Academy of Ancient Music, Robert Levin – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 6-8 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Academy of Ancient Music, Robert Levin – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 6-8 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:00:44 minutes | 1,98 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AAM Records

Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) releases the penultimate volume of an acclaimed project to record Mozart’s complete works for keyboard and orchestra. This volume includes Mozart’s Concerto No. 7 for Three Pianos and Orchestra, performed here uniquely on three different types of keyboard instruments: by Robert Levin (tangent piano), Ya-Fei Chuang (fortepiano) and Laurence Cummings (harpsichord). It follows the release of the same concerto in Mozart’s own arrangement for two keyboards (Vol. 11) and is joined on this album by two other Piano Concertos composed in Salzburg in the early months of 1776.

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Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings – Infinite Refrain: Music of Love’s Refuge (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings – Infinite Refrain: Music of Love’s Refuge (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:50 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records

Dieses Duett-Album lüftet den Vorhang, der jahrhundertelang den Blick auf schwule Liebesgeschichten verstellt hat. Im 17. Jahrhundert war die Republik Venedig eine Art Zufluchtsort für die homosexuelle Community Europas. Das Album mit dem Countertenor Randall Scotting und dem Tenor Jorge Navarro Colorado sowie der Academy of Ancient Music unter Laurence Cummings enthält u. a. vier Erstein-spielungen von Werken der wenig bekannten Komponisten Boretti, Melani und Castrovillari, darunter ein bewegendes Duett von Herkules und Theseus, die Hand in Hand die Unterwelt verlassen.

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Academy of Ancient Music, Robert Levin, Laurence Cummings, Ya-Fei Chuang – Mozart: Piano Concertos (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Academy of Ancient Music, Robert Levin, Laurence Cummings, Ya-Fei Chuang – Mozart: Piano Concertos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:00:45 minutes | 1,89 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AAM Records

Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) continues an acclaimed project to record Mozart’s complete works for keyboard and orchestra, with this eleventh volume of the series. Renowned pianists Robert Levin and Ya-Fei Chuang join Laurence Cummings and AAM to present Mozart’s Concertos Nos. 7 and 10, the former of which is recorded here in Mozart’s own arrangement for two pianos. Also included is the Concerto Movement for Piano, Violin, and Orchestra, completed by Robert Levin.

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The Choir of Keble College, Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music & Matthew Martin – Valls – Missa Regalis (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Choir of Keble College, Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music & Matthew Martin – Valls – Missa Regalis (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:52 minutes | 727 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Academy of Ancient Music

This AAMRecords’ latest release, with the Academy of Ancient Music joining forces with The Choir of Keble College and director Matthew Martin, is a landmark recording of Francisco Vall’s ‘forgotten’ Missa Regalis [1740]. Performed from a new edition by Simon Heighes, Valls’ fascinating (and frequently confusticating) juxtaposition of ancient and ‘modern’ compositional styles provides a intriguing glimpse into the treasure-trove of Spanish baroque music, much of which remains relatively unknown to the wider world.

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Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings, Bojan Čičić, Robert Levin – Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 5 & Church Sonata No. 17 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings, Bojan Čičić, Robert Levin – Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 5 & Church Sonata No. 17 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:02:30 minutes | 2,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AAM Records

Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) continues a celebrated project to record Mozart’s complete works for keyboard and orchestra, with this tenth volume of the series. Together with renowned scholar-pianist Robert Levin, and directed by Laurence Cummings and Bojan cicic, AAM presents the Church Sonata. No. 17 alongside the Piano Concerto No. 5 – Mozart’s first original keyboard concerto – both for orchestra and organ. The three K107 concertos are joined by a concerto movement from the music book of Mozart’s sister, Nannerl, believed to have been drafted by Mozart as a young child, and completed here by Robert Levin. The hardback CD package is accompanied by comprehensive notes commissioned specially for the album.

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Julian Perkins, Academy Of Ancient Music, Helen Charlston, Richard Burkhard – Eccles: Semele (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Julian Perkins, Academy Of Ancient Music, Helen Charlston, Richard Burkhard – Eccles: Semele (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:00:40 minutes | 2,24 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Academy of Ancient Music

Academy of Ancient Music, Cambridge Handel Opera Company, Cambridge Early Music and Julian Perkins are proud to present the first professional recording of John Eccles’s Semele (ca 1707), a notable early setting of the great English libretto by William Congreve better known in a version by Georg Friedrich Handel from 1744.

