great results. There is some lovely music, mostly for Angelica and Medoro, but most of it is fun and light, with characters whistling, trying to impress people with how well they sing, etc. The scoring wittily underlines their foibles.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Wiener Philharmoniker - Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (2006/2003)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Wiener Philharmoniker - Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (2006/2003)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Wiener Philharmoniker - Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (2006/2003)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 5 ch | DTS, 5 ch | 4,35 + 6,22 Gb (DVD5+DVD9) | 160 min
Classical | TDK | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano

TDK presents a truly new way of looking at La clemenza di Tito with this famous and star-studded production from the Salzburg Festival 2003. Here Nikolaus Harnoncourt, renowned for his analytical approach to the search for the core of the music, interprets Mozart’s last opera. Martin Kušej, who is acclaimed for his theatre productions directs the production. Nikolaus Harnoncourt identifies with Mozart’s score as both an extremely knowledgeable musician and a conductor who invariably plays an active part in helping to shape the drama. Together with the Vienna Philharmonic, he savours the miracles of Mozart’s late work, bringing out its instrumental colours and effects and at the same time stimulating his singers while proving a solicitous accompanist.

Isabel Bayrakdarian, Russell Braun, Michael Schade - Mozart: Arie & Duetti (2006)

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Isabel Bayrakdarian, Russell Braun, Michael Schade - Mozart: Arie & Duetti (2006)

Isabel Bayrakdarian, Russell Braun, Michael Schade - Mozart: Arie & Duetti (2006)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:06:47 | 350 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: CBC | Catalog: 5239

The choice of repertoire is more or less predictable. There are no lesser known arias, and Gott sei Dank they have been grouped by opera but, within the operas, not in the order of appearance. The ordering of the operas seems haphazard, too. "What an ungrateful nit-picker!" I can hear readers mumble. "Of course they have decided the order to achieve as much variety as possible". But I am not so sure. Why, in that case, start the recital, after the Zauberflöte overture with two arias in a row sung by Russell Braun?

John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (1996)

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John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (1996)

John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 618 Mb | Total time: 78:50+79:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 449 166-2 | Recorded: 1995

JOHN ELIOT GARDINER und ein junges Sängerensemble bezaubern den Hörer: Christiane Oelze ist eine betörend sympatische Pamina. So gestochen scharfe und dabei klangvolle Koloraturen wie von Cyndia Sieden habe ich so noch nicht gehört; eine Königin der Extraklasse! Auch Michael Schade als Tamino und Gerald Finley als Papageno bestechen mit ihren wohlkingenden und ausdrucksfähigen Stimmen.

Pablo Heras-Casado, Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Mendelssohn: Symphony No.2 'Lobgesang' (2014)

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Pablo Heras-Casado, Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Mendelssohn: Symphony No.2 'Lobgesang' (2014)

Pablo Heras-Casado, Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.2 'Lobgesang' (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 309 Mb | Total time: 61:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 902151 | Recorded: 2012

The 'Lobgesang' or Hymn of Praise, commissioned by the city of Leipzig from its Kapellmeister Mendelssohn to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the invention of printing in 1840, has elements of all three categories. But, at the opposite pole from Beethoven s Ninth, we have here a symphonic miniature in three movements, intended to act as the overture to the sung part of the work, which is twice as long. Thus this splendid Symphony-Cantata expands into a sweeping vocal and choral epic.

Christoph Eschenbach, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Richard Strauss: Capriccio (2014) [Blu-Ray]

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Christoph Eschenbach, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Richard Strauss: Capriccio (2014) [Blu-Ray]

Christoph Eschenbach, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Richard Strauss: Capriccio (2014) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 26955 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 163 min | 41,3 Gb
Audio1: Deutsch / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.0 / 48 kHz / 3867 kbps / 24-bit
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BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1280x720 / 2735 kbps / 29,97 fps | 163 min | 7,44 Gb
Audio: Deutsch / PCM / 2ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits | DTS / 5ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | C Major | Sub: German, English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese

“Kurt Rydl crowns a fine stage career with a gloriously eccentric impersonation of La Roche…The singing honours belong entirely to Angelika Kirchschlager as Clairon.” (BBC Music Magazine). “this Countess's preference for 'Ton' over 'Wort' is clear from the start…The greatest pleasure of the performance, for me, undoubtedly comes in the wonderful playing of the Staatsoper orchestra, the sweet, tender strings and the mellifluous horns in particular; and Christoph Eschenbach conducts a leisurely and loving account of Strauss's gorgeous score.” (Gramophone Magazine)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt - The Complete Sony Recordings, Part 9 [6CDs] (2016)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt - The Complete Sony Recordings, Part 9 [6CDs] (2016)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt - The Complete Sony Recordings, Part 9 (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,37 Gb | Total time: 06:06:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88875173752 | Recorded: 1991-2015

Nikolaus Harnoncourt The Complete Sony Recordings brings together for the first time Harnoncourt s complete recordings from 2002-2015 with his Concentus Musicus Wien, the Wiener Philharmonike, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Symphonieorchester des Bayrischen Rundfunks. The Sony Classical edition features his famous symphony recordings of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Bruckner, alongside his celebrated performances of great choral works such as the Verdi, Brahms and Mozart Requiems and Haydn's Die Schöpfung, as well as Mozart's opera Zaide, Haydn's Orlando paladino and Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Also included are previously authorized but unreleased recordings of J. S. Bach s Cantatas Nos. 26 & 36, Beethoven's Christus am Ölberge and Dvorák's Stabat Mater.

