![Freiburger Barockorchester – Beethoven für Kinder: Prometheus (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/09/04/xgwg1amhla0ha_600.md.jpg)
Freiburger Barockorchester – Beethoven für Kinder: Prometheus (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Ludwig van Beethoven’s music and the myth of Prometheus are not suitable for children’s ears? Far from it!
The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra presents a child-friendly arrangement of Beethoven’s ballet music “The Creatures of Prometheus”. The children’s project “Prometheus”, arranged by Christoph Teichner and conceived by Carolina Nees, focuses on the inner turmoil of the title character, who created two people. But now he is asking himself the questions of what a person needs and what he should be able to do. Fortunately, he does not have to answer these questions all by himself, but receives help from the lovely muses and other gods. So Prometheus can face the difficult task and will definitely find the right answers.
![Ensemble Oni Wytars – Cantar d’amore (2015) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/10/0886445095296_600.md.jpg)
Ensemble Oni Wytars – Cantar d’amore (2015) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
Ever since people have been falling in love, songs or poetry have been written and addressed to the heart of the beloved. It’s been like this for millennia and hopefully will never change. In the past, the authors of these love songs and poems have been kings, male and female troubadours, vagrant minstrels, maestri di cappella, impoverished poets and countless others of whom unfortunately all traces have been lost. They have all have left us with an inexhaustible wealth of poetry and music, whose earliest traces go back to the Middle Ages.
![Ensemble Barocco di Napoli, Abchordis Ensemble – Il soffio di Partenope – Music for Woodwinds from 18th Century Naples (2019) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/10/cxpsnxk01t15b_600.md.jpg)
Ensemble Barocco di Napoli, Abchordis Ensemble – Il soffio di Partenope – Music for Woodwinds from 18th Century Naples (2019) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Das Ensemble Barocco di Napoli und das Abchordis Ensemble präsentieren unter der Leitung von Tommaso Rossi Weltersteinspielungen von farbenprächtigen und wohlklingenden Werken für Holzblasinstrumente aus dem Neapel des 18. Jahrhunderts. Das Album zeigt, dass Neapel damals nicht nur eine Sänger-Hochburg, sondern seit 1570 auch Heimat einer leistungsstarken Holzbläserschule war, für welche die besten Komponisten der damaligen Zeit schrieben. Ausgewählt aus den Archiven der Stadt hat das Ensemble Werke von Barockkomponisten. Ein Album voller barocker Schmuckstücke!
![Ensemble Notturna – Forgotten Chamber Works with Oboe from the Court of Prussia (2018) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/10/ohruxr3r21yjb_600.md.jpg)
Ensemble Notturna – Forgotten Chamber Works with Oboe from the Court of Prussia (2018) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
The ensemble Notturna under the direction of oboist Christopher Palameta has unearthed repertoire in several archives worthy of rediscovery. On this album they present as world premiere recording Berlin Chamber Music at the time of Friedrich dem Großen (Frederick the Great). The commonality of the selected sonatas by respected composers such as Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708-1763), Christian Gottfried Krause (1717-1770) and Johann Gottlieb Graun (1703-1771) is the solo instrument oboe. In the shadow of the flute, the favorite instrument of Friedrich dem Großen (Frederick the Great), the role of the oboe at the Prussian Court was underestimated for a long time. However there is still a variety of sonatas and concerts for this instrument which survived from this time. The Quintet in A minor by Graun, who was concertmaster of the Royal Court Orchestra since 1741, is characterized by frequent and unexpected changes of affects, dynamics and harmonies in order to achieve expressive and sentimental effects. In contrast to this work are the Trio Sonata in A minor, the Quadro Sonata in B-flat major and the Trio Sonata in G major by Janitsch, who became a violinist in the Court Orchestra in 1736. His works are much more influenced by a gallant style with varied melodies. The Trio Sonata in D minor by Krause is particularly fascinating in its original third movement, in which the oboe enters into a dialogue with the violin. A recording of beautiful Baroque music in unique interpretations.
