Die Freitagsakademie – Johann Gottlieb Janitsch: Instrumental Music (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:37 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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The early music ensemble “Die Freitagsakademie” is still committed to its namesake, Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, and makes music for his immensely rich oeuvre. The chamber music gems presented here (two of them as first recordings) bear impressive witness to Janitsch’s equally elegant and imaginative compositional art. They combine the melodic sweetness of the “galant” style popular around the middle of the 18th century with contrapuntal finesse and expressive harmony.
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Die Freitagsakademie – My Choice (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:56 minutes | 565 MB | Genre: Classical
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Hear back to the future: 25 years of Winter & Winter’. In 1736 Janitsch revolutionized the music world with his weekly Friday academies (Freitagsakademien); This was the beginning of the upheaval from the courtly to the bourgeois concert scene. Die Freitagsakademie is now presenting its favorite works from Bach to Beethoven.
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Die Freitagsakademie – Bach Concertos: Lost and Found (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:50 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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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.
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