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Peter Neumann, Collegium Cartusianum, Kölner Kammerchor - J.S. Bach: Passio secundum Johannem BWV 245 Version II (1725) (2000)

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Peter Neumann, Collegium Cartusianum, Kölner Kammerchor - J.S. Bach: Passio secundum Johannem BWV 245 Version II (1725) (2000)

Peter Neumann, Collegium Cartusianum, Kölner Kammerchor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Passio secundum Johannem BWV 245 Version II (1725) (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 508 Mb | Total time: 114:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: MDG | # 332 0983-2 | Recorded: 1999

Peter Neumann ist der erste, dessen Aufnahme die zweite Fassung der ›Johannes-Passion‹ in einem Durchlauf hören läßt. Dies ist insofern wichtig, als durch die Änderungen die Aspekte ›Schuld‹ und ›Sünde‹ stärker akzentuiert werden, die theologische Aussage des Werks also in eine etwas andere Richtung weist. Das eigentlich Bemerkenswerte der vorliegenden Einspielung ist der Einsatz einer großen Kirchenorgel als Continuoinstrument, was den Arien und Chorälen eine ganz eigene Färbung verleiht.

Ralf Otto, Bachorchester Mainz, Bachchor Mainz - Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion / Matthäus-Passion (2019)

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Ralf Otto, Bachorchester Mainz, Bachchor Mainz - Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion / Matthäus-Passion (2019)

Ralf Otto, Bachorchester Mainz, Bachchor Mainz - Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion / Matthäus-Passion (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 693 Mb | Total time: 170:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.574036-38 | Recorded: 2018

Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion is widely recognised as one of the greatest masterpieces in Western sacred music. With its double orchestra and chorus this is a work of enormous proportions in every sense, and Bach was extremely resourceful in treading a fine line between creating the almost operatic spectacle valued by the secular authorities in Leipzig, and the elevated religious atmosphere sought by the clergy. This inspired mix of moving drama and theological discourse led Leonard Bernstein to declare that ‘there is nothing like it in all of music’.

Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Concerto Copenhagen - George Frideric Handel: Brockes-Passion (2019)

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Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Concerto Copenhagen - George Frideric Handel: Brockes-Passion (2019)

Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Concerto Copenhagen - George Frideric Handel: Brockes-Passion (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 751 Mb | Total time: 152:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 555 286-2 | Recorded: 2019

The Concerto Copenhagen is Scandinavia’s most renowned Baroque ensemble and one of the most innovative such formations worldwide. Its trademarks are its unusual program combinations featuring Scandinavian rarities and famous Baroque masterpieces. This world-class orchestra now turns to Handel’s great Brockes-Passion in a CD recording based on the Halle edition of this composer’s works. The Passion text published by the well-to-do Hamburg resident Barthold Heinrich Brockes was a literary bestseller during the early eighteenth century.

Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester und Chor, Regensburger Domspatzen - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1989)

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Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester und Chor, Regensburger Domspatzen - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1989)

Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester und Chor, Regensburger Domspatzen - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 869 Mb | Total time: 203:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 427 704 | Recorded: 1979

The opening with the opening choir "Kommt, ihr Töchter" immediately sets the tone; not a quick-played waltz, but imposing and wide-set, like the start of a great human drama. Richter exceeds 11 minutes with this tempo. Only the version by Otto Klemperer is even slower. But unlike Klemperer, here in the rest of the MP we are not dealing with a somewhat stately approach, but with a sharply profiled and dramatic one!

Nico - The End... (Remastered & Expanded) (1974/2012)

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Nico - The End... (Remastered & Expanded) (1974/2012)

Nico - The End… (Remastered & Expanded) (1974/2012)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 420 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 207 MB
1:30:29 | Art Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Dark Ambient, Avantgarde, Ballad, Minimal, Drone | Label: Universal UMC / Island Records

The 1973 album was her fourth solo release – another collaboration with John Cale – and was recorded in 1973 in London. Cale chose Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music to work on the album with him; between them they provided the entire instrumental framework for Nico and her harmonium.This issue of The End is remastered here for the first time, and comes with a bonus disc of tracks including The End and a previously unreleased version of Das Lied der Deutschen performed live at London’s Rainbow Theatre on June 1, 1974, and some John Peel session tracks which are either unreleased or new to CD.