![Ensemble Castor – Mozart & Haydn: Concertos & Divertimentos (2017) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/10/0886446419558_600.md.jpg)
Ensemble Castor – Mozart & Haydn: Concertos & Divertimentos (2017) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Mozart’s Concerto K 107 and selected Haydn divertimentos, all arranged for pianoforte, two violins and cello. Brilliant musical entertainment at the highest level in unique performances. The Austrian “Ensemble Castor” was founded in 2010 by internationally successful musicians from the early music scene and immediately received high praise for its “stunning performances”. For their dhm release the musicians chose early concertos and divertimentos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn (namely Concerto K 107 and Divertimentos Hob. XIV: 4, XIV: 9, XIV: 7 and XIV: 8), which they recorded in arrangements for hammerklavier, two violins and cello. These pieces, all written primarily for domestic use, offer brilliant musical entertainment at the highest level.
![Die Freitagsakademie – Bach Concertos: Lost and Found (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/07/27/ztq9xfoyuxjhb_600.md.jpg)
Die Freitagsakademie – Bach Concertos: Lost and Found (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]
The Bern Friday Academy around oboist Katharina Suske has taken on several recent reconstructions of Bach concertos with verve and esprit, three of which have been recorded here for the first time alone.”An album of hitherto unknown music by Johann Sebastian Bach would be a sensation! What may seem rather unlikely at first glance, the ensemble Die Freitagsakademie under the direction of Katharina Suske has nevertheless succeeded. Some of Bach’s works that are considered lost today have been reconstructed in recent years and are now available on the album “Bach Concertos: Lost and Found”, partly as first recordings.
![Dorothee Mields – Handel’s Tea Time (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/30/xrbqu9lsu515a_600.md.jpg)
Dorothee Mields – Handel’s Tea Time (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
On her new Album, the outstanding Baroque soprano presented together with the Swiss early music Ensemble “The Friday Academy,” works for soprano and chamber music by Georg Friedrich Handel. “Handel’s Tea time “combines the two cantatas” Venus & Adonis “and” Mi palpita il cor “with instrumental works as well as excerpts from the” 24 English Songs “and the”9 German Arias”. The cantatas are magnificent examples of Handel’s art of expression, celebrating the human singing voice. The cantata” Venus & Adonis ” HWV 85 is probably Handel’s first composition in English. The cantata “Mi palpita il cor” HWV 132b, on the other hand, was written in Italy, but Handel revised it in his time in London. Handel also found time in Vocal Music for more intimate genres and forms of expression beyond the grandiose Arias and choruses. Thus over the years the “24 English Songs” and “9 German Arias”were created. The programme is rounded off by a” Concerto a quattro ” and a Trio Sonata for Oboe and strings. In addition, the “Air and Five Variations” for harpsichord give an idea of what an incredible keyboard virtuoso Handel must have been. As a tribute to Henry Purcell, who had made London an opera metropolis before Handel, an aria from his Semi-opera “The Fairy Queen”is heard at the end of the album.
![Dorothee Mields, Hille Perl – Händel (2017) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/30/0886446247014_600.md.jpg)
Dorothee Mields, Hille Perl – Händel (2017) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Hille Perl is the most successful viola da gamba player of our time. Now she has found a fabulous combination of musician friends for her new Handel album: Dorothee Mields, one of the best baroque sopranos, along with lutenist Lee Santana and the redoubtable La Folia Barockorchester. The repertoire chosen includes Handel’s Cantata “Tra le fiamme,” while the rarely recorded “cantata spagnuola” and the cantata “La bianca rosa” are combined with two chaconnes, the famous hornpipe and other smaller pieces. An impressive recording full of musical colour, dynamism, virtuosity and compositional diversity.
![Dorothee Oberlinger – Rococo – Musique à Sanssouci (2017) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/30/0886445372151_600.md.jpg)
Dorothee Oberlinger – Rococo – Musique à Sanssouci (2017) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
Dorothee Oberlinger is one of the most amazing discoveries of recent years, an expressive virtuoso who has received numerous awards. Today she is seen as one of the best recorder-players in the world. Her concerts have been received with enthusiasm by critics and audiences alike, earning her unanimous acclaim. Her CDs are regularly fêted as the best new issues on the market.
![Dorothee Oberlinger – Night Music (2019) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/30/qk55j5ievj4ub_600.md.jpg)
Dorothee Oberlinger – Night Music (2019) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
The recorder player leads a sparkling, nocturnal Baroque adventure.