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Richard Egarr, Academy of Ancient Music – J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Richard Egarr, Academy of Ancient Music – J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:24:32 minutes | 2,74 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Academy of Ancient Music

Since 1727, JS Bach’s “Great Passion” has gripped the hearts and uplifted the minds of audiences all over the globe. Nearly three centuries after its premiere, the work has lost none of its power to evoke feelings of compassion for all those who suffer. Its mix of urgent story-telling, meditative arias and mighty choruses sets St Matthew’s account of Christ’s betrayal, trial and execution eloquently and emotionally.

Over the past 40 years the AAM has made over 300 recordings of baroque and classical music, winning Brit and Gramophone Awards along the way, however – remarkably – this is our first recording of the St Matthew Passion. With a superlative cast including James Gilchrist, Sarah Connolly, Thomas Hobbs, Elizabeth Watts, Christopher Maltman and Matthew Rose, and directed by Richard Egarr, this is a landmark project.
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Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr – J.S. Bach: St. John Passion BWV245 (1724 version) (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr – J.S. Bach: St. John Passion BWV245 (1724 version) (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:44:33 minutes | 1,94 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © AAM Records (Academy of Ancient Music)

JS Bach’s St John Passion is an intensely personal experience, bringing to life the humanity of the passion story. Combining raw viscerality with moments of exquisite intimacy, it was written soon after Bach’s arrival as Kantor at Leipzig’s Thomasschule. Keen to impress a new congregation, Bach produced a setting of the age-old passion story which overshadowed almost every piece of liturgical music the world had previously known. Our recording aims to capture the authenticity and vivacity of the very first Good Friday performance at Leipzig’s Nikolaikirche.

Over the past 40 years the AAM has made over 300 recordings of baroque and classical music, winning Brit and Grammy Awards along the way. This is our first-ever recording of the St John Passion. With a superlative cast including James Gilchrist, Sarah Connolly, Andrew Kennedy, Elizabeth Watts, Christopher Purves and Matthew Rose, and directed by Richard Egarr, this is a landmark project.
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Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr – J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites BWV1066-9 (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr – J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites BWV1066-9 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:33:46 minutes | 1,91 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Academy of Ancient Music

Announcing AAM Record’s newest release, AAM003 JS Bach Orchestral Suites, available worldwide from 4 November 2014. Bach’s Orchestral Suites are a series of grand and graceful dances, paying homage to the French baroque style as championed by the ballet-obsessed King Louis XIV. Written during Bach’s years in Leipzig, where he had a wider range of instruments at his disposal than ever before, the Suites revel in new sonorous possibilities and employ varied combinations of wind, brass, stringed instruments and timpani.

“The news of the death of Christopher Hogwood comes just as the orchestra he founded, the Academy of Ancient Music, releases a fine new set of Bach’s Orchestral Suites with his successor, Richard Egarr, repeating the one-to-a-part approach he adopted for their Harmonia Mundi Brandenburg set. The sound is consequently less expansive than other recordings but the rewards are glorious, with Egarr at the harpsichord driving the delightfully clean and springy rhythms, every detail sharply defined, each separate timbre there for us to enjoy. This intimate chamber approach allows the trumpets in Suites Nos.3 and 4 to glow rather than blast, and the exceptional flute of Rachel Brown to shine in all its woody-toned charm in Suite No.2. Highly recommended.” –The Observer
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Grace Davidson, Academy Of Ancient Music – Vivaldi & Handel (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Grace Davidson, Academy Of Ancient Music – Vivaldi & Handel (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:08 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records

Signum Records are proud to present the debut orchestral recording from Grace Davidson, one of the UK’s leading British sopranos specialising in Baroque music. She is joined by some of Europe’s leading Baroque musicians from the Academy of Ancient Music to perform a selection of works by Handel and Vivaldi, with performaces led by violinist Bojan Čičić under artistic director Joseph Crouch.Grace won the Early Music Prize while studying singing at London’s Royal Academy of Music. Since then, she has worked with the leading Baroque ensembles of our day, singing under the batons of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Paul McCreesh, Philippe Herreweghe and Harry Christophers. Her discography includes a decade of CDs with The Sixteen, many of which feature her as soloist – Handel’s Jeptha (as Angel), Dixit Dominus, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, Pianto della Madonna, and the Lutheran Masses of Bach.