De-Phazz - Pit Sounds (2024)

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De-Phazz - Pit Sounds (2024)

De-Phazz - Pit Sounds (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 261 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 103 MB
42:57 | Electronic | Label: Phazz-a-delic New Format Recordings

The importance of De-Phazz in electronic entertainment music since the turn of the millennium is undoubted. Anyone who has held a cocktail in a lounge in Berlin, Miami or Ibiza since 1997 knows the band from Heidelberg. Pit Baumgartner, creative head of De-Phazz, presents his magnum opus "Pit Sounds", which combines different sounds in an unconventional way. Baumgartner describes his working method as creatively mining a huge collection of sounds to find acoustic precious metal and bring it into a new context. Even though it is of course an expression of pure self-irony, the album certainly stands up to the tongue-in-cheek comparison with the Beach Boys classic "Pet Sounds". Cozy 60s choirs meet classy jazz guitar licks, syrupy retro strings à la Bert Kaempfert, singing cowboys, Latin American standard dances, multilingual language snippets and even football horns.

Michael Alexander Willens, Kölner Akademie - Georg Philipp Telemann: Easter Cantatas (2021)

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Michael Alexander Willens, Kölner Akademie - Georg Philipp Telemann: Easter Cantatas (2021)

Michael Alexander Willens, Kölner Akademie - Georg Philipp Telemann: Easter Cantatas (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 341 Mb | Total time: 71:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 555 425-2 | Recorded: 2020

Our CD presents a selection of five works from the extensive, largely unexplored Easter Cantata oeuvre created by Georg Philipp Telemann during the course of his sixty years in Eisenach (1708-12), Frankfurt am Main (1712-21), and Hamburg (1721-67). Four of the works recorded here date from the 1720s and take us back to the years in Telemann’s creative life as a composer when he was the new music director of Hamburg’s five principal churches and was reorganizing the city’s church music and modernizing it in musical respects.

Nico - Desertshore (1970/2023)

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Nico - Desertshore (1970/2023)

Nico - Desertshore (1970/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 165 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 90 MB
29:12 | Avantgarde, Experimental | Label: Domino Recording Co

Desertshore is Nico's third solo album, recorded and released in 1970. It was co-produced by John Cale and Joe Boyd. Like its predecessor The Marble Index (HE 68005LP, 2023), it is an avant-garde album with chamber music elements. The back and front covers feature stills from the film La cicatrice interieure by Philippe Garrel, which starred Nico, Garrel and her son Ari Boulogne. A few of the songs from the album were included on the soundtrack of the film.

Nico - The Marble Index (1968/2023)

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Nico - The Marble Index (1968/2023)

Nico - The Marble Index (1968/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 223 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 104 MB
37:30 | Avantgarde, Experimental, Art Rock | Label: Domino Recording Co

Nico's second solo album, 1968's 'The Marble Index', has long been out of print. This reissue includes audio mastered from the original tapes and previously unreleased photos of Nico by Guy Webster. Nico's haunting vocals predicted the Gothic movement and co-producer and Velvet Underground's band mate John Cale's startingly modern classical production ensured 'The Marble Index's timeless appeal. The iconic music journalist Lester Bangs wrote, “The Marble Index is the greatest piece of 'avant-garde classical', 'serious' music of the last half of the 20th century so far,” and the New Yorker recently hailed both records as “austere miracles of will and invention.”

Miriam Feuersinger, Les Escapades - Johann Rosenmüller et al.: Habe deine Lust an dem Herren (2018)

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Miriam Feuersinger, Les Escapades - Johann Rosenmüller et al.: Habe deine Lust an dem Herren (2018)

Miriam Feuersinger, Les Escapades - Johann Rosenmüller et al.: Habe deine Lust an dem Herren (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 283 Mb | Total time: 66:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Christophorus | # CHR 77425 | Recorded: 2017

The outstanding musical significance of Johann Rosenmüller, who was said to be able to merge Italian sensuality and German “gravitas” in his compositions in the most harmonious way, was already undisputed among his contemporaries. He studied in Leipzig, and quite soon the town council realized that he was a musician of an immense talent. Rosenmüller therefore received a position at the famous Leipzig Thomasschule, and was considered as the future successor of the ill Thomaskantor, Tobias Michael.

