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Deborah Riedel, Della Jones, Michael Kraus, Lawrence Foster - Waxman: The Song Of Terezin (1998)

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Deborah Riedel, Della Jones, Michael Kraus, Lawrence Foster - Waxman: The Song Of Terezin (1998)

Deborah Riedel, Della Jones, Michael Kraus, Lawrence Foster - Waxman: The Song Of Terezin (1998)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 59:04 | 260 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 4602112

Waxman is best known as a writer of film music, like Korngold. He was also a fine composer, again like Korngold, and in his threnody in memory of child holocaust victims, he composed a masterpiece. This work is roughly comparable in subject matter with Survivor from Warsaw, or the War Requiem, but is more accessible than the former and more sincere than the latter sounds (or so it seems to me). This is one of those odd masterpieces that should be well known but isn't. The recording is clear and immediate.

Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players - Johann Sebastian Bach: Epiphany Mass (1998)

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Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players - Johann Sebastian Bach: Epiphany Mass (1998)

Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players - Johann Sebastian Bach: Epiphany Mass (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 671 Mb | Total time: 80:00+79:59 | Covers included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 457 631-2 | Recorded: 1997

Of all the liturgical reconstructions that Paul McCreesh has been offering over the past decade, this is easily the most elaborate. It's astonishing to think that Bach's parish church would have celebrated Epiphany (the 12th day of Christmas, January 6, usually a weekday) as elaborately as this program, and it's fascinating to think of the congregation of the Thomanerkirche anticipating the event around 1740. The entire service is included in the recording, much like the Catholic Masses on record that include the celebrant's prayers and Preface before the Sanctus (chanted in Latin even here), the Scripture chanting (in German here, of course), and all the odd versicles. The sermon is only six minutes long, just a hint of a longer discourse (it would have been at least an hour long, according to the notes).

Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 7 [3CDs] (1998)

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Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 7 [3CDs] (1998)

Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 7 [3CDs] (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 953 Mb | Total time: 03:33:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 3984-23144-2 | Recorded: 1997

This seventh volume of the complete cantatas is exclusively given over to works from the first cycle of Leipzig cantatas of 1723/24. When Bach became Thomaskantor in Leipzig, he knew that he was taking on a post that was one of the richest in tradition and most important in the sphere of church music in Protestant Germany. From the latter part of the 17th century on, the cantata came to replace the Gospel motet, which had been used in church services in Protestant Germany since the time of the Reformation to underline the content of the prescribed reading from the Gospel.

Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 6 [3CDs] (1998)

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Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 6 [3CDs] (1998)

Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 6 [3CDs] (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 874 Mb | Total time: 3h 16m | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 0630-12598-2 | Recorded: 1997

The sixth volume of our complete recording of Bach's cantatas inaugurates the long series of sacred cantatas written during the composer's years in Leipzig. With a single exception, the cantatas included in the present release belong to the first annual cycle and date from 1723/24.The cycle begins with Cantatas 75 and 76, with which the recently installed Thomaskantor took up his new appointment in April 1723.

Monica Groop, Juha Kangas, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra - Johann Sebastian Bach: Alto Cantatas (1998)

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Monica Groop, Juha Kangas, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra - Johann Sebastian Bach: Alto Cantatas (1998)

Monica Groop, Juha Kangas, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra - Johann Sebastian Bach: Alto Cantatas (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 322 Mb | Total time: 71:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Finlandia Records | # 3984-25325-2 | Recorded: 1998

There are four surviving church cantatas by Bach for solo alto voice. One, Wiederstehe doch der Sünde BWV54 was probably composed in 1714. The other three were all written in 1726, after Bach had taken up his appointment at St. Thomas’s, Leipzig, and so it is a sensible idea to group them on one CD.

Hermann Max, Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert - Johann Heinrich Rolle: Der Tod Abels (1998)

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Hermann Max, Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert - Johann Heinrich Rolle: Der Tod Abels (1998)

Hermann Max, Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert - Johann Heinrich Rolle: Der Tod Abels (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 343 Mb | Total time: 77:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # 10 825 | Recorded: 1997

Johann Heinrich Rolle belongs to the generation of J. S. Bach’s elder sons. Pipped at the post by C. P. E. Bach as Telemann’s successor in Hamburg, Rolle centred his musical life round Berlin and his native Magdeburg. Recitatives, arias, duets and choruses make up this two-part music drama which is both lyrical and on occasion vividly pictorial in its imagery. A fine performance.

Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1998)

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Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1998)

Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 607 Mb | Total time: 171:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Musicom | # MC 9802-04 | Recorded: 1997

Die zweichörige Matthäus-Passion, die bereits im posthumen Andenken der Bach-Familie als die «Grosse Bassion» bezeichnet wurde, gehört nicht nur zu Bachs umfangreichsten und gewichtigsten Kirchenkompositionen. Sie hat auch seit den spektakulären Wiederaufführungen Mendelssohns und Zelters im Jahre 1829 die neuzeitliche Wahrnehmung des Komponisten wesentlich geprägt.

Horst-Tanu Margraf, Händel-Festspielorchester Halle - Georg Friedrich Händel: Poros (1998)

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Horst-Tanu Margraf, Händel-Festspielorchester Halle - Georg Friedrich Händel: Poros (1998)

Horst-Tanu Margraf, Händel-Festspielorchester Halle - Georg Friedrich Händel: Poros (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 856 Mb | Total time: 52:00+56:00+48:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Berlin Classics | # 0093742BC | Recorded: 1958

Poro, re dell'Indie ("Porus, King of the Pakistani region", HWV 28) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Alessandro nell'Indie by Metastasio, and based on Alexander the Great's encounter with King Porus in 326 BC. The libretto had already been set to music by Leonardo Vinci in 1729 and by Antonio Vivaldi among others and was used as the text for more than sixty operas throughout the 18th century.

Simon Keenlyside, Graham Johnson - Schumann: Lieder, Vol. 2 (1998)

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Simon Keenlyside, Graham Johnson - Schumann: Lieder, Vol. 2 (1998)

Simon Keenlyside, Graham Johnson - Schumann: Lieder, Vol. 2 (1998)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 70:21 | 252 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog: CDJ33102

In his notes Graham Johnson says that what we have always lacked is a convincing way of performing late Schumann songs, often spare in texture and elusive in style. Well, he and Keenlyside seem to have found one here in their wholly admirable versions of the very different Opp 98a and 117. The Op 98a settings of the Harper's outpourings from Wilhelm Meister have always stood in the shade of those by Schubert and Wolf. This pair show incontrovertibly that there's much to be said for Schumann's versions, capturing the essence of the old man's sad musings, as set by the composer in an imaginative, free way, alert to every nuance in the texts.

Gäa - 2 Albums (1974-1998) (Re-up)

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Gäa - 2 Albums (1974-1998) (Re-up)

Gäa - 2 Albums (1974-1998)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 520 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 196 MB | Covers - 307 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock, Krautrock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Garden of Delights

Gäa from the German state of Saarland have become quite known in collectors’ circles thanks to their LP "Auf der Bahn zum Uranus" from 1974. It is a mature and well-balanced album, the artistic value of which long remained undiscovered. The tasteful cover was designed by Eduard Bell, the brother of Gäa bassist Peter Bell. There were several re-issues of the album - LPs as well as CDs -, but unfortunately not all of them legitimate releases. The CD on Garden of Delights was released in co-operation with the artists and has the original cover artwork.
In early 1975 they recorded three tracks for a, however, unfinished second album. They are simply brilliant and show how mature and inventive the band was at that time…

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Georg Anton Benda: Romeo und Julie (1998)

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Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Georg Anton Benda: Romeo und Julie (1998)

Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Georg Anton Benda: Romeo und Julie (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 369 Mb | Total time: 91:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | 999 496-2 | Recorded: 1997

Charles Burney, the great English music traveller of the 18th century, was extremely positive about "Herr Kapellmeister Benda". His compositions his "new, masterly, and learned." Mozart, too, never made a secret of his high regard for Georg Anton Benda; he was well aware of how much he was indebted to the creator of the German Singspiel - right up to the "Magic Flute".

Falco - The Hit-Singles (1998)

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Falco - The Hit-Singles (1998)

Falco - The Hit-Singles (1998)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
EastWest, 3984-23479-2 | ~ 480 or 165 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 27 Mb
Pop, Synth-pop, Electronic

Falco was the most internationally successful pop artist ever to come out of Austria, best known for his 1986 chart-topping hit "Rock Me Amadeus." Born Johann Holzel in Vienna on February 19, 1957, he was a classically trained child prodigy, but after graduating from the Vienna Conservatoire, he relocated to West Berlin and began fronting a jazz-rock band…

Helmut Koch, Staatskapelle Berlin - Georg Philipp Telemann: Pimpinone oder Die ungleiche Heirat (1998)

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Helmut Koch, Staatskapelle Berlin - Georg Philipp Telemann: Pimpinone oder Die ungleiche Heirat (1998)

Helmut Koch, Staatskapelle Berlin - Georg Philipp Telemann: Pimpinone oder Die ungleiche Heirat (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 293 Mb | Total time: 56:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Berlin Classics | # 0020712BC | Recorded: 1964

Pimpinone, TWV 21:15, is a comic opera by the German composer Georg Philipp Telemann with a libretto by Johann Philipp Praetorius. Its full title is Die Ungleiche Heirat zwischen Vespetta und Pimpinone oder Das herrsch-süchtige Camer Mägden (The Unequal Marriage Between Vespetta and Pimpinone or The Domineering Chambermaid). The work is described as a Lustiges Zwischenspiel ("comic intermezzo") in three parts. It was first performed at the Theater am Gänsemarkt, Hamburg on 27 September 1725 as light relief between the acts of Telemann's adaptation of Handel's opera seria Tamerlano. Pimpinone was highly successful and pointed the way forward to later intermezzi, particularly Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's La serva padrona.

James Last - Christmas Dancing (1966) {1998, Reissue}

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James Last - Christmas Dancing (1966) {1998, Reissue}

James Last - Christmas Dancing (1966) {1998, Reissue}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 323 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 138 Mb
Full Scans | 00:48:05 | RAR 5% Recovery
Easy Listening, Christmas | Polydor #559 013-2

Digitally remastered edition of this holiday release from the German composer and band leader. On this album, Last leads the band through 10 different holiday-themed medleys plus two additional tracks.

Klaus Mertens, Ludger Rémy - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Lieder & Odes (1998)

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Klaus Mertens, Ludger Rémy - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Lieder & Odes (1998)

Klaus Mertens, Ludger Rémy - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Lieder & Odes (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 296 Mb | Total time: 73:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 549-2 | Recorded: 1997

These lively, idiomatic and sometimes witty performances show CPE Bach’s harpsichord songs, early precursors of the Romantic Lied, to be far more than museum pieces, from the Three Different Attempts at a Single Song for Hexameters through to a Fantasy in C minor with Hamlet’s Monologue.