Natalya Pasichnyk, Calmus Ensemble – Rethinking the Well-Tempered Clavier (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Natalya Pasichnyk, Calmus Ensemble – Rethinking the Well-Tempered Clavier (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:12:02 minutes | 4,00 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona

With its innumerable recordings by the greatest pianists in history, one would think the book has been written on Johann Sebastian Bach’s timeless pianistic masterpiece, The Well-Tempered Clavier. Renowned Swedish-Ukrainian pianist Natalya Pasichnyk now adds her name and interpretation to this illustrious list with RETHINKING THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER. Her intellectual yet spiritual take on the matter is likely to be exactly what the composer envisioned.

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Calmus Ensemble – Landmarks (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Calmus Ensemble – Landmarks (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:48 minutes | 1004 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Carus

A “landmark” is an object in a landscape or a turning-point, a milestone, symbol, or orientation point. Calmus performs ten “vocal landmarks” on its new CD – works by ten composers from ten different countries. Musical borders open here, and styles mix. Songwriters encounter the avantgarde, folk meets jazz, South American rhythms pulsate alongside Yiddish melodies. You soon realise that it is actually a very short journey from minimal music to pop, and how classical harmonies and jazz sounds interweave. You will recognize masters such as Francis Poulenc, Leonard Cohen, Georg Kreisler, and Sting, but you are guaranteed to discover new songs such as the Krakow singer-songwriter Mordechaj Gebirtig, and the South American composers Federico Ruiz and Aylton Escobar. With landmarks Calmus has created a kind of “sounding globalisation”. The music reflects a society which recalls the past and interprets it anew, which is receptive, and sometimes reflective, but also laughs and dances and swings!

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amarcord, Calmus Ensemble, Anna Kellnhofer, Isabel Schicketanz – Leipziger Disputation (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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amarcord, Calmus Ensemble, Anna Kellnhofer, Isabel Schicketanz – Leipziger Disputation (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:25 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Carus

The first joint project of the internationally renowned Leipzig vocal ensembles amarcord and Calmus: The centerpiece is the splendid sonority of the ­twelve-part Mass by Antoine Brumel, which is said to have been performed on the occasion of the famous disputation between Martin Luther and theologian Johannes Eck 1519 in St. ­Thomas’s Church. A highlight of musical life in Leipzig and, at the same time, a milestone in polyphonic vocal music. The mass is complemented by compositions by Josquin des Préz, Johann Walter, Thomas Stoltzer and others.
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Calmus Ensemble – Bach for five (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Calmus Ensemble – Bach for five (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:23 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © iMD-CalmusEnsemble

In the 23rd year of the ensemble’s history, “Bach for five” is the first pure Bach album that Calmus releases.

Singing Bach only with five voices and a cappella is no easy feat and involves some fundamental decisions. We need to make the works compatible for Calmus. We transpose if necessary. We text basso continuo parts to make them singable. We do everything without choral reinforcement and colla parte instruments and sing the music in the most minimalist way – everything is scored individually. We also access organ and piano works and turn them into vocal versions. But we are not changing the stream. Not a single note has been deleted, changed or added – only original tones and complete movements are heard.

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Calmus Ensemble – LUTHER Collage (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Calmus Ensemble – LUTHER Collage (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:09:04 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Carus

“Compared to the human voice, everything else is almost unmusical,” Martin Luther is said to have once judged. The Calmus Ensemble makes this credo entirely its own on its new CD “Luther Collage”.

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