Miriam Feuersinger, Capricornus Consort Basel - Johann Sebastian Bach: Ich bin vergnügt... Kantaten BWV 51, 82, 84 (2022)

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Miriam Feuersinger, Capricornus Consort Basel - Johann Sebastian Bach: Ich bin vergnügt... Kantaten BWV 51, 82, 84 (2022)

Miriam Feuersinger, Peter Barczi, Capricornus Consort Basel - Johann Sebastian Bach: Ich bin vergnügt… Kantaten BWV 51, 82, 84 (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 368 Mb | Total time: 68:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Christophorus | # CHR 77459 | Recorded: 2021

"Ich bin vergnugt" (I am content) is the title of the new CD by soprano Miriam Feuersinger. It refers to Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata "Ich bin vergnugt mit meinem Glucke" BWV 84, but it also corresponds entirely to the feelings of the singer, who is fulfilling a long-cherished wish of her heart with this programme.

VA - German Drinking Songs: 50 Original Bavarian Favourites (2014)

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VA - German Drinking Songs: 50 Original Bavarian Favourites (2014)

VA - German Drinking Songs: 50 Original Bavarian Favourites (2014)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 780 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 323 MB
2:12:42 | Folk, Pop | Label: Not Now Music

This compilation of German popular music represents the diversity of songs and dances that might be heard at the annual Munich Oktoberfest. This Bavarian festival, lasting for sixteen days in September and October, was first held in 1810. Since 1960, however, the Oktoberfest has become a world-famous celebration of local German food, such as würstl, pretzels and sauerkraut, and, of course, beer. There are strict regulations governing which beers can be served at the Oktoberfest; currently only six breweries are approved, all brewing beer within the Munich city limits. The music played at the Oktoberfest, in complete contrast to the exclusive nature of its beer, is highly eclectic. This compilation will evoke the atmosphere of Oktoberfest, lederhosen, the dirndl and huge steins overflowing with German beer before you even drink a drop. Prost!

Richard Marlow, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge - Bach Family Motets (1997)

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Richard Marlow, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge - Bach Family Motets (1997)

Richard Marlow, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge - Bach Family Motets (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 360 Mb | Total time: 75:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Conifer Classics | # 75605 51306 2 | Recorded: 1997

Several generations of Bachs have been gathered by Richard Marlow and the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge for their programme of motets. All of them have been recorded at various times in the past but many only infrequently, and one or two, perhaps, now make their first appearance on CD. There is no dull music here and two of the pieces, at least, are of outstanding expressive beauty. The earlier of these is Johann Bach’s profoundly affecting Unser Leben ist ein Schatten (“Our life is but a shadow”). This member of the clan survived both the Black Death and the savage bombardment of Erfurt during the Thirty Years War.

Bernarda Fink, Petra Müllejans, Freiburger Barockorchester - Johann Sebastian Bach: Solo Cantatas, BWV 35, 169, 170 (2009)

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Bernarda Fink, Petra Müllejans, Freiburger Barockorchester - Johann Sebastian Bach: Solo Cantatas, BWV 35, 169, 170 (2009)

Bernarda Fink, Petra Müllejans, Freiburger Barockorchester - Johann Sebastian Bach: Solo Cantatas, BWV 35, 169, 170 (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 373 Mb | Total time: 76:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 902016 | Recorded: 2008

Mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink is a remarkably versatile singer, but she has devoted the bulk of her career to the music of the Baroque. Her impeccable technique, fluent coloratura, and warm, pure tone make this an ideal repertoire for her. She tends to convey a sense of dignity that can come across as reserve. When called upon, as in more emotionally charged repertoire, she can generate the necessary passion, but her naturally dignified musical demeanor ideally suits these Bach cantatas.

VA - The Great Recordings of Deutsche Grammophon (2023)

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VA - The Great Recordings of Deutsche Grammophon (2023)

VA - The Great Recordings of Deutsche Grammophon (2023) (SACD)
FLAC (tracks) - 992 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 474 MB
3:27:41 | Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon / Universal Japan

This 2-CD single-layer SACD compilation album contains 22 tracks selected from the titles that have been produced as single-layer SACDs from Deutsche Grammophon's analog period recordings as a Japanese original project. DISC1 contains symphonies and orchestral pieces. DISC2 contains concertos, chamber music, instrumental music, and vocal music from a wide range of classical music genres. Available for the price of one SACD. Celebrating Deutsche Grammophon's 125th anniversary.