![David Hansen, Alessandro De Marchi, Academia Montis Regalis – Rivals – Arias for Farinelli & Co. (2013) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/07/0886444017268_600.md.jpg)
David Hansen, Alessandro De Marchi, Academia Montis Regalis – Rivals – Arias for Farinelli & Co. (2013) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Rivals’ – David Hansen’s debut recording for SONY / DHM explores and celebrates the music of Farinelli and his castrato rivals: Caffarelli, Carestini, Bernacchi and others. These singers dominated the stages of Europe and it was not always Farinelli who reigned supreme… David Hansen’s album features nine world premiere recordings. He is accompanied by Alessandro de Marchi and his orchestra Academia Montis Regalis. Recorded at the famous Academia at Mondovì in Piemont with Alessandro de Marchi and the musicians of the prestigious Academia Montis Regalis, the choice of arias demonstrates the remarkable breadth of David Hansen’s phenomenal technique, his musical versatility and expression.
![Duo Gioco di Salterio – Suoni amorosi (2018) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/23/rtxcuy5poqvna_600.md.jpg)
Duo Gioco di Salterio – Suoni amorosi (2018) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
The title of the album “Suoni Amorosi” by the Duo Gioco di Salterio means “loving sounds” and so does the music on this album. The duo Birgit Stolzenburg and Hans Brüderl play together eight stringed instruments with discoverable and melodious music from the Middle Ages to the High Baroque. Besides the salterio, the baroque form of the dulcimer, the dulce melos, the double bass dulcimer, the renaissance guitar, vihuela, renaissance lute and theorbo can be heard
![Dorothee Oberlinger, Ensemble 1700 – Telemann: Pastorelle en musique (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/07/27/zqvn30ncopapb_600.md.jpg)
Dorothee Oberlinger, Ensemble 1700 – Telemann: Pastorelle en musique (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 48 kHz]
“Ein funkelndes Tableau voller musikalischer Schönheiten”, äusserte sich die Kritik begeistert über Telemanns “Pastorelle en musique” nach der Aufführung durch das Ensemble 1700 unter Dorothee Oberlinger bei den Musikfestspielen Potsdam Sanssouci im Juni 2021. “Beweglich und reaktionsschnell spielt dieses Ensemble und vermag, kollegial angeleitet von seiner Dirigentin Dorothee Oberlinger, feine Farbwechsel in Szene zu setzen”, lobt die FAZ. Für die begleitende
Aufnahme von Georg Philipp Telemanns 1717 entstandenes Werk arbeiten Dorothee Oberlinger und ihr Ensemble 1700 mit dem Vocal Consort Berlin und den ebenfalls hochgelobten Solisten Lydia Teuscher, Marie Lys, Alois Mühlbacher, Florian Götz und Virgil Hartinger zusammen.
![Dorothee Oberlinger, Dmitry Sinkovsky – The Passion of Musick (2014) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/30/mf3e8cgnn713b_600.md.jpg)
Dorothee Oberlinger, Dmitry Sinkovsky – The Passion of Musick (2014) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
Pashion of Musick is the title of one of his most elaborate fantasies in his collection Captain Humes Poeticall Musick of 1607. According to a note in the score, the first voice can also be sung. For the purposes of the present recording a bass recorder has been used.
![Dorothee Oberlinger – Pastorale (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/30/tldx6xl4imayc_600.md.jpg)
Dorothee Oberlinger – Pastorale (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]
Dorothee Oberlinger presents “Pastorale”, a colourful Italian Christmas album – supported by soprano Dorothee Mields, the Li Piffari e le Muse, her ensemble 1700 and the actor Matthias Brandt as narrator of special Italian Christmas stories. The album will be released on November 4th by Deutsche harmonia mundi / Sony Music.
![Dorothee Oberlinger, Ensemble 1700, Bruno de Sá, Helena Rasker – Alessandro Scarlatti: Baroque Influencer (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/10/12/ou2oqeqe6w1va_600.md.jpg)
Dorothee Oberlinger, Ensemble 1700, Bruno de Sá, Helena Rasker – Alessandro Scarlatti: Baroque Influencer (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
From the late 17th century until well into the 18th century, Alessandro Scarlatti was one of the most important figures in European musical life, influencing musical development in both opera and instrumental music.
