Johannes Pramsohler, Philippe Grisvard – A Cembalo certato e Violino solo (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Johannes Pramsohler, Philippe Grisvard – A Cembalo certato e Violino solo (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:28:40 minutes | 2,54 GB | Genre: Classical
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Bach’s Sei Sonate a Cembalo certato e Violino solo seem to stand in isolation. In fact, however, they took up numerous suggestions from contemporaries and acted as models for Bach’s sons and pupils. Johannes Pramsohler and Philippe Grisvard expand this ground-breaking cycle with works from Bach’s circle. The result is three profound and virtuosic recitals that offer for the first time an overview of the impact of Bach’s revolutionary sonata model on his immediate successors.
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Ensemble Diderot & Johannes Pramsohler – J.G. Goldberg & W.F. Bach: Trio Sonatas (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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, Nahuel Di Pierro – German Cantatas with Solo Violin (Bonus Track Version) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Johannes Pramsohler, Nahuel Di Pierro – German Cantatas with Solo Violin (Bonus Track Version) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:24:06 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Classical
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Continuing their research into the vast hinterland of German cantatas from the early baroque period, Johannes Pramsohler and the musicians of his excellent Diderot Ensemble here dive into the austere and strange music of Biber, but also the less-well-known works of Johann Christoph Bach, great uncle of Johann Sebastian and musicians like Pachelbel, Bruhns and Eberlin. Johannes Pramsohler brings a particular fire and mystical sensuality to this new album (heavenly and earthly delights never being so far apart), and intense celestial flights to his violin playing. A range of international singers have left behind opera and dived with staggering ease into a completely different repertoire. The architects of this success, the supply and airy voice of the Canadian mezzo Andrea Hill, the perfectly gloomy timbre of Spanish tenor Jorge Navarro Colorado and the dark colours of the Argentine bass Nahuel di Pierro, sound the depths of this music driven by a great piety.  –  François Hudry
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Johannes Pramsohler, Gulrim Choi, Philippe Grisvard – Hellendaal: “Cambridge” Sonatas (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Johannes Pramsohler, Gulrim Choi, Philippe Grisvard – Hellendaal: “Cambridge” Sonatas (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:08:15 minutes | 834 MB | Genre: Classical
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Pieter Hellendaal was one of the star violinists who – like Geminiani and Veracini – appeared as a soloist during the intermissions of Handel’s operas in London. Exploring Hellendaal’s sonata manuscript in Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, Johannes Pramsohler brings to light a composer firmly rooted in the Corellian tradition, yet reminiscent of his teacher Tartini in his melodic invention and of Locatelli in his stunningly virtuosic cadenzas.
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Johannes Pramsohler, Philippe Grisvard – Handel: Violin Sonata in D, HWV 371 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Johannes Pramsohler, Philippe Grisvard – Handel: Violin Sonata in D, HWV 371 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 11:50 minutes | 259 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Violin sonata in D major (HWV 371) was composed (c. 1749-50) by George Frideric Handel, for violin and keyboard (harpsichord). Other catalogues of Handel’s music have referred to the work as HG xxvii,47; and HHA iv/4,28. This sonata represents Handel’s last piece of chamber music. The piece was not published by Walsh. The designation Opus 1 No.13 was first made in the Chrysander edition. A typical performance of the work takes about twelve minutes.
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Johannes Pramsohler, Philippe Grisvard – French Sonatas for Harpsichord and Violin (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Johannes Pramsohler, Philippe Grisvard – French Sonatas for Harpsichord and Violin (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:56:04 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
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Sonatas for violin and obligato harpsichord by Guillemain, Mondonville, Corrette, Duphly, Marchand, Balbastre and Clément. Powerful, elegant, and refined – In 1740, with the op. 4 of Jean-Joseph Cassan a de Mondonville, a new genre appeared on the scene in France, a genre that was to fundamentally overturn the relationship to the harpsichord – until then a continuo instrument when it was not playing alone: the Pieces de clavecin en sonates avec accompagnement de violon.

Contrary to what the title might suggest, the two instruments engage in a dialogue as equals. Unknowingly, Mondonville imitated the Sei Suonate Cembalo certato e Violino solo that Bach had composed ten years earlier. Moreover, he introduced a thoroughly Italian flavour – certainly an echo of the concertos by Corelli and Vivadli that at the time were often heard at the Concert Spirituel. The following decade then experienced a veritable rage for this form: Corrette, Guillemain, Balbastre, and others put their visions of the theme on paper – each in a very personal manner.

The “Dream Team” (Early Music Review), made up of the two indefatigable researchers Philippe Grisvard and Johannes Pramsohler, has rediscovered this neglected part of the violin-harpsichord repertoire and now presents a captivating selection of the genre’s best works in world premiere recordings on an opulent double album.
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Johannes Pramsohler, Ensemble Diderot – Concertos pour violon (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Johannes Pramsohler, Ensemble Diderot - Concertos pour violon (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

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) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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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Gulrim Choi, Ensemble Diderot, Johannes Pramsohler – Cello Concertos from Northern Germany (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Gulrim Choi, Ensemble Diderot, Johannes Pramsohler – Cello Concertos from Northern Germany (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:11 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
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This album marks the solo debut of Ensemble Diderot cellist Gulrim Choï. Faithful to the values ​​of the ensemble, she looks at a facet of a repertoire that has been neglected over time. It is pre-classical music from Northern Germany that she decides to highlight, through four chamber cello concertos – some of which have never been recorded before. This program aims to reveal the various attractions of a nascent aesthetic, sometimes retracing its steps, sometimes radically asserting itself. This program aims to reintegrate these works into the repertoire of the curious cellist, and to unveil other resonances of the pre-classical German landscape.
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Ensemble Diderot, Johannes Pramsohler – The Paris Album (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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, Diana Haller, Philippe Grisvard – Echoes of the Grand Canal (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Ensemble Diderot, Johannes Pramsohler, Diana Haller, Philippe Grisvard – Echoes of the Grand Canal (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:18:10 minutes | 846 MB | Genre: Classical
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“Illuminated by the golden glow of the sun, the cloud on high radiates in splendor, reddens.” The text of Hasse’s motet reads like a description of a cloud as painted by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, the greatest decorative painter of eighteenth-century Europe. Ensemble Diderot and mezzo-soprano Diana Haller offer a fascinating soundscape to accompany the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart’s exhibition marking the 250th anniversary of the death of the Venetian master. Two world premiere recordings give yet again proof of the adventurous spirit that reigns over Johannes Pramsohler and his crack team of musicians.

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