Hans-Christoph Rademann, Gaechinger Cantorey – Vision. Bach, Vol. 2 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Hans-Christoph Rademann, Gaechinger Cantorey – Vision. Bach, Vol. 2 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:27:40 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Classical
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Hans-Christoph Rademann is one of Germany’s leading choral conductors, specializing in early music and, in particular, the rich musical culture of Baroque-era Saxony. He is the conductor of the Dresdner Kammerchor, which he founded while still a student, and director of the Internationale Bachakademie in Stuttgart. Rademann was born in Dresden, in what was then East Germany, on August 5, 1965, but grew up an hour away in Schwarzenberg near the German-Czech border, where his father was a church musician.

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Gaechinger Cantorey, Dresdner Kammerchor, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Hans-Christoph Rademann – Verdi und Puccini (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Gaechinger Cantorey, Dresdner Kammerchor, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Hans-Christoph Rademann – Verdi und Puccini (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:22:08 minutes | 804 MB | Genre: Classical
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The early musical experiences of Puccini and Verdi, those two giants of Italian opera, were in fact gained in the field of sacred music. In 1880, at the age of 22, Puccini composed his Messa a 4 voci as a graduation exercise. When still a schoolboy, the 45-year older Verdi stood in for the organist in his home village; at the end of this life, he returned to church music, writing his Quattro pezzi sacri in the 1890s at the age of over 80. The Messa of the younger composer – which was believed lost until 1952 – is a joyful and scintillating work. Artistically, Verdi’s powerful and intense Pezzi sacri can be placed on an equal standing with his beloved operas.

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Dresdner Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann – Schütz: Complete Recording, Vol. 20 – Psalmen & Friedensmusiken (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Dresdner Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann – Schütz: Complete Recording, Vol. 20 – Psalmen & Friedensmusiken (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:17:54 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Classical
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A brilliant conclusion to the first Heinrich Schütz complete recording: With the Psalmen & Friedensmusiken (Psalms & Music for Peace), Hans-Christoph Rademann and the Dresdner Kammerchor bring this groundbreaking project to a magnificent close. The recording features mostly unknown, but particularly sumptuous and mostly multi-choral works, which Schütz wrote between 1618 and 1648 for important political occasions or thanksgiving celebrations. Groups of soloists and choristers create a colorful sound experience in interplay with strings, trombones, cornetts and viols. A truly worthy conclusion to this award-winning series.

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RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Hans-Christoph Rademann – C.P.E. Bach: Magnificat, Wq. 215 (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Hans-Christoph Rademann – C.P.E. Bach: Magnificat, Wq. 215 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:38 minutes | 664 MB | Genre: Classical
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On 9 April 1786, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach conducted a charity concert in Hamburg featuring three of his finest and most representative works: the Symphony Wq 183/1 (1780), the Magnificat written in 1749 in the hope of succeeding his father as Kantor in Leipzig, and finally the stupendous Heilig (1776) for double choir, of which he wrote: ‘It will be my swansong of this kind, and will serve to ensure that I shall not soon be forgotten after my death.’ He was right: 300 years after his birth, this album with the same programme proves as much.

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Gaechinger Cantorey & Hans-Christoph Rademann – J. S. Bach: Cantatas (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Gaechinger Cantorey & Hans-Christoph Rademann – J. S. Bach: Cantatas (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:20 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
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Two cantatas written by Johann Sebastian Bach for Michaelmas in 1726 and 1728/29 respectively build the framework of this recording. They tell of the Archangel Michael‘s victory over Satan. At the center of the cantata „Es erhub sich ein Streit“ is the tenor aria „Bleibt, ihr Engel“ (Stay, ye angels), which gives this recording its name.

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Gaechinger Cantorey, Hans-Christoph Rademann – J.S. Bach: Magnificat, BWV 243 – C.P.E. Bach: Magnificat, Wq. 215 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Gaechinger Cantorey, Hans-Christoph Rademann – J.S. Bach: Magnificat, BWV 243 – C.P.E. Bach: Magnificat, Wq. 215 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:50 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach thought highly of the art of his father, Johann Sebastian. However, this did not prevent him from pursuing his own path. Even when Carl Philipp Emanuel made himself a candidate for the position of Thomaskantor as Johann Sebastian’s successor, he did not reverently demonstrate his artistic ties to his father. Instead, he accentuated his compositional independence in one of his first choral works and confidently presented himself with a Magnificat. In Leipzig, this would inevitably subject him to direct comparison with his father, who, at the age of 38, as the newly appointed Thomaskantor, had also presented a Magnificat as his first major work on July 2, 1723. To this day, Carl Philipp Emanuel’s Magnificat is measured against that of his father. In December 2020, the Gaechinger Cantorey chorus and orchestra under the musical direction of Hans-Christoph Rademann and together with an excellent ensemble of soloists performed both magnificent works together in concert – unfortunately in front of an empty hall but reaching their audience via livestream and recording it for this extraordinary release.
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Rias Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann – Christmas! Noël! Weinachten! (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Rias Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann – Christmas! Noël! Weinachten! (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:09 minutes | 651 MB | Genre: Classical
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The great painters have always known how to combine the different perspectives of the Nativity into a single picture. Here the RIAS Kammerchor tells the Christmas Story in music: Mendelssohn frames the painting, to which the darkness and the promise of promise of heavenly light form the background. The Virgin Mary leads us to the heart of Christmas Night and to rejoicing at the Savior’s birth. We come full circle with the Four Motets of Poulenc, which sum up all the facets of Christmas and its emotions.

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RIAS Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann – Schnittke: Penitential Psalms (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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RIAS Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann – Schnittke: Penitential Psalms (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 54:35 minutes | 514 MB | Genre: Classical
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Alfred Schnittke’s Penitential Psalms are not settings of biblical psalms, but of a set of Old Russian texts published not long before Schnittke wrote these a cappella pieces in 1988. They are less eclectic in style than many of this composer’s other works, drawing on the tradition of Russian Orthodox church music, with its dense harmonies, that matches the text. The work was composed for an event marking the 1,000th anniversary of the advent of Christianity in Russia, and it has a nifty double structure. Its central text is that of the sixth psalm (sample track 6), describing the martyrdom of Boris and Gleb, the sons of the baptized founder Grand Prince Vladimir during the Kievan Rus. The other texts are gloomy meditations circling around this event, but also gaining in inner intensity. The second trajectory emerges at the end in mostly hummed Pslam No. 12, as if the spiritual experience involved has transcended language. The performances by the RIAS Kammerchor under Hans-Christoph Rademann are wonderful throughout, but in this demanding piece, with high notes sustained at very low volumes, they’re sublime. The simpler Three Spiritual Songs at the end of the album bring down the considerable tension effectively, and Harmonia Mundi’s engineering at Berlin’s Jesus-Christus-Kirche is impressive indeed. Schnittke fans have an added attraction here: Rademann contributes a note explaining how the performers have revised the commonly used score in favor of dynamics they believe more closely match Schnittke’s own intentions. But this is a worthwhile Schnittke album for anyone interested in the composer or in contemporary choral music in general. ~~ AllMusic Review by James Manheim
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