This recording shows the variety of musical works created by the influential Baroque composer: from symphonies, arias and concerti to concerti grossi and sonatas for flauto dolce, strings and basso continuo. Scarlatti was a master in the art of instrumental composition. In the Sinfonia for the serenata “Venere e Amore,” for example, he uses the flauto dolce prominently, with rapid changes of affect and recitative-like passages in interplay with the strings.
![Dorothee Oberlinger, Edin Karamazov – Bach: Dialoge (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/30/f9hplrstog8rc_600.md.jpg)
Dorothee Oberlinger, Edin Karamazov – Bach: Dialoge (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
Dorothee Oberlinger has chosen a congenial partner with the lutenist Edin Karamazov for her new album with music by Johann Sebastian Bach. Karamazov became world famous and known to a wide audience through his album with the pop singer Sting, and on the new album he can also prove his talent as an arranger. Because for the album he and Oberlinger rewrote works by Bach for recorder and lute.
![Dorothee Oberlinger, Ensemble 1700 – Giuseppe Scarlatti: I portentosi effetti della Madre Natura (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/07/03/i1faazpnbo3nb_600.md.jpg)
Dorothee Oberlinger, Ensemble 1700 – Giuseppe Scarlatti: I portentosi effetti della Madre Natura (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
Dorothee Oberlinger brought another musical treasure to light last year at the Potsdam Music Festival. “I Portentosi Effetti della madre Natura by Giuseppe Scarlatti had its premiere in the then brand-new Palace Theatre of the New Palace in Sanssouci – with resounding success. Some 250 years later, the work, which stylistically seems to have been written five minutes before Mozart, with a mix of great seria arias and rousing folk echoes, experienced its celebrated resurrection as a production of the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci with the Ensemble 1700 and singers under the artistic direction of Dorothee Oberlinger. The production accompanying the performances will now be released as a world premiere recording on 9 June as a co-production with Musikfestspiele Potsdam and rbb Kultur on the deutsche harmonia mundi label.
![Christoph Spering – Bach: Lutherkantaten, Vol. 2 (BVW 121, 125, 14) (2016) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/19/0886446086699_600.md.jpg)
Christoph Spering – Bach: Lutherkantaten, Vol. 2 (BVW 121, 125, 14) (2016) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
Brand new recording of all Luther cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Half a millennium ago, on October 31, 1517, Martin Luther launched this movement by posting his 95 theses on the door of Wittenberg’s Castle Church. Two centuries later, inspired by Luther’s words, & fully in the spirit of the reformer’s aim of spreading his theories via hymns, Johann Sebastian Bach composed what is probably the most significant body of cantatas based on Luther’s texts. Now, in honour of one of the most important events in Western religious history, Christoph Spering, his choir Chorus Musicus Köln & Das Neue Orchester have recorded Bach’s complete Luther cantatas.
![Christoph Prégardien – Bach & Telemann: Cantatas for Baritone (2018) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/19/kyli3wlu5taac_600.md.jpg)
Christoph Prégardien – Bach & Telemann: Cantatas for Baritone (2018) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
Two cantatas by Telemann – logically unknown, as he wrote some 1,700 of them − only one by Bach – but one that reached cult status: Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (I will gladly carry the Cross) −, here’s what’s on offer by tenor Christoph Prégardien (of German origin despite the “é”), and… Wait a second: even though we don’t exactly know for whom Telemann’s cantatas were originally written, Ich will den Kreuzstab was designed for a baritone, not a tenor, and there is no version transposed by Bach himself. But Christoph Prégardien, who’s now over sixty years old, opted to play it humble (or safe) and work with a much deeper range than Tamino or Ottavio, knowing that tenors can very well experience a loss in quality. A commendable decision that allows him to add some beautiful years to an already long and successful career as well as a change in repertoire. His very lyrical interpretation of these three cantatas demonstrates his commitment to the opera, as these cantatas are real dramatic scenes. Telemann, in particular, appears astonishing as ever with his unreal imagination and constant elegance that never gets in the way of profound emotion. For the overture, exit music and intermissions, the Vox Orchester offers some purely orchestral pages from Handel, Hasse and Telemann.