Ensemble Diderot

Ensemble Diderot & Johannes Pramsohler – J.G. Goldberg & W.F. Bach: Trio Sonatas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:20 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
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For the 15th anniversary of Ensemble Diderot, and after forays into concertos and chamber music using larger forces, Johannes Pramsohler and his colleagues go back to the roots with a recording of their core repertoire: trio sonatas. Highly inventive works by Bach pupils Johann Gottlieb Goldberg and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach make for a programme in which the Diderots show their art with their trademark stylish and agile playing.

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Ensemble Diderot & Johannes Pramsohler – Sonate a quattro (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:54 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
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After Ensemble Diderot established itself as an internationally renowned ambassador for the masterful late repertoire of the ‘sonata a tre’, having given new polish to well-known major works of the literature as well as adding unknown treasures to the canon, it takes up in this programme the repertoire of the ‘sonata a quattro’. Owing to its appearance shortly before the emergence of the string quartet, the ‘sonata a quattro’ was largely disregarded, yet occupied an important intermediary role between the baroque and the early classical era.

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Ensemble Diderot, Johannes Pramsohler – J.S. Bach: A Musical Offering (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:21 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
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Bach’s Musical Offering, one of the most fascinating works in music history, still raises questions even after countless interpretations and performances. Composed three years before his death, it embodies everything that makes Bach so captivating: magnificent music that is consummate in all parameters, hidden messages, romantic-transfigured history, enigmatic masterpieces, numerology… and most often it is met by nebulous, apprehensive respect.

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Johannes Pramsohler, Ensemble Diderot – Concertos pour violon (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:11 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
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France’s contribution to the genre of the Baroque solo concerto seems late and tentative, but it is fascinating to see how French composers celebrated the arrival of the violin and combined Italian robustness and French elegance in their works. Johannes Pramsohler and Ensemble Diderot take a journey to the origins of this hybrid form, presenting here the very first violin concertos by French composers, with two world-premiere recordings of concertos by Jean-Marie Leclair and Andre-Joseph Exaudet at the heart of this virtuosic and exciting programme.
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Ensemble Diderot, Johannes Pramsohler – The Dresden Album (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:09 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical
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Johann Georg Pisendel was the most prominent German violin personality of the early eighteenth century. Born and raised in Ansbach, Franconia, he probably took lessons for a short time during his childhood with Giuseppe Torelli, who was active at the court there, and subsequently continued to build upon what he had learned from him. During studies in Leipzig – a sine qua non for any social-career advancement within the German Protestant upper-class – Pisendel built up, starting in 1710, a network that included Telemann, Heinichen, Fash, Graupner, and all those composers who henceforth represented the “mixed taste” in Germany.

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Ensemble Diderot, Johannes Pramsohler – The Paris Album (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:11 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Classical
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Ensemble Diderot continues to explore the development and dissemination of the trio sonata in baroque Europe with this exciting new release. Entirely dedicated to works from the era after Lully’s death, this album celebrates the newly found freedom at the time when composers started to combine French style with transalpine ardour. Johannes Pramsohler and his musicians bring their usual precision, passion and energy to this programme packed with new discoveries.

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Ensemble Diderot and Johannes Pramsohler – The London Album (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:08 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Classical
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Five years after their celebrated Dresden Album, Johannes Pramsohler and his colleagues of Ensemble Diderot continue their journey exploring the trio sonata in baroque Europe with a programme dedicated to works from Purcell’s London. Through a combination of well-known works and world premieres they show how English composers used the new Italian form as a vehicle for their creative output and how easily foreign composers picked up the English idiom to create chamber music that could hardly be more profound and expressive.

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Ensemble Diderot & Johannes Pramsohler – Sonatas for three violins (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:19:41 minutes | 915 MB | Genre: Classical
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The music recorded here encompasses a period of around a hundred years. The earliest works come from the time around 1600, which is considered one of the most profound watersheds in musical history. The new expressiveness unleashed above all by Monteverdi’s music was at the same time also potent in the increasingly independent instrumental music. This development is directly connected with the emancipation of the violin and its marvelous cantabile and virtuoso possibilities. When the composers started to make the individual sections of the ricercar into independent contrasting movements, and accordingly separated them from each other also in terms of tempo, the transition to a cyclical manner of formation, that is to say, to a stringing together of independent movements, was initiated and a meaningful musical organization adopted as a maxim.

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Ensemble Diderot & Johannes Pramsohler – Travel Concertos (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:26 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: Classical
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Johannes Pramsohler and his colleagues rummaged through Bach’s luggage and that of his contemporaries and found concertos that were probably conceived especially to be taken on journeys. Grouped around the first version of the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, these remarkable and brilliant pieces for up to five soloists are played with Ensemble Diderot’s trademark warmth and vitality.

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