Christian Thielemann, Staatskapelle Dresden, Sachsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (2011) [Blu-Ray]

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Christian Thielemann, Staatskapelle Dresden, Sachsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (2011) [Blu-Ray]

Christian Thielemann, Staatskapelle Dresden, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (2011) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 21922 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 88 min | 18,2 Gb
Audio1: Latin / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 24-bit / 3850 kbps
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BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,97 fps | 88 min | 6,13 Gb
Audio: Latin / PCM / 2ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits | DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | C Major | Sub: Latin, English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese

Beethoven's Missa Solemnis was performed on 13 and 14 February, 2010 at the traditional memorial concert to commemorate the bombardement of Dresden during the last weeks of World War II. Under Christian Thielemann, the Staatskapelle Dresden proved itself exeptionally qualified to master this work´s magnificent challenges. Thielemann “conjured up the gigantic cosmos of the Missa with such lightness and grace that its mystery seemed to reveal itself”, wrote the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Ingo Metzmacher, Wiener Philharmoniker - Schubert: Fierrabras (2015) [Blu-Ray]

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Ingo Metzmacher, Wiener Philharmoniker - Schubert: Fierrabras (2015) [Blu-Ray]

Ingo Metzmacher, Wiener Philharmoniker - Schubert: Fierrabras (2015) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 27944 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 163 min | 44,4 Gb
Audio1: Deutsch / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.0 / 48 kHz / 3694 kbps / 24-bit
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BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,970 fps | 163 min | 11,5 Gb
Audio: Deutsch / PCM / 2ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits | DTS / 5ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | C Major | Sub: German, English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese

Fierrabras of 1823 is the last of Franz Schubert’s stage works. Rarely performed to this day, this heroic-romantic opera has now been staged for the first time ever at the Salzburg Festival by famous director Peter Stein. The strong cast includes the “marvellously expressive miracle Dorothea Röschmann” (Die Zeit) and “Michael Schade, who exudes his exceptional tenor in Fierrabras’s heroic arias” (Der neue Merker). Under the energetic baton of lngo Metzmacher, the Vienna Philharmonic unfold “the melos, the poetry, the sweetness and the dramatic force of Schubert’s highly refined and atmospheric sound worlds” (Kleine Zeitung) in highly romantic fashion.

Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker, Swedish Radio Choir - Mozart: Requiem (2014/1999) [Blu-Ray]

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Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker, Swedish Radio Choir - Mozart: Requiem (2014/1999) [Blu-Ray]

Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker, Swedish Radio Choir - Mozart: Requiem (2014/1999) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 23950 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 62 min | 14,3 Gb
Audio: Latin / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
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BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 9322 kbps / 29,970 fps | 62 min | 5,04 Gb
Audio: Latin / PCM / 2ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | EuroArts | Sub: English, French, German, Spanish, Latin

On July 16, 1999, the 10th anniversary of the death of Herbert von Karajan, the Berlin Philharmonic paid tribute to their late maestro, playing within the confines of the imposing Salzburg Cathedral in von Karajans hometown of Salzburg. Among other works, the orchestra performed Mozart's Requiem in D minor, KV 626, featuring soprano Karita Mattila, contralto Sara Mingardo, tenor Michael Schade and bass baritone Bryn Terfel as soloists. Soprano Rachel Harnisch appeared as soloist on the two complementing arias Betrachte dies mein Herz und frage mich and Laudate Dominum.

Jesus Lopez-Cobos, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Renee Fleming, Thomas Hampson - Massenet: Thais (2010)

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Jesus Lopez-Cobos, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Renee Fleming, Thomas Hampson - Massenet: Thais (2010)

Jesús López-Cobos, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson - Massenet: Thaïs (2010)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR | Français (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.78 Gb (DVD9) | 148 min
Classical | DECCA | Sub: Francais, English, Deutsch, Espanol, Chinese

Set in Egypt, Massenet's drama 'Thais' (1894) traces the ill-fated attempt of the monk, Athanaël, to rescue the soul of the celebrated Alexandrian courtesan, Thaïs. Though she is presently living with his wealthy friend Nicias, Athanaël persuades her to renounce her way of life and riches, but as she dies in the desert in a state of grace, he realises he has succumbed to her worldly charms and begs God for mercy. Renée Fleming triumphs as the glamorous courtesan Thaïs in Massenet’s romantic tragedy set in fourth century Alexandria and the Egyptian desert. The timeless struggle between earthly desire and spiritual redemption finally destroys the resolve of the monk Athanaël (Thomas Hampson), just as the newly penitent Thaïs ascends heavenward. Jesús López-Cobos gives a masterly performance of Massenet’s sensuous score, with concert master David Chan contributing a ravishing ‘Méditation’.