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J.S. BACH
Sonatas for 2 flutes and continuo Hansgeorg Schmeiser & Jan OstrA½ (flutes) Ingomar Rainer (harpsichord) Othmar MAller (cello) [ Nimbus Records / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] The demand for and purpose of chamber music at the time of Bach, Handel and Telemann was in no way what we now expect in our bourgeois age. This music was not intended primarily for listeners and certainly not for public concerts. Baroque chamber... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' - Ode to Freedom June Anderson, Sarah Walker, Klaus König & Jan-Hendrik Rootering / Various orchestras, Leonard Bernstein [ EuroArts / Medici Arts DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2016 ] The historic concert in celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989: re-issued with new packaging, now available at midprice! Leonard Bernstein spontaneously accepted an invitation to conduct a performance to celebrate freedom.Adding to the... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Bizarre Bazaar Kari Kriikku (clarinet) / Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jan Soderblom [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] New from Kari Kriikku |
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SCHUMANN
Music for Cello and Piano Karine Georgian (cello) / Jan Willem Nelleke (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "Georgian and Nelleke play both [the Fantasiestücke and the Adagio and Allegro] with such ardour and full-toned commitment that the music seems thoroughly idiomatic...Georgian's playing is so wonderfully generous in both its expressiveness and tonal... |
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J.S. BACH
Monument for the Queen of Poland BWV198 Katharine Fuge (soprano), Carlos Mena (alto), Jan Kobow (tenor), Stephan Macleod (bass) / Ricercar Consort / Philippe Pierlot [ Mirare / CD - released 22/Aug/2006 ] "A compelling and profoundly musical testament to a beloved ruler." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine September 2007 |
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Keith Jarrett / Jan Garbarek
Luminessence (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Mysterious, dramatic and alluring, Luminessence comes from a peak period in the creative association between Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek, recorded in 1974, immediately after their vibrant Belonging album. Here, Jarrett creates shimmering... |
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Keith Jarrett / Jan Garbarek
Luminessence (LP) [ ECM (Luminessence Series) / LP - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Mysterious, dramatic and alluring, Luminessence comes from a peak period in the creative association between Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek, recorded in 1974, immediately after their vibrant Belonging album. Here, Jarrett creates shimmering... |
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Keith Jarrett with Jan Garbarek
My Song [ ECM Records / CD - released 12/Nov/2010 ] Recorded November 1977. |
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KIM KASHKASHIAN
Monodia Kim Kashkashian, viola Leonidas Kavakos, violin Manchener Kammerorchester Christoph Poppen, Jan Garbarek, soprano, saxophone The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Here is a fuller portrait of Armenia's foremost composer. This double album, made with Mansurian's participation, includes premiere recordings of works of the last decade. |
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WAGNER
Parsifal (complete opera recorded in 2011) La Monnaie de Munt / Andrew Richards, Anna Larsson, Jan-Hendrik Rooterin, Thomas Johannes Maye / Hartmut Haenchen (conductor) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] "Richards and Larsson make memorable role debuts, the tenor offering unfailingly fresh, firm and powerful tone...[Larsson's] singing in the seduction has true allure." (International Record Review) |
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Art Lande / Jan Garbarek
Red Lanta [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The album title is anagram of Art Lande, the idiosyncratic US pianist making his ECM debut in a set of his own tunes, very ably partnered by Jan Garbarek on a recording described by Down Beat as "one of the finest albums ECM has yet released…It is... |
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VIVALDI / ALBINONI / LOCATELLI / CORELLI / STRADELLA / VITALI / MANCINI
Italian Baroque: The Instrumental Edition L'Arte dell'Arco/Federico Guglielmo, Ensemble Cordia/Stefano Veggetti, Violini Capricciosi/Igor Ruhadze, Musica Amphion/Pieter-Jan Belder [ Brilliant Classics / 50 CD Box Set - released 30/Jan/2017 ] This set present an anthology of Italian Baroque composers, featuring their instrumental output. Obviously the famous composers have their fair share: Vivaldi, Albinoni, Locatelli, Corelli, but also lesser-known composers are featured: Barsanti,... |
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GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria (complete opera) Franco Fagioli, Romina Basso, Yuriy Mynenko, Dilyara Idrisova, Juan Sancho / Capella Cracoviensis, Jan Tomasz Adamus [ Decca / 3 CD Box Set - released 24/Aug/2017 ] "Fagioli traverses two octaves of fioritura seamlessly, many times, and is well-matched by Yuriy Mynenko as a suave Adriano. Tenor Juan Sancho has juicier recitatives to work with as Osroa, King of Parthia and arsonist, and does so with swagger." BBC |
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DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75 Luthers Bach Ensemble, Tymen Jan Bronda [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] An exciting young Dutch early-music collective takes on a 17th-century masterpiece Lenten devotion. |
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WALTON
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra / Sonata for Violin and Orchestra / etc Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Jan Latham-Koenig [ Chandos / CD - released 15/Feb/2003 ] Recorded in: St Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV232 Maria Keohane, Joanne Lunn, Alex Potter, Jan Kobow, Peter Harvey / Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen [ CPO SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 12/Aug/2016 ] "which is full to the brim with insightful musicianship and has a refreshing avoidance of contrived formulas, comfortably joins Parrott, Junghänel & John Butt as the finest examples of this kind of perspective on performing Bach's monumental oratorio |
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FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Piano Concerto & Concert champêtre Mark Bebbington (piano), Jan Latham-Koenig, John Roberts (oboe), Jonathan Davies (bassoon) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ Resonus / CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Concerto |
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Markus Burger & Jan Von Klewit
Inside - Outside [ Profil / CD ] |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Schopfung (Die) (The Creation) Max Ciolek (choirmaster) Sunhae Im (soprano) Jan Kobow (tenor) Hanno Muller-Brachmann (bass-baritone) / Capella Augustina / Andreas Spering [ Naxos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 23/Jun/2005 ] "From the very first chord one feels that this recording is something special. The sound is crisp, well-balanced and detailed without being over-analytical." (MusicWeb May 2005) |
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NICOLA PORPORA
Porpora: Germanico in Germania (complete opera) Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor), Julia Lezhneva, Mary-Ellen Nesi, Juan Sancho / Capella Cracoviensis (on period instruments), Jan Tomasz Adamus [ Decca / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2018 ] THE WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING OF A LOST MASTERPIECE |