Ensemble Fur Neue Musik Zurich
The Freedom Of Speech [ HatHut Records / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] |
New Musik
Anywhere (Gatefold Blue Marbled Coloured 2LP) [ Music On Vinyl / 2 LP - released 22/Apr/2022 ] The English synthpop, new wave group formed in 1977 in London and was led by Tony Mansfield, who later worked as a producer for furthermore Naked Eyes, a-ha and the B-52's. Their success already kicked off with the first single, "Straight Lines"... |
PORPORA / HASSE / BROSCHI / GIACOMELLI / GALUPPI
Vivica Genau - Arias for Farinelli Vivica Genau (mezzo-soprano) / Akademie fAr Alte Musik Berlin, RenAC Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Nov/2003 ] ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music Magazine (July 2002) |
BROSCHI / GALUPPI / GIACOMELI / HASSE / PORPORA
Arias for Farinelli Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano) / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Rene Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "While Vivica Genaux has all the virtupsity needed to negotiate the intricately embellished lines in these songs, she knows, too, how to use ornamentation for expressive effect. Strongly recommended." ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 30/Apr/2020 ] Perfect Synthesis. Bach's exploration of the Italian concerto grosso took the principles of instrumental 'rivalry' to the point of paroxysm, bringing to the form an unprecedented harmonic and contrapuntal refinement. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Isabelle Faust, Antoine Tamestit [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 17/Sep/2021 ] Johann Sebastian Bach and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin go back a long way together! This recording, made with the welcome participation of Isabelle Faust and Antoine Tamestit, follows the complete violin concertos (2019), which left a lasting... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Dialogue Cantatas for soprano & bass Sophie Karthäuser (soprano), Michael Volle (bass), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & RIAS Kammerchor [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/May/2018 ] "The Akademie orchestra and the RIAS Kammerchor round off a fine well-balanced recording. Highly recommended." Nicholas Butler/Marbecks |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Mass In B Minor Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] A composition as brilliant as it is protean - the earliest sections date back to 1724, others were written in 1733 in the hope of obtaining a post in Dresden - the Mass in B minor occupied Bach until the end of his life. The work, which is more... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Motets RIAS-Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] BBC Radio 3: Building a Library Highly Recommended - June 2005 |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach, (J.S.): Violin Concertos / Sinfonias / Overture / Sonatas Isabelle Faust (violin) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 15/Mar/2019 ] "Faust's tone is both lean and exquisitely sweet, combined with consistent stylistic elegance which reaches the heights of eloquence in the slow movement of the E major Concerto." BBC Music Concerto Choice June 2019 |
C.P.E. BACH / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / W. A. MOZART / PAUL WRANITZKY
Beethoven and His Contemporaries, Vol. 1 Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik, Forck [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Recorded live from the SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, Germany, 24-25 October 2020 |
C.P.E. BACH / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / W. A. MOZART / PAUL WRANITZKY
Beethoven and His Contemporaries, Vol. 1 (Blu-ray) Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik, Forck [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Recorded live from the SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, Germany, 24-25 October 2020 |
LUIGI CHERUBINI / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / IGNAZ HOLZBAUER / JUSTIN HEINRICH KNECHT / etc
Beethoven and His Contemporaries, Vol. 2 Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik, Forck [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Recorded live from the SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, Germany, 24-25 October 2020 |
LUIGI CHERUBINI / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / IGNAZ HOLZBAUER / JUSTIN HEINRICH KNECHT / etc
Beethoven and His Contemporaries, Vol. 2 (Blu-ray) Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik, Forck [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Recorded live from the SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, Germany, 24-25 October 2020 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.1 & 2 (with CPE Bach: Symphonies Wq 175 & 183/4) Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Jul/2020 ] BBC Music Award Nomination 2021 - Orchestral |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.4 & 8 (with Mehul: Symphony No. 1 & Cherubini: Lodoiska Overture) Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] The least famous of Beethoven's symphonies? Yet these two works are genuine tours de force: the composer takes the listener on a journey whose destination never seems to be known in advance, one brimming over with structural innovations subtly... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / JUSTIN Heinrich KNECHT
Beethoven: Symphony no.6 "Pastoraleˮ / Knecht: Symphonie "Le Portrait musical de la Natureˮ Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] ""Freshness and vitality are the two words which spring to mind. Concertmaster Bernhard Forck pushes the work along with a driving impetuosity which has all the burgeoning energy of springtime." MusicWeb Recommended |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Secular Cantatas [BWV201, 205, 213] RIAS Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 16/Jun/2014 ] "immensely persuasive performances" (International Record Review) |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Cello Concertos / Four Seasons / Venice - The Golden Age Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Midori Seiler (violin) Xenia Loffler (baroque oboe) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit [ Harmonia Mundi Key Artist & Ensemble Sets / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2015 ] For the first time in 3 CD sets, discover these major recording projects matured over many years by ensembles and musicians of harmonia mundi including Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin's Vivaldi recordings. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Che Puro Ciel - The Rise of Classical Opera Bejun Mehta (counter-tenor) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 29/Dec/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |