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Presto CD - 50 more DG Archiv titles
Early and authentically-performed music very much in focus in this batch - including John Eliot Gardiner's period-instruments Beethoven symphony cycle, Mozart from the Gabrieli Consort and Players, a range of Trevor Pinnock recordings and Bach from Ralph Kirkpatrick.
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The English Concert & Trevor Pinnock perform works by various composers, including Arne’s Keyboard Concerto No. 5 and Geminiani’s Concerto Grosso after Corelli No. 12.
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Musica Antiqua Köln & the Rheinische Kantorei under Reinhard Goebel perform cantatas by Georg Christoph, Johann Michael, Johann Christoph & Heinrich Bach.
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Ralph Kirkpatrick performs the second book of Das Wohltempierte Klavier on the clavichord.
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Edith Mathis, Anna Reynolds, Peter Schreier & Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau join the Münchener Bach Choir & Orchestra under Karl Richter in three cantatas by JS Bach, including Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen.
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Nancy Argenta, Michael Chance, Anthony Rolfe Johnson & Stephen Varcoe join Sir John Eliot Gardiner and The Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque soloists in three cantatas by JS Bach, including O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht.
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Trevor Pinnock and Kenneth Gilbert are the soloists with The English Concert in three concertos for two keyboards by JS Bach.
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Ursula Buckel, Marga Höffgen, Ernst Haefliger & Ernst-Gerold Schramm join Karl Richter and the Münchener Bach Choir & Orchestra for Bach’s Mass in B minor.
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Musica Antiqua Köln under Reinhard Goebel play music by various members of the Bach family, including JS Bach’s Kommt, eilet und laufet.
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Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.
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The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique under Sir John Eliot Gardiner are joined by Robert Levin for Beethoven’s 'Emperor' Concerto and by the Monteverdi Choir for the Fantasia for Piano, Chorus & Orchestra.
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Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.
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The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique & The Monteverdi Choir under Sir John Eliot Gardiner perform Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, with soloists including Anne Sofie von Otter & Anthony Rolfe Johnson.
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Eduard Melkus, Huguette Dreyfus, Karl Scheidt & Lionel Rogg perform Biber’s Rosary Sonatas.
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The Monteverdi Choir & Jürgen Jürgens are accompanied by Colin Tilney, Anthony Bailes, Jordi Savall & Pere Ros in songs by Monteverdi, Caccini, Peri & other composers.
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Musica Antiqua Köln & Reinhard Goebel perform sacred music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
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Heinz Holliger, Manfred Sax, Thomas Brandis, Christiane Nicolet, Aurèle Nicolet, Christiane Jaccottet & Josef Ulsamer perform the Concerts Royaux by François Couperin.
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Alan Curtis plays harpsichord suites by Louis Couperin.
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Andreas Staier & Robert Hill join Musica Antiqua Köln and Reinhard Goebel to perform concertos for two harpsichords by CPE and WF Bach.
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Stephen Preston and The English Concert under Trevor Pinnock perform concertos for flute and for keyboard by CPE Bach.
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Jörg Demus perform Odes, Psalms & Lieder by CPE Bach, including Jesus in Gethsemane & Trost der Erlösung.
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Concerto Köln are joined by Sarband to perform music with an oriental theme, including Gluck’s Les Pèlerins de la Mecque Overture and Süssmayr’s Synfonia Turchesa, with Sarband providing improvisations on various works.
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Musica Antiqua Köln perform German chamber music, including Reincken’s Sonata in A minor, Westhoff’s Sonata in A major ‘La guerra’, & Pachelbel’s Suite in G major.
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The Deller Consort & The Ambrosian Singers perform works by Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Morley, including ‘The Silver Swan’, ‘Farewell, disdainful’ and a selection from The Cries of London.
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Heinz Holliger and Camerata Bern perform oboe concertos by Graun, Krebs and Telemann.
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The English Concert & Trevor Pinnock perform three oboe concertos by Handel, with David Reichenberg as soloist. Also includes the Concerto grosso in C major, ‘Alexander’s Feast’.
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Colin Tilney performs Handel’s Harpsichord Suites Nos. 1-8.
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Simon Preston joins The English Concert & Trevor Pinnock for Handel’s Organ Concertos Op. 4.
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Ilse Wolf, Helen Watts, Wilfred Brown, Edgar Fleet & Thomas Hemsley join the Geraint Jones Singers & Orchestra for Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum & Jubilate. Also includes Zadok the Priest.
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The English Concert & Trevor Pinnock perform Haydn’s Symphonies Nos. 35, 38, 39 and 59.
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Trevor Pinnock and members of The English Concert perform three quintets and the Sextet in C major for oboe, two horns, violin, cello & keyboard by JC Bach.
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The Orchestre de Chambre Paul Kuentz perform chamber works by Lalande, Mouret, Lully, Charpentier & Phildor. Includes Lalande’s Symphonies pour le soupers du Roy & Charpentier’s Prelude on ‘Te Deum laudamus’.
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Norma Lerer, Nigel Rogers & Ian Partridge join the Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg & Camerata Accademica Hamburg and Jürgen Jurgens to perform Gagliano’s opera La Dafne.
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Bryn Terfel, Alison Hagley, Rodney Gilfry, Hillevi Martinpelto & Pamela Helen Stephen star in The English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner’s live recording of Le nozze di Figaro.
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The Gabrieli Consort & Players under Paul McCreesh perform Mozart’s ‘Great’ Mass in C minor. Also includes Beethoven’s ‘Ah! Perfido’ sung by Camilla Tilling & Haydn’s ‘Berenice, che fai?’ sung by Sarah Connolly.
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Malcolm Bilson is the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 11, with The English Concert and Trevor Pinnock.
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Musica Antiqua Köln and Reinhard Goebel perform Biber’s Rosary Sonatas.
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Pomerium & Alexander Blachly perform choral works based around the book of hours, including Dufay’s Bonjour, bon mois and Ockeghem’s Intermerata Dei mater.
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Sir Charles Mackerras directs Tatiana Troyanos & Sheila Armstrong, with the Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg & the Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. Also includes the Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day.
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The Gabrieli Consort & Players under Paul McCreesh perform songs by Purcell, including ‘Lord, what is man?’ and ‘In the black, dismal dungeon of despair’.
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Jennifer Smith, Michael Chance, John Mark Ainsley & Stephen Richardson are some of the soloists with The English Concert & Choir under Trevor Pinnock in odes by Purcell, including ‘Come, ye sons of art’ and ‘Welcome to all the pleasures’.
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Simon Preston on organ and Colin Tilney on harpsichord perform the eight Harpsichord Suites and two organ voluntaries by Purcell.
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Kenneth Gilbert plays works for harpsichord by Rameau, including the Premier Livre de pieces de clavecin.
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Trevor Pinnock & Kenneth Gilbert perform Soler’s six concertos for two harpsichords.
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The Flanders Recorder Quartet & Musica Antiqua Köln under Reinhard Goebel perform a collection of sonatas ‘pro tabula’, including works by Biber, Schmelzer, Pezel and Valentini.
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Concentus Musicus Wien and Nikolaus Harnoncourt perform suites & sonatas by Biber & Muffat, including Biber’s Die Pauernkirchfahrt.
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Musica Antiqua Köln and Reinhard Goebel perform chamber concertos by Telemann.
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Camerata Bern & Thomas Füri perform works from the Early Viennese School, including Salieri’s Concerto for oboe, violin, cello & orchestra and Dittersdorf’s Il delirio delli compositori.
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Camerata Bern & Thomas Füri perform Wassenaer’s Concerti Armonici Nos. 1-6.
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Simon Standage, Micaela Comberti & Jane Coe are the soloists in Vivaldi’s La stravaganza, with The English Concert & Trevor Pinnock.
Available Formats: 2 Presto CDs, MP3, FLAC
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