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Marina Viotti, Gli Angeli Genève, Stephan MacLeod – Mezzo Mozart (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:23 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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In Mozart’s day, the vocal typologies that we know today were yet to be established. Women were sopranos, castrati were castrati, and Mozart wrote for personalities and vocal colours rather than for abstract voice types.
Providing we set aside the labels that are used nowadays, a female singer can cover a whole range of expressive and dramatic possibilities in Mozart’s works, and take on the roles of many different characters, including those belonging to the rich repertoire that Mozart bestowed on castrato voices.
With the help of Stephan MacLeod, at the helm of his ensemble Gli Angeli Genève, Marina Viotti has put together a programme that embraces the diversity and versatility of Mozart’s vocalism.
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Gli Angeli Genève, Stephan MacLeod – Josquin Desprez: Missa Malheur me bat, NJE 9.1 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:37 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Josquin was the most emblematic composer of his time, famous throughout Europe for his compositions both secular and sacred. This recording explores those two aspects of his output, which are more closely related than one might think. Here in a small line-up, Gli Angeli Genève deliver a virtuoso vocal performance that is sensitive and empathetic. With only two voices per part, they play on the timbre and individuality of each voice, and thus create an intimacy and a meditative mood that invite the listener to share with the singers in the deeply moving humanity of Josquin’s music.”
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Gli Angeli Genève – J.S. Bach: Johannes-Passion, BWV 245 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:14:42 minutes | 2,33 GB | Genre: Classical
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According to the obituary written by his son Carl Philip Emmanuel and his former pupil Johann Friedrich Agricola, Johann Sebastian Bach composed five Passions, including “one for two choirs” (the St Matthew Passion). However, only two of them have survived in their entirety. A third one, the St Mark Passion, has given rise to various reconstructions, and the last two, if they at all existed, are irretrievably lost. Of the two Passions that have come down to us, the St John Passion was the first to be composed; Bach had it performed for the first time in the St Nicholas Church less than a year after taking up his post in Leipzig, on 7 April 1724 (he had taken the liberty of announcing it to the St Thomas Church, which earned him a reprimand; he got away with a somewhat ironic letter of apology). The work was again performed the following year, this time at St Thomas’, and most likely on further occasions in 1732, 1739 and 1749, with various revisions.
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Gli Angeli Genève, Stephan MacLeod – J.S. Bach: Cantatas for Bass BWV 56-82-158-203 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:30 minutes | 1,15 GBGenre: Classical
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Stephan MacLeod wears both his singer and conductor hats for this programme of showcasing J. S. Bach’s treatment of the oboe and the bass voice, two instruments Bach appears to have known intimately. With the oboe, both the oboe da caccia and the oboe d’amore first appeared in Leipzig while Bach was working there, and the body of music he produced for them covers a notably wide range of technical, sonic and expressive capabilities.
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