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Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr – Handel: Organ Concertos Op.4 (2008) MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr – Handel: Organ Concertos Op.4 (2008)
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 3,38 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,15 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Multichannel FLAC: 2,77 GB
Label/Cat#: Harmonia Mundi # HMU 807446 | Country/Year: US 2008 | Full Artwork
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque, Organ

The scholarly searchlight of indefatigable Richard Egarr now falls on the Handel Organ concertos. These have been astonishingly popular since their inception around 1733 as interlude entertainment in Handel’s lucrative series of oratorios. They were an immediate success. So much so, that even before Handel and his publisher had produced their first edition, a pirated publication was on sale – “spurious” and “mangled” though Handel considered it.

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Academy of Ancient Music, The Choir of the AAM & Richard Egarr – Gibbons, C, Motets, Anthems, Fantasias & Voluntaries (2012/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Academy of Ancient Music, The Choir of the AAM & Richard Egarr – Gibbons, C, Motets, Anthems, Fantasias & Voluntaries (2012/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:02:25 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

The world-premiere recording of choral and instrumental music by the long-neglected Christopher Gibbons, second son of the famous Orlando. Featuring the Choir of the AAM (who make their recording debut), this disc surveys the broad expressive palette of a composer who provides the “missing link between the pre-Commonwealth world of William Lawes and the Restoration baroquerie of Henry Purcell”.

Born into an English musical family, organist and composer Christopher Gibbons (1615-1676) probably received early training from his famous father Orlando Gibbons. He sang in the choir of the Chapel Royal and went on to a distinguished career at Westminster Abbey and in the court of Charles II. With this showcase programme of motets, anthems, fantasias for strings, and organ voluntaries (all of which are receiving their first recording), Richard Egarr, the Academy of Ancient Music and the Choir of the AAM, aim to rescue the composer from unjust obscurity.

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Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music & Stephen Cleobury – Bach: St. Matthew Passion (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music & Stephen Cleobury – Bach: St. Matthew Passion (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:43:36 minutes | 2,90 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Kings College Cambridge

Recorded before Sir Stephen Cleobury’s untimely passing in November 2019, King’s College presents a new account of one of the greatest masterpieces in sacred music, Bach’s St Matthew Passion. For this recording Cleobury led the King’s Choir and the Academy of Ancient Music alongside some of the most outstanding British singers performing today, headed by one of the finest Evangelists of our time, James Gilchrist. The album is accompanied by a booklet with over 60 pages of texts and photographs, including a full translation by Michael Marissen and a specially-commissioned essay by John Butt.

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Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr – Castello: Sonata Concertate In Stil Moderno, Libro Primo (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr – Castello: Sonata Concertate In Stil Moderno, Libro Primo (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:37 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Academy of Ancient Music

The Academy of Ancient Music explores a revolutionary period of Italian music through the work of Venetian man of mystery Dario Castello.

Working at the same time as Claudio Monteverdi, Dario Castello wrote innovative and ground-breaking sonatas that had a profound effect on generations of Italian composers. Very little is known about him today, but in the 17th century he was actually more widely published than Shakespeare.

AAM Music Director Richard Egarr is a lifelong advocate of Castello, and on this recording directs the composer’s first book of sonatas from the harpsichord and organ.Taking the form of a small chamber group, the AAM finds itself at its most adventurous and expressive, performing twelve fiercely virtuosic sonatas for violin, cornetto and dulcian that are full of imagination and colour.

This release – the fifth on AAM Records – follows the AAM’s critically-acclaimed series of JS Bach recordings. Their 2015 release of JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion (AAM004) was praised by BBC Music Magazine for Richard Egarr’s “compellingly original vision”, and was awarded BBC Radio 3’s Disc of the Week. JS Bach’s Orchestral Suites (AAM003) was awarded five stars by Fine Music Magazine and was described as “a feast of meaningfully understated musicianship” in an Editor’s Choice review in Gramophone magazine.

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Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr – Birth Of The Symphony: Handel to Haydn (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr - Birth Of The Symphony: Handel to Haydn (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr – Birth Of The Symphony: Handel to Haydn (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:54 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Academy of Ancient Music

The 18th century saw an explosion of symphonies (over 18,000 composed in just 60 years, by one estimate). ‘Birth of the Symphony: Handel to Haydn’ surveys some of the diverse works which were central to the genre as we know it today. The recording begins with Handel’s Sinfonia from Saul, an example of the oratorio sinfonia which supplied models for the early symphony’s scoring. Works from the avant-garde Mannheim composers Stamitz and Richter demonstrate the new sonic possibilities of the form, with which Mozart also engages in his very first attempt at the symphony. The recording ends with an example of a mature classical symphony, Haydn’s ‘La passione’.
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