![Ensemble Peregrina – Mare Balticum, Vol. 4: Pomerania (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/01/29/wpxue8ubr2o5a_600.md.jpg)
Ensemble Peregrina – Mare Balticum, Vol. 4: Pomerania (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]
The fourth and final recording of Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett’s Mare Balticum project with and about music from the Baltic region, the first of which has already received the coveted ICMA, is perhaps the most beautiful. One-part melodies sung by four women in their own rhythm and yet in complete unison transport us to the bygone world of the Middle Ages. Solo songs bring us even closer to that time. For instance, when – this is just one example – Lorenza Donadini as Mary laments the death of Jesus, we hear the grief of a living mother over the death of her own child.
What a pity that this excursion into the past lasts only 79 minutes!
![Daniel Gaede, Raphael Alpermann – J.S. Bach: Violin Sonatas, BWV 1014-1019 (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/04/ajotu0hpq6fvc_600.md.jpg)
Daniel Gaede, Raphael Alpermann – J.S. Bach: Violin Sonatas, BWV 1014-1019 (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
The six sonatas for violin and harpsichord obbligato rank amongst the most beautiful chamber music composed by Bach however, they are overshadowed by the solo sonatas. They are performed beautifully here by Daniel Gaede and Raphael Alpermann.
![Christoph Ullrich – Scarlatti: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 7 (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/05/17/iyrjt0ax0hslb_600.md.jpg)
Christoph Ullrich – Scarlatti: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 7 (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]
Volume 7 of Christoph Ullrich’s survey of all 555 sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti.
At the beginning of 2021, a gap was found in the renovations at the church, where the previous volumes of the complete recording of all 555 of Domenico Scarlatti’s piano sonatas, with the exception of number 6, were recorded. The present 7th publication with the sonatas K. 236 to K. 265 was thus surprisingly made in the familiar surroundings again.
![Concerto Budapest, András Keller – Béla Bartók: Hungarian Pictures, Concerto for Orchestra (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/06/13/pridbh4e3a54b_600.md.jpg)
Concerto Budapest, András Keller – Béla Bartók: Hungarian Pictures, Concerto for Orchestra (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
This recording (like the entire TACET catalogue) not only captivates on first listen, but invites you to savor countless small details, each twist a treasure that Andras Keller and the musicians of Concerto Budapest bring out as knowledgeably as they do lovingly.
They (Bartok and Kodaly) wanted not only to put the Hungarian into the light, not to serve a mere colony of German music history, but to study folk music in all its manifestations, moreover to serve the fraternization of peoples.
Later they explicitly aimed at “a synthesis of East and West”.
This very turn from the Hungarian to the global is nowhere more evident than in one of the last works, the Concerto for Orchestra, which outwardly echoes the Hungarian Pictures as they do the early period of folk music research…”
![Camerata Freden – Franz Schubert: Octet in F major D 803 – op. posth. 166 (2003/2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/08/05/00a01761.md.jpg)
Camerata Freden – Franz Schubert: Octet in F major D 803 – op. posth. 166 (2003/2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
This unboundedly fantastic interpretation is now also available in a surround version; here the lover of amazing musical experiences can follow a most original staging of this incredible event. The wind trio is assembled in a triangle (left, right, behind), the viola is opposite the listener – at twelve o’clock so to speak – whilst the violins one and two are slightly to the left front and back, cello and double bass similarly slightly to the right. In the centre of this cleverly designed directing we find a completely new approach to symphonic chamber music unrivaled in early Romantic music.